Mike Barnicle on TV: 2020

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Don’t miss this Morning Joe segment with Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and John "Chick" Donohue about Donohue’s new book “The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War,” which tells remarkable stories from his 1967 journey from a New York City bar to Vietnam via a cargo ship to track down—in alphabetical order—his neighborhood pals serving in the war to deliver messages of support from back home and share a few beers.

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Messages of support — and a few beers

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Watch this Morning Joe segment with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Wright Thompson, author of the new book “Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last,” as they discuss how complicated conversations may not be spoken but are often understood over a drink. Part biography, autobiography, philosophy and history of the South, Thompson leans into nostalgia and comes up with an unexpected result.

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The need for nostalgia

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“Listening to Senator McConnell over the past few days and reading about what he did…it really is tragic, it’s sad. It’s pathetic because here you have a man—Mitch McConnell of Kentucky—going out of his way to ensure his own personal political survival as Senate majority leader and leader of the Senate Republicans, his own survival, over the survival of millions of Americans and their families who are at the edge of their own financial survival: Some being evicted, some having already lost homes, some having lost jobs and some having no hope at the conclusion of this drastically, terrible year,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Kasie Hunt and Walter Isaacson Sen. McConnell (R-KY) having blocked an attempt by Democrats to hold an immediate vote on increasing stimulus checks for those suffering through the coronavirus pandemic to $2,000 from $600, leaving the fate of the measure unclear.

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Stimulus payments in limbo

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ICYMI: Tune in for this conversation between Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie and Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Rushdie's new MasterClass in which he teaches the art of storytelling and writing. "How do you plan to use MasterClass to develop and have people articulate and live with their imaginations? In some cases they’re filled with incredible stories, but you’ve got to draw them out. How do you do that?” asks Barnicle. Hear Rushdie’s response here.

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Salman Rushdie on his new MasterClass

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and sportscaster Jim Gray about his golfing experiences with Donald Trump who wanted “the moniker of the best” and his opinion on whether baseball great Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame. Gray’s new memoir, "Talking To GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard” details his relationships with iconic sports figures Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps and others.

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Jim Gray talks about new book

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and long-time foreign correspondent Charlie Sennott discuss Sennott’s new organization Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. “You have 300 people—300 young people—out in the field in several different states doing God’s work, working at local newspapers. How did they find you? What do you pay them? And how do you get the money to pay them?” asks Barnicle. Hear Sennott’s response here and get more information on the organization at reportforamerica.org

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Report for America

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and The New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright about Wright’s “epic” article “The Plague Year,” which outlines the muzzling of the CDC and others by the Trump Administration, as well as the heroes, mistakes and struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

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The Plague Year

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Morning Joe’s Kasie Hunt and Mike Barnicle discuss the Twitter rant of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (FL-R), who falsely accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, of lying about coronavirus in general and masks in particular, despite the Florida senator having received the vaccine ahead of health care workers, while wearing a mask. "Marco Rubio is not alone—there’s a long list of cowards who wilted in the face of Twitter, being afraid of a tweet from the President of the United States. It's not a very proud moment for the United States Senate—certainly not a very proud moment for Marco Rubio as an individual,” says Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.

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Not a proud moment for Sen. Marco Rubio

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“Since January 20th of 2017 when Donald Trump was inaugurated...there’s been a level of cruelty to him and to his Administration that has been consistent and continual throughout his administration: It’s always pick on the poor, pick on immigrants. And now in this final chapter of his presidency, it’s people who are literally—not just on the edge, they are—over the edge: People who have been living on practically nothing for five, six months, who have lost their jobs, many have lost their homes, a lot of them have lost hope, their children are home from school all day long….There’s multiple levels of corruption, confusion, chaos in this Administration but cruelty is the ultimate theme,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Kasie Hunt.

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The “cruelty” of the Trump Administration

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the Washington Post’s Anne Gearan and contributor Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Trump Administration’s potentially “destructive” maneuvers that are attempting to thwart the efforts of the Biden transition team at many levels of government prior to the transfer of power on January 20th. “The incoming Biden Administration feels incoming damage on a daily and hourly basis,” says Barnicle about the troubled transition. FInd out more here.

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POTUS continues to cause damage

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“I’m struck by the indifference that we’ve witnessed over the last couple months—two or three months—in both the House and the Senate toward the plight of millions of Americans who are struggling with eviction, with joblessness, with hunger,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the economic toll added to the death and illness of the coronavirus catastrophe that has plagued the country. “There seems to be just an indifference that really stunned me, and it’s certainly a contrast to…as recently as the early mid-90s. It seemed different then—it seemed Congress and the Senate was more in touch with the needs of people than we are in this age of instant communication. It’s incredible.” More of Morning Joe “final thoughts” here.

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Barnicle: “I’m struck by the indifference"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) about what priorities are at the forefront for the new Congress and the Biden Administration in 2021 as state and local governments and their constituents continue to be hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic hammering the country. You can see the segment here.

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Barnicle speaks with Sen. Kaine

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss the significance of bipartisan congressional leaders finally coming to an agreement on a roughly $900 billion economic relief package that will bring emergency aid to a weak economy and a country ravaged by surging coronavirus cases, ending a long period of “indifference” of leaders and perhaps signaling change that could lead to more cooperation in the House and Senate moving into the Biden Administration. Watch the conversation here.

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Help is on the way

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“When you stop and think about all the people that we have elected to office, all the people who have served this country over the generations, and you come to this point—where there’s one terribly damaged individual—he’s president of the United States—and I would submit that the damage that he has already done to this country and continues to do to this country on an hourly basis is now unfortunately, incalculable—incalculable,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump with Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan.

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Our damaged country

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"I was thinking when I saw that number flash up on the screen last night: 3,054. It’s a shocking number in a single day, and I was reverting in my mind back to September 11th. Now nearly 20 years ago, when well over 2,000 Americans were killed in an office building—a mass murder, people died for the crime of going to work that day. What happened then? America stood still. Americans were shocked, they were fearful, but, I think most importantly, they were listening. And they listened to President George W. Bush who stood on the rubble, gave the country some direction in the two to three weeks that followed September 11th. That’s the important thing: Gave us direction and we listened. What direction have we ever had from this president and this White House about a killer amongst us? We have had no direction. We have had misdirection. We have had instructions not to wear a mask. A mask. He turned it into something political—a life saving device. A simple mask….And people died as a result.” says Barnicle in this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about President Donald J. Trump's leadership amid the coronavirus outbreak within the country, the day after more than 3,000 Americans died of COVID-19 as cases continue to surge.

