Mike Barnicle on TV: 2022

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"In politics we now live in the age of: Have you no shame and they have no shame—large parts of the Republican Party,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire about how federal prosecutors in New York having opened an investigation into Republican Rep.-elect George Santos after he admitted to fabricating significant parts of his resume, including his work and education history, ahead of his successful bid for Congress. "Are we sure George Santos is his real name? We don't know, really, and we'll find out I guess, when investigations ensue, and we find out what happens with his seat in Congress,” adds Barnicle.

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No shame

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss the latest in the Southwest Airlines debacle as the company is expected to resume normal operations after canceling thousands of flights and leaving passengers stranded across the United States. “I’m thinking about Southwest Airlines and the money they’re going to have to pay out. I don't know where they're going to get it. They've been paying so much in dividends to their shareholders that they scrimped on coming up with a computer system that would allow them to operate in a crisis like they went through, and the crisis management situation at Southwest Airlines is one that business schools are going to be studying for quite some time,” says Barnicle about Southwest Airlines. Listen to more on the situation here.

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Southwest snafus

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius after the January 6 committee released a new batch of transcripts, including key interviews from members of former President Donald Trump’s family and staff, such as White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who was said to regularly burn documents during the transition period and occasionally tell staffers to keep some Oval Office meetings “close hold” and potentially omitted from official records. “All I could think of was someone like Jim Baker, former White House chief of staff or other White House chiefs of staff, who were responsible—responsible to the person they worked for, the president of the United States, and the country that they represented, our country, America,” says Barnicle.

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January 6 committee transcripts

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“Joyce, I'm going to ask you to put on your old prosecutor's hat, which I suspect is never far from you, and to recall that the Department of Justice has received the House January 6th committee's recommendations. From your look, from your knowledge, which is superficial at one sense, in terms of it's just what we've been able to read, what do you think is the most promising avenue for a potential indictment of the former president,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama, during a Morning Joe conversation about the potential prosecution of former President Donald Trump after the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol concluded that Trump is ultimately responsible for the insurrection, producing a written report for the Justice Department that contains a trove of evidence for why Trump should be prosecuted for multiple crimes. Listen to Vance’s response here.

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A trove of evidence

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Watch this Morning Joe segment with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Claire McCaskill, Mike Barnicle and Michael Beschloss as they discuss that the investigation into the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has concluded that former President Donald Trump is ultimately responsible for the insurrection, with the House Select Committee producing a written report made public that includes a mountain of evidence for why Trump should be prosecuted for multiple crimes. “One scene just jumped out at me early on, and it is a scene that took place in mid-December after the Supreme Court had rejected the state of Texas’s appeal to overturn the election, and it's Donald Trump in the Oval Office, talking to his then-chief of staff, and he says, ‘I don't want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out. We need to figure it out. I don't want people to know we lost.’ The level of delusion married to the level of danger that we just confronted and was thwarted by the wall of democracy: Is there any match in history to this?” asks Barnicle of Beschloss. Find out here.

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Jan. 6 report recommends prosecution for former President Trump

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“We live in an age of accelerated pace of events. Something happens, and it's forgotten two or three days from now. Something horrific could be forgotten in two or three days, and that takes our attention span as a people, as a culture, as a nation, way, way down. People don't have the attention span that we used to have. So, the events that we have been talking about this morning, the text messages from sitting members of Congress urging sedition, right up until the point of almost noontime on January 20th when Joe Biden was sworn in as president, the January 6th insurrection, Capitol police officers fearing for their lives and being attacked by supposedly law and order people. We have all of that and yet if someone mentions Harry and Meghan, we go right there, and talk about that instead of focusing on the real dangers that still exist because they injected a poison into our system. The asylum wing of the Republican Party injected that poison into our system, and it still flows through our circulatory system as a nation,” says Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the unfortunate lack of interest toward events surrounding the January 6 Capitol attack, following new reporting that then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Watch the segment here.

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Barnicle: There’s a poison in our system as a nation

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Talking Points Memo investigative reporter Hunter Walker about new reporting that shows that then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. “Hunter, as you went through these text messages, from the asylum wing of the Republican Party, it struck me in looking through the first batch that you’ve put out there, as you just alluded to, many of the people involved are still members of Congress, sitting in the House of Representatives. In the rear-view mirror, as you look at what they did: They tiptoed up to sedition. They were right there at the gate of sedition. What do they do now? What do they have to say now?” asks Barnicle. Hear Walker’s response here.

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New texts showing GOP's effort to overturn 2020 election

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"All he does each and every day is take the field to hurt the United States of America, to damage the United States of America,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation about the freedom being sought for US Marine Paul Whelan, who has been imprisoned in Russia for nearly four years. "Why? Because this is all about him. It’s not about the country. It’s not about Paul Whelan. It's not about anything other than him and his own twisted ambitions.” Watch the segment here and hear what Whelan’s brother has to say about former President Donald Trump after Trump criticized the Biden Administration for the deal it struck to free WNBA star Brittney Griner.

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Barnicle on Trump: “All he does each and every day is take the field to hurt the United States”

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with NASA Administrator and former Florida Senator Bill Nelson following NASA having completed its first Artemis moon mission. “There's no question that there are enormous benefits, as well as enormous mysteries being solved by the space program and by these incredible steps that we’re taking as a nation in outer space. But on the other hand, there are people in this country, I think, many people in this country, who wonder about the cost of these programs and the cost benefit to them when America can't pass a child care tax credit. We’re spending literally billions in outer space. What do you say to those people who say ‘why are we doing this? It's so expensive,’” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Nelson. Hear Nelson’s response and learn of the direct benefits of NASA exploration in our pockets as well as our health care solutions.

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Artemis and the benefits of space exploration

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the state of the Republican Party, particularly GOP lawmakers in the House of Representatives, who seem out of touch with what Americans really care about. “The lesson that has been unlearned by the Republican Party and it continues right through up until this very moment, is: You can't win anything, really, if everything you do is based on two issues: Resentment and revenge. And that's what they seem to be into at every level of the Republican Party,” says Barnicle.

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Barnicle on GOP: “Everything you do is based on two issues: Resentment and revenge”

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“Take a look at the cover of the New York Post this morning, ‘Eyes on the Spies," and it’s the Republican’s intention—Kevin McCarthy’s intention—to subpoena 51 former members of the American intelligence community to pursue the Hunter Biden story. So, if you're out there sitting at home worried about your home heating oil bill, your grocery bill, the status of your kids in school—forget about that because we've got to get to the bottom of the Hunter Biden story. We got to get Clapper and Brennan in and find out why they lied,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle as he holds up the front-page of the New York Post newspaper that suggests Republican lawmakers are more interested in tackling President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, than tackling issues facing everyday Americans. Watch the conversation with Joe Scarborough, Brendan Buck and Barnicle as they question the agenda of House Republicans as Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the presumptive choice to become Speaker of the House when the GOP takes control of the House next month.

