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80th anniversary of D-Day

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 di...
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Each poll is like a sunset

“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 elec...
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Antisemitism is a disease

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, r...
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Happy Birthday, Mike!

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, ...
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Sports lessons as life lessons

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 ...
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The “gun virus” that cripples America

“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 ...
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Elementary school children in peril

“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, ‘o...
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Barnicle: There’s a poison in our system as a...

“We live in an age of accelerated pace of events. Something happens, and it’s forgotten two or three days from now. Something horrific could be forgotten in two or three days, and that takes our attention span as a people, as a culture, as a nation, way, way down. People don’t have the attention span that we used to have. So, ...
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Barnicle: “Joe Biden’s Grief Is the DNA...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast titled “Joe Biden’s Grief Is the DNA of His Humanity,” Mike shares a couple of personal stories as examples of how Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden connects with people, especially in times of loss, when the cameras aren’t rolling and reporters aren’t taking n...
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Mike Barnicle for The Daily Beast

Check out veteran columnist Mike Barnicle’s latest commentary for The Daily Beast in which he dissects and explains President Donald Trump’s “attempt to scare the country” into voting for him during the 2020 Republican National Convention, which was “built around demonization, defining danger in almost clear racial terms, deny...
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Barnicle: “Trump’s Failures Are Erasing the M...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, “Trump’s Failures Are Erasing the Memory of American Greatness,” veteran columnist and MSNBC Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle argues that President Donald Trump’s inability to grasp “loss” has obscured the recollection of a better America and instead has led the country into a dire situation ...
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For The Daily Beast: Teachers Belong in Class...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle, son of a teacher, weighs in on the national debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry firearms in the classroom. “Teachers belong in classrooms, teaching. Not in coffins, another casualty of a political culture and a Congress so lacking in courage and character that it...
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For The Daily Beast: President’s Day 2018: &#...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Morning Joe regular Mike Barnicle writes about the “increasingly deranged” tweets of President Donald Trump and a country let down by the inaction of the country’s chief executive. “This is the first time across all the dust-covered years of our history, centuries filled with courage and hon...
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For The Daily Beast: The Boston Neighborhood ...

“Many have asked and wondered how or why such an exceptional guy like General Kelly would take the task of trying to turn the absurdly incompetent, chaotic Trump presidency into a functioning vehicle. And the answer is simple and obvious: Because he loves this country and does not want to have it fail or falter at the gate of a future fil...
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Lincoln residents to be honored at Boston gal...

Journalist and MSNBC commentator Mike Barnicle and his wife Anne Finucane, Bank of America Vice Chairman, will be honored by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) with its 8th annual Tim Russert Award at the Medicine That Matters Gala on Monday, May 15, at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel. BHCHP President Jim O’Connel...
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For The Daily Beast: A Marine, Gone But Not F...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, veteran journalist Mike Barnicle tells the story of Harry K. Tye, a U.S. Marine finally buried this week at Arlington National Cemetery after he was killed in a war – 74 years ago. “On the night that Pfc. Harry Tye was buried, the President of the United States gathered more than a few Senat...
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For The Daily Beast: Jimmy Breslin, the Peopl...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle pays tribute to legendary New York City columnist Jimmy Breslin, who died Friday at the age of 88. “He stood for the vulnerable and used the voice contained in his talent to call out the political people and anyone else who abused or ignored the poor, the disenfranchised, anyon...
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How I Got Here

The latest episode of How I Got Here features award-winning journalist and Morning Joe regular Mike Barnicle talking to the show’s creators, his son Tim Barnicle and Harry Hill, sharing stories from his youth in Fitchburg to his days in Washington D.C., his years as a celebrated newspaper columnist for The Boston Globe and much more...
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For the Daily Beast: The Dead Patriots and th...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle paints a haunting picture of the harsh, cold reality of war for fallen soldiers and their families – buried in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery — to heed a message to President Donald Trump about the significance and responsibility that now rests upon his shoulders as he ful...
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2017 In three words

As 2016 is almost a wrap, the Morning Joe team and frequent guests gave their take on “2017 In three words.” Hear how Mike Barnicle, Willie Geist, Elise Jordan, Donny Deutsch, Mark Halperin, Arianna Huffington, the Rev. Al Sharpton, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, and others summed up what may lie ahead.
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Mike Barnicle remembers astronaut John Glenn&...

