Mike Barnicle on TV: 2021

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy about the competitive nature and motivation behind the success of Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.

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Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird

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Morning Joe remembers former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who died at 82 years old and NFL Hall of Fame coach, broadcasting icon John Madden, who died at 85. Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle says of Reid and his influence on American politics: “One thought struck me more than anything else: Why aren't Democrats as tough today as Harry Reid was when he was the head of the Senate? I think it would be a different country, a different political party, and a different negotiation back and forth between all these conflicting issues if a Harry Reid was still there.” And on Madden: “Everybody in America knows John Madden. He was absolutely incredible. He was the guy who translated the arcane language of pro football into common English so that everybody understood it.”

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Remembering Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and president ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl about Karl’s new book “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show,” which offers an explosive look at the aftermath of the 2020 election and the events that followed former President Donald Trump’s White House departure. "When you're sitting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, after he has left the presidency, did it occur to you, ‘my God, this man was actually president of the United States?’” asks Barnicle. Hear Karl’s response here.

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New book on Trump post-presidency

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"When was the last time—if ever—that a true scalpel, a forensic scalpel, was taken to the budget, the federal budget of the United States of America, including the Defense Department, looking for waste, eliminating it? And what would happen...if this dream ever came true?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of economic analyst Steve Rattner during this Morning Joe conversation about removing wasteful spending within the country’s federal budget. Join the conversation here.

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Budget woes amid Build Back Better

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“What is going on with this country? What is wrong with this country—that people so easily buy into these horrendously false assertions made by people on the make? Joe, Mika, I’ve got to tell you, sitting here listening to it, thinking about it, thinking about your grandchildren—it’s depressing,” says Barnicle during a conversation that began with news of a federal judge having squarely placed the blame for the January 6 Capitol attack on Donald Trump, suggesting that the former president’s role in seeding lies about the 2020 election—and the impact it had on his followers—has been an under-appreciated part of the entire situation, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was confronted by CBS’ Margaret Brennan over his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results and for continuing to spin lies about the integrity of the vote.

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What is wrong with this country?

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss the U.S. worker shortage and supply chain issues that are likely to disrupt the holidays unless jobs are filled. “The economy is very healthy and very promising in terms of the next year or so, but the fact that you can't find people to drive a truck, that you can't find people to deliver goods to market, the fact you can't find people to drive school buses in various cities around the country is a deepening and real mystery. People have to get back to work,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Help wanted

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“There has been no precedent in this country for the plaintiff, Donald Trump, who continues to wage war against the Constitution, against the rule of law, against one political party in particular, the Democrats, and anything they want to do. What is the larger impact, the political impact of this, within the White House and within the members of the Democratic Party who you speak to, in both the House and the Senate?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of POLITICO White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire during a Morning Joe conversation about the impact the January 6 deadly insurrection has had on the country, as the House investigation continues. Listen to the conversation here.

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The continuing impact of January 6

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Watch this Morning Joe panel discussion with Washington Post political reporter Robert Costa about his new book and the ongoing investigation into the January 6 insurrection. “What took place was a group of people—a small group of people—tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the existing government of the United States and the incoming government of the United States. Where is Merrick Garland and the Department of Justices in this?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Costa. Tune in for the segment here.

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Where is Merrick Garland and the Department of Justices in this?

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Watch this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle asks Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot about the "massive amount of publicity" afforded to the movie set killing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as people are dying every day in her city. "How does it strike you when...every day in Chicago the combination of gangs, guns, and young people dying is an everyday—sadly, an everyday—occurrence given very little note?” Hear Mayor Lightfoot's response about the lack of attention given to the violent crime victims in Chicago.

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Chicago Mayor joins Morning Joe

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Tune in for this Way Too Early segment with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the White House and congressional Democrats scrambling to pass President Joe Biden's landmark social spending legislation, focusing on new ways to pay for the package, including a billionaires' tax, before President Biden’s departure for a week of summits in Europe.

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Way Too Early

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As the White House announced plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to children aged 5 to 11, Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle talked with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy about how the Administration will try and combat the vast and dangerous COVID-19 vaccine misinformation that has proliferated on social media platforms, such as Facebook. Hear what Dr. Murthy has to say here.

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Combating vaccine misinformation

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss their beloved Boston Red Sox with the team facing elimination after a game 5 loss to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. “It’s been a wonderful year. We’ve been blessed with many, many victories that we didn’t expect, and we’re still here….You win some, you lose some, but you've got to dress for all of them. And we'll be dressed tomorrow night in Houston, ready to go,” says Barnicle.