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POTUS: Agent of misdirection

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between host Mika Brzezinski and contributor Mike Barnicle about Republican lawmakers who have not stood up to President Donald J. Trump after he escalated his baseless claims of voter fraud in a 46-minute video rant. “Where are the Republicans?….Where are the Barry Goldwaters and the Hugh Scotts from a long-gone era, who went to the White House to tell Richard Nixon that he had to go?….Where are these people? That’s the question of the day. That’s the question of our time,” says Barnicle about the GOP not condemning unsupported remarks from Trump as coronavirus continues to ravage the U.S. See the segment here.

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Where are the Republicans?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation among Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about President-elect Joe Biden’s top cabinet nominations as they are set to be formally introduced. “The level of experience and expertise is overwhelming, and the reason that the level of experience and expertise is necessary because so much of our government is broken within each department….Why is it broken? Because the level of incompetence over the last four years has been unbelievable and the results are proven each and every day as the virus skyrockets around the country,” says Barnicle about the Trump Administration’s failures amid the raging COVID-19 outbreak throughout the country. You can watch the segment here.

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Biden’s top cabinet picks

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, about how we can “break the chain of transmission” of the coronavirus over this upcoming Thanksgiving week by limiting personal contact with others as the U.S. logged more than 170,000 newly reported COVID-19 cases for the second time and the death toll crossed the quarter-million mark.

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Break the Chain of Transmission

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Jonathan Lemire about the possible next act for President Donald J. Trump once he leaves The White House, amid reports that Trump has told friends he may start a media company or announce a political comeback.

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Trump’s post-presidency plans

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Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle discuss the history of presidential transitions and president-elects gaining access to critical presidential-level intelligence briefings while President Donald J. Trump has thus far thwarted the transition to President-Elect Joe Biden. Join the conversation here.

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Presidential transition in peril

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“One thing that Joe Biden is really, really good at and it's a self-acquired aspect of who he is, his character: healing,” says MSNBC contributor and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Nicolle Wallace on the day that former VP Joe Biden was named President-Elect. Barnicle talks about how Biden’s faith, family, successes and losses have uniquely prepared him for this moment, to be president to all the people. See the segment here.

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Biden here to heal

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Mike joins Nicolle Wallace during MSNBC’s live coverage leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory speech to discuss his latest column for The Daily Beast that outlines how Biden’s life experience, successes and hardships have made him a man suited for this moment to lead the United States. "The heart of the country is the heart of Joe Biden, and he knows what it's like to feel a loss and he knows what it's like to feel great hope. And he has both tonight." You can read Mike’s Daily Beast column here: https://bit.ly/32rgQ1L

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Joe Biden’s Grief Is the DNA of His Humanity

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ICYMI: Watch this conversation among Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and veteran columnist and MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle about this historic day that saw former VP Joe Biden become president-elect of the United States. “Through healing comes his purpose,” says Barnicle of Biden. “His purpose is to try to heal those divisions that exist in the country: To lower the temperature of the country, to stop the tweeting, to stop the cultural wars by just a calm, effective, competent job as president of the United States.” Watch more of the coverage here and a remembrance of Biden’s interaction with a young man, Corey Hixon, son of Stoneman Athletic Director Chris Hixon, who was among 17 killed at the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Former VP Joe Biden becomes President-Elect of the United States

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Watch this Morning Joe segment between host Joe Scarborough and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as they discuss the deep division that exists in America today as we count down in a very tight race to determine the next president of the United States. "The autopsy on this is going to be among the most interesting American experiments we’ve ever done, and it has to be done,” says Barnicle about the need to explore the reasons for the divisions, the roots of which "were there long before Donald Trump.”

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What are the roots of the country’s deep divide?

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“This is the last presidential campaign I'm covering. I've done every one since 1972—this is it. I won't be doing it four years from now,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. “Listening to that president speak, all I could think of was the ‘fake news’ thing that he's been selling—it worked. It has damaged our credibility and going forward we have to take a look at this country. We have upwards of maybe 45 percent of this country who resent the other half of the country….No republic can survive in the long run with that kind of division. We've got to heal the resentments that boil, fester every day.” Hear more of the conversation with Joe Scarborough as the two share takeaways from the 2020 presidential election as the race has remained unsettled.

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Barnicle: This is the last presidential campaign I’m covering

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) about how America might overcome the toxicity and division plaguing the country and perpetuated by the current occupant of the White House on this 2020 Election Day. With his support for Democratic candidate Joe Biden for President, Clyburn advised: “Let’s restore goodness in the White House and we will maintain greatness for this country."

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Rep. Jim Clyburn votes for restoring goodness

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On this Election Day, Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle look back at past concession speeches from presidential candidates who failed to win the White House but were graceful in defeat, showing an "extraordinary display of character in the most terrible of situations for the person involved after expending all of that energy and effort to win the presidency.” Looking forward to the results of the 2020 presidential election, Barnicle added: "I hope and pray for the sake of the country, our country, that it will be a healing statement and not a statement of division."

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Concession speeches can offer healing

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ICYMI: Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle joined MSNBC Live With Yasmin Vossoughian to discuss the flurry of campaign activity just days before Election Day 2020 and his latest column for The Daily Beast titled “Joe Biden’s Grief is the DNA of his Humanity.” Says Barnicle: “People want their lives back. They want to be able to think that there's competence in Washington, there's competence in dealing with the issues that affect them in their everyday lives. They know there's not competence when it comes to the single issue that is festering throughout this country, and that is the virus….(President Donald J. Trump) has denied the virus. He has denied the existence, the strength, and the scope of the virus….When it comes to Joe Biden, people look at him and say, 'Well, you know, he doesn't excite me like Barack Obama, maybe. Maybe I was a Republican, I've never voted for a Democrat. But I need competence in my life. I need someone who can get this job done and someone who understands the concept that all of us understand'—the concept of loss that you just referred to."

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Barnicle joins MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes about how the American sociopolitical landscape has become ever more divided, polarized and toxic under President Donald Trump. “We are about to have another election and Donald Trump again is on the ballot and again millions of Americans will vote for him. So, from your point of view, what does that say about the United States of America today?" Listen to Beddoes’ response here.

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America’s toxicity

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“We are on the ballot next Tuesday. America is on the ballot. The idea of what this country is all about: What you think it's all about, Joe, what I think it's all about, what people have always felt America was all about—that's on the ballot,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s re-election prospects as COVID-19 continues to ravage the country. "What's going on in America? We’ve got to answer that question. We’ve got to deal with that question."

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“America" is on the ballot

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“How could you vote for Donald Trump if you see how he behaves, if you see what kind of a human being he has been, how he has reacted to people, and how he has been focusing on cruelty—separating children from their parents,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Mika Brzezinski about who President Donald Trump’s voters are, just more than a week before the presidential election between incumbent Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

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Who are Trump’s voters?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with host Joe Scarborough, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker about a bipartisan plan offered up by a Justice Department official from the George W. Bush Administration and a White House counsel under President Barack Obama for reforming the Department of Justice in an effort to "isolate and insulate" the federal executive department against taint by politics, campaigns and corruption following the era of President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr.

