Mike Barnicle on TV: 2024

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“The coverage of the end of the Biden presidency, is really interesting to me. It’s like going to a baseball game and you watch the game, you drive home, and you say, ‘well that was a good game.’ You get home and you realize, ‘boy that was a great game.’ And what's happened here in the coverage of the end of the Biden presidency is it's dominated by his age. Every story that's written describes his age, his shuffle, his stutters, he didn't say anything. And age takes precedence over the accomplishments of the Biden administration. They certainly are historic, and they certainly are a huge positive for American paychecks,” says Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Al Sharpton as they discuss the Democratic Party’s road forward after losing in the 2024 election and the final stage of President Joe Biden’s term in the White House.

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Biden’s age overshadows his accomplishments

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and NBC News Senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake about the influence of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on President-elect Donald Trump and his team as Musk has demanded that Republicans back away from a bipartisan spending deal that was meant to avoid a government shutdown over Christmas. “What impact do you think that's having on that inner circle?” asks Barnicle. Find out here.

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The Elon Musk Influence

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) about how House Democrats will approach the incoming Trump Administration as the Republican Party will enter the 119th Congress with a razor-thin majority in the House. “It sounds as if every vote is going to be like a buzzer-beater at the end of a basketball game….What’s the reality on the Democratic side of the aisle? What are your issues that you worry about?” Hear Jeffries’ response here on MSNBC.

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What’s coming in the House for 2025

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"I went to grammar school with kids—who came to the same grammar school classroom I sat in—who were wearing braces and sticks to carry them through the day, to walk. They had polio. The idea that we're going to eliminate the Salk vaccine—and take a look at vaccines that all infants and children get to prevent measles and other really radical diseases that could cause harm to them—the idea that we're talking about eliminating them based upon the quackery of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and it is quackery. And he is a very smart guy and he ought to know better, but he clearly doesn't know better. But the idea that we're still seriously talking about eliminating vaccines from any children is almost beyond belief,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire following a New York Times report that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer Aaron Siri has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.

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An attempt to sack Salk vaccine

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“Competence is the issue. Look at the Middle East…Is Syria on the verge of becoming a failed state or is it a failed state already? The German government is in a state of near collapse. The French legislature has been disbanded and they are going to have another election probably this spring. Ukraine – what's going to happen with Ukraine? All of this depends on partially, at least two of the nominees, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, doing their jobs competently. They can’t do their jobs competently because they are not fully qualified for those jobs, and yet, they are nominated for those jobs. So, it's going to be up to the Senate – the United States Senate – to stand up, advise, consent and then vote. And we are going to out which senators have the courage to do absolutely the right thing in defense of the United States of America," says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the Senate amid Trump’s cabinet nominations during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Katty Kay as they discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet nominees, including Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief and Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary, who are currently in Washington D.C. meeting with senators amid their confirmation push.

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Barnicle on Trump’s cabinet choices

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With the holidays upon us, watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about consumer protections for delayed and canceled flights. "Commercial air travel in America for the average flying customer—people like me—is a nightmare,” says Barnicle. "What can we do about the fact that when an airline is delaying a flight incomprehensibly long—it’s going to be delayed for three hours or whatever—what can we do about getting a cash payment back for the ticket?” Hear Buttigieg’s answer here on MSNBC.

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Get your money back for delayed flights?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and author Richard Esposito about Esposito's new biography “Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth,” which provides an inside look into one of America’s greatest newspaper columnists. "He was always a guy who recognized the vulnerable because he was so vulnerable at a certain level," said Barnicle. Listen to the conversation here.

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Rich Esposito on Morning Joe

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, following the most recent announcements of Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department after a career as a former professional wrestling executive who ran the Small Business Administration for much of Trump’s first term, and Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney, to serve as deputy attorney general. “Todd Blanche is a legitimate legal giant in his own right, and running the Justice Department will probably be his chore, given whoever is going to be attorney general. The most important thing to a lot of people isn't Justice, though…It’s the Department of Education. Your children's high school and grammar school education being run by someone who is more familiar with wrestling—with professional wrestling—than it is with actually what goes on in the classroom," says Barnicle about President-elect Trump’s incoming cabinet. Watch the segment here.