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Red Sox v. Astros continues

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discuss the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, which has been troubled by years of neglect and has spiraled into turmoil during the coronavirus pandemic. “Rikers Island, in a sense for many who go there, many inmates, it's a death sentence. You can die of COVID. You can die of gang violence, and it's been going on not just for a month, not just this summer, but for a long, long time. What has been the problem with either closing Rikers Island or getting something done to make it manageable?” asks Barnicle. Hear de Blasio’s response here.

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Problems at Rikers Island

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Congresswoman and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA) about the divide between progressives and moderates within the Democratic Party, which despite controlling the House, Senate and White House has not yet passed President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic plan.

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Democratic divide

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss the 2021 Major League Baseball playoffs, including home plate umpire Laz Diaz missing a strike-three call with two outs in a tie game during the ninth inning that ultimately led to the Houston Astros defeating the Boston Red Sox in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. "You can't blame a single call for a loss in a game. You know that. But it was a pretty brutal night in the ninth inning at Fenway Park,” says Barnicle about the blown strike-three call by Diaz. Watch the rest of the conversation here.

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2021 MLB playoffs

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and author and New York Times editorial board member Farah Stockman about her new book “American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears,” which explores the closing of the Rexnord bearings plant in Indianapolis and its impact specifically on several of its employees.

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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears

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"Government at the national level and sometimes the state level is either dysfunctional or really just fighting each other every day. What's your sense—in talking to people—of the average voters, the average person’s estrangement from the system of politics due to the way politics has behaved in this country and in Pennsylvania?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Attorney General of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania governor, during a Morning Joe conversation about how everyday Americans view the politics of the country.

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Pennsylvania Politics

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Virginia Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Hala Ayala about inflation and the three issues that impact people everyday: the cost of bread, milk and gas. "What do you hear when you’re out on the campaign trail about the cost of living?” asks Barnicle. Learn Ayala’s response here.

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Rising Inflation

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Katty Kay and Mike Barnicle about the January 6th Select Committee moving to hold former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for defying a subpoena to appear before the committee. “Steve Bannon can be forced to appear before the committee, but he can't be forced to give information. He can’t be forced to testify if he doesn’t want to testify. It's an extraordinarily frustrating moment in history because of the danger that this has posed to the country, to our existing democracy, to the way we live, to the way we govern. But here we are,” says Barnicle about former President Donald Trump and his allies.

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Steve Bannon

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Morning Joe's Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss the 2021 Major League Baseball playoffs, including the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros that begins this weekend in Minute Maid Park. “I’m looking forward to the Red Sox coming back to Boston at least even in the series one game to one,” says Barnicle about his beloved team. Hear the conversation here.

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2021 American League Championship Series

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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and actor Steven Van Zandt stopped by Morning Joe and talked with Mike Barnicle about his life, career and new book “Unrequited Infatuations,” which highlights when as a teenager Van Zandt met Bruce Springsteen, a like-minded outcast/true believer who became one of his most important friends and bandmates. Watch the conversation here.

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“Unrequited Infatuations” By Stevie Van Zandt

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"Jennifer, you are a perfect living example of what it means to get actively involved in local politics. People are always urging people: ‘Get involved, do your part, you’ll help the country, you’ll help your state or your community.’ You've done that, and the result has been…your family has been terrorized, you've been threatened multiple times. Would you ever run again, and who do you blame for this?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Florida's Brevard County School Board member Jennifer Jenkins who joins Morning Joe to discuss the threats she and her family have received for her support for masks in classrooms. Listen to Jenkins' response here.

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COVID Safety Measures

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"How frustrating is it for you and other medical professionals in fighting this disease and educating the public about this disease to know that we live in a country where as such damage had been done by politicians?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Nahid Bhadelia during a Morning Joe conversation about the ongoing fight from Republican politicians toward COVID-19 vaccine mandates, following Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio tweeting that his state "should ban all vaccine mandates." Watch the conversation here.

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The Debate Over Vaccine & Mask Mandates

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Emory University professor Dorothy Brown about the large number of women currently exiting the job market and why.

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Women Exit Labor Force (Again)

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Join in as Morning Joe's Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss NBC News correspondent Tom Costello’s report about actor William Shatner, 90, becoming the oldest person ever in space and Shatner's moving reflection on the experience.

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William Shatner Makes History In Space

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ICYMI: Morning Joe's Willie Geist, Elise Jordan and Mike Barnicle discuss the Republican Party and former President Donald Trump following a judge having dismissed a lawsuit by Trump supporters who sought to inspect absentee ballots from the 2020 election.

