Mike Barnicle

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and NBC News medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta about the Environmental Protection Agency moving to revoke its long-standing finding that greenhouse gases harm human health and roll back vehicle emission standards, setting off what it describes as the biggest deregulatory action in American history. Learn how this will impact everyone, especially those with asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

“Well, it’s great theater that we just saw: Cory Booker, a good guy, standing up and yelling on the floor of the United States Senate. What I don’t understand is: He’s yelling at two other Democrats. The Democrats have enough problems. They have enough problems in this country defining themselves to people, making sure that people know they are alive. They are interested in your life. They are interested in you, solving your problems,” says Morning Joe contributor and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough and Claire McCaskill as they react to the Senate floor having devolved into an intense clash between Democrats when Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey emphatically objected to unanimously passing a bipartisan package of police funding bills.

“Mr. Mayor, there are many elements of this tragedy yesterday that have a ripple effect that people are going to be feeling for a long, long time. For me, one of the most critical aspects of it is the fact that, Didarul Islam, the police officer killed yesterday left two little boys, and his wife is pregnant with their third child, and he’s an immigrant from Bangladesh. The New York City Police Department is filled with immigrant police officers. Can you tell us…what’s the composition of the police department? How many languages, different languages, are spoken by members of the New York Police Department for translation, things like that?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of New York City Mayor Eric Adams who joins Morning Joe to honor 36-year-old police officer Didarul Islam, the first Bangladeshi to die in the line of NYPD duty, after a gunman opened fire inside a high-rise corporate building in the heart of Manhattan, killing Islam and three other people. Watch their conversation here.

Watch this Morning Joe segment with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, Willie Geist and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, founder of Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, who joins to discuss an article he co-authored for the New Republic entitled, “The ‘Tiffany Network’ Shatters as Paramount-CBS Sells Its Soul Cheap. “What happens to the soul of a network when you strip it—the way they’re stripping it down apparently—in the news department?” asks Barnicle of Sonnenfeld following recent reports indicating that the Federal Communications Commission approved the merger between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, but with the condition that Paramount, which owns CBS, must appoint a “bias monitor.”

“A lot of media people are afraid of Donald Trump—afraid of his retaliatory powers, afraid of what he might say or do about their product, so he’s made a lot of money….The state of the media today is so much different than it was just a mere decade ago, and certainly vastly different than it was at its inception, its modern inception. We’re a long ways from John Chancellor and Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite. We’re a long ways from networks that were the only three things that people saw on TV. It’s so spread out today. There’s so much, when you say the word media today, a lot of different people have a different version of what the media is to them. Some people think, a lot of people think, the media is their phone. You know, if you’ve been in the business a long time, it’s shocking what has happened to the concept of media in this country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as he joins Way Too Early with Ali Vitali to discuss the latest Trump news.

“What we just saw a clip of is the sitting president of the United States of America talking about one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, and using the word treason. That is so far beyond the pale—that unfortunately in the shocking, tornado-like events that happen each and every day in the news business—people might be immune to it, it might over their heads. But a sitting president of the United States using the word treason—treason, look up the definition—about another president of the United States is beyond shocking,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire about President Donald Trump today accusing former President Barack Obama of treason, claiming the former president plotted to sabotage Trump’s first presidency by linking him to alleged Russian election meddling.

Tim Barnicle, PhD, author of the Substack “American Times,” joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest article titled “Citizen Stern” which explores how shock jock Howard Stern’s run for governor of New York in 1994 served as a precursor for the new era of politics. “I understand that you grew up in a house where there were always printed newspapers around? Is that like, so old that I’m making myself even older than I am?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of his son, Tim. “What’s the story about the way to get to authenticity today for candidates?” Hear Tim’s answer and watch the conversation here. Only on MSNBC.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, the Atlantic’s Peter Wehner and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on President Donald Trump’s latest flip-flop on his approach to the war between Russia and Ukraine, after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a shipment of U.S. weapons headed to help Ukraine over what U.S. officials said were concerns about its own low stockpiles.

“It’s interesting that the BRIC nations meeting in South America this week, apparently according to the Wall Street Journal and other news reports, are now talking amongst themselves, ‘Well, let’s just trade with each other and let the American situation settle down. We’ll see what President Trump does eventually with the tariffs, but let’s just keep business going and flowing with ourselves.’ Now, you wonder whether the contagion factor there transfers itself to European nations also being hit with high tariffs and that all of it is a mushroom cloud around the level of uncertainty that this has brought to the global economy,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire about the economic uncertainty caused by President Trump’s tariff policy amid the BRICS nations holding their annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Watch this Morning Joe discussion between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the hostages still being held in captivity almost two years after the Hamas-led attacks that resulted in roughly 1,200 people being killed in Israel and 251 others taken hostage. “We are incredibly just three months short of the second anniversary of October 7th. Three months from now, it’ll be two years. How is it that the hostages have still not been released?” asks Barnicle. Hear Haass’ answer here.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Stew Leonard’s Grocery Chain President and CEO Stew Leonard, Jr. about the cost of grocery items and shoppers’ habits this year ahead of the July 4 holiday.

Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle digs deeper into President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration bill with NBC News medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta, who sets the record straight on pending hospital and clinic closures and the loss of many “good paying” jobs that will result if the bill is approved.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Wille Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss House Republicans being on the verge of passing President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill, which would increase the nation’s deficit and make cuts to Medicaid, ahead of a July 4 deadline imposed by Trump.

“Just reading the internals of this particular piece of legislation that’s about to pass, clearly, it’s obvious that many Republicans are total amnesiacs. They have no sense of history. Nearly 60 years ago, probably 62 years ago, this very summer Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty. And now the Republican Party over the past few months in concocting this bill and putting this legislation together and getting it approved…They have turned the war on poverty into a war on the impoverished, a war on the vulnerable, the most vulnerable among us,” says Barnicle about President Trump’s sweeping policy bill that will certainly also impact the nation’s biggest employer — the health care industry. “They clearly have not thought this out.”

Journalist Charlie English joined Morning Joe to discuss with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle his new book “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature,” which tells the story of the CIA’s covert operation to smuggle millions of banned books into Eastern Europe during the Cold War, particularly Poland, to undermine Soviet censorship and promote intellectual freedom. Watch their conversation here.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich who joins Morning Joe to discuss Senate Republicans pushing to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, despite divisions within the party about its expected $3.3 trillion hit to the nation’s debt pile. “A Republican Party led by Donald Trump is on the verge of inflicting a tsunami of personal grief on millions of Americans. One in five Americans are on Medicare, and one in five Americans who are on Medicare. They’re not wealthy….Governor Kasich, I want to know what you think of the differences in the Republican Party and this Republican White House from the days when you were in the House…(the) difference in politics today as compared to then, in terms of getting things done for people,” asks Barnicle. Hear Kasich’s response about how “unbelievably terrible” it is that lawmakers have put their own self interest above solving the nation’s problems. “The Republican Party was my vehicle not my master,” explains Kasich.

“If you go out to the country and look at Democratic governors, Democratic legislators in various states, you’ll see a different Democratic Party. You’ll see people fighting back, you’ll see people organizing protests. You saw the huge reaction this weekend. Millions of people, five million people, around the country, parading against Donald Trump and the military parades and all of that, and they were largely led by local Democrats, state Democrats, from state, to state, to state. Washington D.C.—forget it. They are hopeless,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Democratic politicians at the federal versus state level during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about a recent Quinnipiac University survey that found most Democrat voters disapprove of how their party’s lawmakers in Congress are handling their jobs.

“I would suggest and submit that Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s appointment is the most dangerous of the cabinet appointments. And I say that thinking of my grandchildren, because I think he poses a threat to normal health conditions of young kids in this country and even of adults in this country, but specifically young kids,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has unveiled the eight people he has chosen to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel – just two days after taking the unprecedented step of removing all 17 sitting members. Find out more here.

Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with three members of Red Sox Nation – Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle – as they unpack the stunning blockbuster trade in Major League Baseball that sent Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. “Rafi is a terrific kid, but that’s the underline – the kid. He’s a child, a spoiled child, and the fact that he began disagreeing with the Red Sox front office when they made a trade for Alex Bregman, a much better defensive third baseman and a much better all-around ball player than Rafi. Rafi is one of the top ten hitters in Major League Baseball, but he’s no Alex Bregman offense and defense. So, I mean, that’s what happened there,” says Barnicle about his beloved Red Sox making a franchise-altering decision with their trade of Devers.

Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president emeritus, joined Morning Joe to talk with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle about America’s relationship with its European allies in the President Donald Trump era following the chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warning that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on NATO territory to test if NATO’s Article 5 guarantee of mutual assistance will be honored. “Are we now a nation alone?” asks Barnicle. Hear Haass’ response here.

Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss a Quinnipiac University poll that shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating is underwater on every issue as immigration protests have erupted in major cities including Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., in response to recent ICE raids. “With regard to the president’s popularity on this, again, we go back to the visual. People see on their home screens watching the news; they see men jumping out of SUVs, wearing masks, grabbing American citizens off the street, and within 24 hours, that citizen—he or she—might end up in Texas at some prison or in Arkansas at some prison, whether they’re taken off the streets in New York, or Boston or Somerville, Massachusetts—where that happened to a young woman. So, you’ve got all of that going on at the same time. This portends to be a long, hot summer because…the contagion factor has now set in, as we were just reporting from city, to city, to city, people are out, and sometimes the local police departments aren’t up to handling to it. This is a troubled country with a troubled issue,” says Barnicle about the current immigration protests in America.