Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the “overall ignorance” of President Donald Trump and the lack of accountability for what he says, a day after Trump announced he is open to cutting Medicare and other entitlement programs. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they recap and discuss day one of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, where House impeachment managers and White House counsel engaged in a marathon debate over rules for the impeachment trial that dragged past midnight and Chief Justice John Roberts scolded both sides for their lack of decorum after a spat between impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who is leading President Trump’s defense. “It’s so blatant and repeated not only by Pat Cipollone but nearly the entire crew of defense of the President’s defense team: Blatant lies, blatant half-truths, mistruths just uttered in front of the Chief Justice of the United States. It’s going to have an impact. There’s going to be pay back here at some point,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
“The thing that’s most on trial is the United States Senate. How can these senators who seemingly are on the fence or in Donald Trump’s pocket hear evidence such as this and continue the charade that nothing happened?” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle of BBC World News America Washington anchor Katty Kay during a conversation about Republican senators’ stance in light of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s bombshell interview with Lev Parnas, in which the former Rudy Giuliani colleague offered damning insight into the ongoing investigation concerning the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine. Listen to Kay’s response here.
“In the long run Major League Baseball did the right thing by inserting itself and trying to clear up this advanced analytics, technology hurricane that has overtaken Major League Baseball in the last ten years. In the scheme of things that we talk about normally here each and every day this is not a huge story, but in its essence it’s a sad story….Alex Cora is a terrific guy, he owned up to it, he basically resigned and now we have to watch out for Carlos Beltran with the New York Mets because he was in on it as well. So, we’ll see what happens there,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist about Cora, who parted ways with the Red Sox this week after having been linked to two sign-stealing schemes when he was the Houston Astros’ bench coach in 2017, and Beltran, the new manager for the New York Mets, whose named also appeared in the MLB’s report on the Astros’ cheating scandal. Join the conversation here.
“Politics is still a people business. And guess what, Mike Bloomberg has a ton of money. Tom Steyer has a ton of money. People like Joe Biden. They see him in New Hampshire. They see him in Iowa in small forums, and people – it’s a people business,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about Democratic presidential hopefuls Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer and Joe Biden during a conversation with Joe Scarborough and Axios’ Jim Vandehei about the phenomenon of money in American politics.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Guy Cecil and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the recent Monmouth University poll on the New Hampshire Democratic primary that shows presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg leading the field in the state with 20 percent while presidential candidates Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are all within five percentage points. “I’ve been up in New Hampshire several times in the past six weeks. It’s extremely volatile. It’s still the four of them, jump ball. Who knows what’s going to happen?” comments Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
“We’ve done some quick math around the table here…and the President of the United States has played more rounds of golf than the top three PGA winners last year and his green fees average out to about $1.2 million a round,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Yamiche Alcindor about President Donald Trump’s golf habit and expenses as he travels to his resorts to play the game that he was so critical of President Barack Obama for playing. Join the conversation here.
Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) discuss U.S. cybersecurity concerns after Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops in retaliation for the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. “How concerned are you about things like power grids, our ATM systems here in America, our water systems and cyber attacks?” asks Barnicle. Hear King’s response.
Listen in as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tells Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle details of the Senate’s 75-minute classified briefing by the Trump Administration about their rationale for striking a foreign government without prior notification to Congress, an “exceptional” six days after the killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
The Morning Joe panel shifts the conversation to the “complexities” of health care to talk about what matters most to Americans around the country: “The cost of health care, the access to health care, and the uncertainty of getting good health care,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. “One of the unfortunate aspects of American health care is nobody ever asks the cost of anything…nobody ever goes in and says, ‘well how much is this going to cost me?’” Hear more on the topic from Willie Geist, Al Sharpton, Jonathan Lemire and Susan Del Percio. Only on MSNBC.