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Barnicle on GOP's questionable agenda

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“The one thing about the President is he has been around this international track many, many, many times. And he is really aware of the fact that this war, is being played – this theater of war is being played – out on a stage that has been sadly too used to war. They’ve lived with war for over 100 years, since 1918. And now the President comes to this war knowing that the opponent Vladimir Putin, that he has troops who need two things: They need munitions, and they need the will to fight. They do not have the will to fight. But this president, President Biden, knows that while the Ukrainians need munitions they have the will to fight. Also – and this is another thing we talked about Congressman, earlier – people underestimate how tough Joe Biden is. They underestimate him, and that’s playing out now. Don't you think?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) during a Morning Joe conversation about President Joe Biden’s leadership, including throughout Russian’s invasion of Ukraine. Watch the conversation here.

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President Biden’s leadership: “underestimated”

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Massachusetts-native Mike Barnicle and Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to the United States, about Prince William and Princess Catherine of Wales having attended and “enjoyed" an NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics at TD Garden as the royal couple were expected to leave at halftime but remained for the full duration of the game because they “really enjoyed the Celtics game.” Find out more about the Royals’ Boston visit here.

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The Royals courtside for the Celtics

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"My question to you is: Within the House of Representatives, how do you go forward when the other side, clearly the majority side now, the Republicans, lead with rage and anger almost every day?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC), newly selected House assistant Democratic leader, during a Morning Joe panel conversation about the challenges of working alongside Republicans now that the GOP is set to control the House. Listen to Clyburn’s response here, following President Joe Biden’s first state dinner which both Clyburn and Barnicle attended, on how Clyburn hopes to find common ground, after two historic terms by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

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Dems: Seeking common ground in the House

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“Kevin McCarthy thus far in order to become speaker of the House has clearly made more deals with more people on both sides of the ideological floor that it’s going to condemn his speakership if he does become speaker. It’s going to be like an anchor around his neck. He won't be able to function. He won’t be able to legislate. The second thing it seems to a lot of people is more mysterious and hard to define and it lies in the fact that Donald Trump not for the first time at dinner at Mar-a-Lago but for the past few years has opened the door of the Republican Party to white nationalists and white nationalism. And it’s going to remain to be seen exactly what happens to the party going forward. Do they increase a new constituency—white nationalists? Do they try to reclaim another constituency—older Republicans who have voted for a Republican Party now totally disappeared. That’s going to be an interesting equation to watch,” says Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mika Brzezinski about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy struggling to secure votes to become House speaker and the future of the Republican Party.

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What is the future for the Republican Party?

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"Federica, the loneliness of the elderly, people 65, 70 years of age and older is sad, but it's kind of understandable. Their partners die, their friends die, and so loneliness sets in for many of them. But what do we do about the loneliness of the young—teenagers, people in their 20s whose best friend is an iPhone?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Financial Times statistics journalist Federica Cocco who joins Morning Joe to discuss the “loneliness epidemic.” Watch the conversation here.

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What to do about the loneliness epidemic

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“The idea that Herschel Walker is actually a candidate for the United States Senate is beyond horrifying, it's beyond horrifying, and he's just the latest gift to the Republican Party presented by Donald Trump—a gift that keeps on giving. The idea that we have a former president of the United States who has no idea who he's having a dinner with, that's just incredible in and of itself, given he had dinner with a 24-year-old who hates Jews, Blacks, gays, women—more than half the human race. And now we have on the ballot in Georgia a former Heisman Trophy winner, and that's basically his credential to run for the United States Senate, other than the endorsement of Donald Trump. Thank you, Donald Trump,” says Barnicle of GOP candidate Herschel Walker, the challenger to Georgia’s Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, following former President Donald Trump revealing that he did not know the identity of a recent dining companion at Mar-a-Lago—a known white nationalist and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes.

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Herschel Walker’s GOP candidacy: “It’s beyond horrifying"

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“You have spent more time with Donald Trump than anybody, except perhaps Melania, and you’ve got him on tape. So, I'm wondering, what do you think about the theory that perhaps in an irony, complete political irony, his dominance in the media will end up defeating him because he appears now in front of the American public filled with bitterness and narcissism that anyone could recognize,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Washington Post associate editor and author Bob Woodward during this Morning Joe discussion following the midterm elections. Watch the conversation here.

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Barnicle and Woodward

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the art of graceful winning and losing in the aftermath of the midterm elections. “Never underestimate human nature, and one of the things about human nature—especially if you have a family and you have children, you teach your children, you try to teach your children from a very young age: Don't be a sore loser. You know, just accept it and go on. Learn from it. Don’t be a sore loser. The clip that we played coming into this segment of the Republicans’ reaction to their winning is to denounce their opponent still,” says Barnicle about some GOP candidates who won the midterm elections. Join the conversation here.

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Don’t be a sore loser—or winner

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"Never, ever underestimate the American people. By the millions, this pageant of democracy we have, this magical day where people of all castes, all incomes, all races, all genders come out and vote. They stand in line for hours sometimes to vote, and yesterday they voted. And they walked in, and a huge number of them looked at the ballot, forgot about the pollsters, forgot about what we talk about each and every morning, and they said, oh, ‘I could vote for crazy, or I could vote for normal,’ and they checked the normal box, and that’s why we are here today,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel weighs in on the midterm elections results as it appears the Democratic Party has staved off the Republican “red wave” that had been predicted by many pollsters and projections.

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Never, ever underestimate the American people

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“You’ve been on the ballot many times in Ohio, all of it successful. So, this time around, as you go around the state of Ohio, can you compare the sense of community that existed when you first ran for Congress to the sense of community that's out there today? And I’m talking specifically about towns and cities where you could belong to the other party and you could argue about politics, but you had a sense of the community that you belonged to. Is it still as strong? Is it weakened?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Ohio Democratic Senate nominee Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) during a Morning Joe conversation about whether the fraught political climate in America has impacted the cities and towns in Ohio. Listen to Ryan’s response here about the “exhaustion” that’s permeated Ohioan communities.

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Exhaustion in Ohio

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who appears to already be casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections, saying he hopes he can accept the outcome of the elections but that he “can't predict what the Democrats have planned.” Barnicle explains: "There's a contagion, a virus, an infection in the political system that begins at the top. It will definitely circulate right down to the lives of ordinary people every day.” You can watch the segment here.

