“Zanny, how would you describe an economy – the American economy – where people when you talk to them they complain about the increased cost of gasoline, the scarcity on food shelves of some items, on the cost of meat and chicken, things like that. And yet when you ask them, ‘yeah, but how are you doing personally,’ they say, ‘well, personally, I’m doing okay.’ How do you explain the economy, that kind of an economy?,” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle of The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, who joins the panel to discuss the “confusing” state of the U.S. economy and what might happen next.
Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and The Atlantic staff writer Mark Leibovich discuss the lack of Republican condemnation of former President Donald Trump, who is returning to Washington D.C. for the first time since leaving the White House. Watch the conversation here.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss a judge in New York having ordered Rudy Giuliani, a former personal lawyer of former President Donald Trump and previously the Mayor of New York City, to testify next month before a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury that is investigating Trump and his allies’ attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. “This guy has put so much distance between himself and his behavior in New York City on September 11th, where he was legitimately acknowledged to be heroic in terms of his response to what happened that day. You just wonder what in the world happened to Rudy Giuliani,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.”
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle talk baseball following last night’s 2022 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which featured mic’d up players as the American League defeated the National League for a ninth consecutive year. “The clip that we showed of Alek Manoah, the Toronto Blue Jays great right-hander, big strong kid, very young kid, talking back and forth, being mic’d, talking with John Smoltz, a Hall of Fame pitcher—that was worth watching,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
Emmy-winning stand-up comedian W. Kamau Bell and author Kate Schatz join Morning Joe to talk with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzenski and Mike Barnicle about their new book “Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book,” an informative, interactive workbook that provides readers a hands-on understanding of systemic racism—and how we might dismantle it. Watch the conversation here and find out what inspired them to write it.
Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb discuss the candidacy of Herschel Walker, the GOP Senate nominee in Georgia running to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. “Does Herschel Walker’s candidacy raise a larger issue in terms of the damage that’s been done to this country via the former guy, Trump?” asks Barnicle. Hear Cobb’s answer here and more on Walker’s “qualifications.”
Join Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they talk with Emma Soames, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, about her new book “Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter,” which offers a unique and evocative portrait of World War II from the personal diaries of Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, Mary.
Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle asks what’s happened to “toughness” in Democratic candidates’ ability to appeal to voters while still keeping focused on the day-to-day issues that matter to them. Find out during this discussion between Barnicle, Joe Scarborough and Democratic strategist Brian Stryker.
Morning Joe’s Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle look ahead to the eighth hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol, which is set for a prime-time session and will feature testimony from Matthew Pottinger, the former deputy national security adviser under former President Donald Trump and a former journalist and U.S. Marine Corps officer, who was the highest-ranking White House official to resign on Jan. 6 2021. “Matthew Pottinger’s testimony is going to be devastating because guess what? Like the testimony of so many others, it’s not from a sworn enemy of Donald Trump. It’s from people who have worked alongside Donald Trump for years in the White House,” said Barnicle. Watch the conversation here.
Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation about baseball—the players, their contracts, and their ages—with Joe Scarborough, Eugene Robinson, Claire McCaskill, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle.
“A malignancy occupied the Oval Office; a twisted, corrupt individual was president of the United States, (and) instead of doing his duty became a political arsonist and tried to burn us down—tried to burn down democracy,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about former President Trump during this Morning Joe segment that followed the seventh public hearing from the January 6th Committee which showed how violent right-wing extremist groups were spurred toward Washington as part of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.
Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution politics and government Journalist Greg Bluestein during which they discuss a Fulton County special grand jury investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.
Watch this Morning Joe segment with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they recap and assess the first prime-time hearing from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack, which detailed the findings of the panel’s investigation and unveiled new video from closed-door depositions of members of former President Donald Trump’s team and the violence at the Capitol. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who is serving as the panel’s vice chair, stated that former President Trump had a “sophisticated, seven-point plan” to overturn the 2020 presidential election over the course of several months while she explained how the panel plans to use its future hearings to tackle each part of the scheme. “For anyone to view what we saw last night – and, you’re right, it was hard to view—and then to have these same, specific members of Congress who get up and talk publicly, as you just referenced, ‘we have to support the police’ in the midst of that chaos. I mean, this was a planned attack on the foundations of our democracy,” says Barnicle about the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Jonathan Lemire, Eugene Robinson and Mike Barnicle about President Joe Biden’s prime-time “Enough” speech regarding gun control, during which he demanded lawmakers respond to communities that are being turned into “killing fields” by passing gun reform legislation after the massacres in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. “In terms of content and delivery, I think it was about the best he’s had as President of the United States,” said Barnicle of the speech.