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President-elect Trump’s incoming cabinet

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Admiral James Stavridis, a retired four-star U.S. naval officer, joined the Morning Joe panel, where the conversation centered on what President Joe Biden might do to help Ukraine during his last two months in office and President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial move to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, selecting someone largely inexperienced and unproven on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military. Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Stavridis: "What’s your view of the furor that has erupted over the potential successor as secretary of defense?”

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The potential successor as secretary of defense

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"Susie Wiles is a tremendously respected woman...across the board—doesn't matter what party you belong to. There’s a lot of respect for her and what she's done, especially in terms of reining in Donald Trump. She's going to be the chief of staff to the next president of the United States in exactly two months from today. Where is Susie Wiles' role now in terms of all these appointments being made?” veteran columnist Mike Barnicle asks of New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker during this Morning Joe conversation about the potential impact or influence Wiles might have on President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations amid controversy surrounding some of the choices.

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Susie Wiles

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Watch this Morning Joe segment with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson as they discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet nominees, which includes Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general. "These are really shocking appointments at their root,” says Barnicle. The rest of the conversation is here.

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Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet nominees

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“I think all of the things that impacted the election, inflation still remains and was the critical factor because what the Biden Administration was doing nearly every day, God bless them, coming on television and telling people, voters, that we had the strongest economy in the world. That is actually the truth. We have the strongest economy in the world; but it's not the economy, the average lived economy that people endure each and every day in this country. People pulling into gas stations in brand new Ford F-150 trucks or expensive cars or old cars and getting half a tank of gas because they were running out of money looking at the numbers scrolling….That’s what did it, not ideology – money,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation about the 2024 presidential election.

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Barnicle: The lived economy impact

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Julian Castro and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on the results of the presidential election with former President Donald Trump winning and Vice President Kamala Harris underperforming across the country, falling behind in several swing states that Joe Biden had won. “If the Democrats would get their act together, led by some common sense people who stop hectoring their constituents over things that really don't matter in the long run, don't matter to their children's education, to their health care for their families, to the cost of groceries—things that don't matter, putting them up on the priority scale, the Democrats would be a lot better off,” says Barnicle about the Democratic Party and their lack of attention to the “lived economy."

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Barnicle: Dems priorities need realignment

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"Doris, we've spoken about the two closing arguments. One on the downside; one of the upside; one sort of the cloudy, rainy day, and the other a sunshiny day. How long do you think it takes for a president, any president, but an incoming president of the United States, to restore a sense of optimism about the future of America? Because it's been run down continually by one of the candidates. How long does it take, and what does a president have to do taking office to restore confidence in the future of this country?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin who joins Morning Joe on Election Day in the United States as millions of Americans head to the polls to cast ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, who repeatedly referred to America as a “third-world country” this election cycle. Listen to Goodwin’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on Election Day in the United States as millions of Americans head to the polls to cast ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. "I feel rather optimistic about this. I think momentum is with her, and I think a large component of the momentum that is with her is based strictly on Donald Trump's rhetoric, his behavior, his physical appearances over the last then days,” says Barnicle about the Harris campaign. Join the conversation here.

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Barnicle: “Momentum is with her"

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"How is it that we are confronted with a choice between a woman, Kamala Harris, who is speaking common sense to the American public right now—talking about bringing people together, talking about bringing this country together, that seems to be so divided—running against someone whose language and behavior would be abhorrent to any parent if they thought about his impact on their children. Maybe we're not thinking enough about the country and about the children of this country, our children, our grandchildren, in terms of who leads us. Who do we want leading us? Do we want a good example leading us, not just here in the country but to the world? Or do we want the language and the behavior that we’ve seen evidenced by Donald J. Trump for decades now and entrust him again with the presidency of the United States? Eddie, I don't know, I don’t know the answer to why more people don't think about these things when they look and hear him,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle to Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. during this Morning Joe panel discussion about the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump just days away.

