Mike Barnicle on TV: 2023

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ICYMI: Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and POLITICO politics editor David Siders who stopped by to discuss "What I Saw on the Dreary Road to 2024,” his year-long roadtrip across the U.S. to chronicle how American politics is shifting.

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Report on a year-long U.S. road trip

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jacqueline Alemany, Donny Deutsch and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Senate in a single stroke approving about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy. “You may have had a head of household—a father, a soldier, or mother who is a soldier—sent somewhere else, other than where the children are going to school. That family is disrupted for an entire year because of one thing, this dope, and he is a dope – Tommy Tuberville,” says Barnicle about the damage Sen. Tuberville has caused for military families over the past year.

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Tommy Tuberville: "He’s a dope"

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle, and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron about which country may lead the effort to help Ukraine’s defense in the war with Russia as U.S. Senate Republicans have blocked a bill to provide aid to Ukraine over a lack of border provisions in the measure. "President Biden pulled together the strong collection of NATO countries on behalf of Ukraine and has kept them solidified. And now that we seem to be on the verge, perhaps, of the American Congress not providing funding for Ukraine to go further, at least funding through maybe the end of the year or certainly into next year, which group of European nations—or maybe it's one nation—steps up to lead the effort to keep Ukraine in the fight? Would it be Great Britain? Would it be Germany? Who would it be?” asks Barnicle of Cameron. Watch the conversation here.

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Who will aid Ukraine?

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“The interesting thing about polls right now—and it's the only interesting thing—is that it's like taking a picture of a sunset, each poll. There’s going to be another sunset tomorrow. Things change. Nobody is paying attention really—other than people like us—to a future election a year away. The interesting aspect of the election, I would submit, is that we have one political party, the Republican Party, seriously interested, seemingly from top to bottom, in marching this country backward. Their principal interest is in taking things away from people—things that people have grown used to living with,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation about the unreliable nature of political polls.

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Each poll is like a sunset

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“We live in a country with no patience, no patience whatsoever. A country that has a diminishing memory of anything that happened further back than a week ago….We live in a TikTok nation where people get their news in about 20, 25 seconds on their phone. So, here's their day: They get up in the morning, man or woman, going to work. They need gas. The last thing that Americans do together because, there's no full-service gas stations anymore, is take the pump, put it in the side of the car, lean against the car, and watch those numbers flash by, say ‘wow.’ So, a month ago, they would fill up for 70 bucks and now they're doing 20 bucks at a time to save money. Then they go to the grocery store. You see the price of eggs? ‘Wow.’ They put the eggs; they pay; they leave the grocery store. They go home. They get home at the end of the workday. They make out a check or Zelle their credit card payment, credit card interest rates have gone up. ‘Wow, I'm getting hammered all day long.’ The phone rings. And it's a pollster. ‘How do you feel about the country?’ ‘It’s terrible, it's terrible.’ It's human nature, is what it is. It's not political so much as it is cultural and economic,” says Barnicle about the state of the American economy in this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Donny Deutsch.

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State of the economy

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and Commentary editor John Podhoretz about why antisemitism does not erode and is surging on college campuses and around the globe in the wake of the October 7 massacre in Israel. "This disease—and antisemitism is a disease—why does it linger, recede, erupt and always the focus is always on the Jews? Why?” asks Barnicle. Hear Podhoretz’s response here.

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Antisemitism is a disease

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and The New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker about "the turmoil, the trouble, the minute-by-minute focus” of the enormity of the job of the presidency, following President Joe Biden having been briefed on the massacre in Lewiston, Maine, last night during a State Dinner for the Prime Minister of Australia.

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The job of the president: “Not for the weak or the weary"

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle play for viewers and discuss the emotional words of Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown after the team’s win last night over the Utah Jazz, when he wanted to talk about the horrendous breaking news of the mass murder in Lewiston, Maine, instead of basketball. "It’s a sad day. It’s a sad day for our country. It’s a sad day in this world," the coach said. "And, until we decide to do something about it, the powers that be, this is going to keep happening. And our kids are not going to be able to enjoy what our kids are about because we don’t know how to fix a problem that’s right in front of us.” Adds Barnicle: "Lewiston, Maine, population 37,000, and we sit here, this great country of ours, greatest country in the history of the world, and we can do nothing about this continually happening week after week after week here in the United States of America." Join the conversation here.

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“It’s a sad day for our country"

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran New England columnist Mike Barnicle and NBC News senior law enforcement analyst Cedric Alexander about the extensive manhunt that is underway for a Maine native who killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more in a rampage at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston and the importance of residents staying safe while keeping their eyes and ears open and reporting anything that might help in "finding, tracking, and capturing” the gunman.

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All eyes and ears on finding gunman

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"The media spotlight has fallen off of Ukraine lately with the focus being clearly, and responsibly, on the Middle East and what's going on there; but in Ukraine, winter is fast approaching. It is still a very hot war, and it’s a war between two nations, Russia and Ukraine—in which one nation, Russia, has a deep, deep bench of people, of soldiers, that they can keep sending to the front. Ukraine, less so. What are the prospects for a long winter war?,” asks Morning Joe's Mike Barnicle of National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby. Hear Kirby’s response as to the perils of the months to come but also why Ukraine is well positioned with the help of its allies.

