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Watch this Morning Joe panel conversation with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on a wide range of topics, one being illegal immigration. “Do you see anything wrong with sending people back to their country of origin who are here illegally?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Watch the conversation here. Only on MSNBC.

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Gov. Whitmer joins Morning Joe

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“I’m talking about the President of the United States. All he wants is the attention. ‘Look at me, look at me. Don't – shiny object over there, no, no, back here.’ And he does it multiple times a day incredibly successfully,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about President Trump during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about the state of immigrant crossings along the southern border of the United States. Watch the segment here.

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Barnicle on POTUS: “Look at me, look at me"

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“The fact that President Biden and his wife, Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton, former President Bush and his wife Laura, and former President Barack Obama all sat in the same row alongside each other and witnessed what everyone witnessed yesterday was perhaps the one true ring of democracy that we saw yesterday—the one true ring of civility,” said Morning Joe contributor and veteran journalist Mike Barnicle during this panel discussion about President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. "The other thing that was shocking to me – maybe I’m the only one – was the absolute lack of grace and graciousness in President Trump's speech, especially when he announced to the crowd about the hostages, three hostages being released. The crowd erupts in applause; he never even looks at President Biden, who invited Trump's representatives to join in the talks to free the hostages. Never, never once looked at him when he uttered that, never once thanked him for his cooperation, or thanked him for allowing the two sides, the Trump people and the Biden people, to pursue the release of the hostages. Not once. That was the most shocking part."

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Trump’s "lack of grace and graciousness"

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"Ed, I don't think anyone would quibble with what you wrote today in your assessment of the Biden presidency; but that's today. It's a snapshot. It's not history. Don't you think that history's view of Joe Biden is going to be a little bit different than your view of Joe Biden in today's piece that you've written, in the sense that it's going to take into account Joe Biden's role in keeping NATO together, in keeping Ukraine alive, in the day to day tug of war match that he's had with Bibi Netanyahu for a year and a half, and most importantly, the economic underpinnings of legislation that he passed on a bipartisan basis in the first 18 months of his presidency that are going to transform many middle class cities and towns in this country over a longer period of time? Not today, not yet, but within 2 or 3 years, AI and all of the chip manufacturing that's going to happen in this country is going to transform and help a lot of American families,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Financial Times US national editor Edward Luce, who joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest piece titled “Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call,” which argues hubris kept Biden too long in the presidential race and he will be remembered chiefly for easing Donald Trump’s return. Hear Luce’s response here.

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President Biden’s legacy

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“Yesterday's hearing was one of the most depressing aspects of politics in Washington that I have witnessed in a long, long time,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the tense confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, after a report that the FBI background check on Hegseth does not include interviews with Hegseth’s ex-wives or the woman who accused him of sexual assault in a California hotel room in 2017. "Sitting there watching Pete Hegseth take questions from both sides—all I could think of was that most of the panel, both Republicans and Democrats, apparently have never seen the full FBI report….I’m also thinking that the principal client of the FBI was the Trump transition committee, which is shocking because the principal client of the FBI ought to be and is the American taxpayers, you and me, all of us here; but no, not in this case."

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Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing: “depressing"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Peter Baker’s New York Times article, “Trump Sees the U.S. as a ‘Disaster.’ The Numbers Tell a Different Story,” which examines how President Joe Biden is bequeathing President-elect Donald Trump a nation that by many metrics is in good shape, even if voters remain skeptical. "Facts do matter and they matter to everyone’s life in America,” says Barnicle. "Joe Biden can stand on his legislative record. The Republicans have that record now. They are standing on it in terms of the economy. The strongest economy in the world. If it slips, if it slips, it's on them,” says Barnicle about President-elect Trump and the GOP.

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Facts do matter

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss a New York Times op-ed that argues against Senate Republicans suggesting the terrorist attack in New Orleans has increased the urgency to approve Donald Trump’s choices for top national security positions. “Their proposed picks have nothing to do with solving what happened in New Orleans….It has to do with the mind of the killer….It has to do with tracking whatever incident set him off on the path that brought him to Bourbon Street the other night….This crime builds up in the mind, the human mind. What triggered it? What happened to this man? When did it happen? Did it have to do with ISIS? Did it have to do with his travels? Did it have to do with his family? All of those things are separate and apart from whoever is appointed to be the next attorney general or the next national intelligence person in the White House or the next FBI director. All of those things are separate and apart from it. It’s an age-old situation. It requires expertise. It requires time and it requires patience,” says Barnicle about the terror attack in New Orleans where at least fourteen people were killed and dozens injured when the man plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in a pickup truck.

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The Mind of a Killer Requires Investigation

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation among host Jonathan Lemire, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and film director Ibrahim Nash’at about his new documentary “Hollywoodgate,” which looks at the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. "Do you think there is any hope for a civilized version of Afghanistan led by the Taliban?,” asks Barnicle. Hear Nash’at’s answer here.

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What’s next for Afghanistan

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"America is about the future. It’s not about the past. It’s about the future. (Democrats) have to address the future in solid, sensible ways that are meaningful—from the price of gas, to the price of eggs, to the price of a college education. Talk about the things that impact people’s lives—that’s it,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe discussion about the future of the Democratic Party with Joe Scarborough, Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Democratic strategist James Carville and Jonathan Lemire. Watch the whole conversation here.

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The Future of the Democratic Party

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