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Harris v. Trump: Who do we want leading us?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss amid the fall out of a comedian opening a rally for the former President Donald Trump having called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” yet another comment that has drawn widespread condemnation from across the political spectrum. “It's just another indictment of the way the campaign is being run, not by the people who run the campaign, but the people who symbolize the campaign: Donald Trump and JD Vance,” says Barnicle.

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Trump rally comedian

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ICYMI: "An amazing display of total economic ignorance yesterday in Chicago,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about former President Donald Trump’s interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait before the Economic Club of Chicago, where the 2024 Republican nominee defended his protectionist trade policies and other fiscal proposals. “If you ran the interview that Kamala Harris did yesterday and then run the interview that Donald Trump just did yesterday with John Micklethwait at the Chicago Board of Economics, you’d be stunned at the difference between the two in terms of competence, in terms of leadership, in terms of what you know about today's economy.”

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An amazing display of total economic ignorance

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“I'm not a native New Yorker. You know, I'm here three or four days a week each week. I am stunned at the electricity on the sidewalks and in the stores about the Mets, and about baseball in general, but specifically about the Mets. Last night, we were on a text chain, four or five other people during the game texting back and forth. The bases are loaded, and one of the text members, just a one-line text: ‘I feel a grand slam from Lindor.’ And boom. I mean, that's the Mets’ season, and Francisco Lindor is symbolic of the Mets, I think. He's a calming presence when you hear him interviewed, he's a calming presence at the plate, and you just have a confidence and a joy in what he brings to the game each and every day,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire about the New York Mets having reached the National League Championship Series with a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies due to Francisco Lindor hitting a grand slam in the sixth inning during the 2024 Major League Baseball playoffs.

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The Mets: "Electricity on the sidewalks"

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“I hesitate to do this, but the reportorial coverage of this campaign in a daily basis is abusive to the public mind, to the voters’ minds,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as they discuss the state of the 2024 presidential race following the vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance. “We've lost our way in covering this campaign. And I think when you lose your way in covering the campaign, the voters' priorities are skewed a bit by reading, especially in the print coverage of the campaign, and it's more than troubling, it’s damaging.” Watch the conversation here.

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Reporting on the campaign: “It’s damaging"

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"Tim Walz is clearly a leadoff hitter...and the campaign isn't taking advantage of a good leadoff hitter. His job is to get on base, but in order to get on base, you have to…talk to people. That's his greatest asset,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in this Morning Joe segment with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Jen Psaki about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his debate performance against Ohio Sen. JD Vance as the two faced off in their first and only scheduled vice presidential debate. "He's a human being, he's relatable. So, he gets off that plane in wherever it is, Paducah, Kentucky, wherever it is; you go right to the local media and you do a two or three minute interview with him, it's on the news that night and people watch him and say, ‘hey, he seems like good guy.'

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Barnicle on Walz: “He’s relatable"

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“I think he belongs in the Hall of Fame, but I think everything that he did, both positive and negative, ought to be put on the plaque. I mean, there are a few other people in the Hall of Fame, few other players who were not models of civilization or civility. Just recognize who Pete Rose was: he played 25 years, 25 years in the major leagues. He averaged 194 hits per season. He was a bad guy off the field. Let's get that on the record; but he was a spectacular player, a spectacular player. And yeah, put him in the Hall of Fame, but put it on the plaque,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire as they remember Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s hit king who then became an outcast for gambling on the game. Rose died at 83 years old, leaving behind a tainted legacy in baseball history.

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Remembering Pete Rose

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance about a federal judge having granted a request from prosecutors to file an up-to-180-page legal brief this week arguing why former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election should not be immune from criminal prosecution, repudiating the former president’s claims that its timing was politically motivated with the election quickly nearing. “Joyce, in addition to a lot of the nuggets of information and evidence contained in this document, it will be sealed. So, we won't be getting, probably, leaks on it; but, is there a timeline here on when this case might pop out and go public?” asks Barnicle. Hear Vance’s response here.