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An infection in the political system

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Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt about a recent meeting Greenblatt and other civil rights leaders had with new Twitter owner Elon Musk amid concerns over the dissemination of anti-Semitism and other hate speech over Twitter. Hear what Greenblatt has to share about the meeting.

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Twitter hate speech

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss how voters are weighing the threat to American democracy amid the country’s high inflation rates, following President Joe Biden having delivered a stark warning to citizens that the future of the nation’s democracy could rest on next week’s midterm elections. Join the conversation here.

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American democracy in peril

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Al Schmidt, a member of the cross-partisan Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, about the voting process in the United States amid GOP attacks on elections as well as election workers in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. “There have been some states where as we all know, there have been people armed—armed and dangerous—waiting outside voting booths, waiting outside where people vote in order to intimidate them. What do we do about that?” asks Barnicle. Hear Schmidt’s response here.

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GOP attacks on voting

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"Governor, you were born and raised in a state where there were Republican candidates elected to office who bear no resemblance to existing national Republican candidates and many local Republican candidates. So, how hard is it for you, a Democrat now, Governor of New Jersey, to sound a hopeful note about the future of politics, especially bipartisan politics?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) during a Morning Joe conversation about whether it’s possible for the Republican Party to return to its traditional roots that preceded President Donald Trump. Listen to Murphy’s response here. On MSNBC.

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Can Republicans find their way back?

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"You've been out there on the trail in many, many states following many, many different candidates in the past several months. Is there a channel here where fear of disappointing the base and ambition to create victory for themselves by playing to that base—where fear and ambition collide? And this is the result—this intemperate language, this violent language?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Mark McKinnon, creator and co-host of THE CIRCUS on Showtime, during this Morning Joe discussion about the current violent rhetoric in American politics, following the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, Kari Lake, having mocked the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in her remarks made at a campaign event that was followed by laughter from the audience. Listen to McKinnon’s response here about Republicans having abandoned principle for power.

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Republicans: Abandoning principle for power

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Eugene Robinson, David Jolly and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the current violent rhetoric in American politics with the 2022 midterm elections one week away, following the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband and a New York Times analysis having found a rise in threats against lawmakers in Congress. “I'm not surprised at any of this. It's shocking, but not surprising, and the violence—the level of violence—is it an uptick in the level of violence? It's an uptick in our knowledge of the level of violence….The violence of language, the violence of ignorance, and it's gone back a long time in politics, specifically in the modern era of politics. I trace a large part of it to the late 1980s when Newt Gingrich decided that the way for Republicans to really gain control was not to just defeat their opponents but to demonize them, to destroy them, and that began it. That was the incubator for what's happened now,” says Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.

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Violent acts, rhetoric and ignorance today

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), the Democratic nominee for the Ohio Senate seat, about Americans who are experiencing employment issues, with the 2022 midterm elections less than two weeks away. "What do you…tell these people who are in that netherworld of having lost employment or reduced employment? What do you tell them?” asks Barnicle. Hear Ryan’s answer here.

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Employment woes and opportunities in Ohio

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“I think there’s a lot of anxiety in the country,” veteran journalist Mike Barnicle told Jonathan Lemire on Way Too Early. "I think people are living on pins and needles. They go from the grocery store to the gas station wondering what the immediate future is going to bring. I think they're especially worried about their children; people who have children. One of the things that hasn't been discussed at length at least to my ear in a lot of campaigns is what has happened to the education of younger children, grammar school and high school, who have missed so much school because of COVID and school lockdowns, and that hasn't arisen as a big issue; but, I think it lurks in the backgrounds in terms of people thinking about their future. They no longer measure their future in four or five years of ‘when I retire’ or ‘when I begin to retire.’ They measure their future now by end of this week, which is a troubling situation I think that for a lot of families,” says Barnicle about the situation for many Americans.

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The status of families in America

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“Why would you negotiate with Vladimir Putin? He is a war criminal. He has used the same strategy that the Russians used in World War II: Destroy and demonize your opponent, try to make your opponent so fearful by killing innocent civilians, by bombing schools, hospitals, sanctuaries, cathedrals. Kill the civilians; that's how you win the war. That's how the Russians think that they can defeat the Ukrainians. They can't defeat the Ukrainians that way, and the United States has no one to negotiate with in Moscow because the leader of Russia is a war criminal,” says Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to a letter and then a retraction from progressive U.S. Democratic lawmakers to President Joe Biden having urged him to pursue direct diplomacy with Russia more than six months after Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine and while the two countries are still engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Join the conversation here.

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Dems withdraw Russia diplomacy letter

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they remember Ashton Carter, the former defense secretary for President Barack Obama’s Administration, who died at 68. “This is a shock to me. I spoke to him last Thursday, and everything you've just said, Mika and Joe, is so true about him,” said Barnicle. "He was a strong, strong leader and a strong believer in the power and how to use the power of the United States when he was secretary of defense and everything else that he did in government dating back a couple of different administrations. He will be sorely missed….A brilliant guy, a strong guy, a courageous guy—68 far too young."

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Ashton Carter dies at 68

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"Crime is an issue that I know you understand and live with within your district; but why is it that so many Democrats seem not have understood the power of that as an issue, as it has come up over the last two to three weeks? When someone is pushed from a subway, in front of a subway train in New York, the resonance is in Cleveland, it’s in Wisconsin, it’s in North Carolina. Why is it that so many Democrats seem not to have recognized that as an issue?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during a Morning Joe conversation about the Democratic Party’s messaging on the issue of rising crime, with the midterm elections just two weeks away. Listen to Jeffries’ response here.

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Crime on the ballot?

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with author and historian John Farrell about this new book “Ted Kennedy: A Life,” which dives into the life and career of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and reveals that in 2005 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told Sen. Kennedy that the legal basis ensuring abortion rights was “settled” law. Find out more about the issues that mattered most to Kennedy—the law, justice, and the Supreme Court.

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New book on Ted Kennedy

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ICYMI: Tune in for this Morning Joe discussion about the sentiment of voters on key issues with the 2022 midterm elections just two weeks away, including the Senate race in Ohio that features Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, whose campaign is focusing on the economy and China.

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What do voters want?

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“My dream is that the Yankees beat the Astros, and then the Phillies beat the Yankees in the World Series, and that's quite a World Series. Philadelphia versus New York, a subway series so to speak…The series will probably end on Thanksgiving eve in the snow, but that's my dream,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough and Claire McCaskill about the Major League Baseball playoffs after the Houston Astros defeated the New York Yankees in game one of the American League Championship Series and the San Diego Padres evened up the National League Championship Series with a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in game two.

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2022 Subway Series?