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle continue the Morning Joe conversation about the details leading up to this week’s mass elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people dead, including 19 children and two teachers. “There’s only two things that are vividly clear at this point: One is that the autopsy, the report of what happened that day, minute-by-minute, in terms of law enforcement people and the shooter himself, is going to be brutal. It’s going to be brutal. Just given the fact that there was…either half an hour or a 40-minute lapse between the time that he entered the classroom and the time that he was shot dead. The other aspect of this that’s going to come to fore is the idea that several people have mentioned, I think preposterously, since the shooting occurred: Is that things would have been different if teachers were armed, including from Governor Abbott’s press conference…one of the people on the stage, ‘it would have been different if teachers had been armed.’ So, we see what happens in terms of just a school police officer being confronted by someone with an assault weapon, with an AR-15, you know you’re out gunned. We don’t want to attribute motives until we find out all the facts; but a schoolteacher armed in a classroom certainly would have been more than outmatched,” says Barnicle following Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s press conference about the massacre.
ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about why lawmakers will not take action on gun reform legislation even after the latest U.S. school mass shooting during which an 18-year-old gunman wielding an AR-15 fatally shot 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “We have an issue involving a specific weapon, an assault rifle. It’s killing children. It’s killing grandmothers. It’s extraordinarily easy to use. It’s even easier to purchase. It’s a danger to democracy. It’s a danger to your family, to your children, and your grandchildren. But, we have a way to stop it. We have a way to slow down the murders of children, and here’s how we do it: We establish, again, a ban on the sale of assault weapons. We establish, again, universal pre-checks, so they can’t purchase weapons, and your elected officials, knowing this, seeing the evidence, seeing their own futures politically perhaps at stake, they rise up in a majority and they say, ‘no, no, we won’t do it.’ That’s where we are. You can feel the nuts and bolts of our democracy popping loose when they vote to continue insanity,” says Barnicle about the inaction from lawmakers on gun control. Join the conversation here.
Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they contrast two recent occurrences in Major League Baseball: New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge having an emotional meeting with the 9-year-old fan whose story went viral after he had his wish come true when a Toronto Blue Jays fan gifted him with a Aaron Judge home run ball he caught and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner being ejected after the first inning of his start against the Miami Marlins after a confrontation with first-base umpire Dan Bellin. “I prefer to focus on the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge and that little boy because, as Joe just indicated, that capsulizes the romance of baseball. You pass it on to your sons, your daughters, and they carry it through. That was just a wonderful moment, wonderful moment,” says Barnicle about Judge’s meeting with the young fan. Watch the segment here.
Congratulations, Mike Barnicle! Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire celebrate Barnicle for having received the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Glucksman Ireland House NYU during the organization’s 10th annual gala last night. “It was a humbling evening…because Pete Hamill was a hero not only to me but to many people in our business…So, just to have received recognition in the name of Pete Hamill – my hero – it was rewarding,” says Barnicle about having been recognized for his political and social commentary and bestowed with the award named after legendary journalist Pete Hamill. Join the celebration here as Maureen Dowd, Phil Griffin, Mike’s family and many others did last night at the Rainbow Room in New York City.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Richard N. Haass and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine having “backfired” on Russian President, following UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson having paid an in-person visit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Over the weekend Boris Johnson walking with the president of Ukraine—clearly, openly, bravely—was a significant sign that this is, in addition to the horrors of the war, one of the great human dimension stories that we’ve seen in years. You have a nation here under siege…and yet Ukraine stands firmly, boldly, proudly up against this,” says Barnicle. See more of the segment here.
“President Biden has said publicly that he – meeting with Putin – told him that he thought he had no soul and that Putin replied to him, ‘well, at least we understand each other.’ He clearly does not have a soul,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough about Russian President Vladimir Putin amid reports that Russian forces were leaving brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in their wake in Ukraine.