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Trump interference case front and center

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Richard Haass and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky being set to reveal a “victory plan” to President Joe Biden, which will showcase how Ukraine intends to end the war with Russia, as Kyiv is looking to the U.S. leader for a strong show of support before Zelensky leaves the White House. “Ukraine, on the other hand, has fought nobly. They are the underdog still; but they've got to define in Washington, and in this feckless institution—the United Nations down the street—they've got to define what victory means,” says Barnicle.

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What does “victory” mean for Ukraine?

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin about GOP Nebraska state Senator Mike McDonnell, who Republicans hoped would help ease former President Donald Trump’s path to the White House by agreeing to change how the state of Nebraska allocates its Electoral College votes, announcing he would not agree to change Nebraska’s 32-year tradition of awarding three of the state’s five electoral votes by congressional district to a winner-take-all system based on the statewide popular vote. "Making a decision as Mike McDonnell made this close to an election, it’s amazing that we’re living in a political culture where Mike McDonnell is now thought of as perhaps getting a Profile in Courage Award. A commonsense decision, Profiles in Courage,” says Barnicle. There’s more to the discussion here.

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A new definition for “Profile in Courage"

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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig join Morning Joe to discuss their new book, “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success,” which provides the history of former President Trump’s wealth and reveals how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House. “Some of the tales in the book are so glaringly obvious as to Trump's character or lack of character,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. "One of them is he's at the military academy, and it's time for the class picture to be taken, and Donald has earned maybe one or two good conduct medals that would be flashed on his uniform when the photo was taken, but he has another idea for that day.” Watch this segment to find out how Trump attempted to alter and advance his own personal history in that telling moment.

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Trump: The Lucky Loser explained

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and NBC News investigations correspondent Tom Winter about the many dangers facing the United States, following the second apparent assassination attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump in as many months. "Where is the threat level today?” Barnicle asks of Winter. Watch the conversation here.

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"Where is the threat level today?”

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"There's another aspect to this that is on the minds of more than a few people. A couple of aspects: One is Merrick Garland'a running his tutelage over the Justice Department: Why did it take so long to get this case moving? We are coming up on four years passage of time from January 6th, 2021, and here we are, still in the weeds of legal back and forth, and the keyword, I think, out in the public, Lisa, when they think of this case is the word ‘again.’ Donald Trump indicted again. And you can feel the shoulders of the average voter just shrugging and moving on because of that word ‘again’ and the timeless factor of this investigation and indictment process,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle to MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin as the Morning Joe panel discusses prosecutors having filed a superseding indictment in the federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, after the Supreme Court granted the former president substantial immunity.

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Trump indicted “again"

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"Grocery prices I think are the biggest crippler for American families, and they haven't come down a whole lot. They've come down a bit; but I can't understand why the Justice Department that sues nearly every major corporation you can think of, to try and prevent them from buying other companies like that, why they haven't gone after big food provision companies, who have to be fixing prices at some level, have to be, because of certain prices for certain things never, ever come down, and it's a crippler for American families,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in this conversation with Jonathan Lemire on Way Too Early to discuss the 2024 presidential race and the state of the America economy as inflation has dropped below three percent for the first time since 2021.

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Barnicle: Grocery prices: “biggest crippler for American families"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the 2024 presidential campaign of former President Donald Trump, who recently delivered remarks focused on his plans for the economy but diverted to numerous tangents about his political rivals and the country. “We saw a man standing there on the stage saying, ‘we are literally a third world country.’ I don't know anyone who believes we are literally a third world country, and the thing about the Trump campaign now that makes me wonder a lot about it is: Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita running the campaign. (They) are extremely good at what they do; but they seem to have lost control of their candidate…(who) has a tired, 20-year-old act. We just saw it. He updates it with some figures from the past two or three years; but it's a tired old act: The election was stolen, we’re a third world country, crime is up, immigrants are going to rape your daughter. All sorts of fear factors and a lot of it, a lot of it, with huge, huge ugly racial overtones, especially when it comes to the vice president. And you wonder how long will it be before he really goes out of control, and I think what's going to happen is when that debate occurs, and he's in the ring with the vice president of the United States, a woman, a very sophisticated, very intelligent woman, and she hammers him like a prosecutor and doesn't let him off the hook, he will go – well I can’t say it, but something will snap in him and that will be it,” predicts Barnicle about the September 10 debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Election 2024: Yesterday vs. tomorrow