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The Danger That America Faces Right Now

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they are joined by coauthors James Patterson Matt Eversmann to discuss their book “E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes,” which features a compilation of interviews with hospital workers from across the country — everywhere from Wisconsin to Hawaii — telling their experiences in their own words. “Each and every day, I pass, you pass, everyone passes thousands of anonymous PTSD victims. They are nurses. One of my daughters is a nurse. My daughter-in-law is a nurse practitioner, and they have been forced over the past 18 months to help people to the end of their lives and to say goodbye to their loved ones over an iPhone, and we should honor them, recognize them as this book does, as we have just done in this segment, but there are too many anonymous heroes out there in America that we don't pay enough attention to,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes

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"It's an incredible period of time to cover in a stage play. So, you begin selling cotton as commodities and you end up with highly technical stuff that you're talking about. How do you do it?,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of actor Russell Beale who along with actors Adrian Lester and Adam Godley join the Morning Joe panel to discuss their play “The Lehman Trilogy,” which is coming back to Broadway after being shutdown due to the COVID-19 shutdown. Listen to Beale’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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The Lehman Trilogy

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"There are times you have to stop, and you need to appreciate the legends. I know people see Mike here every day, but you talk to anybody in Boston, and I remember Denis Leary one time – the first time he came on the set – he almost started tearing up. He said, ‘I can't believe I'm going to tell my ma, I finally got to meet the great Mike Barnicle.’ And so many other people feel that way, and I'm not being glib here at all. Mike is a legend, he’s a living legend. We’re so honored to have him on our show every day…But let's just stop today and wish Mike a happy 49th birthday,” says Joe Scarborough as the Morning Joe panel celebrates Mike Barnicle’s “49th” birthday. Join the celebration here.

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The Morning Joe Panel Celebrates Mike Barnicle’s “49th” Birthday

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the mysterious neurological ailment known as Havana Syndrome that has attacked American embassies around the world, while the State Department is now investigating new complaints of brain injuries linked to the so-called Havana Syndrome at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia. “We don't know the source of the attacks, if indeed they are attacks. So, you've had all these embassies around the world in the, you know, State Department employees suffering from something and yet we can't…put our finger exactly on what that is. So, it’s a quandary for the State Department, which is vastly undermanned, which I think, Jonathan, is part of the story in and of itself, given the gutting of the bureaucracy in the State Department within the past four years, but the idea is, has to be primary, figure out first what it is. And then we have to deal with it; but they're trying to do what they can do up to this point, and it’s not much,” says Barnicle about the United States not being able to uncover what or who is causing Havana Syndrome. Join the conversation here.

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Havana Syndrome

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"Congresswoman Murphy, we have all heard, with all due respect, the phrase is not just from you but from other members of Congress, ‘to the full extent of the law.’ So, my question to you is…the subpoenas that have been issued, they are in effect federal subpoenas. Are you dealing with the U.S. Marshals Service? Because in federal court, people who don't take advantage of responding to the subpoena, the Marshals go out and bring them to court. Are you going to use the Marshals Service to bring people like Mark Meadows to Congress?,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) during a Morning Joe conversation about enforcing the subpoenas being issued by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, which include former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Listen to Murphy’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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The January 6 Attack

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the 2021 MLB playoffs after the Boston Red Sox – under the leadership of manager Alex Cora – beat the Tampa Bay Rays to advance to the American League Championship Series. “Alex Cora has them extremely focused. The other night when Chris Sale gave up the grand slam home run, it was 5-2, suddenly, just like that, and Alex Cora at the break in the inning, he walked up and down that bench and said, ‘look at it this way, we are behind 3-0. It's the first inning. We got a lot to go. We're going to win this game.’ He's got them extraordinarily focused, but they are the underdog,” says Barnicle about the Red Sox who will play against the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. Join the conversation here.

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Boston Red Sox Advance to the American League Championship Series

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommending that doctors should no longer routinely start most people who are at high risk of heart disease on a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin. “I have long had a practice of lying to my physician when you go for your physical. You know, he says, ‘you been taking your daily aspirin?’ ‘Yeah, always religiously. You know, chicken and fish. That's it.’ And I park my car beneath the golden arches and ignore all of that because things change like that,” says Barnicle about nutrition and medicine recommendations. Join the conversation here.

