Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), the Democratic nominee for the Ohio Senate seat, about Americans who are experiencing employment issues, with the 2022 midterm elections less than two weeks away. “What do you…tell these people who are in that netherworld of having lost employment or reduced employment? What do you tell them?” asks Barnicle. Hear Ryan’s answer here.
“I think there’s a lot of anxiety in the country,” veteran journalist Mike Barnicle told Jonathan Lemire on Way Too Early. “I think people are living on pins and needles. They go from the grocery store to the gas station wondering what the immediate future is going to bring. I think they’re especially worried about their children; people who have children. One of the things that hasn’t been discussed at length at least to my ear in a lot of campaigns is what has happened to the education of younger children, grammar school and high school, who have missed so much school because of COVID and school lockdowns, and that hasn’t arisen as a big issue; but, I think it lurks in the backgrounds in terms of people thinking about their future. They no longer measure their future in four or five years of ‘when I retire’ or ‘when I begin to retire.’ They measure their future now by end of this week, which is a troubling situation I think that for a lot of families,” says Barnicle about the situation for many Americans.
“Why would you negotiate with Vladimir Putin? He is a war criminal. He has used the same strategy that the Russians used in World War II: Destroy and demonize your opponent, try to make your opponent so fearful by killing innocent civilians, by bombing schools, hospitals, sanctuaries, cathedrals. Kill the civilians; that’s how you win the war. That’s how the Russians think that they can defeat the Ukrainians. They can’t defeat the Ukrainians that way, and the United States has no one to negotiate with in Moscow because the leader of Russia is a war criminal,” says Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to a letter and then a retraction from progressive U.S. Democratic lawmakers to President Joe Biden having urged him to pursue direct diplomacy with Russia more than six months after Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine and while the two countries are still engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Join the conversation here.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they remember Ashton Carter, the former defense secretary for President Barack Obama’s Administration, who died at 68. “This is a shock to me. I spoke to him last Thursday, and everything you’ve just said, Mika and Joe, is so true about him,” said Barnicle. “He was a strong, strong leader and a strong believer in the power and how to use the power of the United States when he was secretary of defense and everything else that he did in government dating back a couple of different administrations. He will be sorely missed….A brilliant guy, a strong guy, a courageous guy—68 far too young.”
“Crime is an issue that I know you understand and live with within your district; but why is it that so many Democrats seem not have understood the power of that as an issue, as it has come up over the last two to three weeks? When someone is pushed from a subway, in front of a subway train in New York, the resonance is in Cleveland, it’s in Wisconsin, it’s in North Carolina. Why is it that so many Democrats seem not to have recognized that as an issue?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during a Morning Joe conversation about the Democratic Party’s messaging on the issue of rising crime, with the midterm elections just two weeks away. Listen to Jeffries’ response here.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with author and historian John Farrell about this new book “Ted Kennedy: A Life,” which dives into the life and career of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and reveals that in 2005 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told Sen. Kennedy that the legal basis ensuring abortion rights was “settled” law. Find out more about the issues that mattered most to Kennedy—the law, justice, and the Supreme Court.
ICYMI: Tune in for this Morning Joe discussion about the sentiment of voters on key issues with the 2022 midterm elections just two weeks away, including the Senate race in Ohio that features Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, whose campaign is focusing on the economy and China.
“My dream is that the Yankees beat the Astros, and then the Phillies beat the Yankees in the World Series, and that’s quite a World Series. Philadelphia versus New York, a subway series so to speak…The series will probably end on Thanksgiving eve in the snow, but that’s my dream,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Joe Scarborough and Claire McCaskill about the Major League Baseball playoffs after the Houston Astros defeated the New York Yankees in game one of the American League Championship Series and the San Diego Padres evened up the National League Championship Series with a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in game two.