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Russia-Ukraine war continues into the winter months

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about the possibility of the United States engaging in a military operation in the Middle East. “What happens when inevitably, sadly, the first American is killed in action through Iranian missile shots or whatever in Iraq or Syria, what happens when the phone rings in Amman, Riyadh and the United Arab Emirates and the President of the United States is on the other end of the line and he says, ‘boys, we’ve had enough. We're going to saddle up here.’ What happens then?” asks Barnicle. Hear Ignatius' response here.

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What happens next?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Richard Haass and Mike Barnicle as they discuss with The Washington Post’s Jacqueline Alemany the ongoing “chaos” inside the House of Representatives as now eight Republicans are vying for the speakership after almost three weeks without a leader in the House. How does this “chaos” impact America’s reputation abroad? Join the conversation.

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Chaos

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Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle talk with Capitol police officer Harry Dunn who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th,” his stirring memoir about the truth of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. "Harry, we are now nearly three years from that day, as you describe it, 'that day.' You're still going to work nearly every day as a Capitol police officer. Do you carry any baggage from that day when crowds come into the Capitol these days? Your daughter, who was 11 then, is now a little older; she called you that day in the middle of everything. How does this rumble around in your mind?” asks Barnicle. Hear Dunn’s response about the traumatic event that made the U.S. Capitol a crime scene on one of the darkest days in American history and how still, he’s not deterred from being able to do his job.

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Capitol Police Officer shares his January 6th story

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Morning Joe's veteran columnist Mike Barnicle speaks with Eliot Cohen, the Robert E. Osgood Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and The Atlantic contributing writer, about “the inability among some university presidents to distinguish between what is a terrorist and who is a militant. The fact that we continue to claim that Hamas is after Israelis, when Hamas really is after Jews, to be specifically clear; and…coverage of the hospital bombing that almost immediately...was blamed on the Israelis,” explains Barnicle. Hear Cohen’s response about the moral and legal distinctions “against barbarism."

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“Against Barbarism"

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle talk about the Texas Rangers mashing their way to the World Series in Houston, soundly defeating the Houston Astros 11-4 after piling on eight runs in the first four innings. “Yesterday was a key example of (manager Bruce) Bochy’s importance to the Rangers, Jonathan. In that he goes out and he hooks Max Scherzer off that mound in the third inning. And Scherzer, you could tell, was disturbed about being taken out; but you're not going to fool with Bruce Bochy,” says Barnicle about the three-time World Series-winning manager who came out of retirement to manage the Rangers.

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Team of Destiny?

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Please join with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and the Morning Joe family to celebrate the “legendary" Mike Barnicle on this special birthday! Share in the memories and well wishes for “one of the greatest columnists of the twentieth century” on his big day. Responds Mike: "At this stage of my life, if I wake up every day, it's a special day.” Join the celebration here.

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Happy Birthday, Mike!

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Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle speaks with State Department spokesman Matt Miller about Secretary of State Antony Blinken's communication with leaders of other Middle Eastern countries since Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel, where the death toll has topped 1,200, including 22 Americans. Miller said the “really brutal” attack “shocked the world” with a “depravity not seen since ISIS.” Watch the segment here.

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Shock around the world

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Mika Brzezinski as they discuss President Joe Biden's public, forceful condemnation of Hamas’ actions as terrorism and his vow to stand with Israel after Hamas’ brutal and deadly weekend massacre on Israel during which Hamas fighters stormed into Israeli towns, killing hundreds and abducting many others. "We saw the President of the United States give perhaps the strongest, firmest outline of who he is—who we are as a nation—in this troubled world that you're ever going to hear from a president….This was an act of terrorism, an act of barbarism, that we saw over the weekend,” said Barnicle. Watch the segment here.

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Biden’s comments on Hamas’ attack on Israel

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, Richard Haass and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Joe Biden’s reelection strategy and message after Biden in a speech in Arizona called his once-and-perhaps-future opponent Donald Trump a direct threat to American democracy in the most forceful condemnation of the former president and the MAGA movement he has delivered since he took office.

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Patriotism over party

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jen Palmieri, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson writing in an upcoming memoir that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage while former President Donald Trump rallied supporters to push back against the election certification on Jan. 6, 2021. “This is just one more glaring example of the depth of decadence and danger involved in this (Trump) administration from the (former) president himself on down to the people around him….How many members of the Republican Party have been narcoticized by this behavior over the years, have just gotten so used to it, so familiar with it, that they regard none of it as outrageous or the depth of danger involved in this,” says Barnicle.