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“David, I have a rather simple yet pejorative question for you: Could we boil this piece down to the following—if you could answer it? What percentage of Republicans are we talking about? Is their complaint that their party – the party around them – is just not crazy enough?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Washington Post data analyst David Byler as the Morning Joe panel discusses polling that shows Republicans dislike their own party more than Democrats do. Watch the conversation here.

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Republican reprisals

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) about whether a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia should even be on the table as the Ukrainian army has shown remarkable resiliency and determination in their continuing effort to reclaim territory that was seized in the early days of the Russian invasion. “Why would the Ukrainians cede anything to Russia or Putin right now?” Hear Coons’ response here.

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What’s next for Ukraine?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about President Joe Biden’s commitment to the people of Florida and the imperative to put politics aside as the deadly Hurricane Ian, a category 5 storm, is about to strike the Sunshine State. “FEMA's been on the ground in Florida for several days now...in preparation for helping people in Florida, for helping to save lives, and I don't think (Biden) needed to be challenged to make a phone call by the governor of Florida, which the governor did yesterday….The reason he hasn't spoken to the President is the President was actively engaged in getting FEMA, and help, and aid to Florida now,” says Barnicle.

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Help not politics needed in Florida

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle talk Major League Baseball, with the playoffs less than ten games away, including the Boston Red Sox’s disappointing season as the team will finish in last place in the American League East. “Outside of my family, the Red Sox are the most important component of my life, and I have to tell you that this has been the most bitter, the most disappointing season I've experienced in a long, long time. There is no excuse for what's happened.” You can watch the segment here.

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Morning Joe talks MLB

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, about China’s progress on its commitments and the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Egypt in November.

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Kerry on China’s progress on climate

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Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about whether the Republican Party might cutoff aid to Ukraine amid its war with Russia if the GOP is victorious in the 2022 midterm elections. "You've indicated recently that you think that if the Republicans win control of the House or the Senate, in these off-year elections that are coming up that, that aid could be reduced if not eliminated. Why would anyone do that at this point?” Listen to Murphy’s response here.

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GOP support for Ukraine?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and NBC News investigations correspondent Tom Winter about the possible state of mind of U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie who has been appointed to serve as the special master to review materials the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, following Judge Dearie having questioned Trump’s claim about the seized documents being declassified.

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Next in the Mar-a-Lago document case

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ICYMI: The New Yorker's Susan Glasser and The New York Times’ Peter Baker joined Morning Joe to talk about their new book: “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” which Mike Barnicle said caused him a "sense of depression" over the fact that former president Donald Trump "presented perhaps an hourly danger to the country, to the institution of the presidency, and seems to have been surrounded by people who knew how dangerous he was and said nothing. How do you explain this?” he asks. Listen to their responses about this being “one of the enduring mysteries" of the Trump reign, along with examples of mistakes and missteps that Trump made during his tenure.

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Susan Glasser and Peter Baker talk about their new book

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and BBC News U.S. special correspondent Katty Kay about the silence from Republican lawmakers after the “frightening” rally of former President Donald Trump, “a man who knows exactly what he's doing, but stands at the precipice of presenting an even further threat to our democracy.” Hear their conversation about the Republican Party’s “struggle" to know how to stand up to Trump.

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A problem like Trump

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade, a former U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, about what’s likely to happen today when former President Donald Trump's legal team meets with U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, who has been appointed to serve as the special master to review materials the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.

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Trump’s lawyers in court over Mar-a-Lago records seizure

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Watch this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with war correspondent Luke Mogelson about the inspiration for Mogelson’s new book, "The Storm is Here: An American Crucible,” and his experience as he captured raw footage in Washington D.C. on the day of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “As I looked at the crowds, I thought to myself, I probably know some of these people. ‘Know' in the literal sense, that I know them. I know who they are, and they're not all evil people. They're not all bad people. I'm wondering, what were your thoughts along those lines?” asks Barnicle. Hear Mogelson’s answer now.

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"The Storm is Here: An American Crucible”

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“David, just 65 years or so ago, Richard Hofstadter wrote a book called ‘The Paranoid Style of American Politics’ and it’s still in evidence today; the book still holds up today. But, along the way, we’ve had Republicans, you mentioned Barry Goldwater earlier. Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott, Republicans, went and told Richard Nixon ‘you have to go.’ There have been some really courageous Republicans in the Senate and in the House, oddly enough, who stood up over time for various issues. But this, I would submit to you, is different. This is like a virus, an infection that has married cowardice with silence and fear. That's a trifecta that holds Republicans enthralled to one man and his philosophy who has only been in power–was only in power–for four years. How did that happen so quickly?” asks veteran journalist Mike Barnicle of Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book, "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy.” Watch the conversation here.

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“How the Republican Party Went Crazy"

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Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle talks with former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman about his new book, “Holding the Line,” in which he details pressure from former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr to pursue criminal cases against perceived enemies of former President Donald Trump, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, who was “entirely innocent." The Senate Judiciary Committee has now launched an investigation based on Berman’s assertions. Watch the conversation here.

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New book inspires another Trump Administration investigation

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle talk baseball: recent games, players and MLB news. “The big highlight for me as a baseball fan…was watching the Mets game, and they had a young kid broadcasting...maybe 11 or 12 years of age, and he did a half inning broadcast with the crew – Ron Darling, Keith Hernandez and Gary Cohen – and it was such a joy to watch....There’s a magic to baseball in watching it, listening to it; it’s relaxing; it’s calming, and it's a constant story that America tells itself through watching a baseball game,” says Barnicle about the New York Mets having had kidcaster Eddie Kraus join their broadcast booth to do play-by-play during a game. Watch the segment here.

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Barnicle: “There’s a magic to baseball in watching it”

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During this Morning Joe discussion between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and Andrew Weissmann, former chief of the criminal fraud section of the U. S. Department of Justice, learn more about the potential fallout that could follow a federal judge having ordered that a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain a warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence be unsealed, paving the way for potential key revelations about a search with massive legal and political implications.

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The Trump redacted affidavit

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe segment in which Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss with former US Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and Ken Dilanian, NBC News’ Justice and Intelligence Correspondent, a federal judge having ordered that a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain a warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence be unsealed, paving the way for potential key revelations about a search with massive legal and political implications.

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Morning Joe on Trump, redacted affidavit

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Abi, this is a story about an actual human being. This is a story about a Marine Corps veteran who they extracted $892 from his disability check and that’s why he was in the bank to make people aware of what happens to veterans, and he certainly did that. But my question to you is: Given the state of the movie industry today, this is not a remake….this is not a D.C. Comic film with characters and monsters and things like that. This is a tough thing to do this day and age in the movie business. How did you do it?,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of filmmaker Abi Damaris Corbin who joins Morning Joe to discuss her new film “Breaking,” based on the true story of Brian Brown-Easley, a frustrated veteran who is killed after taking bank employees hostage in an effort to get the attention of the Veterans Administration. Hear Corbin’s answer and watch a powerful clip from the film, starring John Boyega as Brown-Easley.