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“The sea change in American politics over just the past few weeks has been astounding….President Biden was supposed to be on the ballot three or four weeks ago, and all the numbers in every state were going the wrong way. Now it's completely flip-flopped, including North Carolina, which is now in contention, and I would submit there's one other element to be added to this conversation: I think there's going to be another sea change after the first debate that occurs between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. When a Black woman in the ring cuffs him around, which she will, I think he will go bananas in public, and that will change everything,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the upcoming presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Harris during this conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and the Rev. Al Sharpton as they discuss the state of the 2024 presidential race between Trump and Harris, who according to new polling is ahead or tied with Trump in six of seven battleground states, erasing the leads the former Republican president enjoyed before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month.

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The sea change in American politics

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a former high school teacher and football coach, having made their debut as the 2024 Democratic Presidential ticket at a rally in Philadelphia. “Watching the coach, and I’m going to call him the coach from now until election day. Watching the coach…and watching the vice president…it was mesmerizing in the sense that it’s been a while since I’ve seen a rally like that either on TV or in person. And watching it, you could just sense the power in the hall, and it was the power of joy, the power of laughter, the power of hope for the future, but especially the power of those who were in the hall and those who were thinking or considering voting for this ticket—the vice president, and the coach—giving them the power to think that they’re participating in something that will put a smile on your face. It's been a long time since any aspect of American politics has put a smile on anyone's face and these two people…managed to put a smile on the nation’s face,” says Barnicle.

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Watching the coach

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"What kind of a message can we come up with to prevent more election poll workers from quitting their jobs because they fear for their own safety?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig who joins Morning Joe with former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to discuss the American Bar Association organizing a task force with the goal of protecting democracy. Watch the conversation here about why November’s election will be a test of America’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law.

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Election workers must be safe for democracy to function

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle weighs in on President Joe Biden’s historic prisoner swap with Russia, marking a major diplomatic accomplishment and legacy-defining moment for President Biden less than six months before he leaves the White House. “You had a confident, knowledgeable president of the United States standing up, telling the American public exactly what happened, and then singing happy birthday with a young woman….A smile on the President's face. The deep knowledge and relationships that he has with leaders around the world got this done. More than anything else, he got this done,” says Barnicle about President Biden’s success in bringing prisoners home.

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Biden brings prisoners home

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ICYMI: “There was no bitterness, no resentment, no self-pity in his voice or in his presentation... Last night you saw a portrait of character in the president of the United States. Going forward, I think his place in history is well sealed by his presidency," says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski about President Joe Biden’s remarks from the Oval Office on his decision to abandon his bid for re-election and support Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president. "You can only imagine how difficult it is for anyone to give up such power….And now, America has been given an object lesson in character and history by a man, ‘here I am, Joe Biden behind the Resolute desk ceding power'." Watch the segment here.

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Barnicle on Biden: “His place in history is well sealed"

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"A sleeper issue in this campaign—guns, violence, street violence, young kids being shot and killed at the age of 12, 13, even younger. What role is that going to play in the campaign, according to your estimates, and how do you go at it if you are looked at as a progressive Democrat?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) during this Morning Joe conversation about the issue of gun control in the 2024 presidential race.