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How to reform the DOJ

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"We live now in an age where on this program and other programs and in print all over America people write newspaper columns and editorials over the year and they say: ‘You know, is this who we really are as Americans?’ Well, it's not who we really are and what's going on right now, but it's who we're slowly becoming: Loud, and brash, and arrogant, and vituperative, damaging each other, attacking each other. That's not what people want. People want this country calmed down, and that ad gets to it in a very powerful way,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about a new campaign advertisement, narrated by Sam Elliott for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which premiered during Game 1 of the World Series just two weeks before Election Day. You can see the ad here.

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Biden’s campaign reflects the candidate

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"I would think that on the whole, the series will go to the Dodgers for one reason above all: That is the Dodgers can really hit. The Rays are offensively sometimes challenged, but we'll see,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle as host Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Claire McCaskill preview the 2020 MLB World Series between the two best teams in baseball: the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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The World Series starts now

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“There are 220,000 Americans who are dead today – dead – and it's not because people are tired of the pandemic. People are tired of the incompetence that the pandemic has been met with and the incompetence stems from Donald Trump's handling of the virus," says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Mika Brzezinski following President Trump’s continued public attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, and the media, amid the coronavirus outbreak that continues to ravage the country just two weeks from the presidential election.

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Trump v. Fauci

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and writer/MSNBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas discuss the media ecosystem, and in particular Fox News, and what voters regard as “true, salient facts.” Hear Giridharadas’ estimation that the majority of Trump voters are not living in reality but in a “castle of fantasy.” Watch the conversation here.

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Barnicle and Giridharadas discuss the media ecosystem

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"The reality is—we all know what the reality is—Donald Trump can only see himself. He does not see the people in the audience. He does not understand their plight. He does not understand the reality that they could obviously get the virus and be in tremendous physical difficulty,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about President Donald Trump’s false claims about a “cure” for coronavirus amid the huge gap in care available to the president and everyday Americans who are faced with growing numbers of infections, costly medical bills and rising unemployment. "There's a huge difference between the two and Donald Trump just doesn't get that difference.”

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The President vs. everyday Americans

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about how the coronavirus pandemic is at the center of this upcoming presidential election between President Donald J. Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, with record numbers of Americans infected and facing huge COVID health bills at a time when unemployment is on the rise. Americans "live in fear and anxiety of who is coming to help, and thus far, nobody has come to help,” says Barnicle about the Trump Administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.

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Coronavirus front and center in election

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump’s chances for re-election amid the coronavirus pandemic with less than three weeks to Election Day. “The facts are grim and grizzly: America is number one—ladies and gentlemen—we're number one in the number of infections from the disease and we're number one in the number of deaths from the disease thus far. The disease is not going away. The virus is not going away. It's been handled terribly, incompetent by guess who? The man standing in front of those rallies, Donald J. Trump, and he can't deal with it…I think he knows he's losing and you have to be really, really out of it not to know that. So, this is what he's left with: A pile of delusion, fantasy, and the hope that what he's looking at out in Johnstown, Pennsylvania…that he can recreate 2016. It doesn't look like he can,” says Barnicle about President Trump’s re-election chances.

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Trump’s chances for re-election

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Tune in to this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and The New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker to discuss Susan Glasser and Baker’s new book, “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III,” a definitive biography of James A. Baker III, who served as Ronald Reagan’s treasury secretary and George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state. Hear their conversation about James Baker’s own presidential aspirations here.

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New book on James Baker III

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“Seven hundred and fifty in taxes. Seventy thousand for your hair, Donald? To take care of your hair. These are elements that people talk about. The depth of it: You know he's a crook. People sort of know that—a lot of people sort of know that. His career as a businessman, that might be revealing to people—that he's a terrible businessman….It’s going to be a slow impact,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in a conversation with host Willie Geist about whether President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects will be hurt by the recently published bombshell story from The New York Times that chronicles years of Trump’s tax avoidance and financial difficulties, including that he had paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he was elected president, and no federal income tax in 10 of the previous 15 years.

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Trump’s Taxes Revealed

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and actors Robin Wright and Cary Elwes as they discuss the enduring legacy and cultural relevance of the 1987 film “The Princess Bride” directed by Rob Reiner, adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel "The Princess Bride."

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The Princess Bride

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"If you do a forensic autopsy of the failures of this Administration with regard to COVID-19, its handling of it….it is horrendous. And we are approaching 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 in this country,” says Morning Joe contributor and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation about with Mika Brzezinski. "There’s going to be no wall with the names of the casualties, the victims, the killed in action victims to COVID-19….Yellow ribbons at the end of the driveway on your mailbox aren't going to cut it. This is a complete breakdown and failure, incompetence and immorality—I would submit of this Administration—and people like Donald Trump's enablers in person just now Bill Barr, the attorney general of the United States.” Watch the discussion here.

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Trump: Incompetence and immorality

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Morning Joe veteran columnist remembers 9/11 on this 19th anniversary of terrorist attacks with reflections on an event that memorialized two Bedford, Massachusetts, sons lost to war: John Hart, 20 years of age when he was killed in Iraq in 2003, and Travis Desiato, 19, when he was killed in Fallujah in 2004. "The two families – Brian Hart and the Desiatos – they stood there, and they weren't angry, they weren't yelling, they weren't ideological. They had gathered some people and a few members of the press because they wanted people to know that their two boys who had options, other than joining the Army and the Marine Corps, had options—but chose to serve the United States of America. They sacrificed their lives. They weren't ‘losers,’ they weren't ‘suckers,’ that's what this family wanted. And there was more sadness than there was anger and the sadness was over the fact that as Brian Hart – John Hart's father – said, that we are now led by a man like Donald J. Trump,” says Barnicle as he shares with Willie Geist and viewers the story of a memorial service held for two young fallen American soldiers.Tune in to watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) about the economic struggle for millions of Americans amid the coronavirus outbreak and the need for more financial relief since the last federal assistance check that many families received was more than two months ago.

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Remembering 9/11

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“We can measure the damage the virus has done. We do it with a body count, sadly, approaching 200,000 people, and multiple millions of cases. But we can't really measure the damage that Donald Trump has done to institutions of this country and the damage he's done to the country itself…to the people of this country by his behavior, his verbiage, his rhetoric, his daily rhetoric, his daily lies—as you point out—is almost incalculable,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with host Joe Scarborough about the findings in legendary journalist Bob Woodward’s latest book "Rage” which reveals that President Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed U.S. coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and more deadly than even your strenuous flus.

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The damage is incalculable

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Tune in to watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) about the economic struggle for millions of Americans amid the coronavirus outbreak and the need for more financial relief since the last federal assistance check that many families received was more than two months ago.

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How do you spell “relief”?