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The struggle to make “Breaking"

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Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) joins Morning Joe and discusses with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle her plans after winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, where she will now face off with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in November. “Congresswoman Demings....Why you and not Marco Rubio?” Barnicle asks. Hear her answer on MSNBC.

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Barnicle speaks with Democratic Senate nominee Val Demings

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"My question to the Republican Party, to Republican senators, Republican members of the House of Representatives: Do you know the meaning of the word character? Have you ever heard of Margaret Chase Smith, who stood up alone in the well of the Senate, and stood and spoke against Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s? A true danger to America at that time. Where are they? Where’s Mitt Romney? Where’s Rob Portman? Where are the moderate, sensible Republicans? Why don't they stand up and speak and combat the loudest voices among us?,” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough as they worry about the possibility of another event like January 6th striking the country again as many Republicans side with former President Donald Trump in his accusations against the FBI following a search of his home.

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Barnicle to GOP: “Do you know the meaning of the word character?”

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Michael Steele about the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, which happened on the same day as President Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal in 1974, and as some Republican lawmakers “so out of step with reality and the American people” indicting the Justice Department rather than focusing on the criminality of a former president of the United States.

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FBI searches Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss the state of the Republican Party as former President Donald Trump regained some footing this week with the GOP wins in the Arizona and Michigan primaries. "The infection that (Trump) put into that stream is lasting; I hope it’s not permanent; but, it’s very strong, and we don't talk about it enough. We don't make people aware enough about it. It’s out there, and it’s every day, and it’s going to be on every ballot in every state this fall,” says Barnicle about the upcoming midterm elections. Find out more here.

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Barnicle on “deep damage” Trump has done

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Morning Joe’s Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and Eugene Robinson discuss an NBC News report that indicates the just two years into his current term Biden Administration has been closely tracking the activity of top Democrats who could potentially be competition to President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election. Hear what they have to say here. Only on MSNBC.

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Biden in 2024?

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Don’t miss this Morning Joe conversation among veteran columnist Mike Barnicle, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Paul Rieckhoff, and comedian/activist Jon Stewart about GOP efforts to thwart health care for veterans after Senate Republicans blocked a bill meant to aid veterans exposed to toxic burn pits just weeks after the military burn pits bill, or PACT Act, initially passed the 100-member Senate with the support of 34 Republicans and all 50 Democrats. “This is pure political hypocrisy,” says Barnicle. “How do we go about singling out even more so the individuals like Josh Hawley, like Ted Cruz, who go and stand up in their home states at rallies and say we have to support our veterans—and do this as if they're invisible?” Hear Rieckhoff’s answer and plea for citizens to appeal to U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to help veterans.

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Stop GOPs from blocking veteran aid

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Adm. James Stavridis (Ret.), former NATO supreme allied commander, stops by Morning Joe to talk with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about the United States' “substantial proposal” to Russia to secure the release of two jailed Americans: WNBA star Brittney Griner and security consultant Paul Whelan as well as the status of the Russia-Ukraine war and the competency of the Russian military throughout the invasion. Watch the segment now.

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Adm. James Stavridis on Russia

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Author Jeff Nussbaum stops by Morning Joe to talk with Mike Barnicle about his new book “Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History,” in which he offers fascinating insights into notable speeches that were never delivered. "There are some amazing portraits of history that never happened in this book, and Jeff, I'm curious as to how you managed to select what you selected, what else you left on the table, what else is out there?” asks Barnicle. Hear Nussbaum’s answer here

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Words can change history

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Morning Joe's Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle dig into the latest news that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) have struck a long-awaited deal on legislation that aims to reform the tax code, fight climate change and cut health-care costs, which has caused House Republican leadership to urge members of its conference to vote against a bill to bolster the domestic chip manufacturing industry and fund scientific research, a reversal from its earlier position that came hours after the two Senate Democrats struck the deal on a multibillion-dollar reconciliation package. Viewers at home: “You’ve got to be thinking, what is going on with government that they can’t do something that’s good for America because they’re angry about the politics of it. It’s a crazy, crazy city, Washington D.C.,” says Barnicle. Watch the discussion here

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"It’s a crazy, crazy city, Washington D.C."

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Watch this Morning Joe segment with Mike Barnicle, John Heilemann and Michael Steele as they discuss the Department of Justice potentially indicting former President Donald Trump, following the DOJ having obtained a warrant to search the phone of Trump’s election attorney, John Eastman, who spoke at the rally before the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. See the conversation here

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Updates on the Jan. 6 investigation

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"I happened to watch Donald Trump's performance in front of that crowd in Washington, D.C, and not for the first time I came to the conclusion that it's not necessarily ideology that has people enraptured to Donald Trump. So, my question to you is, in the larger sense the former Republican Party, if it's not ideology what enthralls them to the extent that they lack the courage to stand up against someone who is literally trying to overthrow the existing American government?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin during a Morning Joe conversation that followed former President Trump delivering a speech in his first return to Washington since leaving office. Listen to Rubin’s response here.

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Trump stumping in first return trip to DC

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ICYMI: Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and https://www.newyorker.com/ executive editor David Rohde discussing the potential of the Department of Justice seeking to charge former President Donald Trump and others with “corrupt intent” for their role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol or for attempting to interfere with the presidential election.

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Will Trump be charged?

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"What is the level of danger involved, in even the prospect of (US House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi continuing to talk about going to Taiwan, seemingly at odds with her own government, her own president of the United States, and just right in the face of President Xi,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Financial Times U.S. national editor Edward Luce during a Morning Joe conversation about Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan that has infuriated China and has been a cause for concern within the Biden Administration. Hear Luce’s response here.

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Speaker Pelosi’s potential Taiwan visit

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss Attorney General Merrick Garland having declined to rule out prosecuting former President Donald Trump and others for their role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol or for attempting to interfere with the presidential election, following former President Trump delivering a speech in his first return to Washington since leaving office. “(Trump) basically tried to destroy our government—to take an election, a legal election, a legal winner, Joseph R. Biden, and basically trample on 230 years of history. That’s what he tried to do,” says Barnicle about former President Trump’s words and actions. You can join the conversation here.