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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Republican Party’s push against President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine mandates by any "entity," including employers. “This is a continuing tragedy in this country because what the governor of Texas has said, what other Republicans have said has nothing to do with public health or public policy. It's all about politics….Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, the guy with no coat, the guy who never wears a coat, he urged an end to all – he urged Ohio to end all – mandates of all vaccines. Not just the COVID vaccines, all vaccines: Rubella, Polio, Measles, all vaccines. That's where this is going. And it’s not just Congress, Joe. You know this; it’s not just Congress. It's various Republican-led states with Republican governors and Republican legislatures. And this is, I think – I might be wrong, I'm often wrong – this could be the epic issue of our age. Can we hold on to our democracy in the light of all of these public people? Elected governors, elected members of Congress, elected members of the United States Senate. We just had, you reported on it the other day, the number two Republican in the House of Representatives, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, still refusing to admit that Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president of the United States. This is all happening right in front of our eyes. From my point of view, from my grandchildren’s' point of view, who I think about all day long, this is the issue of our time because they're not going to have the country that we have if we shut our eyes to this. Build Back Better is really important, this is more important,” says Barnicle about thwarting the Republican Party’s effort to prevent President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Join the conversation here.

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President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the 2021 Major League Baseball playoffs after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants to force a decisive game five in the National League Division Series. “The San Francisco Giants have been one of the most vastly underrated baseball teams in Major League Baseball throughout the year. Here they are. They are on the verge of winning their series with the Dodgers, and as Willie pointed out, I mean, the win-loss records were incredibly close, and the Dodgers’ payroll is probably one-third higher than the San Francisco Giants’ and yet here they are, San Francisco,” says Barnicle about the Giants who set a franchise record with 107 wins and ended the Dodgers' National League West reign of eight straight seasons. Join the conversation here.

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2021 Major League Baseball Playoffs

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they recap and discuss the Boston Red Sox having ended the New York Yankees season with a 6-2 win in the AL-Wild Card game at Fenway Park. "One of the big underlying stories, Joe, last night has to do with everything that we've been through as a nation and as a world across the last 19 to 20 months, suffering from COVID. The Red Sox, of course, had several unvaccinated players. But the crowd last night was as electric and as together—literally, figuratively together—close together; 38,000 people in that ballpark with noise and clamor and excitement that I haven't seen or heard in that ballpark in maybe two to three years. And the funny, odd thing last night, when the Massachusetts state lottery number came up just prior to the game: The winning numbers were announced at about seven o’clock, and the numbers were one, nine, seven, eight—true story, 1978, the Bucky Dent year,” says Barnicle as he recalls former Yankee Bucky Dent who hit a home run in a tie-breaker game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park at the end of the 1978 regular season. Watch the whole conversation here.

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The Red Sox

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Eugene Robinson and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s declaration that the Republican Party will not come to the aid of Democrats to raise the debt ceiling. “Look at the contentiousness in the United States Senate, look at the fact Mitch McConnell, the minority leader of the United States Senate, is basically holding the American economy hostage, hostage to his politics,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the exchange here.

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Repubs v. Dems over debt ceiling

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation as Mike Barnicle and others share their thoughts on President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan speech in which he defended his decision to end America’s 20-year war there and called the evacuation from Kabul an “extraordinary success” in his remarks. Commented Barnicle that despite Biden being "angered and outraged to his core” about the killings that took place in Afghanistan, “I heard a very strong defense of his position. After 20 years of death, deception—despite some immense progress in Afghanistan with regard to women and education—20 years of delusion….The president knows that only one thing is forever and that's death. He knows that most of those at the airport were there in Afghanistan for perhaps their first time, greeting complete strangers, people they've never met, in order to save their lives.” More from the segment here.

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Barnicle on Afghanistan

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Eugene Robinson and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson remaining uncertain about getting vaccinated against COVID-19 after returning from his second bout with the virus in the last eight months. “Lamar Jackson is a tremendous quarterback, a tremendous athlete, there’s no doubt about that, Willie. But he's not a team guy because he has just proven he is not a team guy….The other aspect of it—getting COVID twice and still being worried about the vaccine—I mean, that is truly mystifying in this current time, truly mystifying,” says Barnicle about Jackson after the NFL announced that teams will forfeit and be slapped with a loss if a game is cancelled because of a COVID-19 outbreak among their unvaccinated players.

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Leading on COVID-19

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Dr. Lee Beers, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, about the ongoing hesitancy among many Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. "What do you think history is going to say about us that we had so many who refused to get a vaccine that could be lifesaving?” Hear Dr. Beers’ hopeful answer here.

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How will history remember...?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation among host Mika Brzezinski, contributor Mike Barnicle and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) about the desperate need to expand the eviction moratorium and disperse billions in funds through the end of 2021 to help both beleaguered tenants—largely in communities of color—and landlords alike who have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis that continues to surge.

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Rent relief needed for tenants and landlords

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Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski and contributor Mike Barnicle discuss a recent Wall Street Journal report that indicates that evangelical Christians are resisting the COVID-19 vaccine most among religious groups. “The vaccine has become an element of politics, that's our basic problem (and) that’s what we’re talking about here every day. It's the slow destruction of the republic, really. It's the disbelief in the government. It's the disbelief in the vaccine—a vaccine that has been proven to be helpful, and in many, many cases life saving to Americans and people around the world…Get it and safe your life,” says Barnicle about the COVID-19 vaccine. Tune in for the discussion here.

