“History is a constant stenographer; it never stops recording what happens. There’s got to be some explanation—other than fear of being primaried on your right from all of these people in the House and the Senate, other than fear of Donald Trump. What is the answer here? Why do they fold unceasingly one after another?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele as the Morning Joe panel discusses Republican lawmakers’ effort to “please” President Donald Trump no matter what he says or does. Listen to Steele’s response here and what he says the party will have to grapple with in the aftermath of President Trump. Only on MSNBC.
Listen in as Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle—during a conversation about Kellyanne Conway calling four minority Congresswomen, who President Donald Trump suggested should “go back” to their countries, the “dark underbelly” in America—references former President Ronald Reagan’s last speech as President, in which he quoted from a letter he received: “A man wrote me and said: `You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American’. Republicans ought to reread that speech, January 19th, 1989. Everyone ought to reread that speech.”
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they recap and discuss the 2019 MLB All-Star Game, which featured players being mic’d up while playing so they could interact with broadcasters Joe Buck and John Smoltz during the game broadcast on Fox. “That was one of the most enjoyable games to watch that I can recall in years. The interplay between Joe Buck, John Smoltz and not only Freddie Freeman who is very funny, asking for the signs…but, the three Houston players in the field at the same time, all wired up, talking about how exhausted they were from running from first to third. It was just spectacularly fun to watch,” says Barnicle about the 2019 MLB All-Star Game. Join the conversation here.
Listen in as Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle talk with the filmmakers behind “Yesterday,” a new film about a struggling musician who is the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where no one’s ever heard of them. Hear from screenwriter Richard Curtis, director Danny Boyle and actor Himesh Patel here.
“He rolled the dice on race and resentment and became president of the United States. He’s president today. So, out of this book, how do we undo this damage?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid during a Morning Joe conversation about Reid’s new book “The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story,” which calculates the true price of the Donald J. Trump presidency and makes recommendations for handling the Trump “damage.” Listen to Reid’s response here. Only on MSNBC.
“The Senate can dispense money for farmers in the United States of America— basically, blackmail money. We can send billions to Saudi Arabia in foreign aid money and we can’t send diapers, toothpaste and toothbrushes and soap to children?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) during a Morning Joe conversation about The New Yorker’s reporting that hundreds of migrant children, who have been separated from their family members, are being detained in dirty, neglectful, and dangerous conditions at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. Listen to Durbin’s response here about “one of the most embarrassing chapters in our modern history—and it’s happening under the watch of a President who believes if you get tough enough you’ll solve the problem. He’s wrong,” says Durbin. Hear more of the conversation only on MSNBC.
Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses the “terrible deal” of working in the White House for President Donald Trump, following a POLITICO report that indicates President Trump is growing tired of his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney. “Very few people have left with their reputation still intact, General Mattis is one. The interesting person—to me at least—is Mike Pompeo, in that he seems to have managed to figure out how to handle Trump thus far,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Join the conversation in progress here.
Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman joins the Morning Joe panel to talk about Roger Ailes, founder of Fox News, who is the subject of his book “The Loudest Voice in the Room” and the upcoming television miniseries for Showtime. “It would be hard to overestimate the dominance that Roger Ailes had on the media and certainly on Fox,” comments veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Hear more about Ailes’ and his relationship with Fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch here. On MSNBC.
Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses a new report from The New Yorker that details the appalling conditions that hundreds of migrant children, who have been separated from their family members, are being detained in: Dirty, neglectful, and dangerous conditions at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. “This…seemed to set a new low, a horrific low….People should wonder and ask themselves: Can they imagine, can they think of any other past political administration, any other presidency where the response would not have been immediate to children in need like this…in our own country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about immigrant children being held in U.S. detention centers. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, the AP’s Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden while he prepares to face off against the other Democratic candidates at the first Democratic primary presidential debate. “What he’s got to do in order to separate himself—if he can from the pack—is he’s got to talk about the moment. This moment in time, not where he’s been,” says Barnicle about front runner Biden’s need to tell the voters: “Where are we going.” Join the conversation here.
