Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about the highly anticipated testimony of the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who reportedly planned to tell House impeachment investigators that he was so troubled by President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s President that he reported his concerns to a superior, according to a copy of his opening statement. “My view is this is a great American day because of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who came to the United States with his parents when he was 3 years of age, made a life for himself, spent 20 years in the American military, fought for the United States in Iraq and, as you pointed out, was awarded the Purple Heart,” says Barnicle. Hear the rest of the discussion here.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg discuss a federal judge ruling that the Justice Department must turn over former special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury evidence to the House Judiciary Committee. “The same thing was ruled during the Nixon Administration,” says Barnicle. “Where does the Trump Administration go from here other than an obvious appeal?” Listen to Aronberg’s answer and why “irony is not dead.” Only on MSNBC.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle about former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly having said he warned President Donald Trump that hiring a “yes man” in his place would result in impeachment and White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s statement refuting Kelly’s claim. “Where is Mick Mulvaney?” asks Barnicle about the current, acting Chief of Staff to the President. “You never see him, you rarely hear from him. When you do hear from him, he implicates himself in all sorts of impeachable offenses potentially. Where is he?”
“A lot of people in this country just want the entire situation calmed down. They want the country to calm down. They want candidates to calm down. It would be tough to have the crowd last night calm down because they were really into it, unfortunately; but I think it’s important going forward —especially today as we talk about the events that occurred over the weekend—that we take the time and the thought to separate Donald Trump and, whatever you feel about Donald Trump, to separate him and how he behaves, and how he speaks, from the actions of the Delta Force team, the special operators, who flew in and conducted that mission. It’s two separate things, and the best of us, the best of who we are, and what we do around the world, and why so much of the world still relies on us, was in operation,” says Barnicle after this weekend saw President Trump receive “lock him up” chants at Game Five of the World Series and U.S. forces kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in Northwestern Syria.
“Nearly 300 elected officials representing the United States of America, our country, don’t have the character, the courage, or the confidence in their own beliefs to stand up against a man, Donald Trump, who is totally ill-equipped to be President of the United States—and they know it,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough about impeachment proceedings of presidents past and Republican lawmakers who continue to protect the controversial actions of President Donald Trump. More of the discussion is here.
Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss the latest polls and what’s on the minds of the public as the 2020 presidential race approaches. “They want someone who will calm the situation down—get it back to a state of semi-normalcy, if we can ever get back to a state of semi-normalcy. (Vice President) Joe Biden does that for them, for many people,” says Barnicle about the Biden’s presidential candidacy. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal following congressional testimony from William Taylor, the top American diplomat in Ukraine, that tied Trump to withholding foreign aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. “It’s a story well told by a man who took notes. The statement reads like the first chapter of a novel or a treatment for a movie. It has everything that the public can understand. It has good guys and bad guys. It has heroes and villains, and it has an ending that you can guess at—but you kind of know where the ending is going,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion and what this testimony means for the Republicans who still support the president.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they review and discuss the Washington Nationals having defeated the Houston Astros in Game One of the 2019 World Series. Join the conversation here.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and USA TODAY Washington bureau chief Susan Page discuss the “extraordinary change” in the opinion of many Americans on the impeachment proceedings involving President Donald Trump and the impact of his presidency on the credibility and character of the American commitment around the globe. Only on MSNBC.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Lawfare Blog editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes discuss how oft-repeated conspiracy theories can become salient in the context of an election regardless of merit, and how that applies to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being cleared by the State Department of any deliberate mishandling of classified information contained in her emails. Listen in on the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe discussion between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about Republican senators beginning to distance themselves from President Donald Trump. “We all know that—privately in the cloakroom—they speak very disparagingly of him,” Barnicle said of the senators reaction to President Trump. “And if there was a secret ballot in the United States Senate, I think Trump would lose 90 to 10….” Hear Joe’s response and weigh in on the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing the House will initiate a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump following a call POTUS made to the president of Ukraine in July, in which he admitted discussing Joe Biden in the context of fighting “corruption” in the country. “For months now we know that (Pelosi) has been drawn reluctantly to where we are today. Her background played, I think, an important role in her decision…and her background is faith in and devotion to this country of ours,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here. Only on MSNBC.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), who says his campaign must raise nearly $2 million before the end of the quarter or his presidential candidacy would be essentially over, stops by Morning Joe to talk about his plans to improve the country if he is elected president. Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle: “Senator Booker, my wife and I we have seven children, we have a couple of grandchildren. I’m concerned about our grandchildren. Why should I send you a hundred dollars or a million dollars? What are you going to do for them?” Listen to Booker’s answer here.
Listen in as the Morning Joe panels talks with former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal about the escalating standoff between Congress and Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire over his refusal to share a whistle-blower complaint with lawmakers that is said to be at least in part about President Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine, which the Justice Department has said Maguire can lawfully keep secret. “What’s going on at the Justice Department and their interpretation of this law? What’s your interpretation?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Katyal. Hear his response here. Only on MSNBC.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee where Democrats—with the exception of House Judiciary Committee majority counsel Barry Berke—struggled to get answers from Lewandowski as to whether he helped President Trump to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. “It was a total clown show…with (the) rare exception, Barry Berke, a skilled prosecutor asking questions of a defendant. Why they allow various members of Congress their five minutes of time on television to ask inane and ludicrous, leading questions of Corey Lewandowski—or anyone else—and not stick…with a skilled, knowledgeable prosecutor. Why they don’t do that is beyond me,” says Barnicle about the Democrats. Join the conversation here with MSNBC’s Barnicle, Willie Geist and Ari Melber.
Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle juxtaposes the rallies of Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren and President Donald Trump, after having attended Warren’s rally last night in New York City. “In (Trump’s) speeches and what he tells the crowd, there’s an edge of anger and resentment in the crowd in response to what he says. The Warren rallies…are bent on policy, and they are bent on the future—on your future and what we want to do with this country.” Hear more about the candidates’ crowd size, content and inspiration and ideas here.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera—the first man unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame—having received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony with President Donald Trump. “Mariano Rivera is one the nicest human beings that you’ll ever meet in your life, even though he’s an exalted and honored professional baseball player. Hall of Fame baseball player,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle about the “upcoming battle” between 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. “One of these candidates has to stake out where we’re going, where they want to take this country in the next very few months. They’ve got to do that. It’s one thing to go back and forth between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren has had the blessing of receiving very, very favorable coverage, Jonathan, I would think in the initial stages of her campaign. She has not been touched up at all. The issue arose during the debate…when Joe Biden basically said, ‘how much is this going to cost?’ And Elizabeth Warren was quite reluctant to go there. And that’s going to be a huge issue going forward. But, yes, the Biden campaign certainly senses the obvious: Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is very professional, very well organized, very substantive, and she’s not going to go away,” says Barnicle.
Montel Williams, host of the “Let’s Be Blunt” podcast, joins the Morning Joe panel to talk about the case of U.S. Navy veteran Michael White, currently imprisoned by Iran. “Michael White, Navy veteran on disability, with cancer in an Iranian prison. Was there anything that he posted on social media at all about Iran that would have triggered notice or anything?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Listen to Williams’ response and his plea to help White.
Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and CNBC editor-at-large John Harwood discuss 2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren as the two are set to face off with the other Democratic challengers in their third debate. Hear Harwood’s take on the status of the front runners here.