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"The depth of decadence and danger" of Trump

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle sit down with Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss the faction within the Republican Party that is against American funding of Ukraine’s war against Russia, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky having urged a global front against Russian aggression in a dramatic speech delivered during the UN General Assembly. “It used to be that the Republican Party specifically, Democrats as well, but the Republican Party specifically, would be saying, ‘yes, yes; go get Russia. We’re behind you 100 percent’? Yet now the fracture within the Republican Party leads to a very real possibility that there will be a shutdown or diminution of funding for Ukraine to continue this war,” asks Barnicle. Hear Haass’ response about the shift in the Republican Party on issues of national security and U.S. leadership on the world stage.

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Republicans on support for Ukraine

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and veteran U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) about the Republican Party and the current GOP infighting in the House of Representatives over spending bills that threatens a government shutdown. “Have you ever seen a moment in your lifetime in Congress when a specific portion of one political party, a specific portion of the Republican Party, seemingly has been devoted to destroying government?” asks Barnicle.

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GOP infighting

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ICYMI: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Morning Joe to discuss her return to the classroom, as along with Keren Yarhi-Milo, dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, she will be teaching global decision-making and starting an Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University. Watch her conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the need to model respectful disagreement and find “at least a sliver” of common ground with people with different points of view. “These elections coming up in 2024 could not be more important for freedom, for democracy and for the rule of law,” says Clinton. Watch the segment here.

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Professor Hillary Clinton Goes Back to School

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Tune in for this Morning Joe report and conversation among Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and NBC News senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur about the efforts by GOP House members who support former President Donald Trump to seek using appropriations to block government funding for special prosecutors and counsel investigating Trump. Kapur reports that Republicans are divided on this issue and that Democrats are aggressively pushing back on the “politicization of the criminal justice system."

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Another Trump dividing line

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Watch this Morning Joe discussion between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, about how the Republican Party could move away from former President Donald Trump as polls continue to show him maintaining a strong lead in the GOP primary despite facing multiple indictments. “You've tried to make the case, and you're trying to make the case, that you are the guy who can make the case against Joe Biden….How does what's left of your political party—the remnants of the Republican Party—how do they, how do you, make the case against Joe Biden, when last week, six of the eight candidates for president of the United States standing alongside you on the stage, indicated that they would vote for Trump, even if he were a convicted felon? How do you convince the country that your party is still sane?,” asks Barnicle. Hear Christie’s answer here.

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Former Gov. Chris Christie

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Former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg joins Morning Joe to talk with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Jonathan Lamire about the federal election case and other cases against former President Donald Trump and the constant turnover within his legal team as he faces four different indictments. Listen to Rosenberg’s response here.

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Trump legal turnover

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"This country has suffered great damage—none more so than the injection into the political bloodstream that the election of 2020 was fixed, was rigged,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in this Morning Joe conversation with host Mika Brzezinski following the first 2024 Republican primary debate that took place in Milwaukee, which didn’t feature the current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, who decided to skip the event. "How do you begin a debate with any of the candidates, Republican or Democrat, without asking them the ‘yes' or ‘no’ question: 'Was Joseph R. Biden legitimately elected president of the United States, yes or no?' That way, we know where you're going to go on continuing this poison that is in the political culture today, and no one asked that.” Watch their review of what Barnicle called “a revealing and depressing performance."

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Thoughts on the first 2024 Republican primary debate

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Gideon Meir, the grandson of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, and director Guy Nattiv, join Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle to talk about their new film "Golda,” a biopic of the country's first—and only—female leader. The film focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the “Iron Lady of Israel,” faced during the Yom Kippur War. “She's a portrait of incredible strength in this film, and her nature comes across in this film, especially with regard to Moshe Dayan, an iconic Israeli hero who takes kind of a reputational hit in this movie, and yet she nurtures him through this crisis on a day-to-day basis,” says Barnicle. Learn more about the film, the casting of Mirren and her long-time connection to Israel.

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"Golda"

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"“Joyce, in looking at the stipulations laid down in Georgia against the former president, quite a few are similar to stipulations that a court would issue to John Gotti, including the last one, which is ‘the above shall include, but are not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media’ having to do with intimidation. So, let me ask you: Given the former president's nature, it seems to many people he will be unable to help himself or prevent himself from crossing the line here. What would be the next step potentially by the Georgia district attorney if he does so?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance during this Morning Joe conversation about a Fulton County judge having set former President Donald Trump's bond at $200,000 in District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference case, as the bond agreement includes a "no direct or indirect threat" clause against codefendants or witnesses. Listen to Vance’s response here.

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Trump's $200,000 bond

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MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi joins Morning Joe to talk with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and the Rev. Al Sharpton about his new podcast “Velshi Banned Book Club,” which features different authors of banned books to talk about why their work is being targeted and about the literature itself. Watch the segment here.