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"There is the virus on the ballot this year, and the virus will be on the ballot this year...and it's going to come down to the message: Where are we going in the future? That's what people want to hear. They don't want to be scared. They want to know: Where are we going?” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with host Willie Geist about voter interest in the 2020 presidential election. Hear more of the discussion now about the race between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump ahead of the first presidential debate.

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Biden v. Trump: Where are we going?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and president of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten about what is working and what’s not when it comes to K-12 education in the U.S. and the need for “better leadership nationally” amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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What’s working and what’s not in K-12 education

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Tune in for the Morning Joe discussion between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Wall Street Journal reporter Justin Scheck, co-author of new book “Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power,” about the tension in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iran. "What is his goal, his ultimate goal, and the potential danger of that goal with regard to Saudi Arabia versus Iran?” asks Barnicle. Hear Scheck’s answer here.

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Middle East tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran

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“This is an attorney general who has corrupted the professional staff of the Justice Department. He is in the process of doing something that Donald Trump's Administration has been doing in department, after department, after department—destroying it,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this segment with host Joe Scarborough about Attorney General William Barr’s claim that he was unaware of state laws illegality of voting twice after President Donald Trump suggested that people should attempt to vote twice to test the electoral system’s integrity. Watch the segment here.

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Attorney General Barr claims he doesn’t know voting laws

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they remember Tom Seaver, a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and the hero of New York’s Miracle Mets, who has passed away at 75 years old from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. “Tom Seaver was an artist. To watch him perform on the mound with the New York Mets, especially Mr. Met, was an incredible experience. He was a legitimate Hall of Famer before they even voted him into the Hall of Fame,” says Barnicle. Hear more here.

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Remembering Tom Seaver

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“Donald Trump has been president for 1,321 days. When he was sworn in on January 20th, 2017, there was no virus, the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, your children were going to school, cities were not embroiled in racial tension as they are now. But here we are: 30 million people are unemployed, people live in angst, anxiety, and sometimes fear of contracting the virus because the government—the federal government, led by Donald J. Trump—has done very little to address it nationally and come up with solutions nationally at a point in time when it could’ve made a difference. And the big thing right now, at this moment, on the second of September, is: Can you put your children in school? Well, you can't. All of that is on Donald J. Trump,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about Trump’s responsibility for the major problems facing America today. Hear more of the conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about the civil unrest taking place in cities throughout the country here.

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The state of the country

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, discuss how the upcoming virtual Republican National Convention might respond to the “face and feelings of America” that were on display at this week’s virtual Democratic National Convention. Watch the segment here.

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What does America look like?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on when and how the state's public schools may open safely amid the deadly and destructive coronavirus outbreak.

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NJ Governor talks school reopening

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“We have incompetence in this Administration. We have corruption in this Administration. We have criminality in this Administration, and we have these virtual clowns on television like Jeanine Pirro making absurd predictions and pronouncements,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a discussion with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about Fox News host Jeanine Pirro's erroneous on-air suggestion that "something's going to happen” so that Joe Biden will not be on the Democratic presidential ticket in November. Watch the rest of the conversation here..

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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro makes erroneous prediction

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial about the release of “Unmasked,” the organization’s annual State of Black America report that addresses the various ways that that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed long-standing disparities for Black Americans when it comes to the economy, access to health care institutions and the criminal justice system. “Black people have caught hell this year,” says Morial, explaining they are more likely to be infected with coronavirus, more likely to die from it, more likely to be unemployed and less likely to have the ability to work from home. Hear more of the discussion here.

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National Urban League’s annual report “Unmasked"

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Morning Joe veteran columnist and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discuss the latest report that over 1 million Americans will file for state unemployment benefits for the 21st consecutive week due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing negotiations between the Trump Administration and Democratic leaders over the next economic relief package for Americans.
Asks Barnicle: “During your discussions—you and Senator Schumer, your discussions with Mr. Meadows and Mr. Mnuchin—is it ever raised the fact that millions of Americans who have lost their jobs will take months and years to recover economically? Some will never recover economically. Some of the jobs they’ve lost will never come back. Do you talk about these things?” Hear Speaker Pelosi’s response now.

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When will Americans get financial relief?

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Is President Donald J. Trump personally involved in the current White House negotiations with Democrats over the next economic relief package that will help millions Americans on the verge of economic collapse amid the coronavirus pandemic? Find out in this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

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No help from POTUS on coronavirus relief bill

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, about what has to happen to lift up and politically engage this country’s 34 million poor and low income people to cast their vote toward combatting the systemic racism and systemic poverty that plague our nation.

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Getting poor and low-income voters to the polls

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“People forget a lot of things—we are in a sense, a country of amnesiacs with the culture moving so rapidly….But people don't forget things like not getting a paycheck, not having someone come for them to help them. Government is there to help people in trouble. This time people are in real trouble and nobody is coming, and nobody is coming largely because of the Republican Party led by Donald J. Trump,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about the Republican Party as the coronavirus outbreak and its handling has ravaged the country. Join the conversation here.

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Republicans need to stand up

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the poll numbers continuing to show presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. “All the Biden campaign has to rely on now—in addition to Joe Biden himself, the candidate, the man, the human being—is the refrain, ‘are you better off today than you were in March?’,” says Barnicle, referencing one of the most important campaign questions of all time and the unprecedented devastation of COVID-19. “The element of loss in this country is playing a role in every single state that we have talked about this morning and it's jarring to think about it: We have 150,000 Americans dead. We have four and a half million Americans infected, by far the largest number in the world—of any country in the world. And within that framework, we have a president of the United States who seems unable to speak about what loss means to families in this country.” Join the conversation here.

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Are you better off now than you were in March?

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Iranian-American actor/comedian Maz Jobrani joins Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle to talk about the inspiration for his work and how far the industry has come in writing roles for Middle Eastern actors in the 22 years he’s been in the business. Watch the conversation here.

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Actor/comedian Maz Jobrani talks about his career

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party and widow of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, about how we can honor the legacies of her husband and the late Rep. John Lewis, who served together in Congress and fought for justice, voting and human rights.

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Honoring our past

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Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle outlines the three main issues in the 2020 presidential race: COVID-19, race equity and Donald Trump during this Morning Joe conversation with host Joe Scarborough about the polls showing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading President Trump in key battleground states.
"Donald Trump is the clear pivotal figure in this campaign and his incompetence in running this country, in dealing with the virus, I think, is probably the number one issue that's going to keep this race separated for the winner, Joe Biden,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Trump v. Biden

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Watch this Morning Joe segment in which contributor Mike Barnicle repeatedly asks Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), House Intelligence Chairman, if the reports are true that Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has become a tool for "laundering" a foreign interference campaign aimed at damaging presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Listen to Schiff’s response here and additional discussion about a public letter from Democratic leaders that asked the FBI for an urgent briefing arising from concern that members of Congress are being targeted by a foreign operation intended to influence the 2020 presidential election.