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Trump returns to Washington

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation as the panel discusses President Joe Biden having publicly castigated former President Donald Trump for failing to respond to the January 6 insurrection, contrasting his predecessor’s lack of action with the heroics of police officers responding to the Capitol riot, and comparing Biden’s dealing with Trump now to President Dwight Eisenhower’s handling of Joseph McCarthy. "What is happening to this country now politically is truly, truly damaging to the soul of the country,” said Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Capitol attack was “medieval hell"

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"Zanny, how would you describe an economy – the American economy – where people when you talk to them they complain about the increased cost of gasoline, the scarcity on food shelves of some items, on the cost of meat and chicken, things like that. And yet when you ask them, ‘yeah, but how are you doing personally,’ they say, ‘well, personally, I'm doing okay.’ How do you explain the economy, that kind of an economy?,” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle of The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, who joins the panel to discuss the “confusing" state of the U.S. economy and what might happen next.

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The US economy: confusing

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Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and The Atlantic staff writer Mark Leibovich discuss the lack of Republican condemnation of former President Donald Trump, who is returning to Washington D.C. for the first time since leaving the White House. Watch the conversation here.

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Mr. Trump returns to Washington

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Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss a judge in New York having ordered Rudy Giuliani, a former personal lawyer of former President Donald Trump and previously the Mayor of New York City, to testify next month before a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury that is investigating Trump and his allies' attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. “This guy has put so much distance between himself and his behavior in New York City on September 11th, where he was legitimately acknowledged to be heroic in terms of his response to what happened that day. You just wonder what in the world happened to Rudy Giuliani,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here."

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What in the world happened to Rudy Giuliani

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Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle talk baseball following last night's 2022 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which featured mic’d up players as the American League defeated the National League for a ninth consecutive year. “The clip that we showed of Alek Manoah, the Toronto Blue Jays great right-hander, big strong kid, very young kid, talking back and forth, being mic’d, talking with John Smoltz, a Hall of Fame pitcher—that was worth watching,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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All Star Baseball

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Emmy-winning stand-up comedian W. Kamau Bell and author Kate Schatz join Morning Joe to talk with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzenski and Mike Barnicle about their new book “Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book,” an informative, interactive workbook that provides readers a hands-on understanding of systemic racism—and how we might dismantle it. Watch the conversation here and find out what inspired them to write it.

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‘Do the Work'

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Morning Joe's Mike Barnicle and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb discuss the candidacy of Herschel Walker, the GOP Senate nominee in Georgia running to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. "Does Herschel Walker's candidacy raise a larger issue in terms of the damage that's been done to this country via the former guy, Trump?” asks Barnicle. Hear Cobb’s answer here and more on Walker’s “qualifications."

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Warnock v. Walker in Georgia

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Join Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they talk with Emma Soames, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, about her new book “Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter,” which offers a unique and evocative portrait of World War II from the personal diaries of Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary.

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Revelations on Churchill

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Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle asks what’s happened to “toughness” in Democratic candidates’ ability to appeal to voters while still keeping focused on the day-to-day issues that matter to them. Find out during this discussion between Barnicle, Joe Scarborough and Democratic strategist Brian Stryker.

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Where’s the toughness?

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Morning Joe's Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle look ahead to the eighth hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol, which is set for a prime-time session and will feature testimony from Matthew Pottinger, the former deputy national security adviser under former President Donald Trump and a former journalist and U.S. Marine Corps officer, who was the highest-ranking White House official to resign on Jan. 6 2021. “Matthew Pottinger’s testimony is going to be devastating because guess what? Like the testimony of so many others, it's not from a sworn enemy of Donald Trump. It's from people who have worked alongside Donald Trump for years in the White House,” said Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.

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January 6 hearings continue

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation about baseball—the players, their contracts, and their ages—with Joe Scarborough, Eugene Robinson, Claire McCaskill, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle.

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Baseball talk

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"A malignancy occupied the Oval Office; a twisted, corrupt individual was president of the United States, (and) instead of doing his duty became a political arsonist and tried to burn us down—tried to burn down democracy,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about former President Trump during this Morning Joe segment that followed the seventh public hearing from the January 6th Committee which showed how violent right-wing extremist groups were spurred toward Washington as part of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.

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January 6th Committee Hearing #7

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution politics and government Journalist Greg Bluestein during which they discuss a Fulton County special grand jury investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

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The 2020 election

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Watch this Morning Joe segment with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they recap and assess the first prime-time hearing from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack, which detailed the findings of the panel's investigation and unveiled new video from closed-door depositions of members of former President Donald Trump's team and the violence at the Capitol. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who is serving as the panel’s vice chair, stated that former President Trump had a “sophisticated, seven-point plan" to overturn the 2020 presidential election over the course of several months while she explained how the panel plans to use its future hearings to tackle each part of the scheme. “For anyone to view what we saw last night – and, you're right, it was hard to view—and then to have these same, specific members of Congress who get up and talk publicly, as you just referenced, ‘we have to support the police’ in the midst of that chaos. I mean, this was a planned attack on the foundations of our democracy,” says Barnicle about the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

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The morning after

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Jonathan Lemire, Eugene Robinson and Mike Barnicle about President Joe Biden’s prime-time “Enough” speech regarding gun control, during which he demanded lawmakers respond to communities that are being turned into “killing fields” by passing gun reform legislation after the massacres in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. “In terms of content and delivery, I think it was about the best he's had as President of the United States,” said Barnicle of the speech.

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POTUS’ demand for gun legislation

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle continue the Morning Joe conversation about the details leading up to this week's mass elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people dead, including 19 children and two teachers. “There’s only two things that are vividly clear at this point: One is that the autopsy, the report of what happened that day, minute-by-minute, in terms of law enforcement people and the shooter himself, is going to be brutal. It’s going to be brutal. Just given the fact that there was…either half an hour or a 40-minute lapse between the time that he entered the classroom and the time that he was shot dead. The other aspect of this that’s going to come to fore is the idea that several people have mentioned, I think preposterously, since the shooting occurred: Is that things would have been different if teachers were armed, including from Governor Abbott’s press conference…one of the people on the stage, ‘it would have been different if teachers had been armed.’ So, we see what happens in terms of just a school police officer being confronted by someone with an assault weapon, with an AR-15, you know you’re out gunned. We don’t want to attribute motives until we find out all the facts; but a schoolteacher armed in a classroom certainly would have been more than outmatched,” says Barnicle following Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s press conference about the massacre.