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Gun control in the 2024 presidential race

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“We’re talking about a guy who's been in the business of politics for 50 years, a public school guy, a guy who rode the train back and forth from Washington to Wilmington for years, a guy who can look people in the eye, slap them on the shoulder, establish an instant rapport with them, a guy who has known world leaders, a guy who has sponsored legislation and sponsored a lot of legislation that passed and might change the country eventually down the road—the Chips Act, the Inflation Reduction Act. Sum up for us if you could, how all of those strengths are also part of his weakness,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of The Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer, who joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest article entitled “Biden’s Greatest Strengths Proved His Undoing,” which explains how the personal qualities that enabled President Joe Biden’s successes in office helped doom his candidacy for reelection. Watch the conversation here. Only on MSNBC. "

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Biden: how his strengths proved his undoing

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"The sadness of this is personal for me and I think for people who know Joe Biden," said Morning Joe's Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Jonathan Lemire about the ongoing pressure from high-ranking Democrats on President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race for the White House. "You don't want to see him pushed out, you don’t want to see him hurt or humiliated. You want to see him thrive to be a success, whether he walks away from the nomination or sticks it out for the nomination. You want to see him succeed." Tune into the segment here.

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Mounting pressure on President Biden

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ICYMI: Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle address the ongoing speculation of whether President Joe Biden will step aside from the 2024 presidential election, following President Joe Biden having admitted to a Wisconsin radio station that he "screwed up" in last week's debate against former President Donald Trump, but having vowed to fight on in the election race and move to reassure key allies. "He knows what's going on. He knows the depth of trouble. He knows that the debate that people saw something they cannot unsee; but he also knows something that apparently the Biden administration hasn't fully explained to the American public...The Biden Administration has passed the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act, two pieces of legislation that I’m told by people who know far more about economics than I do, will change and improve the progress of our economy, modernize it, make it more widely spread in terms of both the country, red states specifically will benefit from it more than blue states will; employment is on the rise. Now, the decision on what he does going forward is his and his alone, in concert with his family, clearly. He will make the right decision for the country and for himself,” says Barnicle about Biden amid the fallout from his debate performance, which has prompted calls for him to drop out of the 2024 race.

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Barnicle on Biden: “He will make the right decision for the country and for himself"

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"Dr. Fauci, 40 years of helping and/or healing, sometimes both at once, in all of those 40 years, could you ever imagine—the impact that the latter years, dealing with COVID, dealing with the virus, helping cure people with the vaccine—that you and your family would come under such a sustained political assault?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who joins Morning Joe to reflect on his long career in public service , including his experience being the public face of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic —a position that was met with vast appreciation from many and denunciation from others. Listen to his response here.

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Dr. Fauci, after 40 years of public service

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“The motivated ignorance of Donald Trump has been a lifetime habit, a lifetime habit. He's been operating on motivated ignorance since he's been 17, 18 years of age. He did it all through his business career, all through his life, nearly every day. And in politics, he's done it consistently. And he has developed indeed a cult around him. Now part of that cult, I would think given human nature, you’d have to feel badly for because they are people who bought into what Trump says in his motivated ignorance thinking it was going to help improve their lives. Well, it hasn't, it hasn’t, and that's the way you defeat Donald Trump. Point out the facts of people's existence. The big tax breaks that he always talks about. Did it help someone making $100,000 a year? No, it helped people making millions of dollars a year. And so, now in the debate, for the first time, that motivated ignorance is going to be displayed publicly in an empty hall. There's going to be no crowds saying, ‘oh yeah, that's great, yeah,’ applauding if he does indeed walk towards President Biden’s podium. If he does the crazy things that he's apt to do. It will be met by silence, and he will be told to go back to his podium. His microphone will be shut off; that, I think, is going to be the most interesting aspect of this debate,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Amanda Carpenter as they discuss Peter Wehner's latest article for The Atlantic titled, “The Motivated Ignorance of Trump Supporters,” ahead of the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on June 27th, with both campaigns having agreed to various rules for the debate, including microphone muting and no studio audience.