In memorializing astronaut John Glenn and highlighting his longtime friendship with his military buddy, baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, Morning Joe senior contributor Mike Barnicle explains: “Ted Williams always said that if he had not been the greatest hitter who ever lived, he would have stayed in the Marine Corps and been the grea...
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For The Daily Beast: Joe Biden—the Closer—Is ...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle writes about his experience as he accompanied Vice President Joe Biden to a rally in Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania. “He is a joyful, hands-on, shoulder-punching, hugging, smiling guy whose idea of a great day is a crowd, an event, a few laughs, and ...
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For the Daily Beast: Take This Quiz Before Yo...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, MSNBC senior columnist Mike Barnicle asks readers to take a look at the attributes they would want to see in the next president — before they cast their vote. “I don’t want anyone rushing into the polling booth without thinking about the choice,” writes Barnicle. He provides a li...
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For The Daily Beast: I Asked Gary Johnson Abo...

With all the press and social media coverage that followed Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson not being able to answer Mike Barnicle’s question on Morning Joe about Aleppo, Mike weighs in on the deeper meaning of the question, putting it into context, and explaining its overarching significance for all the preside...
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For The Daily Beast: John Timoney: A Policema...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle writes about the extraordinary life of his friend and top cop John Timoney, an Irish immigrant who curbed crime as Chief of the New York Police Department, Philadelphia Police Commissioner and most recently Miami Police Department Chief. Barnicle juxtaposes Timoney’s life and l...
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For The Daily Beast: Does Donald Trump Have a...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike writes about Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump’s attack on the family of Army Captain Humayun Khan, killed in Iraq in 2004 at the age of 27. Mike writes: “Here in the middle of an American summer one of the candidates to become Commander in Chief has proven with word...
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For The Daily Beast: Donald Trump to America:...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle writes of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump: “He is a Hall of Fame salesman, always pushing the perfect product, the only item that exists in his mind: himself. He views himself as the answer to everything that ails or angers us. Any ill at all, he tells us, will be dea...
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For The Daily Beast: In Dallas, Our President...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike highlights President Obama’s moving speech in Dallas “because of gunshots in the night, gunshots fired by a racist, gunshots that killed five police officers and broke another piece of a nation’s troubled heart. “If you heard him, watched him, listened – really listened – yo...
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For The Daily Beast: The Real Reason We Will ...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle weighs in on the amazing life of the late, great Muhammad Ali and fondly recalls one day 36 years ago, when he spent a day with The Greatest Of All Time. “Muhammad Ali is dead. Who he was and is, a complete man in full, complicated, courageous, charming, multi-dimensional, rema...
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THROUGH HISTORY WITH STYLE

THE BOSTON GLOBE BY MIKE BARNICLE THROUGH HISTORY WITH STYLE Jun 9, 1980 Ali had a cold. It had kept him up most of the night and now, just past 7 on Saturday morning, he was sitting in the kitchen of his friend, George Butler, in Marblehead, holding a bottle of pills in the palm of his hand. “One every 12 hours,” he mumbled. ...
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For The Daily Beast: America Is Still a Gift ...

On this Memorial Day, Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast suggests cutting through the toxicity clogging our collective culture to remember those who died giving back to our country, including his own uncle – the one he never knew – Lt. Gerald J. Barnicle: “Killed in action… Battle of MidwayR...
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For The Daily Beast: The Timeless Beauty of B...

In his latest column for the Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle celebrates Major League Baseball’s opening day and reflects upon the enduring allure of the sport. “That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never s...
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For The Daily Beast: What Bobby Kennedy Would...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle resurrects a prescient message delivered by Bobby Kennedy to an angry America in 1968 — one that serves as a much needed distinction and reminder of what true leadership and greatness really mean in a time of increasing violent tensions, currently at campaign rallies for Republ...
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For The Daily Beast: The Two Americas Behind ...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle writes about the not-so-surprising success of presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders, who are appealing to the prevailing mood of people living in small towns, medium size cities and rural enclaves across America, who have been abandoned or marginalized by the ...
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For The Daily Beast: The Man Who Will Not Bow...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle writes about his first-hand experience during South Carolina’s Republican primary and the rage and despair being fed to voters by most presidential candidates. “Listening to some of the Republican candidates for President is like eavesdropping on men trying to earn their letter sweat...
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For The Daily Beast: They Vote for Trump and ...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle boils down his recent experiences in New Hampshire and highlights the palpable similarities between the supporters of last night’s primary winners, Donald J. Trump and Bernie Sanders. “Both, in their own way, speak to the volatility rumbling beneath the surface of daily l...
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For The Daily Beast: Christie on Rubio: ̵...