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FBI called for help on foreign interference in the upcoming election

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W"Despite what Donald Trump thinks about the American people, most Americans think he is a weak leader—that he has downplayed the threat of coronavirus, that he has stoked racial tensions,” said Guy Cecil, chairman of Priorities USA, a voter-centric progressive advocacy organization, during a Morning Joe conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Watch more of their discussion about Priorities USA’s polling and what they have learned about Republican efforts to “screw with” the upcoming general election through efforts to suppress and intimate voters.

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Priorities USA: Most Americans think Trump is a “weak leader"

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, John Heilemann and Mike Barnicle sound the alarm bells as they discuss President Donald Trump's threats to send unidentified federal troops to various U.S. cities to quell protests like in Portland, Oregon, where Trump has already sent federal officers and video captured them beating and pepper spraying a Navy veteran, Christopher David, there. “We should all be freaking out about this,” said Heilemann.

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“Trump's Troops” invade Portland

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel about the urgent need for Congress to increase federal funding to keep the upcoming U.S. general election safe amid COVID-19 concerns and the persistence of foreign interference.

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Keeping U.S. elections safe

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“John Lewis was what America aspires to be. Donald Trump is what America is slowly becoming. John Lewis marched forward every day of his life toward equality for everyone, regardless of color, faith, gender, belief, ideology, anything. John Lewis marched forward. Donald Trump doesn't like John Lewis's America. Donald Trump is uncomfortable in John Lewis's America. Donald Trump fights everything that John Lewis stood for….John Lewis believed in moving forward, in going onward with faith in this country. Donald Trump has faith only in himself,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with co-host Mika Brzezinski and The New Yorker’s David Remnick as they remember the life of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis and all that he stood for.

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Remembering John Lewis

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“People will gamble on Powerball tickets, Mega Millions tickets. They’ll bet on horse races and ball games. But they will not gamble with their children's health and safety, and that is something that the Administration, the President of the United States is going to inevitably bump into….School openings, I think, is going to be a real pivotal point and it's coming up very quickly,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson about the ongoing debate over whether schools should reopen in the fall amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

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Should schools reopen this fall?

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“The President of the United States took a medical emergency—a virus, an epidemic, a global epidemic—that is crippling the United States of America, and he turned it into simplified stupid things like, ‘don't wear a mask, wear a mask, hey, it's all up to you.’ There has been no effective leadership out of the Oval Office in this country, and that is I think the defining factor in why we are losing, losing the war against COVID-19,” veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski in reference to a new Washington Post report that juxtaposes President Donald Trump’s leadership amid the coronavirus pandemic with those of other world leaders.

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POTUS v. Other world leaders

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"This is a very personal presidency…as we have all found out to our great sadness and chagrin. Roger Stone got his sentence commuted by the President of the United States for not flipping and cooperating with prosecutors, which would’ve exposed the President to a charge of perjury had he done so,” explains Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as he and Mika Brzezinski discuss a National Review op-ed that calls President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his former campaign adviser and longtime friend Roger Stone on seven felony crimes “an indefensible commutation.” Watch more of the conversation here.

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National Review: an indefensible commutation

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“We are all in the middle of a true medical emergency, an epidemic, coast-to-coast epidemic. States putting up staggering numbers: Florida, Houston, Texas, Indiana over the weekend, parts of Minnesota, California, Arizona. And the President views this medical emergency—this true epidemic—as a political issue. It is not. It is a medical issue, and he has not stepped up as a leader in terms of helping to define what people have to do, what various governors in various states ought to do. We have not heard a single real word from him about leadership in this epidemic and that's his bigger problem,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire about President Donald Trump canceling a planned rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, due to concerns that COVID-19 fears and a forecasted thunderstorm would lead to low attendance.

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The President Canceling Plans

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ICYMI: Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) about the need for the HEROES Act, a federal stimulus bill currently stalled in the Senate that would help Americans who are struggling to pay their rent or mortgage and face eviction or foreclosure amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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Is more help on the way?

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Morning Joe veteran columnist and Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, discuss the fact that a more assertive set of specific guidelines from the CDC would make a significant difference in lowering the COVID-19 infection rate. Osterholm asserts that moral leadership across government and the health care field is needed to convince Americans that they must take COVID-19 seriously and distance as well as wear masks to slow the infection rate or “the next year is going to be one ongoing tragedy.” Watch the conversation here.

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COVID-19 not yet seen as important

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Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) joins Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle to talk about the peaceful protests in his state following the “senseless murder of George Floyd,” a police killing that has brought to the forefront the long overdue need to address the underlying racism that plagues our country. Watch their discussion here.

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Maryland Governor talks protests

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Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) talks with Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the sentiment within New York's 11th congressional district, which includes Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, regarding the possibility of evictions from homes and schools not reopening in the fall amid the coronavirus outbreak in America. Listen to Rose’s urgent plea for federal investments in communities, in infrastructure and in making sure people are not evicted from their homes. “We have to win this thing."

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How to get America back on track

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence pressuring schools to fully reopen this fall amid the coronavirus outbreak and continual spike across America and the fact that some hospitals in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey along with other states have suffered a lack of personal protection equipment for doctors and nurses. “That's an incredible portrait of incompetence,” says Barnicle about the lack of PPE equipment available for frontline workers.

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Coronavirus continues to wreak devastation

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle talk baseball and the viability of a 2020 MLB season amid the coronavirus pandemic, following MLB teams being forced to cancel practices after failing to receive COVID-19 testing results, players contracting the virus and more. “I think the season is jump ball right now,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Baseball: “The season is jump ball right now"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and former RNC chairman Michael Steele as they discuss Barnicle’s latest op-ed for the Daily Beast titled “An Independence Day Wish for the Disunited States of America,” which examines the divisiveness propagated by President Donald J. Trump, most recently during his Fourth of July speeches at Mount Rushmore and the White House, and implores each of us to “think and remember not so much who we are but who we really want to be.” Join the conversation here and read the column: https://bit.ly/2Z1SVVn

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The Disunited States of America

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle, “Begin Again” author and professor Eddie Glaude Jr. and professor Cornel West about confronting racism in America today and how we as individuals must understand, not try to erase, the deep contradictions at the heart of this country so we can move forward rather than stand in the way of substantive change.

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How to “Begin Again” the conversation about race in America

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about the plight of American families whose home rental and job assistance benefits are scheduled to run out later this month while the Senate’s two-week recess after the July 4th holiday means they won’t be back in session until July 20. "What’s the plan to help millions American families?” asks Barnicle. Hear what Schumer has to say about his colleagues in the Senate and how he plans to work to secure meaningful financial assistance for Americans in need.

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What happens when benefits run out?