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"Velshi Banned Book Club" podcast

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg about former President Donald Trump’s upcoming court cases, the bond required, and his most request or an April 2026 trial in his 2020 election interference case, saying his attorneys are exaggerating the amount of discovery they need to review in the case. Listen to Rosenberg’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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The 2020 election interference case

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“The cult of Trumpism is now verbal,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation about former President Donald Trump, who has said he will surrender to authorities in Georgia to face accusations of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. "It's passed on to people who come up to you and ask the ever-present question, you know, ‘how can people vote for this man? Who are these people?’ And you tell them, ‘I’ll tell you who they are: They're your neighbors, they’re people you know, they're people you see each and every day. That's who they are.’ But he’s there. He's in our minds; he’s in our bloodstream. It is a sickness. It’s a disease that America is carrying – Trumpitis.” Watch more of the conversation here.

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The cult of Trumpism

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“We have witnessed now for years, and years, and years out on the stump, the greatest political showman of our time, maybe of any time, Donald J. Trump. He's also a deeply dangerous national security threat. That's who he is. We've failed to confront that reality. We've failed to ask people, like General Kelly, General Mattis, Mitch McConnell, a host of Republican: Step up to the plate, step up to the plate….This is deeply depressing at a certain level, that not a single legitimate Republican can stand up and confront this deeply dangerous narcissist who thinks it's great to get out every day and be so negative about this country. If you listen to him on the stump, if you listen to his speeches, his 90-minute speeches, they are deeply, deeply divisive, in addition to being horribly negative about the immediate future of this country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Chris Matthews and Lanhee Chen as they discuss and analyze and the state of America and the 2024 presidential race following a recent York Times/Siena College poll that found President Biden is on stronger footing than he was a year ago—but he is neck-and-neck in a possible rematch with former President Donald Trump.

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The state of America and the 2024 presidential race

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) about how everyday Americans feel about the country right now. "You've got a 9-year-old boy….You're taking him to basketball camp. You do your own grocery shopping. What do you hear? What is important to people in Ohio that they talk to you about?” asks Barnicle. Watch Ryan’s response here.

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What’s important to Americans today?

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with former White House Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri about Rudy Giuliani, formerly known as “America’s Mayor” following 9/11 and then Donald Trump’s attorney, having conceded in a court filing that he made “false” statements about two Georgia 2020 election workers who have now sued him for the baseless claims of fraud that he made against them. Watch the conversation here.

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What happened to “America’s Mayor?"

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Mike Barnicle discuss President Joe Biden having signed anti-lynching legislation and a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois, where Emmett was from, and Mississippi, where he was killed, stating "darkness and denialism can hide much but they erase nothing" before memorializing the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955, and paying tribute to the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who helped drive the civil rights movement. “He's an emotional guy...capable of tears over loss—not his loss—your loss, our loss, and I don't think he gets enough credit for being the decent human being that you know, that I know, that we all know,” says Barnicle about President Biden. "He doesn't get enough credit for it.” You can watch the segment here.

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President Biden honors Emmett Till and his mother

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and USA TODAY Washington bureau chief Susan Page about the different factions within the Republican Party in the House of Representative today, following House Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden over unproven claims of financial misconduct. “How many elements of the Republican Party are there, and how do you cover this?” asks Barnicle. Hear Page’s response here.

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The GOP divide

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Eugene Robinson, Elise Jordan and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggesting that House Republicans may be approaching the point where they’d pursue an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden, marking McCarthy's most explicit threat of impeaching the president to date. “Are we watching a democracy collapse in full public view, in plain view, that these people like Kevin McCarthy talking about impeaching Joe Biden rather than, ‘don't look over there; don't look at Donald Trump?’ And if any of them were asked, ‘could you tell us how you feel about Peter Stager,’ they wouldn't know what I was talking about, or they wouldn't know the origin of that question. Peter Stager, who we just mentioned earlier in the news, sentenced to four years for beating a police officer at the request – basically there in the Capitol – of Donald J. Trump. They wouldn't know him. They don't care about him. And they don't care about the country, I would submit,” says Barnicle about the GOP threatening to impeach President Biden. Join the conversation here.

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McCarthy threatens Biden impeachment

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle weigh in on the presidential candidacy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is polling at a distant second to former President Donald Trump in 2024 GOP polling, after DeSantis said he would not agree to be Trump’s running mate because “I’m not a number two guy.” Hear the Trump campaign’s response and analysis on DeSantis’ prospects.

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DeSantis: “I’m not a number two guy"

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Republican Party’s continued attack on reproductive rights after Iowa’s state legislature voted to ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy—despite the majority of Iowans believing abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll. “We are talking once again about one of the more pivotal moments in public life for everyone: Whether or not a woman has an abortion. It’s been going on for decades, and it continues, and it's incredible that one political party in many states continues to go back at it in terms of offending—offending women by taking the government and putting them not only into their bedrooms but into their doctor's offices.” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Iowa lawmakers pass new abortion ban

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Join this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and 2024 Presidential hopeful Chris Christieas they talk about the record of former President Donald Trump. "Going forward, do you think that Donald Trump, off of his record and off of his fake fighting, do you think that he’s a danger to the country in the future? And if, by some chance, he became the Republican nominee for president, would you vote for the Republican nominee for president? Would you support him as the nominee?” Barnicle asked of Christie, a former New Jersey Governor. Watch Christie explain why he won't support Trump, taking into account Trump’s ongoing denial of the 2020 election results.