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The COVID-19 vaccine is "a lifesaver"

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Dr. Vin Gupta, a public health physician, professor, and health policy expert, about how soon and how young children may safely receive the COVID-19 vaccine so they can return to school this fall.

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COVID-19 vaccines for children: How young?

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Watch this Morning Joe segment between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Washington Post columnist Max Boot about whether or not COVID-19 vaccinations should be made mandatory for school teachers so that we don’t have to shut down schools again as the deadly Delta variant runs rampant. “I think that's the heart of each family: You want your children to be better in life than you have been. But if your children are struck with a virus, that's a critical condition for them, obviously. Aim at the children in public schools, get the teachers mandated vaccines: I'm wondering if you think that would work,” asks Barnicle. Hear Boot’s response here.

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Mandatory vaccines for teachers?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown about her new book, "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story" and why the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida allowed basically "a slap on the wrist" for charges Epstein faced related to charges of sex with underage girls.

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Julie K. Brown’s new book on Jeffrey Epstein

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Watch this Morning Joe segment as contributor Mike Barnicle talks with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about whether COVID-19 vaccinations should be mandatory for New York City school teachers as they head back to school this September and for the city’s health care workers, only half of whom are vaccinated on average, according to de Blasio. He said more aggressive measures may be warranted if the Delta variant continues to grow. See the discussion here.

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Back to school

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ICYMI: 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 whether COVID-19 variants will be prevalent in the coming years as the Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 83 percent of COVID-19 cases in America and what—if anything—we can do to prevent new variants.

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The devastating Delta variant

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights in Philadelphia, where he issued a dire and angry warning that the very underpinnings of American democracy were under threat, calling an ongoing assault on voting rights the gravest challenge to American democracy since the Civil War. “It was certainly perhaps his most powerful speech as president,” says veteran columnist Barnicle.

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Voting Rights

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Eric Adams, Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, about Adams' plans to rebuild trust in the NYPD if he is elected mayor.

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NYC Mayoral candidate joins Morning Joe

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"I can't imagine a more dangerous time in the last 100 years than the time that we're enduring and going through right now—when every institution of government is suspect by so many people, when the core of this country: Freedom, liberty, free speech, the right to vote—all of it seems to be under question, almost each and every day,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the state of America during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough. Tune in for their discussion here.

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The state of America

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Join this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about Los Angeles Angels hitter and pitcher Shohei Ohtani, who has dominated this MLB season. “He’s more than just a phenomenon….He’s multitalented. And he plays for a manager in Joe Maddon, who’s an old school guy who loves baseball and has made the decision to allow Ohtani to both appear at the plate as a hitter when Ohtani is on the mound pitching. It’s a tremendous show. I’d pay to go see him,” says Barnicle. Learn more about Ohtani here.

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MLB star Shohei Ohtani shines

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Morning Joe host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle discuss the erosion of bipartisanship in American politics. “We now are part of a process—a political system—where members of Congress, members of the United States Senate, some of them, are more afraid of Twitter and their own constituents than they are of any great issue that they're going to have to resolve. Tip O'Neill, one of his best friends in the House of Representatives was Gerry Ford, and that does not happen today. You don't see friendships like that today in politics,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Bipartisanship in American politics

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Morning Joe continues the conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about President Joe Biden’s upcoming high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland amid escalating tensions between the two countries. “Success is the fact that they're going to have the summit—that the two men are going to meet together. Joe Biden...has dealt with Vladimir Putin before. He has looked him in the eye before. He’s had tough talks with him before,” says Barnicle. Watch the rest of the conversation here.

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More on U.S.-Russian relations

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor John Bolton as they discuss U.S.-Russia relations prior to President Joe Biden’s upcoming high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland amid escalating tensions between the two countries. "Could you please, for us, define success and failure from that meeting?” asks Barnicle of Bolton. "What would be success for the United States? What would be failure for the United States?".

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US-Russia relations discussed

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ICYMI: Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss President Joe Biden’s Memorial Day speech where he defended America’s “imperfect” democracy. “We have lost touch with one another. We have lost touch with the term ‘neighbors.’ We have lost touch with the loose connection that bonds us all, that once bonded us all together….We have all collectively become the ‘other,’ unfortunately,” says Barnicle about the current state of America as he and Scarborough talk about the existing divisions in the country, particularly inside the halls of Congress. Tune in for the segment here.

