“Oh, it couldn’t be more appropriate than to have Dr. Anthony Fauci on the mound, on the hill, for the Washington Nationals opener. It just couldn’t be more perfect,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about news that Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert amid the coronavirus pandemic, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the first game of Major League Baseball’s pandemic-delayed regular season.
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 amid the rampant and spiking coronavirus pandemic, which has left about 140,000 Americans dead, millions more sick and jobless, most fearing for their families and their future. “What he does not realize is that there has always been one dominant emotion that has bound every American to one another. It is called loss. Every normal person is familiar with it, has experienced it at some level—losing a job, a paycheck, a house, health insurance, admission to a college, a roster spot on a Little League team. Losing hope. Losing a spouse, a child. Pride. Dignity. Self-respect. Losing a sense of place in your own small universe. Comprehending loss is beyond his grasp. He casts himself as a stranger to loss. Losing something, anything or anyone could mark you as a loser. Not him. So this is what we have here in the middle of summer 2020: A man who turns a mask into a joke, who is incoherent and invisible in the heat of a lethal battle against a virus that is consuming our country, battering our confidence, bleeding our economy and provoking legitimate questions about who we are, where we are going and what has happened to the United States of America,” writes Barnicle about America in the era of President Trump.
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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel about the urgent need for Congress to increase federal funding to keep the upcoming U.S. general election safe amid COVID-19 concerns and the persistence of foreign interference.
“John Lewis was what America aspires to be. Donald Trump is what America is slowly becoming. John Lewis marched forward every day of his life toward equality for everyone, regardless of color, faith, gender, belief, ideology, anything. John Lewis marched forward. Donald Trump doesn’t like John Lewis’s America. Donald Trump is uncomfortable in John Lewis’s America. Donald Trump fights everything that John Lewis stood for….John Lewis believed in moving forward, in going onward with faith in this country. Donald Trump has faith only in himself,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with co-host Mika Brzezinski and The New Yorker’s David Remnick as they remember the life of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis and all that he stood for.
“People will gamble on Powerball tickets, Mega Millions tickets. They’ll bet on horse races and ball games. But they will not gamble with their children’s health and safety, and that is something that the Administration, the President of the United States is going to inevitably bump into….School openings, I think, is going to be a real pivotal point and it’s coming up very quickly,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson about the ongoing debate over whether schools should reopen in the fall amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
“The President of the United States took a medical emergency—a virus, an epidemic, a global epidemic—that is crippling the United States of America, and he turned it into simplified stupid things like, ‘don’t wear a mask, wear a mask, hey, it’s all up to you.’ There has been no effective leadership out of the Oval Office in this country, and that is I think the defining factor in why we are losing, losing the war against COVID-19,” veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski in reference to a new Washington Post report that juxtaposes President Donald Trump’s leadership amid the coronavirus pandemic with those of other world leaders.
Catch up on this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer about her latest investigation, “How Trump is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic,” which shows how Ronald Cameron, a Trump top donor and head of Mountaire Poultry, is leveraging the coronavirus to strip workers of their protections and safeguards, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, president/CEO at Houston’s Harris Health System, about the causes for the recent “rapid surge” in coronavirus cases and whether Porsa’s staff has enough supplies to fight COVID-19 safely.
“This is a very personal presidency…as we have all found out to our great sadness and chagrin. Roger Stone got his sentence commuted by the President of the United States for not flipping and cooperating with prosecutors, which would’ve exposed the President to a charge of perjury had he done so,” explains Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as he and Mika Brzezinski discuss a National Review op-ed that calls President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his former campaign adviser and longtime friend Roger Stone on seven felony crimes “an indefensible commutation.” Watch more of the conversation here.
“We are all in the middle of a true medical emergency, an epidemic, coast-to-coast epidemic. States putting up staggering numbers: Florida, Houston, Texas, Indiana over the weekend, parts of Minnesota, California, Arizona. And the President views this medical emergency—this true epidemic—as a political issue. It is not. It is a medical issue, and he has not stepped up as a leader in terms of helping to define what people have to do, what various governors in various states ought to do. We have not heard a single real word from him about leadership in this epidemic and that’s his bigger problem,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire about President Donald Trump canceling a planned rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, due to concerns that COVID-19 fears and a forecasted thunderstorm would lead to low attendance.
In this Morning Joe segment, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss news of the retirement of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment inquiry, who announced his departure from the U.S. Army after more than 21 years of military service because he determined that his future in the armed forces “will forever be limited” by political retaliation, bullying and intimidation from President Trump and his allies. “Both he and his brother, Willie, are portraits of people who came to this country, immigrants who came to this country, and showed their love of citizenship and love of country by joining the United States Army. And this is a case of premeditated cruelty on the part of the President of the United States, who I can guarantee you never once established eyeball-to-eyeball contact with Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and said, ‘I didn’t like what you did.’ He is a bully and a coward and the Vindmans are the heroes,” says Barnicle about Vindman and twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman.
ICYMI: Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) about the need for the HEROES Act, a federal stimulus bill currently stalled in the Senate that would help Americans who are struggling to pay their rent or mortgage and face eviction or foreclosure amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Morning Joe veteran columnist and Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, discuss the fact that a more assertive set of specific guidelines from the CDC would make a significant difference in lowering the COVID-19 infection rate. Osterholm asserts that moral leadership across government and the health care field is needed to convince Americans that they must take COVID-19 seriously and distance as well as wear masks to slow the infection rate or “the next year is going to be one ongoing tragedy.” Watch the conversation here.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) joins Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle to talk about the peaceful protests in his state following the “senseless murder of George Floyd,” a police killing that has brought to the forefront the long overdue need to address the underlying racism that plagues our country. Watch their discussion here.
Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) talks with Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the sentiment within New York’s 11th congressional district, which includes Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, regarding the possibility of evictions from homes and schools not reopening in the fall amid the coronavirus outbreak in America. Listen to Rose’s urgent plea for federal investments in communities, in infrastructure and in making sure people are not evicted from their homes. “We have to win this thing.”
Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence pressuring schools to fully reopen this fall amid the coronavirus outbreak and continual spike across America and the fact that some hospitals in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey along with other states have suffered a lack of personal protection equipment for doctors and nurses. “That’s an incredible portrait of incompetence,” says Barnicle about the lack of PPE equipment available for frontline workers.
Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle talk baseball and the viability of a 2020 MLB season amid the coronavirus pandemic, following MLB teams being forced to cancel practices after failing to receive COVID-19 testing results, players contracting the virus and more. “I think the season is jump ball right now,” says Barnicle.
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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and author Anand Giridharadas discuss some of what has to happen to eradicate the original sin of racism in this country and how it impacts each and every one of us. We will never be whole as a people if we don’t deal with the stain of race, says Giridharadas. Watch their conversation here.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former CDC acting director Dr. Richard Besser, a parent and pediatrician, discuss what precautions would have to happen before daycare centers and schools can reopen this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic and what measures would be necessary once the operations are up and running to protect students, teachers and families.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and former RNC chairman Michael Steele as they discuss Barnicle’s latest op-ed for the Daily Beast titled “An Independence Day Wish for the Disunited States of America,” which examines the divisiveness propagated by President Donald J. Trump, most recently during his Fourth of July speeches at Mount Rushmore and the White House, and implores each of us to “think and remember not so much who we are but who we really want to be.” Join the conversation here and read the column: https://bit.ly/2Z1SVVn
