MSNBC’s Morning Joe opened with excerpts of President Barack Obama’s speech in Dallas at the memorial for the five fallen officers, and the panel agreeing that both his speech, that of President George W. Bush, and Mike Barnicle’s column for The Daily Beast conveyed the right messages for the right time. They “made me cry… for everything that is lost in the rancor of 2016,” said panelist Nicolle Wallace. Added Barnicle: “Yesterday both presidents ..needed and did their jobs of lowering the temperature in this country and focusing on what is truly, truly the most important thing: Defining who we are.” Listen in on the conversation here.
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 – you heard a man, the President of the United States, who spoke to what is best in us and what will save us from the calamity of racial and class division. He is the only president we have and on one American afternoon in July 2016 he was the one we so badly need,” writes Mike.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/12/in-dallas-our-president-meets-the-moment.html
Referencing the violence that has plagued the country recently, veteran columnist and MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle puts the situation in perspective, saying that although it’s not as dire as it was in 1968, “there is no one who can lower the collective flame in this country and speak to these ills.” Hear the rest of the Morning Joe discussion and the implications for the present leadership in America.
Following a rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during which he channeled Republicans’ of the past, calling himself “the law and order candidate,” Mike Barnicle and the panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe discuss Trump’s rhetoric and stance following the recent racial and political strife in the country. Barnicle questions Trump’s deep understanding of the social and cultural issues at hand when he refers to himself as “the law and order candidate” because he “didn’t address the complexes of the issue,” says Mike.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle speaks with Ret. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn about his political ideologies and his new book, “The Field of Fight.” Barnicle asks: “How do we combat an ideology today with all sorts of freelance operatives around the world?” Hear the response from Lt. Flynn, a potential running mate to Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, and his belief that “a new 21st century alliance” must be created to combat global terrorism.