Ahead of the presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast takes a look at the Republican governors on the ballot—Ohio Governor John Kasich, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush—and how their office may help them respond better to voter concerns. R...
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For The Daily Beast: Iowa’s History of Welcom...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle profiles a pocket of diversity in Des Moines, Iowa, leading up to today’s caucuses there. “For weeks now and nearly every day as people finally begin to vote, the one common thread that has united Republicans has been the fear that immigrants are destroying the country, standing in t...
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For The Daily Beast: Bernie Mania is Real and...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle takes a look at a struggling America—from the dwindling middle class comprised of families living paycheck-to-paycheck to the marginalized residents of Flint, Michigan, who don’t have safe water to drink—and the people finding hope in the presidential campaign of a 74-year-old ...
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Trent Lott & Tom Daschle discuss “...

This Thursday, at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate in Boston, don’t miss Mike Barnicle in conversation with Senator Trent Lott and Senator Tom Daschle. Click here to RSVP: https://bit.ly/1UatHc8
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For The Daily Beast: Requiem for a Union Boss...

In Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast, he writes about the beloved Boston firefighter and union leader Mike Mullane, who died recently at age 68. Mullane was the longest serving member of the International Association of Fire Fighters. “For more than a decade now, unions in America have been under a more sustain...
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For The Daily Beast: My Christmas Wish: Stop ...

In the most recent column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle hopes that the upcoming holiday serves as a much needed reprieve from the cartoonish, yet dangerous, lowest-denominator presidential campaigns of fear that have consumed American politics this year. “Thankfully, it’s Christmas Week, and the fires of their ambition will be ...
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For The Daily Beast: The Only Thing They’re S...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle examines the current culture of fear that has permeated our everyday lives and the people who are pushing it. “We have ‘a clockwork orange’ parade of candidates seeking to capitalize on the legitimate worry many have about where the world is headed. In the days since a matched ...
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For The Daily Beast: Ground Zero For Election...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike takes a close look at a serious national problem that is overwhelming the small state of New Hampshire—cheap heroin. “The issue of overdoses, death, the availability of heroin and its impact has created a ripple effect on the presidential primary campaign. The immediacy of a needle and a $10 ...
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For The Daily Beast: Will Syria Be Obama̵...

In today’s column for The Daily Beast, Mike ponders whether President Barak Obama’s recent decision to send special forces into Syria will wind up being a lot like the mistake made 50 years ago in another conflict in a far off land. Read the column here. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/01/will-syria-be-obama-s-v...
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For The Daily Beast: Hillary Clinton, Trey Go...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike shines the spotlight on the true consequences of failed politics and war—most recently personified by the death of Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, a 39-year-old, highly decorated Army veteran of 14 deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. “It is an old story. Political people give speeches and espouse posit...
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For The Daily Beast: Ben Carson Gives New Mea...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle applies some movie analogies to the latest absurd remarks made by Dr. Ben Carson, the perplexingly popular Republican presidential candidate. “His supporters list several reasons why they would consider voting for him: ‘He seems like a nice man. He speaks softly. He is a ...
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Mike Barnicle’s Advice To Hillary’s Suffering...

Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle tells Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton how to improve her campaign. Read his recommendation here in The Daily Caller. https://dailycaller.com/2015/09/15/mike-barnicles-advice-to-hillarys-suffering-campaign-clean-house-video/#ixzz3lvG0gWPq
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For The Daily Beast: What Will Joe Biden Do?

