Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarbough, Mike Barnicle and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson review Week One of the public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and look ahead to this week. “One of the things that set the week apart, I would think, would be Dan Goldman’s questioning on the Democratic side—Dan Goldman’s questioning, of each and every witness that appeared before the committee because it was professional, it was concise, it was to the point, it was deliberate and explanatory,” says Barnicle about Goldman, the Democrat’s lead counsel in the impeachment inquiry.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Michael Bloomberg apologizing for the New York Police Department’s policy of “stop and frisk,” a controversial policing method the former mayor and potential 2020 candidate has repeatedly defended as helping to lower the murder rate during his time in office. “The stunning thing about this…was that Mike Bloomberg, who so vociferously backed this policy for years after he left the mayoralty, all of a sudden, boom, he turns around,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion here.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell as he discusses the specific cases in his latest critically acclaimed book “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know,” which is based partly on interviews with scientists, criminologists and military psychologists. “We’re increasingly living in an age where what we’re doing right now is of diminishing value – eye contact. We have these things,” says Mike Barnicle says of his smart phone. “How does that add to the lack of communication between people?” Hear Gladwell’s responses here.
Listen in as the Morning Joe panel analyzes the status of the Republican Party heading into the 2020 national elections, following the state elections where Democrats won control of all three branches of government in Virginia for the first time in a generation. “If you’re a Republican strategist…measuring last night’s results, looking forward to a year from now, your next year’s election, it’s a shop-worn phrase, ‘the canary in the coal mine.’ But if you’re a Republican strategist, can you tell your clients ‘got to watch out because the canary is dead?’” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hear Kornacki’s response here. Only on MSNBC.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Elise Jordan, John Heilemann and Mike Barnicle about the “destruction” of the Department of State in the era of President Donald Trump, after transcripts revealed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators that she felt shocked and threatened when she learned what President Trump had said about her on a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president. “It’s hard to believe, but there might be a larger story than the threats to Ambassador Yovanovitch—and it would be the slow destruction of the State Department as evidenced here in the release of these transcripts,” says Barnicle. “We’re seeing this play out in real time now with the destruction of a single department, the State Department, that is key to the United States role in the world.” Join the conversation here.
The Morning Joe panel discusses the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals’ trip to the White House to celebrate their victory with President Donald Trump and whether star pitcher Stephen Strasburg will rejoin the team after opting out of the final four years of his contract, three days after being chosen MVP of the World Series. Hear what Willie Geist, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle predict Strasburg’s next move will be.
“You don’t have to go to Virginia or Maryland. Go to New Hampshire, one of the first primaries. You walk around and despite what the New York Times says on the front page: ‘Joe can’t speak English,’ you go to New Hampshire, go to a shopping mall up there, people like him, they want to like him. He has a tremendous resilience in his support,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle about Vice President Joe Biden in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hear more of the conversation with Elise Jordan and Jason Johnson about the field of Democratic presidential candidates after polls show Biden remains the top candidate in the Nevada, Michigan and Texas primary races.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Associated Press’ White House reporter Jonathan Lemire about voter trepidation over some of the policy plans of the Democratic presidential candidates, following Sen. Elizabeth Warren releasing her $52 trillion healthcare plan. “The idea of handing over your healthcare to the federal government is scaring a lot of people,” comments Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion now.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s most recent tweetstorm, 75 tweets over this past weekend alone, during which President Trump suggested Republicans should release their own versions of transcripts of interviews in the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry because Democrats are releasing “manipulated propaganda” as transcripts. “A lot of people know this…it’s not a Republican transcript, it’s not a Democratic transcript—it’s a legitimate transcriber, a stenographer, an independent person. You’re sworn that this is an accurate transcript that you’re taking, and the idea that the Republicans have a different transcript than the Democrats – absurd,” says Barnicle of the non-partisan position of stenographer.
Join the Morning Joe conversation with Lanhee Chen, an American policy expert and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, as he discusses with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle the Republican defense to President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, including the position of his former boss Sen. Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator to speak out against Trump’s efforts to enlist the aid of foreign governments to probe a leading political opponent.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and the Daily Beast’s Sam Stein discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s strong leadership skills in handling the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and the Republicans’ stance amid the mounting evidence. “The hypocrisy involved in this process is kind of amazing,” says Barnicle. Listen to what Stein believes is next for the White House.
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.
Mike Barnicle is a veteran print and broadcast journalist recognized for his street-smart, straightforward style honed over nearly four decades in the field. The Massachusetts native has written 4,000-plus columns collectively for The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and the New York Daily News, and continues to champion the struggles and triumphs of the every man by giving voice to the essential stories of today on television, radio, and in print.