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"Why the hell is the President of the United States puckering up to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin when he ought to be sticking up for America?” asks U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, during a Morning Joe conversation with contributor Mike Barnicle about whether House Republicans believe the New York Times and Washington Post’s reports that reveal Russia has paid bounties to Taliban-linked fighters to kill U.S. troops and coalition forces in Afghanistan as President Donald J. Trump calls the reporting a hoax. Watch the conversation here.

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More on Russia v. the U.S.

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“Russia declared war on the United States of America nearly four years ago when they decided to attack our electoral system. They are still declaring war on America, except this time they are paying hundreds and thousands of dollars to the Taliban in Afghanistan – our enemy – to kill our Marines, our soldiers, our people, our young men. That's going on in front of us,” said Morning Joe veteran columnist and contributor Mike Barnicle during this discussion with Joe Scarborough about President Donald J. Trump’s refusal to confront and deal with bombshell reports of Russia paying bounties to Taliban-linked fighters to kill U.S. troops and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Join the conversation here.

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Russia’s war on the U.S.

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss President Donald J. Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic as cases of COVID-19 continue to spike across the nation with infection rates up in most states. "I feel terrible for anyone who contracts the virus. But there's another virus that the whole country is dealing with on a daily basis—and it's the virus of Donald Trump's incompetence, his personality and his lack of character in terms of leading this critical, critical medical emergency that we're still in the middle of,” says Barnicle about Trump in light of his continuing to tell Americans that the virus is going to disappear, that it’s under control. You can watch the conversation here.

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COVID-19 spike across the nation

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on the speculations surrounding the cognitive abilities of President Donald Trump, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani while the coronavirus outbreak continues to surge in America, unemployment checks are about to run out, and the Trump Administration remains under pressure to explain how much the White House knew about allegations that Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. troops.

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America under siege

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“You can take everything that's happened in the Trump Administration thus far, and especially over the last six months, and neatly sum it up with one phrase, I think – `dereliction of duty’,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with host Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s shortcomings throughout his tenure in office, including his mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak in America. "When Donald Trump stood on the podium in front of the capitol on January 20th, 2017, he took an oath, and the oath was to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He has done neither—he hasn't protected us. He hasn't defended us.” Watch more of the conversation here.

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POTUS: “He hasn't protected us. He hasn't defended us"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Erik Larson, author of "The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz,” about Churchill’s character and leadership skills during times of crisis. "What was it about (Churchill) that gave him such supreme confidence that he could do something that leaders ought to do more often—deliver bad news?” asks Barnicle. Hear what Larson has to say about the former UK prime minister’s ability to speak truth at a time of hardship.

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Churchill’s leadership in crisis

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Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle reflects on an Associated Press photograph by Patrick Semansky of President Donald J. Trump, which shows Trump returning from a re-election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, wearing a rumpled blue suit, white shirt, tie undone. "He’s walking slowly and his face looks defeated. And all I could think of in looking at that photograph was ‘Death of a Salesman.’ Donald Trump as Willy Loman….He’s selling a stale product, an old product, that more and more people aren't buying because they're confronted with the reality that we're all confronted with: More than 40 million people unemployed and a virus that could kill you like that if you catch it from God knows where. And he says very little about that.” Watch more of the conversation with Barnicle and Morning Joe’s Willie Geist here.

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Donald Trump as Willy Loman

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Stacey Abrams, former Democratic minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and author of "Our Time Is Now," discusses with Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle her thoughts on how to both reform and transform police departments in cities large and small in America by changing the way police do their jobs, banning choke holds, increasing training, and investing in communities by providing a higher quality of education, health care, affordable housing and community programs. "This is a ‘both' ‘and' solution to the challenges that have plagued this country from the beginning,” Abrams said. Watch more of the conversation here.

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Stacey Abrams on how to improve policing

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Baton Rouge community activist Rev. Gary Chambers Jr., who in a now-viral video sharply criticized East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member Connie Bernard who defended the controversial name of Lee High School named for Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee, and who then appeared to be online shopping and “ignoring” community concerns during an intense debate over whether to rename the school. "It’s heart-breaking and that’s why it’s resonated with so many people,” said Chambers, publisher of The Rouge Collection.

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Lee High School naming controversy in Baton Rouge

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Tune in to this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) about Attorney General William Barr “political bidding” on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in the wake of the firing of U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Manhattan Geoffrey Berman. Asks Barnicle: "What's your view on what is going on with the attorney general of United States? Is he that bad a manager that he can't control what he wants to do?” Hear Jeffries’ call for an investigation into Barr’s “rotten” and “toxic” actions.

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Attorney General William Barr’s misplaced loyalty?

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Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle discuss President Donald Trump’s Tulsa, Oklahoma reelection rally, which produced a low turnout amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I don't think Donald Trump knows what's going on. He certainly knows the polls, but I think what he senses is that a referendum on Donald Trump in various states means one thing: It means he loses. So…he’s got to find an excuse so he doesn't have to blame himself and people don't blame him: The virus will be his excuse when he loses….But Donald Trump is the root of...everything that is disrupting this country today because from Day One of his presidency, he has focused on one thing above all else: Division, dividing the country,” says Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.

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Trump: Divider in Chief

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Eddie Glaude Jr., and Mike Barnicle about the fatal police shooting captured on cameras of Rayshard Brooks, a black man who was killed by an Atlanta police officer after firing a stun gun at the officer and fleeing. “You can train for everything at a police academy, all sorts of exigencies. You cannot provide common sense to someone who lacks it, and this was an astounding case of a lack of common sense resulting in murder two charges for that police officer,” says Barnicle about the police officer who shot and killed Brooks. Join the conversation here.

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Police shooting in Atlanta

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Join the conversation between Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and U.S. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) about this week's House of Representatives hearings on the Democrats’ proposed police reform legislation to combat excessive force and racial discrimination, introduced in response to the recent killings of unarmed black Americans.

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Police reforms on the way

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Eugene Robinson about “how difficult it is to be black in America.” Says Barnicle: "White families don't have to live through the same series of outrages that happen when you're black in America.” Hear from Robinson, Washington Post associate editor, about the centuries-old challenges facing black Americans and what might be the next positive steps toward equity and justice.

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Being Black in America

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Dr. Leana Wen, former Baltimore Health Commissioner, during a conversation with Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about mask wearing being a non-political, public health necessity, calls on the Trump Administration to “step up” and lead by example to help control the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus. "This is about each of us showing that we care about one another, that we respect one another. That’s the reason why we do this,” said Wen. Watch more of their discussion here.

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Wearing a mask is not political

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Hear what former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has to say in this Morning Joe conversation with Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to deploy the national guard in Washington D.C.—a show of force usually reserved for combat zones—amid the protests in the nation’s capital in response to the death of George Floyd.