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The Cult of Donald Trump

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, Donny Deutsch and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the unwavering loyalty from Republican lawmakers for former President Donald Trump— in Washington this week to visit with congressional Republicans for the first time since he left office—despite his many controversies and now felony convictions. “The GOP, as I knew it, as you knew it...as everyone knew it, it's gone. It disappeared...Eight years we've been going through this dance with various Republicans, Donny. It verges from spinelessness, to lack of character, to complete duplicity, to fraud. One political party, a major political party, gone, diminished—means nothing to a lot of people today. I don't know how you rebrand that,” comments Barnicle about today's GOP.

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Today’s GOP - “it disappeared,” says Barnicle

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During this Morning Joe segment, Mike Barnicle, who grew up in a Gold Star house on a street where the flag flew every day, remembers his many trips to Normandy on this 80th anniversary of D-Day. And host Mika Brzezinski read from a Boston Globe column Mike wrote in 1994 to honor the fallen soldiers. "These are the heroes who all died young. They missed sunsets and baptisms. They went without 50 World Series and 50 New Year's Eves. They never stood at the door anxiously waiting for a daughter's first date to arrive or witnessed their kids' junior proms and college graduations. They never saw men landing on the moon or a fax machine. They were not allowed to walk on a beach with the girls they loved or hold the hands of grandchildren who would have asked about their great crusade. In our increasingly selfish country where everything and nearly everyone is part of some special interest, where defining any enemy or current threat to live or moral values is as difficult as peering through the murky fog that envelops this French coast, it is stunning to realize that these 4,410 and millions of others sailed to certain danger with no thought of conquest or profit. They came because they were asked and because they were needed."

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80th anniversary of D-Day

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the “anti-American” sentiment that arose as Republicans across the party’s political spectrum denounced former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts related to falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his bid for the White House in 2016. “On the left, on the progressive side or whatever, this is no reason for glee. This is no reason to be in the streets cheering and yelling. This is a reason for stop and think and maybe even get depressed over the reaction on the other side. The anti-Americanism that filled the air last night, from people like Marco Rubio, from people like Ted Cruz because as we indicated earlier, if there is no rule of law in this country, if they really believe the rule of law is rigged and corrupt...than there is no more America without a rule of law,” says Barnicle about the GOP defending former President Trump after his guilty verdicts.

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Anti-Americanism is in the air

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“Twelve average Americans sat in a room, and guess what? They didn't get information or evidence from TikTok or Instagram. They got evidence presented rationally by the prosecution in this case. And they made a decision that Donald J. Trump was guilty. And Donald J. Trump's reaction to the guilty verdict was, once again—he's already demeaned and destroyed much of our electoral process by saying it’s rigged and corrupt. And now he took on the rule of law. He took on the definition of justice itself by saying this verdict was corrupt, and it was rigged, and it’s a rigged system. Well, if he was correct in both his assertions, that the electoral process is rigged and corrupt, and that the judicial process is rigged and corrupt, then there is no more America. There is no more America,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with the panel and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin as they react to former President Trump being convicted on all 34 and felony counts in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn star. Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to be convicted of a felony crime.

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America hangs in the balance

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the new Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll that shows President Joe Biden has made significant gains against the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, during the past month in six of seven 2024 swing states. Barnicle attributes the gains in part to “the president of the United States Joseph R. Biden being out there, people seeing him, say, ‘oh, okay, fine, I know how old he is; but he’s pretty sharp.’ He knows what he’s doing. And they consider the weight of what he’s carrying when he goes to a small town in North Carolina. He’s coming in with the Gaza war going on, he’s coming in with the Ukrainian war going on, he’s coming in with the economy burping everyday one way or another trying to figure out which way we're going and which way we're going to be headed, and that's what people want to know. ‘Where are you going to take us?’ Joe Biden tells you where he wants to take this country. Donald Trump tells you when he is going to court next.” Join the conversation here.