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Details begin to emerge after Texas school massacre

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about why lawmakers will not take action on gun reform legislation even after the latest U.S. school mass shooting during which an 18-year-old gunman wielding an AR-15 fatally shot 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “We have an issue involving a specific weapon, an assault rifle. It's killing children. It's killing grandmothers. It’s extraordinarily easy to use. It's even easier to purchase. It’s a danger to democracy. It’s a danger to your family, to your children, and your grandchildren. But, we have a way to stop it. We have a way to slow down the murders of children, and here's how we do it: We establish, again, a ban on the sale of assault weapons. We establish, again, universal pre-checks, so they can't purchase weapons, and your elected officials, knowing this, seeing the evidence, seeing their own futures politically perhaps at stake, they rise up in a majority and they say, ‘no, no, we won't do it.’ That's where we are. You can feel the nuts and bolts of our democracy popping loose when they vote to continue insanity,” says Barnicle about the inaction from lawmakers on gun control. Join the conversation here.

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Lawmakers’ failure on gun reform legislation

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they contrast two recent occurrences in Major League Baseball: New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge having an emotional meeting with the 9-year-old fan whose story went viral after he had his wish come true when a Toronto Blue Jays fan gifted him with a Aaron Judge home run ball he caught and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner being ejected after the first inning of his start against the Miami Marlins after a confrontation with first-base umpire Dan Bellin. “I prefer to focus on the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge and that little boy because, as Joe just indicated, that capsulizes the romance of baseball. You pass it on to your sons, your daughters, and they carry it through. That was just a wonderful moment, wonderful moment,” says Barnicle about Judge’s meeting with the young fan. Watch the segment here.

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Keep calm & baseball on

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Congratulations, Mike Barnicle! Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire celebrate Barnicle for having received the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Glucksman Ireland House NYU during the organization’s 10th annual gala last night. “It was a humbling evening...because Pete Hamill was a hero not only to me but to many people in our business…So, just to have received recognition in the name of Pete Hamill – my hero – it was rewarding,” says Barnicle about having been recognized for his political and social commentary and bestowed with the award named after legendary journalist Pete Hamill. Join the celebration here as Maureen Dowd, Phil Griffin, Mike’s family and many others did last night at the Rainbow Room in New York City.

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Mike Barnicle received the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Glucksman Ireland House NYU

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Richard N. Haass and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine having “backfired” on Russian President, following UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson having paid an in-person visit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Over the weekend Boris Johnson walking with the president of Ukraine—clearly, openly, bravely—was a significant sign that this is, in addition to the horrors of the war, one of the great human dimension stories that we've seen in years. You have a nation here under siege...and yet Ukraine stands firmly, boldly, proudly up against this,” says Barnicle. See more of the segment here.

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine "backfired"

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“President Biden has said publicly that he – meeting with Putin – told him that he thought he had no soul and that Putin replied to him, ‘well, at least we understand each other.’ He clearly does not have a soul,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough about Russian President Vladimir Putin amid reports that Russian forces were leaving brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in their wake in Ukraine.

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Ukraine accuses Russia of genocide

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"The President of the United States was absolutely correct when he described Vladimir Putin as a war criminal and a butcher, and he was absolutely correct when he stated early on that he thought that Russia would invade Ukraine….My question to you, Richard Haass, given what we have seen, given the evidence that's been right there in front of the world's face, how is it that Russia is allowed to remain as one of 15 members of the United Nations Security Council?” veteran columnist Mike Barnicle asks of Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, during a Morning Joe conversation about why Russia still has a membership to the UNSC amid Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia’s UNSC membership

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby about the careful, ever-shifting complexity of delivering aid to Ukrainians amid Russia’s invasion.

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Aid to Ukraine making its way

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they unpack President Joe Biden’s seemingly improvised comment about Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of a capstone address in Warsaw, where he stated "for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power" to close out his speech amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Joe Biden has been at this for a long time, and he’s been thinking about Vladimir Putin for a long time….There was a lot going on here in that speech, but it was a speech given by a strong president of the United States with a very strong message that Western Europe, NATO and the United States is determined, determined to win this war on behalf of Ukraine and on behalf of liberty and freedom throughout the world,” says Barnicle about President Biden’s speech in Warsaw. See more of the discussion here.

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Biden: Putin “cannot remain in power"

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Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev potentially being banned from Wimbledon unless he publicly denounces Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “It’s inevitable that common sense also becomes a casualty of wars like this, and this is a war. That's the reality of it: We are at war. The United States is at war. Putin is a bad guy. Putin’s not going to quit, and so this guy is a casualty of the lack of common sense that has been affected by what’s happening in Ukraine," says Barnicle about the situation. Watch the segment here.

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Daniil Medvedev may face Wimbleton ban

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Kori Schake, director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, about what might be the long-term impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, especially if Ukraine through its “courage and resistance" succeeds in ejecting Russian forces.

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Long-term impacts of Russia-Ukraine war

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the “clarifying moment” we are in now since Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago, which has inspired a reunited spirit of democracy in America and elsewhere and has seen the Ukrainian President Zelensky meet this moment. “History is littered with the ghosts of those who have underestimated America at every turn—politically, economically, governmentally. America is strongest when America stands together,” says Barnicle.

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America must stand together

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss President Joe Biden’s “extraordinary” response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how history may remember the Presidents efforts in handling the international relations. “I don't think we can – any of us – imagine the work that Joe Biden has done over the past couple of months...assembling a coalition that is going to be changing the face of Europe for perhaps a decade and confronting a two-point attack from China and Moscow," says Barnicle. Watch the conversation now.

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US response to the war in Ukraine

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former California Congresswoman Jane Harman about whether the hierarchy among nations is being reshaped amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this following reports that Russia has asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine. Hear more about how the “world realigned under our noses” here.

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The world: Realigned

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ICYMI: "Mr. President, with the exception of the no-fly zone, what is your greatest military need right now today with the Russians at the edge of the city?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a Morning Joe conversation about the immediate needs of the Ukraine military 14 days in and after the U.S. and NATO insisted they can’t provide Ukraine with a no-fly zone to protect it from the Russian invasion. Hear Poroshenko’s response here.

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Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on military needs

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The Morning Joe panel reflects on the dwindling demographic of people here in the United States who remember the sacrifices that Americans made during World War II and whether the Russian invasion of Ukraine will give pause to Americans to understand in the long term the fickle nature of freedom. Watch the conversation in the wake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky having delivered a standing-ovation worthy address to the British Parliament via video.