“It seemed like the welcome mat to 2016 was rolled out for the grieving Vice President this week. Will he go for it?,” ponders Mike Barnicle in his latest column for The Daily Beast. Following a moving and insightful interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” this week, Barnicle continues to cover the topic of whether o...
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For The Daily Beast: As Thousands Drown Tryin...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle reflects on the current immigration crisis across the Mediterranean and Europe—embodied by the recent image of a three-year old boy from Syria lying dead on the beach—and questions whether the U.S. could still be considered a guiding light for the most persecuted and endangered peopl...
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For The Daily Beast: When Will We Take Violen...

In his most recent column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle reflects on violence across this country—from this week’s shocking murders of journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward during a live morning newscast to the unending homicides witnessed in America’s harshest neighborhoods every day, year after year. “There are blocks upon c...
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For The Daily Beast: Sorry Folks, Donald Trum...

In the latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike explains Donald J. Trump’s familiarity, contrast with fellow candidates, and accessibility with voters, all of which continue to fuel his campaign for President of the United States. “Donald’s success isn’t that much of a mystery. He says a lot of outrageous things along with some truly absur...
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For The Daily Beast: Authentic Biden Vs. Hill...

Amid new speculation that Vice President Joe Biden will make another run for the presidency, Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast takes a close look at VP Biden’s character—one forged by tragedy, loss, family, and faith—and contrasts it with that of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “He is, perhaps, the lea...
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For The Daily Beast: Our Cynical Politicians ...

In Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast, he describes the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 and the jubilant, all-too-rare example it provides of seeing the world coming together for a common good. Mike reminds us that the greatest disability is fear: “…there were the Iraqis and the Americans, the French, an...
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For The Daily Beast: Trump Awakens Kerry’s Vi...

In Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast, he shines a spotlight on Secretary of State John Kerry’s outrage over Donald J. Trump‘s charge that Senator John McCain is not a war hero. Quoting a conversation with Kerry, Mike writes: “John and I have some serious differences on a lot of things but he is nothing ot...
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For The Daily Beast: The Heroes And Villains ...

In Mike Barnicle’s latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike writes of riding the subway train in New York City: “In addition to being the quickest way to travel to different neighborhoods, (it) is also the ultimate democracy,” Mike also points out the dangers faced by subway passengers on any given moment and the uncertainty of...
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For The Daily Beast: Faith and Grace in the F...

For The Daily Beast today, Mike Barnicle references the forgiveness offered by Nadine Collier to the South Carolina church shooter who took the life of her mother. He writes, “It is easier in many places to get a gun or an assault rifle than it is to obtain a credit card or a driver’s license. And it is not much of a problem to get ...
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For The Daily Beast: He’s the Vice President,...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle captures the spirit in which many mourners came out to support Vice President Joe Biden and his family as they grieve the loss of son Beau Biden. “He is a family man who knows what it’s like to lose something you love in life. I’ve always loved him. He’s one of us. He’s a norma...
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For The Daily Beast: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: A Dea...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle juxtaposes the lives and death sentences of Pfc. John Hart, 20, killed outside Baghdad, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the now convicted and sentenced Boston Marathon bomber. Unfortunately, it will be Tsarnaev’s name in the news over the next few years, when our focus should be on reme...
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For The Daily Beast: When Marilyn Mosby’s Cou...

Writing for The Daily Beast, Mike tells us more about Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, who Friday announced that six Baltimore police officers would face felony charges in the death of Freddie Gray. The young lawyer’s own cousin, Diron Spence, was gunned down more than 20 years ago on the street in Boston. Spence and Gray, both y...
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For The Daily Beast: The GOP Clown Show’s Alt...

Writing for The Daily Beast from Nashua, New Hampshire, Mike juxtaposes the priorities of the GOP presidential hopefuls in town for the Republican Leadership Summit with those of some local residents hopeful for a more optimistic future. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/19/the-gop-clown-show-s-alternate-reality-in-new-hampsh...
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For The Daily Beast: Why Is The GOP So Angry ...

For The Daily Beast, this Easter Mike ponders why so many Republicans are hopping mad. “The fury of some like Ted Cruz is understandable. It’s fueled by his massive ego and outsized ambition along with his personal belief that he is so smart and the rest of us are so pedestrian that he can manipulate opinion to win the Republican no...
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For The Daily Beast: A Boston Cop Shooting an...