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Memorial Day

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“When Liz Cheney said, ‘We must speak the truth. Our election was not stolen, and America has not failed.’ Those are words that should resonate throughout this country because what we've talked about here today, what we've witnessed in the news, this is a very fragile republic of ours right now,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with host Joe Scarborough about former President Donald Trump’s impact on House Republicans voting to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from their party leadership, following Cheney’s searing indictment of House GOP leaders seeking to expel her after she voted to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6th Capitol riot and her continued denunciations of the former president. Watch more of the discussion about “How did this happen?” here.

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Barnicle: "How did this happen?"

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Watch this Morning Joe discussion about how voting rights are under attack from the GOP nationwide and the possible underlying cause. “Florida, Texas, they are just 2 of 43 states in this country at last count, 43 state legislatures dominated by Republicans that are trying to really fix election laws, because apparently, that's the only way Republicans can win a national election is to deny the results or try to fix it for themselves. And yet what we're talking about, these attempts by state legislatures to alter and make tougher election laws, making it impossible for people to vote or very difficult for people to vote, I would consider that to be secondary to the larger issue, and the larger issue would be, is the damage that Donald Trump has done to our country, to our institutions: Is it permanent, is it lasting, or is it temporary? What's your view?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of branding expert Donny Deutsch.

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Why are voting rights under attack?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Evercore Founder & Senior Chairman Roger Altman about the ever-changing employee base and their impact on the corporations they work for in terms of social and political activism.

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Evolving employee-employer relations

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On this Morning Joe segment, veteran journalist Mike Barnicle talks with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about her proposed legislation for police accountability, which focuses on establishing an independent federal agency to investigate deaths that occur in police custody, officer-involved shootings and uses of force that result in severe bodily injury. Learn more about it here.

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Rep. Omar proposes more police accountability

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the status of policing in America following the shooting death of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, this week. “My instinct is that in police academy after police academy, especially in big cities...they don't teach recruits about the culture of the cities that they are policing, and it's vitally necessary to do that in this day and age, when we have such a mix in this country of so many different people, so many different languages,” says Barnicle, who added policing is "a complex, dangerous job....That's what police officers are trained to do and he did it,” Barnicle says of the officer, whose body camera footage shows Bryant was confronting another girl and wielding a knife as shots were fired.

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Policing in America

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and former prosecutor David Henderson about the ongoing trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. “You can measure evidence, you can measure testimony, but you can never measure human nature in the jury pool. You don't know what they’re thinking,” says Barnicle about the trial.

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Chauvin trial ongoing

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss “This is a Robbery,” a new Netflix series created by two of Barnicle’s sons, Colin Barnicle and Nick Barnicle, which chronicles the world’s biggest art heist. “I’ve been stunned to realize at this late stage of my life that my children have much more discipline and reportorial skills than I ever had. It's an incredible piece of work, a four-part documentary, over half a billion dollars worth of art stolen one night in 1990, 31 years ago. None of the art has surfaced. God only knows where it is; but the film is filled with characters...funny characters, sad characters, criminal characters. And it's a great piece of work. I'm obviously very proud of them,” says Barnicle about his sons.

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New Netflix series by Barnicle’s sons

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as Barnicle dissects the ongoing saga over Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s controversial decision to remove the 2021 All-Star Game from Georgia after the state created more restrictive voting laws, to the dismay of Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams who urged MLB to keep the All-Star Game in her state, which will reportedly lose an estimated $100 million in revenue from the move. "Baseball has always lagged behind the other professional sports, especially the National Basketball Association, in terms of addressing prominent, social and cultural issues, especially regarding race in this country, and this is an opportunity for (Manfred) to declare Major League Baseball on the right side of history, which he did, and he did it by himself,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the details here.

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The price of MLB’s All-Star move

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle following Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments to the Morning Joe panel that schools can reopen and should remain open as the country continues to battle the COVID-19 outbreak. "The more kids that are back in schools the better off this country is going to be, the faster we’re going to move forward,” says Barnicle. Watch more of the discussion here.

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Open the schools, says Dr. Fauci

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Washington Post's associate editor Eugene Robinson about the Republican Party’s push to tighten voting rules after recent losses, with Georgia Republicans passing restrictive changes to the state election process that includes making it illegal to take food or water to voters in line. “It’s beyond sick,” said Barnicle, echoing a statement made by President Joe Biden in his first press conference this week. "It's a real threat to our democracy, the way people vote in this country.” Hear Robinson’s response here.

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Voting Rights front and center, again

[postlink]http://www.mikebarnicle.tv/2021/03/the-need-for-publicprivate-partnerships.html[/postlink][starttext]
Watch this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and author Mariana Mazzucato discuss her new book, "Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism," which delves into the need to foster the private/public relationship to achieve solutions for our modern day problems.