The Morning Joe panels puts front and center the country’s need for infrastructure legislation, which has yet to been addressed in a meaningful way by President Donald Trump or the Democratic presidential candidates at primary debates. “People go to work every day. They drive every day over roads that are terrible, bridges that are crumbling. The infrastructure of this country badly needs revitalization and, yet, it hasn’t happened,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Hear what The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, Republican strategist Susan Del Percio and civil rights activists Rev. Al Sharpton have to say about this “tangible” issue that could provide jobs but is not being addressed by the current Administration.
Listen in as Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and author Walter Isaacson, professor of history at Tulane University, discuss New York Times opinion writer Bret Stephens’ column, “What Will It Take to Beat Donald Trump?” “Bret’s column gets to one of the points that I think you pick up when you’re walking around in the real America, and it’s that a large majority of Americans, perhaps, just want a candidate who comes forward and says ‘I’m going to take care of America,’” suggests Barnicle. Hear Isaacson’s response here. Only on MSNBC.
“In addition to the word ‘durability’—underline it next to Bernie Sanders—you can also underline ‘consistency’ and you can underline ‘predictability’ and ‘loyalty. All of his followers, they have been with him for many, many years. They didn’t just sort of jump on the Sanders train a few months ago. They have been with him for many, many years, even prior to his announce run for the presidency,” says veteran columnist and Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the supporters of Sen. Sanders as the panel discusses new reports that Democratic officials, political operatives and pundits are reconsidering Sen. Bernie Sanders’ chances to win the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential race. Hear more of the conversation now.
“In 2016, this country was attacked by a sworn enemy of the United State: Russia. They subverted our electoral process. They are doing it today as we speak—and I am not one of these guys with a big library in my head of things that were said by public people—but I don’t think the President of the United States has ever specifically addressed what we’re doing to counter this attack that is ongoing right now. So, we have a country, our country, still under attack by a sworn enemy, and I have yet really to hear the President of the United States saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do,’” says Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s lack of protecting the US election process. Hear more of the discussion with Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jonathan Lemire and Susan Del Percio.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle, Heidi Przybyla and Susan Del Percio about the status of the impeachment of President Donald Trump as well as the President’s daily tweets and the public’s reaction to it all. “Out there in this large country that we live in there’s basically a shrug of the shoulders among ordinary people about all of this—certainly about the tweets and even about impeachment, despite how serious it is,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) about the state of Michigan politics and its residents’ worry about health care and drinking water, the day after President Donald Trump rallied in the state during the House Impeachment vote.
“The only way that Donald Trump can now rehabilitate himself is by winning in November of 2020, and there is nothing he will not do to win. So, the campaign is going to be an attack on race, on crime, on gender, on our culture, on everything around us. It is going to be the ugliest aspect of politics that we have ever encountered in our lives,” predicts veteran columnist Mike Barnicle on MSNBC’s Morning Joe during a discussion the morning following the historic impeachment of President Donald Trump by the deeply divided House of Representatives.
“I didn’t hear one of them saying about the President of the United States, ‘he’s a good man. He’s a decent man. He’s an honest man.’ I didn’t hear one Republican say that,” explains veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about the final hours of debate between House Democrats and House Republicans regarding the articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, before President Trump became the third president in history to be impeached. Listen to more of the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that he’s made up his mind that President Donald Trump should be acquitted if Trump were to face an impeachment trial in the Senate and dismissed the notion that he has to be a “fair juror,” claiming that he doesn’t see the need for a formal trial in the Senate. “How will history view these people? Unfortunately, we are now in an age and in a culture where there is no more history. There is no more truth. It’s all within the next hour, it’s all within what’s on your phone. There’s no more conscience in the United States Senate, really….Impeachment is being dealt with in a truly frivolous manner,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle about prized free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees having agreed to a record nine-year, $324 million contract. “We talk a lot here about the taint in politics having to do with money and the corruption of cash in politics. This is an example of it being extended into Major League Baseball, until and in less Mookie Betts gets $350 million from the Boston Red Sox,” jokingly says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