For The Daily Beast, Mike weighs in on the tragic shooting of a decorated Boston Police Department (Official) officer this weekend by a career criminal and how the gunfight is viewed by bystanders, despite the camera that captured it all. “The truth today is that one young police officer, brave and without fear, fights for his life ...
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For The Daily Beast: Watching MLK from Vietna...

In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike tells the moving story of one marine who knows all too well the long road President Barack Obama was referring to in his speech yesterday marking the the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/08/watching-mlk-from-vietnam-s-rice-pad...
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For The Daily Beast: How We Know Boehner Does...

From the battle to fund the Department of Homeland Security to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech and the far-right future of the Republican party, Mike Barnicle tries to make sense of the inner turmoil swarming around Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH). “Boehner isn’t crazy. He’s just scared and powerless. He’s frightened [House Rep...
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For The Daily Beast: Rudy Giuliani’s Raging B...

Mike’s latest article for The Daily Beast. He writes about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his recent self-inflicted knock out. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/22/rudy-giuliani-s-raging-bull.html
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For The Daily Beast: Kayla Mueller: The Best ...

The 26-year-old aid worker taken by ISIS left Arizona to help a people suffering through civil war. Now, her courage should remind us of all the good we’re still capable of. The 26-year-old aid worker taken by ISIS left Arizona to help a people suffering through civil war. Now, her courage should remind us of all the good we’re still capa...
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For The Daily Beast: What ‘American Sni...

Lost in the right/left debate over the new Clint Eastwood film is how few Americans fought this century’s wars, and how the suffering of their families has often gone unnoticed. During the course of any normal day I usually pay more attention to assembling a grocery list than I do to reading movie reviews, although there are a more than a...
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For The Daily Beast: Meet Cardinal Raymond Bu...

Pope Francis demoted the reactionary Burke, but that hasn’t stopped him popping off about how the Church panders to radical feminism. Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school. Until Pope Fr...
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For The Daily Beast: Extremism Is Our Untreat...

It all started back in November 1979. We couldn’t do much about extremism then, and it seems we can do even less now. By early November 1979, America was exhausted. The ever-shrinking president, Jimmy Carter, had been attacked by a rabbit while running and that July had taken to the television to tell us the country was suffering from a b...
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For The Daily Beast: Mario Cuomo, Always Movi...

His ambition for himself wasn’t great enough (he should have run!), but his ambition for America was as noble as a politician’s could be. I looked up to Mario Cuomo the first time I ever met him. He was standing in the batter’s box at Joe DiMaggio Park in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on the July morning of the day he was ...
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Mike Barnicle tells the story of the Bedford ...

On Morning Joe, marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Mike Barnicle tells the story of the Bedford Boys, 19 young soldiers from a small Virginia town who lost their lives in the battle that spelled the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Third Reich.
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For The Daily Beast: Any Outrage Out There fo...

Will those who protested Eric Garner’s death rush to the side of Rafael Ramos’ two sons, or Wenjian Liu’s widow, married only two months? Now, in New York City, where tourists are often surprised by the relative sense of safety on streets and subways, it is Officer Rafael Ramos, 40 years old, and his partner, Wenjian Liu, 32, who cannot b...
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For The Daily Beast: Dick Cheney’s Creepy Tor...

A new movie and a visit to the 9/11 memorial remind us what’s at stake when America doesn’t live up to its ideals. On a Saturday buffeted by a cold December wind, thousands strolled with somber step through one of New York City’s two historic cathedrals. Outside, hundreds more waited patiently in a long line to enter; once inside, their v...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

For The Daily Beast: Human Moments at the Eri...

The story of a mother, her son, the police who protected them, and the peaceful protest that brought them all together. Alice Domingues came through the big crowd gathered last Wednesday night at New York City’s Columbus Circle, a container of Starbuck’s hot chocolate in her right hand as she held her son Micah’s hand even more firmly wit...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

For The Daily Beast: Freedom From Fear for Dr...

Meet the children at a small Catholic school in Massachusetts who will directly benefit from President Obama’s executive order. So here they were, some of the people Barack Obama was telling the country about Thursday night, seated, smiling, clearly happy, and outfitted splendidly in the first-grade classroom at Lawrence Catholic Academy,...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

For The Atlantic: Postcard From New Hampshire...