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Trump’s tipping point?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby about President Joe Biden's controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine—how it will help the Ukrainians now “keeping them in the fight” and how the U.S. will work with them after the war with Russia on demining efforts.

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U.S. help for Ukraine

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The Morning Joe panel of journalists Mike Barnicle, Katty Kay and Vaughn Hillyard discuss the appeal for some Americans still devoted to supporting former President Donald Trump despite all his legal woes as he seeks a return to the White House, following Trump having held a jam-packed rally in South Carolina that drew a massive crowd significantly larger than the population of the town that hosted it. Watch the conversation here.

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Devotion to Trump

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and NBC News senior executive editor for national security David Rohde about the impact judicial appointments of former President Donald Trump will have on the future of America, after a federal judge appointed by Trump restricted parts of the Biden Administration from contacting social media sites.

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Morning Joe on Trump appointed judges

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss former President Donald Trump having insisted in interviews with Semafor and ABC News that he was not showing off classified documents after being heard in an audio clip first published by CNN referring to “highly confidential” material and “secret information” that he could no longer declassify. He now is claiming the pile of documents on his desk were "plans for construction" while constantly attempting to drive home the point that he had a lot of papers on his desk. “He did yesterday and the day before, and the day before that what he does best: He lies, he lies about everything. Of course, everyone is going to believe that these were plans just to build a new pro shop at the Bedminster golf club. But, it is who he is, and we continue to cover it every single day—this parade of lies coming from a former president of the United States,” says Barnicle.

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Trump caught on tape again

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with author Sally Jenkins about her new book “The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life,” an inspirational and informative look at great athletes who were made not born, who succeed by obsessing over their failures and who practice in the face of resistance—important lessons for us all. “But what about those handful of athletes...who know instinctively they have a gift that just separates them from everyone else?” asks Barnicle. Hear Jenkins’ answer here.

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Sports lessons as life lessons

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"There's no surprise left in Donald Trump—no matter what he does, no matter what he says, it's no longer surprising. It’s no longer shocking. He’s removed that from the way we live, the way we exist each and every day,” said Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Katty Kay about the exhaustion factor surrounding former President Donald Trump, who has been hit with a 37-count federal indictment, including charges of willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. Watch the discussion here.

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Barnicle: There's no surprise left in Donald Trump

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“You know, Joe, I used to love waking up almost every morning of my life with a smile on my face. And for the first time in my life, and I say this completely honestly—I'm older than everyone here at the table. I now wake up on the verge of despondency nearly every day—just briefly but nearly every day,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle. “And the Jonathan Turley appearance reminded me of something I've wondered about for days now, months now, actually: Where are the legitimate voices to stand in protest over what's been done to the Presidency of the United States—to the office of the Presidency, to the Constitution, to the structure of our government, to the feel for our country. Where are the legitimate voices?” Watch the Morning Joe segment here with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley’s take on the 37-count federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, which includes charges of willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.

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Barnicle: Where are legitimate voices?

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Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, Elise Jordon, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss newly announced 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie declaring that former President Donald Trump disappointed the country and the GOP and that Christie's campaign will focus on Trump's record in office, following federal prosecutors having informed Trump’s legal team that he is a target of their investigation into his handling of classified documents after he left office. “What does the Republican Party do with this dilemma called Donald J. Trump?” asks Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.

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What’s next for the GOP

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) about the “Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum Act” (SHIP Act), legislation that Moskowitz and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) have introduced in Congress to impose new sanctions targeting those who assist the Iranian regime in ducking U.S. sanctions over oil. “On the shipping aspect of this bill, is there anything to the fact that it seems that it’s difficult to track ships these days? There are ghost ships….Is that part of the dilemma here with regard to shipping Iranian oil—finding the ships who are being used to ship the oil?” asks Barnicle.

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The Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum Act

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Morning Joe's Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan defending the process behind the PGA Tour’s controversial merger with Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf. “This is a really bad look for Jay Monahan….I don't think this is good for golf other than the money play. The money play obviously is extremely attractive to both the PGA members and the LIV guys; they’ve already gotten their money. But it’s not a good look,” says Barnicle about the PGA merger with LIV Golf. Watch the segment here.

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Barnicle: It’s not a good look

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Watch this Morning Joe segment with Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they talk with Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg about reports that indicate federal prosecutors have informed the legal team for former President Donald J. Trump that he is a target of their investigation into his handling of classified documents after he left office, as special counsel Jack Smith is presenting evidence currently before a Florida grand jury in addition to a panel in Washington, D.C. What might happen next?

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Target: Trump on handling of classified documents

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and GLAAD President/CEO Sarah Kate Ellis about the current anti-LGBTQ political sentiment that has led to a record 540-plus anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures and more than 220 bills that specifically target transgender and non-binary people. “These are obviously terribly turbulent cultural times, but was there a spark…a moment in the last ten years or so when there was such a violent and hysterical overreaction to drag shows, LGBTQ clothing?” asks Barnice. Hear Ellis’ response, as she explains “Whenever there’s progress, there is a snap back reaction to it.” Watch the segment here.