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The need for public/private partnerships

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Here’s the deal, man: Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as Mike Barnicle and Dana Carvey via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert offer up their hilarious impressions of President Joe Biden as the panel share some laughs and Biden family stories.

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Morning Joe impressions

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Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, joined with Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle to talk about the effectiveness of the two-dose COVID-19 vaccines in preventing infection of the various variants of the virus. Watch the conversation here.

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Vaccine myths vs. reality

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Victoria DeFrancesco Soto of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin about the power and consequences of words, especially in connection with the escalation of inflammatory language in the United States, in a year that has seen the death and destruction of COVID-19 and crimes like the killings of eight people Atlanta-area spas, including six of Asian descent.

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Words matter

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“Have you had the opportunity to talk to any of your Republican colleagues, and perhaps make some beginnings of a friendship with some of your Republican colleagues? Do you have any sense of why they fear the changing demographics of this country, the changing face of this country—seemingly much more so than they fear Iran or China or Russia?" asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) during this Morning Joe conversation. Listen to Warnock’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Bipartisan cooperation wanted

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Watch this conversation with Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Sec. Denis McDonough about what the government is doing to get quality medical care to all veterans, including those living in rural areas.

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Veterans’ care improving in rural areas

[postlink]http://www.mikebarnicle.tv/2021/03/collateral-damage-of-trumpism.html[/postlink][starttext]
"Donald Trump didn't pull the trigger in Atlanta, but Donald Trump certainly was responsible for the anger and the fear and the suspicion that exists in great degree in this country, much more so than ever in the past,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Joe Scarborough about the rise of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans, including a man charged in Georgia, a suspect in three shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors or spas that killed eight people, most of them women of Asian descent. Watch more of the discussion here.

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Collateral damage of Trumpism

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Tune in for this St. Patrick’s Day conversation between Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin about the status of the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement amid post-Brexit tensions between the UK and the EU over Northern Ireland.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they honor legendary network television journalist and “wonderful man” Roger Mudd who has died at 93 years old. “Roger began as a newspaper guy in Richmond, Virginia. When he was a famous anchor, he was still the Roger Mudd from Richmond, Virginia….And you're absolutely right: Ask a simple, direct question; you get a simple, direct answer and that's the news of the day,” says Barnicle about Mudd’s effective interview inquiries, which were on fully display in the 1979 interview that wound up undermining the presidential hopes of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Find out more about Mudd’s career here.

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Newsman Roger Mudd dies at 93

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Jonathan Lemire about the support President Joe Biden has received from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on his agenda, specifically Sanders’ commitment to push for the $15 minimum wage as a pay raise to hourly workers despite the proposal having been struck from Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus plan. Find out more here.

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Sanders’ support for the minimum wage hike

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the significance of President Joe Biden’s announcement that the United States would have enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for every adult American by the end of May, dramatically accelerating his own timeline. “The principle objective right now—as of this moment—is to show to the American public, the efficacy, the efficiency of government. When government is working well, it helps a lot of people, and that's what this administration is intent on proving,” says Barnicle.

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President Biden accelerates vaccine timeline

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"Where have these United States Senators—all of them Republican—where have they been as this daily onslaught against things that we hold dear as a country: like truth, justice, accountability. Where have they been, and what are they going to do?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of The New York Times Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller as the Morning Joe panel discusses the future of the Republican Party as a majority of GOP senators are expected to acquit former President Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial this week. Hear Bumiller’s response here.

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Where are the Republicans?

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Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) discuss the Republican hold up of the new $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan amid states struggling with vaccine challenges during the country’s worst crisis in decades that has left more than 460,000 dead and millions without jobs and facing eviction.

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Crisis not averted: relief plan stalled

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Susan Page and Mike Barnicle as they discuss role of the U.S. Senators in the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the Capitol riots on January 6th. "If the senators can’t grasp the meaning of their oath after all of this, then I don’t know where we are as a constitutional republic. Really. Seriously,” says Barnicle about the majority of GOP senators who may vote to acquit Trump.

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Second impeachment of Trump begins

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about Senator Mitt Romney having called out his fellow Republicans who continue to push the myth that President Joe Biden is not the legitimate victor in the 2020 presidential election. “Good for Mitt that he spoke to it. But the larger problem is that we have thousands of people in this country and thousands of organized groups aimed at overthrowing the American government because of one man—Donald J. Trump—and one lie that Joe Biden is not really the legal president of the United States. And that is still out there thick in the air among these crazy people,” says Barnicle about the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol and the rhetoric they continue to propagate.