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Biden on the road; Trump in court

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“There has been continued exposure to Donald Trump. The more exposure that Donald Trump has on TV, the attack that ...the Republicans continue to make against Joe Biden, is pretty much universally confined to one word – old: He’s old. And yet, you see Donald Trump on TV night after night at these rallies where he’s practically incoherent….Do you think, more and more voters, potential voters, are saying, ‘hmm, what about the other guy, though?,’” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Bloomberg politics editor Laura Davison about President Joe Biden who joins Morning Joe to discuss a new Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll that shows Biden has made significant gains against the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, during the past month in six of seven 2024 swing states.

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New polls shows Biden making significant gains against Trump

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, Pablo Torre and Mike Barnicle about the gambling and theft allegations surrounding Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter and close friend of Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, after at least $4.5 million in wire transfers were reportedly sent from Ohtani's bank account to a Southern California bookmaking operation that is under federal investigation. "Major League Baseball and every baseball fan should really be praying that the greatest star that has appeared in the Major League Baseball stage maybe since Babe Ruth, Ohtani, did not bet on any games. That's the hope here,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Major MLB gambling investigation underway

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Morning Joe's Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle talk about the famed Philadelphia Eagles player and big brother Jason Kelce having announced his retirement through an emotional farewell press conference that felt more like a family affair than a business decision, with his parents and younger brother, Kansas City Chiefs star tight end, Travis Kelce, sitting nearby. “The thing that struck me the most was the element of good parenting. Clearly, his parents and his brother's parents, they had a remarkable influence on these two guys,” says Barnicle about the Kelce brothers. Join the conversation here.

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‘Good parenting’ at center of Jason Kelce retirement

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between The Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Foer’s article entitled “The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending,” which explains how Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish. Foer writes and explains how “the Jewish vacation from history ended September 11th, 2001.”

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Crossroads of Crisis: The End of an Era for American Jews?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric toward immigrants and the media coverage of President Joe Biden as the two head into a likely rematch in November. “On Sunday, the New York Times had a front-page story about a poll that parts of it were devastating to the chances for Joe Biden to win re-election. On Monday, again, on the front page above the fold, they had another story about Joe Biden, referencing the poll, but again referencing Joe Biden's age. Why is it that they don't cover things that we just saw and heard—a man who is literally losing his mind in front of audiences coast to coast – his name is Donald J. Trump? Why is it that this is not covered in a similar fashion to the way Joe Biden's age is covered? Joe Biden knows how old he is, and Joe Biden does more in one hour, in a day, in the White House than Donald Trump has ever done in his presidency….I hate to criticize print media. I’m a print media guy, but this is out of control,” says Barnicle about the media coverage of President Biden this election season. Watch and join the conversation here.

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Media coverage of Biden and Trump

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“This is a Republican Party now committed to themselves, the same way their nominee, Donald Trump, is committed to himself….He suggested that it would be wonderful if the stock market crashed this year. So it would help him electorally. In other words, he would be applauding if people went broke, lost their homes, or whatever this year because it would enhance his opportunities to again become president of the United States. There is no more Republican Party. The Republican party of just recent memory, the Republican Party that you (Joe Scarborough) belonged to, that you ran for office under their flag, Joe, that party is long gone,” says Mike Barnicle about the Republican Party during this Morning Joe conversation about the state of the party as former President Donald Trump's push to kill a bipartisan immigration deal may now have derailed a major national security package, forcing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to suggest a new course of action and endangering aid to Ukraine and Israel in the process.

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The Republican Party “is long gone"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Joe Biden’s trip to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he will deliver a speech on democracy to mark the January 6th anniversary in what will resemble an unofficial campaign kickoff for his reelection bid. “Unless you concentrate on telling people and talking about democracy, we're soon going to end up losing a democracy. I mean, this is a very depressing state that we're in as a country when you think about it….The year ahead is going to be really, really demanding of us as citizens, to take a look at what's going to happen. The President of the United States every day has the job of doing many, many things….And he’s got to ask America really, not in these words, but he’s going to ask America: ‘What do you want to risk going forward.’ Listen to Donald Trump, listen to Joe Biden, what are you willing to risk with your vote?” asks Barnicle as we embark on this 2024 presidential election year.

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