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How war shapes us

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and New York Times Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper about the level and extent of communication—or lack there of—between the US Pentagon and Russia’s military amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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US/Russia communication amid the invasion

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Morning Joe's Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss the banning of Russian oil imports to the United States as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. “I'm not surprised at the fact that in recent polling – new polling – on people's attitude toward increased gas price hikes...because they recognize from everything they've seen on their TV screens that it’s an atrocity, a daily atrocity. Americans are finally, maybe, coming back to being who we really are: We understand the world. We understand danger. We understand threats—hopefully that’s the case,” says Barnicle about new polling that suggests Americans are willing to pay higher gas prices to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Support for Ukraine

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Elise Jordan and Mike Barnicle as they talk about the theatrics in the “Trump wing of the Republican Party” as it relates to the Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who scolded students for wearing masks at his news conference and later suggested France would “fold” if it was invaded by Russia. “I think we all better strap ourselves in because we're going to see more of this in the next couple of years, and it's play acting. People like the governor of Florida think that part of Donald Trump's calling card…was that too many Americans thought, ‘oh, he's a tough guy, look at the way he talks.’ So, they’re trying to mimic him now, and it’ll get worse. We know it’ll get worse,” says Barnicle about some Republican candidates attempting to mimic the "fake tough guy" former President Trump, while others like Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) are "real tough guys."

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“Trump wing of the Republican Party”

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“We are witnessing all day long here in America scenes from Ukraine that are mind-boggling in terms of their misery and their effect on people. Now, the relics of war, the memories of war, the casualties of war are going to be with the Ukrainian people for years to come—no matter their age, young and old. They’re going to remember the noise, the violence, the confusion, certainly the deaths. So, my question to you is: We live in a country where if the Apple store in Palo Alto was closed, there’d be hysteria. Could you please talk to the American people right now about your knowledge of the Ukrainians and their sense of liberty and freedom and their willingness to die on the street in front of their homes to save their country and to save the liberty for their own children?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Hear McFaul’s answer here.

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Liberty And Freedom

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During this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and US Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.), listen in as they discuss the escalating and intensifying attack by the Russian military on Ukraine, including in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, eight days into the assault, and what might happen next. Only on MSNBC.

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The Russian Military Attack On Ukraine

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Catch up with this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Jon Stewart, host of Apple TV’s “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” and U.S. Congressman Mark Takano (D-CA) about the Honoring Our Pact Act, which will provide health benefits to 3.5 million veterans who were exposed to burn pits on overseas bases. The bill was passed today by the House of Representatives with a bipartisan vote of 256-174. H.R. 3967 will address the full range of issues impacting toxic-exposed veterans including access to earned benefits and healthcare through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It has the strong support of 42 Veterans Service Organizations, the Biden-Harris Administration, and advocates Jon Stewart And John Feal. Watch the segment here.

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Jon Stewart

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they review and discuss President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in which he called out Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and pledged to tame surging inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic. “In 62 minutes, you saw the Commander-in-Chief talking about Ukraine. You saw the President of the United States talking about domestic issues, about funding the police, about getting kids back into school. And you saw Joe Biden citizen, ‘happy birthday buddy’ to the young boy who was there with diabetes. You saw the expanse of his personality in full blossom: Angry about Ukraine, really angry about Putin, frustrated about empty office buildings here in New York and throughout the country, frustrated that more kids haven't been in school full time for a while, frustrated about the normal issues that plague American families: gas prices. You saw it all…in 62 minutes. I think it was a very, very solid night for the President of the United States, for the Commander-in-Chief and for Joe Biden, citizen of America,” says Barnicle.

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President Joe Biden’s State of the Union

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Final thoughts on Morning Joe, 2.24.22: Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss their shock and dismay about the lack of U.S. support from some Republicans and journalists in the wake of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

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Final thoughts on Russia invading Ukraine

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Puck Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivation to go forward with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “He’s on a different schedule” says Ioffe about Putin’s reign that has spanned 22 years and five U.S. presidents, including current President Joe Biden, whom Ioffe says, “sees this guy for what he is.” Watch the conversation here.

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Putin’s 22-year reign

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“It’s Putin's war, it’s Putin's invasion,” said Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Katty Kay about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "What steps he might take next? We do not know, but I think we do know that the United States of America along with other European countries will inflict severe, severe penalties that Russia is totally unprepared for.” Watch the rest of the discussion about this "volatile and increasingly dangerous situation.”

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“Putin’s war"

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ICYMI: Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and journalist/author Katty Kay discuss this “global war right now today” on the morning after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "What is the immediate future in terms of the strength and unity of NATO against this confrontation with Russia?” asks Barnicle. Hear Kay’s response about what NATO might do in the wake of Putin's “whack at Democracy."

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A “global war right now"

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Mo Elleithee, executive director of Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, discuss the erosion of the public’s trust in politicians and major institutions in general over the last five years and how and why the public’s trust has waned.

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Why public trust has waned

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams joins Morning Joe to talk with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Mike Barnicle about his position on law enforcement spending as violent crime has risen within New York City. "During the course of your campaign, you called for $1 billion cut in the police department budget. Where do you stand now on cuts in that budget? And if you are going to cut it, where are you going to cut it?” asks Barnicle. Adams’ response is here.

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NYC Mayor on Morning Joe

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Brett McGurk, White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, about America’s military strategy for combating the terrorist organization ISIS, following the leader of ISIS being killed in a U.S. raid in Syria. .

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The fight against ISIS

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“How is it that the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney is managing to get this thing going on a local level with a grand jury when Mark Meadows, a former member of Congress, former chief of staff to a president of the United States, has flouted the subpoena, has flouted the idea of testifying before Congress, and no one has subpoenaed him to do it?” asks veteran journalist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe discussion with Willie Geist, Elise Jordan and Jonathan Lemire about the Fulton County, Georgia, criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump, which concerns accusations that Trump and his allies tried to improperly influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, while the House Select Committee investigating January 6 insurrection hasn’t been tougher on getting former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to testify.

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Georgia grand jury investigating Trump

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they slam the election standards for the National Baseball Hall of Fame that have excluded certain all-time great Major League Baseball players due to their checkered histories, following the homerun king Barry Bonds and legendary pitcher Roger Clemens being denied entry during their last year of eligibility. “Let's stop being ridiculous. Admit what happened. Explain what happened and put them in the Hall of Fame where they belong,” says Barnicle about all-time great baseball players who are being denied entry to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Join the conversation here.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame standards

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Way Too Early’s Jonathan Lemire and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle pay tribute to Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz, who was just inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame his first time on the ballot, while lamenting that homerun king Barry Bonds and all-time great pitcher Roger Clemens were denied entry during their final year of eligibility. “Bonds and Clemens—they both deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, and they should be in the Hall of Fame,” says Barnicle. "And there should be an asterisk and an explanation of why it took them so long to attain Hall of Fame status on their plaque. You can't ignore the fact that two of the greatest players in the history of Major League Baseball are now off the ballot after ten years.” Watch more of the conversation here.

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Hall of Fame ins and outs

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Watch this Morning Joe panel—Jonathan Lemire, Ian Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and David Ignatius—discuss the escalating tensions between the United States and Russia and whether there’s a path to diplomacy, following the release of a news report that indicates President Joe Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine.

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