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POTUS’ controversial tactics in response to DC protests

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"George Floyd was executed on a sidewalk, a street corner in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That image is going to be stronger in November than it is now. It's going to remain with this country. It's going to affect nearly everyone's vote. And Donald Trump, instead of addressing it as a human being, which he is incapable of doing...they’re going to plunge ahead, plunge ahead on a law and order issue. It's not going to work,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s drop in poll numbers released amid the nationwide protests in response to the killing of George Floyd and with an eye on the upcoming 2020 presidential election.

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George Floyd’s Impact in November

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“On this Memorial Day, we're sitting in a country, and you just alluded to it, about the dams needing repair. We're sitting in a country where people claim that America doesn't build things anymore. You're not too far from the old Ford Willow Run Plant where in World War II, the B-24 Liberators were coming off the assembly line of that plant at the rate of one per hour. Detroit helping to win the war. What is going on? Why can't we get an infrastructure bill passed in this country to rebuild America today, in 2020?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) during a Morning Joe conversation about why Congress hasn’t been able to pass infrastructure legislation despite the desperate need for it in the country and what may be the crushing consequences if Democrats and Republicans don’t come together to build resiliency in the infrastructure now.

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Bipartisan support needed for infrastructure

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Gen. (Ret.) David Petraeus and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow join Morning Joe to discuss Grant, a three-night miniseries about the life and career of the military legend, beginning tonight on HISTORY. “There's an astounding moment in his military career that I need your help in understanding. The compassion and generosity he showed at the signing of the surrender with Robert E. Lee at the Appomattox Court House: How does that happen?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.

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Grant miniseries on HISTORY starts tonight

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NBC News senior international correspondent Keir Simmons joins Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe to report on the “good case study” of Greece, offering an example of for how European countries might deal with the geopolitical tension that goes hand in hand with reopening their borders amid the coronavirus pandemic. Listen to the full report here from London.

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Opening borders amid the pandemic

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Watch this conversation between Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and Jeremy Butler, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, about the benefits of a national public service program in our country, where only one percent of the population currently serves in the military. "We have been at war as a nation now for 19 years. Memorial Day used to have much more significance in this nation—three or four decades ago—when there was more familiarity with people who served in wars—in World War II, in Korea. Do you think that this might be a great time (for)...mandatory national public service in this country?" Barnicle asks in seeking a deeper appreciation for those who give back to the country on this Memorial Day.

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Time for national service?

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“He lives in his own self-concocted, self-conceived fantasy world, and it involves, 'this state is involved in voter fraud; that state is not involved in voter fraud because it’s going to vote for me.' It fills his days, his dreams, his made-up numbers about 'the death count is overrated, it’s underrated.' It is what it is; you can't follow him. And Dave, my question to you is, is there any credibility do you think on a national level—after the local level investigates and proves there is no voter fraud? Do Republicans listen to that?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg as the Morning Joe panel discusses President Donald Trump railing against mail-in voting on Twitter despite a GOP investigation in Florida having found there was no voter fraud. Listen to Aronberg’s response here about the notion that Trump is trying to convince Democrats to back off the effort.

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POTUS’ “self-concocted, self-conceived fantasy world"

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"Memorial Day 2020, a sacred day, especially where I'm from. I grew up at a time when Memorial Day was Memorial Day. There were no sales at Home Depots; there were no large-scale picnics. It was to honor the dead. I grew up in a Gold Star household. My uncle Gerry was killed at Midway, and like all of the people listed yesterday in the Times and all of the people who will be memorialized at cemeteries around this country today, my uncle Gerry, Second Lieutenant Gerald J. Barnicle, killed at Midway on June 4th, 1942, he never died. His memory lived, and he lives today through me—as will all those people who were listed in the Times yesterday. And that's what Donald Trump fails to grasp,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about President Donald Trump having spent his Memorial Day weekend golfing in Virginia and attacking his opponents via Twitter, juxtaposed with The New York Times honoring the lives lost to the novel coronavirus with a powerful tribute across the front page of the Sunday paper, filled with the names of the victims and portions of their obituaries.

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Memorial Day 2020, a sacred day

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle weigh in with final thoughts from today’s show and share their views on President Donald Trump claiming it is "a badge of honor" that the U.S. has the world's highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infection cases. “Americans used to look to the White House for leadership, for direction, for morality, for support, for emotional support. We no longer can do that,” says Barnicle about the U.S. in the era of President Trump.

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POTUS: U.S. COVID-19 cases are “badge of honor”

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Watch this exchange between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Anja Manuel, a former official at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for South Asia Policy, about whether China is economically vulnerable due to the coronavirus pandemic. Asks Barnicle: "They’ve contributed enormous sums of money, billions around the world for ports, harbors in Africa and other countries. Is it possible that they are perhaps sitting on their own dangerous economic bubble?” Hear Manuel’s response here.

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China’s economic bubble?

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"Is it not the toughest component of opening up the ability to get people back to work in some function? I mean, the dignity of work, the value of work, what it means to a family, obviously the income. How hard is it to differentiate between opening up school systems, athletic facilities or just getting people back to work?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, during a Morning Joe conversation about the process of reopening American after the coronavirus-related lockdowns across the country. Listen to Besser’s response here about how the way forward is slow, methodical and requiring good, comprehensive data systems to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

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How to get America back to work

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"Donald Trump, who fancies himself a commander in chief...seems to have forgotten the principle objective of any commander in chief: the safety of his troops or, in this case, the people of this country,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump during a conversation with Joe Scarborough about Trump's criticism of comments Dr. Anthony Fauci made during a congressional hearing about the risks of reopening the country too soon. Watch more of the conversation here. #mikesdailyfruitbowl

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Dr. Fauci’s Warnings

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Tune in to this Morning Joe conversation between contributor Mike Barnicle and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, as they discuss what it would take to reopen schools this fall for preschool and grade-school age children, which would enable their parents to go back to work in many cases.

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Fall: Will Schools Reopen?

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"The thing that I wonder about, and perhaps you can enlighten us, is that the stories, the increasing tonnage of stories, that we get about the President's behavior—about his conduct, about his verbal conduct, denying everything that we can see with our own eyes—the source of many of these stories are repeated leaks from within the White House….What kind of support does he have among the White House staff?" asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Associated Press White House reporter Jonathan Lemire as the Morning Joe panel discusses President Donald Trump and his administration’s handling of the deadly and devastating coronavirus outbreak in America. Listen to Lemire’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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POTUS: Support in the White House?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist and contributor Mike Barnicle and former Baltimore city health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen about the why, how, when of contact tracing of infectious diseases, “the bread and butter of public health,” and how it applies to can help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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A brief primer on contact tracing

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"A couple of weeks ago, the superintendent at West Point ordered all of the West Point cadets home for safety reasons, in order to care for them, to make sure that they were out of a petri dish at West Point and the coronavirus threat. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has just ordered all of these troops from disparate parts of this country to return to West Point so he can have an audience for a commencement address he’s scheduled to deliver. What are your thoughts on that?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). Listen to Kaine’s response and why he believes: “This president is: This is about me and who cares about you.”