Riding around Manchester with Lou D’Allesandro as he rounds up votes and frets over Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s chances against Scott Brown MANCHESTER, N.H.—Here he is in his campaign headquarters, the front seat of his Toyota Camry, driving along downtown Elm Street, past banks reluctant to lend, storefronts somewhat empty, and ...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

‘The Glove’ narrated by Robert Re...

Inspired by an essay by Mike Barnicle. Produced by his sons Nick Barnicle, Colin Barnicle and colleague Jeff Siegel. Narrated by Robert Redford. A winning combination to commemorate the 4th of July holiday only on ESPN.
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

IN A SPECIAL MORNING JOE PROGRAM ON D-DAY: A ...

In a special Morning Joe program on D-Day: A Celebration of Heroes, Mike speaks with 94-year-old veteran Lawrence Brannon from Morristown, TN, whose days have been forever shaped by what happened in Normandy seven decades ago. “It was…hell,” says Brannon. “I lived 1,000 years that day.” Adds Mike: “Those who died in Europe ser...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

MIKE JOINED ESPN RADIO’S THE SPORTING LIFE TO...

Mike joined ESPN Radio’s The Sporting Life to reflect upon the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. “There are going to be a lot of poignant moments at the conclusion of this year’s Marathon. Obviously many people will be thinking about those who died…but more specifically [about] the youngest…of the victims. Martin...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

A Year After Bombings, Boston Comes Back R...

> This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I’m Scott Simon. Boston Strong has become an American phrase over the past year after bombs exploded at the finish line of last year’s Boston Marathon. Three people were killed – Krystle Marie Campbell, who was 29, Lu Lingzi, a graduate student from China, and Martin William Richa...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

The Timeless Beauty of Baseball

Put on a glove, watch a game, and the years fall away, time stands still, and the joy of baseball reminds you again of life’s eternal sweetness. It could be in a bottom bureau drawer beneath some old tee shirts, sweat pants that no longer fit or laundered dress shirts purchased during the first Reagan administration and not worn since the...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

BARNICLE BROTHERS’ ONE FUND CHARITY VID...

By Jason Mastrodonato / MLB.com BOSTON — Brothers Colin and Nick Barnicle have long been in the field of video production, where they’ve found plenty of success and gratification, including “Down the Line,” a behind-the-scenes documentary on Boston’s Fenway Park released in 2011. So when the tragic bombings t...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

IRAQ WAR AT 10

Early Wednesday, the day after the nation paused to remember a war that began exactly a decade ago, the grass and ground in Arlington National Cemetery was still soft as a sponge from the rain that fell Monday evening. As always, it was quiet as a cathedral with the only noise billowing from passenger jets that leaned into the cloudless s...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

A PROMISE TO THE CHILDREN OF NEWTOWN

Now we witness a regiment of the wounded, the survivors, burying a whole company of the young dead in a small New England town filled with a grief that simply cannot be measured. Monday’s dead babies were Jack Pinto and Noah Pozner, both 6 years old. Tuesday’s funerals saw James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos, again, only 6, their small coffi...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

ONE DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN: BEN SKLAVER’S STORY...

Last week, Laura and Gary Sklaver buried their oldest boy, Ben, who was 32 when killed by a suicide bomber in the remote village of Murcheh in the distant land of Afghanistan. Ben was a captain in the U.S. Army. Now he has become one of 804 Americans, 37 from Connecticut, to lose their lives in an expanding war that belongs mostly to the ...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

Tito and Theo – Grantland

Tito Francona is tired. He is sitting at his desk in the manager’s office located at the far end of a small locker room in a ballpark — Fenway Park — approaching its 100th birthday. He is wearing white uniform pants, a red hot-top and black spike-less athletic shoes, a Red Sox cap on his hairless head. And he is staring at a cluster...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

The Afghan War Through a Marine Mother’s Eyes...

Mélida Arredondo, of Roslindale, Mass., center, holds boots worn by her son, Marine Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, as she joins demonstrators in Boston Dec. 2 in opposition to President Obama’s plan to commit an additional 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan. Josh Reynolds / AP Nearly everyth...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

Barnicle on Kennedy: Of Memory and the Sea – ...

