Voting Rights front and center, again

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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

The need for public/private partnerships

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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

Morning Joe impressions

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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

Vaccine myths vs. reality

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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

Words matter

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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

Bipartisan cooperation wanted

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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

Veterans’ care improving in rural areas

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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

Collateral damage of Trumpism

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"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

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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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

Newsman Roger Mudd dies at 93

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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

Sanders’ support for the minimum wage hike

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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

President Biden accelerates vaccine timeline

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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