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West Point Cadets in Peril

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“All I can think of when I hear Donald Trump on the clips that we play, and we talk about him, obviously, a lot, is the Jack Nicholson character in ‘A Few Good Men,’ when he looks into the camera and he’s in the courtroom and says, ‘you can't handle the truth.’ And I think that's where we are with Donald Trump,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle. "He can't handle the truth. He has created his own lost empire, and he just rambles around from one press conference to another.” Watch more of the conversation here between Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s continued “mistakes” of downplaying the longevity of the novel coronavirus, following Trump's most recent statement that the coronavirus would eventually be “eradicated” with or without a vaccine so that Americans and businesses could return to normal life and operations.

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POTUS: “You can’t handle the truth"

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on the pros and cons of news that Major League Baseball is contemplating a plan to start its season in late June, playing in home stadiums with a realigned league and no fans in the seats. Watch the discussion here about the tremendous logistics, costs and health risks involved in resuming baseball season in June for fans to watch on television.

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A June Return for Baseball?

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“Donald Trump's larger problems might be the fact that he has an empathy absence. He has none. He doesn't understand what's going on to real people's lives out in the country…..He doesn't understand what it means to have the economic gun at your head. He just doesn’t. He has lived a life of lies,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe segment with Joe Scarborough about how President Donald Trump is now being “exposed” for his lack of leadership, his lies and divisive rhetoric in his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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POTUS: Lack of Empathy

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“I pose this question to the country: How would you feel if Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci both resigned under protest, that the President is acting like someone who is mad, someone who has gone temporarily insane—who is deranged, who feels cornered, who will say anything to get out of anything at a particular moment in time? Not long-term, not leadership, not looking down the road, but get out of something like right now. How would you feel if they resigned?” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle of the American people during a conversation with Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump having suggested that injecting disinfectant or beaming people with ultraviolet rays might cure the coronavirus.

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Will Trump’s COVID-19 Experts Resign?

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National Urban League President Marc Morial joins Morning Joe to talk about what can be quickly done to assist minority communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. “Given the catastrophic attack the virus has made on minority communities in the United States, what has to be done? What can realistically be done in the immediate future – not long term, buy immediate future – about access to health care, access to health insurance in these minority communities?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Morial. Find out more here.

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COVID-19 Help for Minority Communities

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation about Attorney General William Barr, who announced that the Justice Department might consider taking legal action against states with strict coronavirus rules, a statement that followed President Donald J. Trump’s tweets to "liberate" states where people protested social distancing measures enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus. "There’ve been some bad attorney generals in this country's history, but he’s right up there now at the top of the list,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Attorney General Barr, who he referred to as a “fixer” for Trump.

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AG Barr threatens to sue states

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“Trump's problem is, basically if you want to boil it down to just one simple essence right now: The virus doesn’t vote. The virus doesn’t wear a MAGA hat. The virus is out there devouring whatever and whomever it can devour,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe discussion about President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has included his endorsement of a malaria drug that a study now shows has no benefit and actually causes more death among those who are given the drug versus standard care. See more of the conversation now.

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The Virus Doesn’t Vote

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Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander of the United States Northern Command, joins Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle to discuss how the U.S. Department of Defense is using its resources and lessons learned from past military campaigns to balance its fight against the coronavirus with its defense of the homeland. "We have not missed a beat,” said O’Shaughnessy, an Air Force four-star general. "We’re making sure we have no vulnerabilities, and we are there to defend our nation.”

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Fight COVID-19, Defend the Homeland

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As the White House announces that Kayleigh McEnany will become the fourth press secretary in the Trump Administration, Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Jonathan Karl, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, discuss the role of the White House press secretary under President Donald Trump. “The bottom line here is that there has only been one real press secretary in the Trump White House and that is Donald Trump himself,” says Karl. Listen to more of Karl’s revelations about Trump’s public and private dealings with the White House press corp.

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Fourth Trump White House Press Secretary Named

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about why there has been a shortage of available testing in the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak crisis in America. “I think this will be a lesson that we cannot just hallow out government and think we’re not going to pay the consequences,” says Schumer. Hear more of the discussion now.

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Barnicle talks with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

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"Job number one for this president, two, three, four and five jobs, is to contain the virus. Instead he does that, stirs the pot. So, now we have this visibly damaged human being, Donald Trump, leading this country at this point in time, through this critical, critical stage of a crisis. That is historically tragic for America,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about the current economic hardship in America as the coronavirus has left millions jobless across the country.

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POTUS Stirs the Pot

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“Madam secretary, eventually this administration will come to its conclusion, hopefully sooner rather than later. When that occurs, what are the first few steps that the next president, the next secretary of state must take in order to heal the world around us?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during a Morning Joe conversation about how the U.S. can restore international relations going forward. Listen to Albright’s response here.

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How to Heal U.S / International Relations

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“Most days I get up quite early obviously because I'm used to getting up early, and I get in my car and I go through the city of Boston, drive around various neighborhoods, make several stops. I do it all safely. I have my gloves on, I have my mask on, and I talk to people who I know, some people who I don't know….One of the things you find out: It’s like an assemblage of the wounded, the weary and the wary. And they all have a common concern, and it’s not politics, it’s not any of the candidates,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Nicolle Wallace about his interactions with everyday Americans amid the coronavirus outbreak in America. Hear more of the conversation now.

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A Nation on Pause

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“This president has proven himself to be particularly, specifically, unable to do the job that he was elected to do,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump. "And…he is oddly irrelevant to a lot of people's lives. People get up every morning now in this country wondering about a few things specifically: You don't want to die. You don't want to catch this virus. You don't want your family to be affected by this virus. You worry about paying the rent and the mortgage every day. And that gets down to now, I think, a key word in our culture, and the word is ‘solvency.’” Hear more of the conversation here between Barnicle and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s reluctancy to act against the coronavirus before the outbreak in America despite being warned by federal agencies, as outlined in a New York Times article that indicates Trump was more focused on controlling the message, protecting the economy and battling warnings instead of taking early action against the coronavirus.

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What we worry about now

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“If you go around, as I have done for the past week or so, early in the morning, driving around safely from a distance, seeing people who I know in neighborhoods that I know, you find out from them, from talking to them that Donald Trump in a sense has become irrelevant to their lives because of his lack of leadership. But what has not become irrelevant to these people, and I think they're representative of a lot of people in this country, is his incompetence. That's his brand now: Incompetence. And the level of leadership that is lacking, people talk about it all the time, but it's really rooted in: He just simply hasn't done the job and can't do the job,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe during a conversation with host Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic having “proved to be deadly” for America, after the U.S. recorded the world’s highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day.

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