Here was Ted Kennedy, 74-year-old son, brother, father, husband, Senator, living history, American legend. He was sitting on a wicker chair on the front porch of the seaside home that held so much of his life within its walls. He was wearing a dark blue blazer and a pale blue shirt. He was tieless and tanned on a spectacular October morni...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

Boston getting used to idea of beating New Yo...

How did this happen? Was there a specific date, a single event that erased the burden of history and allowed the weight of municipal inferiority to be lifted from the shoulders of every fan in New England who has been witness to decades of humiliation delivered by New York teams? Think about it. Saturday, the Patriots play the Giants at e...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

When murder’s not enough; Grim details just w...

  This time, homicide came to a quiet cul-de-sac in a peaceful suburb, apparently driven by a growing wave of debt built on delusion that collapsed into a despair so deranged that the only escape route Neil Entwistle could allegedly think of was to grab a gun and kill his wife and 9-month-old daughter as both slept in a rented home o...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

A Bit of Humor Goes A Long Way – Boston Globe...

BELFAST — It is a balmy, lemon-yellow evening and I am standing outside a large glass and cement structure called Waterfront Hall, completed last year along the River Lagan in Belfast where people have the capacity to loathe a stranger based solely on beliefs or a baptism. Community input here means a funeral or a fire, yet it occurs to m...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

Getting a fix on the real thing – Boston Glob...

  Like most major American cities, Boston is like a layer cake. Some elements are as obvious to the eye as frosting while others remain obscured by simple geography. Yesterday, for example, a gray Monday, if you walked from the Public Garden to Kenmore Square and back along Newbury Street you could easily think the city was filled by...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

Silent Dreams Coming True – Boston Globe

  Hong’s incredible journey began on the day 11 years ago when he sat confined to the dust of his fishing village near Can Tho in Vietnam and suddenly heard someone mention America. Of course, Hong did not actually hear what the person was saying because he has been deaf since birth. But he sure did understand the primitive sign lang...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

Firefighters’ heroic effort in blaze that cla...

“I was driving the chief,” Walter Cobe was saying. “We got there just as Engine 48 pulled up. It was maybe three or four minutes after the alarm was sounded. I jumped out of the car and one of the people standing outside said there was kids still inside so I went right up the ladder.”     Walter Cobe is 5...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

A HERO IS FOREVER

When the old man swung the imaginary bat through the fresh air of a clear, sunlit afternoon, the weight and dust of all the years fell away like marbles toppling off the edge of a three-legged table. Adults clapped. Little kids hung from the rail and sat atop a parent’s shoulder. Some men and women, of a certain age, and with a cert...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

We died for the 4th of July – Boston Globe

  It’s the Fourth of July weekend. A time when much of America marches and sings and stops to do all sorts of different things for all kinds of reasons. Where are you today? At the beach? On the front step? Down the Cape? Up in Vermont? Just sitting around the house hoping the sun will clear that clutter of clouds and provide you wit...
Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

The clock takes a holiday at Fenway – Boston ...

  Baseball is a game of memory, and it returns tomorrow to a place where grass has not yet given way to a carpet. It comes home to a green haven filled with reminders of both heartbreak and happiness, a ballyard called Fenway Park where the cargo of past athletic time refuses to yield to sports’ current themes of greed and arrogance....
 
 
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Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin on restoring optimism to the U.S.

“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.

Barnicle: “Momentum is with her”

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.

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

“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.

Trump rally comedian

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.

An amazing display of total economic ignorance

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.”

The Mets: “Electricity on the sidewalks”

“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.

Reporting on the campaign: “It’s damaging”

“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.

Barnicle on Walz: “He’s relatable”

“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.’

Remembering Pete Rose

“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.

Trump interference case front and center

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.

What does “victory” mean for Ukraine?

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.

A new definition for “Profile in Courage”

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.

“Where is the threat level today?”

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.

Trump: The Lucky Loser explained

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.

Trump indicted “again”

“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.

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

“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.

Election 2024: Yesterday vs. tomorrow

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.

The sea change in American politics

“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.

Watching the coach

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.

Election workers must be safe for democracy to function

“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.