“David, I have a rather simple yet pejorative question for you: Could we boil this piece down to the following—if you could answer it? What percentage of Republicans are we talking about? Is their complaint that their party – the party around them – is just not crazy enough?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Washington Post data analyst David Byler as the Morning Joe panel discusses polling that shows Republicans dislike their own party more than Democrats do. Watch the conversation here.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) about whether a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia should even be on the table as the Ukrainian army has shown remarkable resiliency and determination in their continuing effort to reclaim territory that was seized in the early days of the Russian invasion. “Why would the Ukrainians cede anything to Russia or Putin right now?” Hear Coons’ response here.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about President Joe Biden’s commitment to the people of Florida and the imperative to put politics aside as the deadly Hurricane Ian, a category 5 storm, is about to strike the Sunshine State. “FEMA’s been on the ground in Florida for several days now…in preparation for helping people in Florida, for helping to save lives, and I don’t think (Biden) needed to be challenged to make a phone call by the governor of Florida, which the governor did yesterday….The reason he hasn’t spoken to the President is the President was actively engaged in getting FEMA, and help, and aid to Florida now,” says Barnicle.
Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, about China’s progress on its commitments and the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Egypt in November.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle talk Major League Baseball, with the playoffs less than ten games away, including the Boston Red Sox’s disappointing season as the team will finish in last place in the American League East. “Outside of my family, the Red Sox are the most important component of my life, and I have to tell you that this has been the most bitter, the most disappointing season I’ve experienced in a long, long time. There is no excuse for what’s happened.” You can watch the segment here.
Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about whether the Republican Party might cutoff aid to Ukraine amid its war with Russia if the GOP is victorious in the 2022 midterm elections. “You’ve indicated recently that you think that if the Republicans win control of the House or the Senate, in these off-year elections that are coming up that, that aid could be reduced if not eliminated. Why would anyone do that at this point?” Listen to Murphy’s response here.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and NBC News investigations correspondent Tom Winter about the possible state of mind of U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie who has been appointed to serve as the special master to review materials the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, following Judge Dearie having questioned Trump’s claim about the seized documents being declassified.
ICYMI: The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser and The New York Times’ Peter Baker joined Morning Joe to talk about their new book: “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” which Mike Barnicle said caused him a “sense of depression” over the fact that former president Donald Trump “presented perhaps an hourly danger to the country, to the institution of the presidency, and seems to have been surrounded by people who knew how dangerous he was and said nothing. How do you explain this?” he asks. Listen to their responses about this being “one of the enduring mysteries” of the Trump reign, along with examples of mistakes and missteps that Trump made during his tenure.
Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran journalist Mike Barnicle and BBC News U.S. special correspondent Katty Kay about the silence from Republican lawmakers after the “frightening” rally of former President Donald Trump, “a man who knows exactly what he’s doing, but stands at the precipice of presenting an even further threat to our democracy.” Hear their conversation about the Republican Party’s “struggle” to know how to stand up to Trump.
ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade, a former U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, about what’s likely to happen today when former President Donald Trump’s legal team meets with U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, who has been appointed to serve as the special master to review materials the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Watch this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talks with war correspondent Luke Mogelson about the inspiration for Mogelson’s new book, “The Storm is Here: An American Crucible,” and his experience as he captured raw footage in Washington D.C. on the day of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “As I looked at the crowds, I thought to myself, I probably know some of these people. ‘Know’ in the literal sense, that I know them. I know who they are, and they’re not all evil people. They’re not all bad people. I’m wondering, what were your thoughts along those lines?” asks Barnicle. Hear Mogelson’s answer now.
“David, just 65 years or so ago, Richard Hofstadter wrote a book called ‘The Paranoid Style of American Politics’ and it’s still in evidence today; the book still holds up today. But, along the way, we’ve had Republicans, you mentioned Barry Goldwater earlier. Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott, Republicans, went and told Richard Nixon ‘you have to go.’ There have been some really courageous Republicans in the Senate and in the House, oddly enough, who stood up over time for various issues. But this, I would submit to you, is different. This is like a virus, an infection that has married cowardice with silence and fear. That’s a trifecta that holds Republicans enthralled to one man and his philosophy who has only been in power–was only in power–for four years. How did that happen so quickly?” asks veteran journalist Mike Barnicle of Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book, “American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy.” Watch the conversation here.