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Anti-LGBTQ politics

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about new reports that reveal Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained a 2021 recording in which Donald Trump appears to brag about having a classified document related to Iran, suggesting the former president understood both the legal and security concerns around his possession of such restricted information. “It’s going to shape up, I would think, from people who we've spoken to, as a defining moment, not only for the Republican Party but for the country because if the words espionage or treason are even hinted at in the filing documents when, and if, an indictment is brought against the former president, people are going to have to finally make up their minds. There’s got to be enough of this talking about, ‘oh, he's a tough guy. I like how he talks, he's a tough talker. And the stuff about the women, that it's all made up. You know, they're after him because he's Donald Trump’—all that stuff. That's going to go out the window,” says Barnicle. See the discussion here.

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“Defining moment” for Trump

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“(Donald) Trump runs this country down almost daily with one comment or another, one text or another. He runs the military down constantly and continually,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about the “stupid” statements made about the military by the GOP, as “they go along with this slander. It’s political slander."

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Barnicle on GOP’s Trump “fear”

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) about the strong bipartisanship that emerged during the Senate panel hearing on the potential risks of artificial intelligence that Blumenthal kicked off with a cloned recording of his own voice. “If you closed your eyes, you probably couldn't have told whether it was a Republican or Democrat asking the question or making making comments,” said Blumenthal. "And if you closed your eyes at the beginning of the hearing, you couldn't have told that we were playing a voice clone of myself in introducing the hearing. It was eerie, even creepy….I think that it is one of the more scary moments in the United States Senate hearing history.”

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AI Senate hearing brings Republicans and Democrats together

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss former President Donald Trump and his allies targeting and misrepresenting the function of the FBI, after special counsel John Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr, concluded at the end of a multi-year investigation that the FBI should not have launched a full investigation into connections between Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. "America is looking forward, going ahead. This is all rear-view mirror stuff. I don’t know how they (Republicans) thrive on this politically. I really don’t,” says Barnicle about the Durham report. Watch the conversation here.

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America is not a rear-view country

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and retired Adm. James Stavridis about how the United States should approach its complicated relationship with China as the superpower rivalry between the two nations continues.

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The path forward for the US and China

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"The interesting thing is, we are doing now something that nobody else in America is doing: talking about Nikki Haley. I mean, she's irrelevant to the conversation really, and she's proven her irrelevance each and every day, each and every time she opens her mouth,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as Mika Brzezinski and the Morning Joe panel discusses Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley—struggling to gain traction among GOP voters ahead of the primary elections—having suggested that President Joe Biden, 80, is likely to die in office if he is re-elected.

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“She's irrelevant to the conversation,” Barnicle on Nikki Haley

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they analyze and discuss the possible rematch in the 2024 presidential election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. “Joe Biden is going to beat Donald Trump. He’s going to beat him like a drum….I don't know how a guy goes to the country running for president of the United States who almost certainly will be carrying federal obstruction of justice charges against him, plus a couple other charges probably….How do you go to the country and win the presidency? I don’t see it,” says Barnicle about Trump, who was recently indicted in New York on more than 30 counts related to business fraud.

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A possible 2024 rematch

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“He has the humility of an ordinary person….and he is very confident in his role as president. He knows what he's doing. If people don't think he knows what he's doing, I refer you to what's going on in Ukraine today. Ukraine has more allies today than would have been unthought of two years ago. Joseph R. Biden pulled that alliance together,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski following President Biden’s official announcement that he will seek reelection. Watch the segment for more on Biden and his possible opponent in the in the 2024 presidential race.

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President Joe Biden knows what he's doing

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Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle on President Joe Biden’s announcement of his 2024 bid for reelection: “His calmness, his deliberateness, his avoidance of calamity, his desire to calm this country down, and he's going to walk us through it. He's not going to run through it, and he's going to be Joe Biden….He’s going to stand out in an age when people are yelling and screaming on both sides of the political aisle. And yet, here he is, ‘just the facts, ma’am’, calmly, deliberately, and pump the brakes on the riotous atmosphere that we cling to each and every day in the news,” says Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Claire McCaskill.

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President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection bid

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Join this Morning Joe panel discussion about the impacts of the decision by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, to order a hold on federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in a decision that overruled decades of scientific approval. “At ground level, what this means is: You're taking something away from people—specifically women. You’re taking a right away that they have had for decades,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle.

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Federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone

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“Seemingly we cover these things at least once or twice a week in America. You heard the heart ache from survivors of people who were shot and killed in Louisville. We see it all the time. Because of the nature of the news business, it's so quick and swift, and things happen so rapidly, we move on from one incident to another, from one news story to another. But the ache, the heartache and the loss that was expressed in the clip that we just showed, that lasts forever, it affects a community forever. And it's inexplicable why, as you point out, largely the Republican Party is responsible for standing in the way of any substantive progress, even the smallest elements of progress, in terms of getting control of this virus that is crippling America, the gun virus. It is truly inexplicable. There's no way you can talk about it…There's no way you can understand what their motives are. Are they that afraid of one outfit, the National Rifle Association? I mean, it’s inexplicable,” says Barnicle about the Republican Party’s unwillingness to pass gun safety legislation in the wake of yet another mass shooting this week at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, where a gunman opened fire and killed five people while injuring eight others, leaving multiple families devastated.