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Efforts to overthrow the government continue

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"The pending impeachment trial is nothing less than a huge distraction for everything that the Biden Administration is attempting to do. We’ve had an enormous action out of the Biden Administration in a very short period of time since the inauguration, and it’s (Biden's) commitment to using government to help people, to help move the nation forward that’s behind all of this,” said longtime Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Willie Geist about President Joe Biden having signed a record number of executive actions in his first week while the Senate is preparing for the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump for his role in having stirred up a mob that attacked the Capitol.

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Impeachment = Interruption

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Washington Post’s columnist David Ignatius about President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team choices—including the latest William Burns as CIA director—selections that Barnicle says offer “comfort and competence.” Can they, as Ignatius asks, also challenge the new president to make the tough decisions? Hear more of the discussion here.

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Biden’s national security choices: "comfort and competence"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) about why law enforcement were ill-prepared for a well-planned pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol last week, during which time they breached police barricades in an attempt to force Congress to overturn President Donald Trump’s election loss. Hear Crow’s appeal for answers.

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Who knew what, when?

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Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle reflect on the Democratic wins in Georgia’s Senate runoff election that will determine control of the Senate and Stacey Abrams’ extraordinary role in the wins. “Last night in Georgia I really believe that it’s the beginning of a long, slow climb back toward sanity for this country,” says Barnicle. Watch the discussion here.

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Last words: Let’s restore sanity

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The Morning Joe conversation shifts to college football, the character of the players and celebration of Alabama senior DeVonta Smith having been awarded the Heisman Trophy during a virtual ceremony, becoming the first wide receiver in nearly three decades to win the most prestigious award in college football. “This young man DeVonta Smith who won it, his athletic skill is just so off the charts. If you look at some of the receptions he’s made, it’s incredible. And he’s going to be an unbelievable NFL player,” says Mike Barnicle about Smith, who is set to enter the 2021 NFL Draft.

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The character in college football

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In this Morning Joe conversation, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser talks with Mike Barnicle about how public safety in the nation’s capital has been impacted during the Trump Administration and how she’ll continue to work with Congress for repayment of $100 million in federal funds owed to the District for public safety as well as the $755 million owed from the CARES Act.

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Trump’s toll on DC

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate runoff, about the need to extend more and better opportunities to marginalized groups in America so that they too can pursue the path to the American dream as Warnock did. Hear more of his personal story and why he sought to become a United States Senator.

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Barnicle talks with Sen.-elect Warnock

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Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle talks with Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) about whether progressive and moderate Democrats will be able to work together on large infrastructure issues in a Democratic-controlled Congress under Joe Biden’s presidency. Says Sherrill: "We have to reimagine government in this country.” Watch the segment here.

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Infrastructure and health care on the agenda

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and The Cook Political Report House Editor David Wasserman about the voter turnout in the Senate runoff elections in Georgia where Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler, while Democrat Jon Ossoff is leading Republican David Perdue in the remaining critical runoff election that will determine control of the Senate. Listen to Wasserman’s response here about what may have inspired voters.

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The Georgia runoff election

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Tune in to this Morning Joe discussion between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization - BIO, about whether the United States should restructure its process of COVID-19 vaccine distribution through the country to meet the overwhelming demand and improve the complicated roll out.

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Improving the vaccine roll out

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Tune in to this Morning Joe discussion between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, about whether the United States should restructure its process of COVID-19 vaccine distribution throughout the country to meet the overwhelming demand and improve the complicated roll out.

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COVID vaccine complications

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“What is the American Bar Association thinking about all of these lawyers participating in these fraudulent lawsuits that take up so much court time, and including over the weekend, a lawyer sitting there as her client right in front of her lies. Have any of you given any thought to the Bar Association’s non-reaction to any of this?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) during this Morning Joe discussion about about whether President Donald Trump’s lawyers should face repercussions from the ABA for aiding Trump’s “ridiculous” legal challenge the 2020 election results.

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Where is the American Bar Association?

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"I’m sitting here for the past few days thinking about the incalculable damage that one man—Donald Trump—has done to this country and to our political system. And I’m wondering if you, like me, have thought back to Adam Schiff’s summation during the impeachment proceedings—when he talked about why Donald Trump had to be impeached, and he raised the question of the Republicans wondering, you know, ‘how much damage could he do?’ And Schiff ended his summation by saying ‘a lot.’ And in my mind harkening back to those words then to today, and what is playing out right in front of the world, I don’t think ‘a lot’ really handles the scope of the damage that Donald Trump has done,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle to Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson during this Morning Joe conversation about the significant harm President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers have inflicted upon the country as they have actively refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. Watch the discussion here.

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