Listen in on the conversation between columnists Mike Lupica and Mike “The Mayor of Fenway” Barnicle about the wild worlds of baseball and current politics in The Mike Lupica Podcast.
“Donald Trump across 40 years in business, in his personal life, through his marriages and into his presidency, has thrived and prospered on one component above all: Division. He divides people, he divides lawyers, he divides building bidders on properties, and he’s dividing the country,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a discussion with Joe Scarborough and Claire McCaskill about President Donald Trump having doubled down on his controversial stance and statements on the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teenagers who had been wrongly convicted of an assault on a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. Listen in on more of the conversation. Only on MSNBC.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Katty Kay and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump’s re-election kickoff in Orlando, his approval ratings and assets.“Trump’s biggest asset Is his dominance of the media. There are some very, very good Democratic candidates out there running for president. We never really get to them because everything is Trump centric,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion here.
“Can you tell me the last time the President of the United States stood up and spoke exclusively and extensively about the single source, the potential source, of his strength–the American economy?” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle as the discussion turns to President Donald Trump’s failure to solely tout the country’s “booming economy” as he pushes for his 2020 reelection. More of the discussion here with Barnicle and Joe Scarborough.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump’s “unpopular” poll numbers looking forward to the 2020 presidential race. “The underlying numbers on women, who are clearly most eligible, most likely to vote, are devastating against Donald Trump in terms of not voting for Donald Trump – no matter what,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about women voters during the discussion with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Nicholas Confessore.
“What does he care about? He cares about himself. That’s all he cares about…The President is obsessed with himself—not the country, not any formulation of plans to improve the country, not his goals for his administration’s first term and certainly not what would be a second term set of goals,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Elise Jordan and Eugene Robinson about a New York Times report from inside the White House that indicates President Donald Trump was consistently distracted during a state-of-the-race meeting with his campaign manager and rarely speaks to his aides about what he would want to accomplish in a second term.
“Trumpism…It’s not a philosophy. It’s not ideology. It’s rooted in ignorance….What happens to the Republican Party when Trumpism either fades away, diminishes, he loses, whatever. What happens to those people who are in awe of it right now?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of presidential historian Jon Meacham during a Morning Joe conversation about the future of the Republican Party in the wake of “Trumpism.” Listen to more of the conversation with Mike, Jon and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough. Only on MSNBC.
As we await updates on the condition of former Boston Red Sox David Ortiz, who is reportedly in stable condition after surgery for a gunshot wound in this lower back while in the Dominican Republic, Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle says: “David Ortiz is a genuinely good person. He is an iconic figure in Major League Baseball. He’s a very popular player among other players in Major League Baseball. There’s no sense of envy or jealousy toward him because of exuberant personality and because of the way he has handled himself.” Listen to more of the conversation here about Ortiz and the growing dangers in the Dominican Republic with Barnicle and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough.
“You hope and pray that the President of the United States lives up to this moment because it is a moment: It requires empathy, it requires understanding, it requires some semblance, a little knowledge of what occurred here, the cost of what occurred here. And you pray that it has had an impact on him prior to his remarks,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump prior to his D-Day speech from Normandy as world leaders, D-Day veterans and others gather at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Hear more from Joe Scarborough and Barnicle about French President Emmanuel Macron’s role and the relationship between Trump and Macron here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, David Ignatius and Mike Barnicle as they reflect on surviving D-Day veterans and fallen D-Day soldiers while the show is live from Normandy as world leaders, D-Day veterans and others gather at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. “Each of the times I’ve been here to cover it or bringing my family here, I find it an overwhelming site because of the knowledge of what went on here, and it strikes you, or at least it strikes me, when you stop at individual head stones…David and I were here at dusk, and I stopped at one head stone, a young man from South Dakota; and I looked him up after we left here, try to find the family history, and he was just a little over the age of 18 when he was killed on June 6th, 1944. And you wonder what would bring a young man at 18 from South Dakota all the way here to Omaha Beach to die for your country, which is what they all did. They died for the person next to them in the Higgins boats as they landed, they died for the friends they made; but they died for our country,” says Barnicle about the fallen soldiers of D-Day. Join the conversation here.