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The "gun virus” that cripples America

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Watch this Morning Joe discussion about former President Donald Trump having praised authoritarian figures: President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-Un of North Korea, suggesting the three are “top of the line” leaders. Says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle: "He's basically saying to people, ‘you'd be better off if you were living in Beijing, or Moscow, or somewhere in North Korea than you would be living in Chicago or Gardner, Massachusetts, or Lafayette, Louisiana. You would be better off anywhere, but living where you are now, because we don't have top of the line people.’ And I’m wondering how long it takes, maybe forever, before other Republicans who are leaders in the Republican Party or ordinary Republican members of the House and the Senate to realize that this guy's focus is not only on himself, but it's also conjoined with running down the country that we live in and love."

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Trump’s praise for authoritarian regimes

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ICYMI: This Morning Joe conversation with MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle, and the Rev. Al Sharpton the morning after the historic indictment against former President Donald Trump, accused not only of falsifying business records but of doing so with the explicit intent of covering up other crimes. “Not a great day for you, Donald,” said Sharpton. Watch the conversation here.

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The case against former President Donald Trump

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“If you want to witness one of the cruelest changes in our country over the last, I don't care, 50 or 100 years, take a morning off, Joe, get in your car and follow a school bus, an elementary school bus, and look at the parents as they watch their kids board the bus because you know some of them, maybe most of them are thinking, ‘oh, God, please let my child return home safely from elementary school,’ from elementary school,” says veteran columnist and MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle about the parents of young children in America during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) announced he plans to propose boosting school security in the wake of the Nashville school shooting that left six dead.

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Elementary school children in peril

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“It is hard to measure the danger and the damage that Donald Trump presents on a daily basis,” says veteran columnist and MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski following Trump’s latest interview with Fox News during which he says Russian President Vladimir Putin will “ultimately” take over all of Ukraine. "If you're sitting in Paris, or Berlin, or London or any other capital in the world around the globe where you measure democracy with a large ‘D’ not a small ‘d,’ you're worried because you don't know what's on the horizon. You don't know what America is going to do in 2024. You don't know what part this man might play in the future of our democracy. And so if you're thinking about planning ahead, you can't plan ahead because of the danger and the damage that he represents every time he opens his mouth, every single time,” says about former President Trump.

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The danger and damage that is Donald Trump

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MLB Open Day 2023 has arrived! ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Theo Epstein and Mike Barnicle as they preview another season of Major League Baseball and the new rules changes. “It's the start of the year. We have New Year's Day, but Opening Day is the real start of the year....It’s wonderful being at the park, and I’ve looked forward to it for far too long—every year, and every year, every year, I say, this is the year,” says Barnicle as he roots for his beloved Boston Red Sox once again.

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Opening Day!

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes about how European governments are viewing the United States heading into the 2024 presidential election with the Republican Party divided about whether to support Ukraine amid its war with Russia and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) saying that the protection of Ukraine is not a “vital” United States interest. “Is there any trepidation in European capitals that the United States might be viewed as an unstable democracy, that they don't know what, in effect, will happen in next year's elections?” asks Barnicle. Watch Beddoes’ response here.

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America the divided over Ukraine support

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"There is a certain really, really, really dangerous way that Donald Trump has been gifted with the ability to tell a story—a story filled with lies, no truth in what he’s saying, filled with deception,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough and NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard about the former president’s campaign event in Davenport, Iowa. "This is a man who tried to overthrow the Constitution, to topple a government. And yet, he tells a story each and every time he's at the podium, filled with sarcasm, meanness, humor; but, it's there. It sets him apart and sets him up as the only individual that many of his followers would ever follow. How does that happen?”

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Lies, deception and sarcasm tell the Trump story

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“He was a very good baseball player at Yale, very good baseball player at Yale, and I’ve got to tell you something else watching him and listening to him over the past four or five days, clips from Iowa and everything like that: Donald Trump is going to crush this guy,” says Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump while watching this clip that shows DeSantis playing catch during a Fox News interview. Join the conversation here.

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Catch me if you can

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“The pitch clock is wonderful for Major League Baseball,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle about the new device implemented to speed up the game amid a ratings slump, after a spring training game between the Boston Red Sox and the Atlanta Braves ended with a batter violation of the pitch clock. “The only thing, I think, that we have to take a look at, that’s going to be really interesting, is who does it have more of an impact on: The pitcher or the batter? I think the batter at first. I think it will all get ironed out during the course of the year, but I think the batter. The first couple months of Major League Baseball, April and May, it's going to be interesting to watch that dynamic. Hear more of the conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire.

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MLB’s new pitch clock

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“I think the debate over who is going to sign what and whether they mean their signature to be truth and accurate, I think it’s meaningless. I think the larger question is, each of these candidates, the Republican candidates, they should be asked the question, and it’s a neutral question: ‘Do you believe that Joseph R. Biden is the legitimately elected president of the United States?' That gives you a foundation of what they believe in and the direction that they're going to take because this election really is about something that the Republicans failed to do each and every time and that is—govern. They clearly don't know how to govern,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle after RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel said GOP primary candidates must agree to sign a pledge to support the GOP nominee in order to participate in the first primary debate.

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GOP candidates: What do they believe?

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“I think one of the things that’s still underrated in terms of the way this war is being waged was what occurred with the President of the United States. He's 80 years old. He knows how old he is, and, yet, it’s written so often here in America in a negative sense. This man left the White House at four-o’clock in the morning, flew to Germany, then to Poland, then…took that ten-hour historic train trip, a train trip out of history, to Kyiv where he walked the streets of a city and a country still in a battle zone, each and every day, each hour of every day, and he did it bringing together NATO foreign ministers later in a meeting. He did it with his personality, his humility, his sense of who he is. He’s a welcoming individual, and that had an enormous impact over there, and it has an enormous impact on the future conduct of this war because he is the president of the United States, and he arrived with all the power and the prestige of the United States and brought it right down to sidewalk level in Kyiv,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about President Biden's surprise visit to Ukraine’s capital this week.

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Biden’s historic visit to Ukraine

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"“Ambassador Brink, one year in—that’s where we are with the war against Russia—can you indicate to us the feelings in the Ukraine, after such massive losses of life, damage to properties, families separated, volunteers—I don't know how many volunteers you have left to fight this war against Russia. Can you give us a sense of the feel on the ground, the emotion on the ground, going forward into the second year of this dreadful war?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink during a Morning Joe conversation about the morale within Ukraine as the country has now spent one year fighting Russia’s invasion. Hear Brink talk of the terror and fear juxtaposed with the pride Ukrainians feel as they fight for their freedom.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year in

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Rev. Al Sharpton about how to improve policing in America, particularly in minority communities.

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The road to better policing in America

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ICYMI: This Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the extremism within the Republican Party, following Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announcing plans to block state colleges in Florida from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory. “What's going on in Florida now is maybe a peek into a horrifying future. (DeSantis) is now tampering with college education in various colleges, specifically starting with one in Florida. That's Ron DeSantis. That's the Republican future – more fear,” says Barnicle.

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GOP extremism in Florida

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss and poke fun at the Republican Party for being “disconnected from middle America” after the Republican National Committee urged GOP lawmakers to double down on anti-abortion stances and go on the offense in the 2024 election cycle. “When you talk to ordinary people who have just been laid off, as massive layoffs continue, corporate America tries to make money in a tough economy, you will find out that a huge issue among people who have been laid off or people waiting for their Social Security checks is the danger of voting by mail. They all talk about it. You know, how dangerous that is, and then when they get finished talking about that, they talk about Critical Race Theory or they talk about wokeism in colleges being taught, things like that. These are the real issues that Republicans have a lock on,” says Barnicle sarcastically about the GOP’s current platform.

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GOP: “Disconnected from middle America"

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and Richard Haass, author of the new book “The Bill of Obligations: The Habits of Good Citizens,” about how we might persuade US teachers to encourage students to utilize their critical thinking skills more than spend time and energy simply on memorizing facts.

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Teaching students to think

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ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about Speaker Kevin McCarthy after he blocked two Democrats from seats on the House Intelligence Committee and assigned GOP lawmakers to the newly created select subcommittees charged with investigating the politicization of the government and the origins of the COVID pandemic. “The Republicans under Kevin McCarthy are putting together subcommittees about weaponizing, about weaponizing the government. They don't want a government. They don't like the government. So, this is going to be an interesting tale. I think it’s going to play out very quickly,” says Barnicle about McCarthy’s tenure as House Speaker. See the segment here.

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Weaponizing the government

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss House Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying he would not urge embattled Republican Rep. George Santos to resign from Congress, hours after local GOP officials tore into Santos, the New York legislator and pushed him to step down. “What would have been wrong with Kevin McCarthy just looking into the camera and saying, ‘listen, everyone here knows this guy is an embarrassment and we're trying to figure out what to do about him, but he is an embarrassment to Congress, he certainly is an embarrassment to the constituency that under fraudulent purposes sent him to the United States Congress. We've got to deal it. We’re going to deal with it quickly.’ Why can’t anybody speak like a human being?” asks Barnicle.

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Santos has McCarthy’s support

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Mike Barnicle and director Jeff Zimbalist about the new four-part documentary series “Super League: The War for Football,” which streamer Apple says “documents the high stakes battle that is set off when plans for a breakaway league emerge and the past, present, and future of European football collide, leaving the game’s most powerful leaders to defend, or upend, the traditions of the sport.” Hear more about it here.

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