“I guess we’re in a stage now where people don’t realize that history never stops,” said Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Joe Scarborough and Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson about President Donald Trump’s performance at the G7 Summit in France, where he openly criticized his predecessor, President Barack Obama. “You had an odd portrait—a mixture of resentment and envy on Trump’s part talking about Barack Obama….But you also seem to have a very dangerous portrait of instability for the first time really on the world stage this year and the portrait is of Donald J. Trump.” Hear more of the conversation about the G7 Summit and Robinson’s latest column on “Trump’s Obama Envy.”
Listen in on the conversation among Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle with Boston Globe reporter James Pindell about the status of the Democrats running for President: What’s expected for former Vice President Joe Biden and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, and how the other candidates are faring as they work to qualify for the upcoming, third Democratic debate. Only on MSNBC.
“Consumers are finding out that (President Donald) Trump’s talk on tariffs and how China is picking up the tab for all of the tariffs is blatantly false. You’re going back-to-school shopping for your children, ok, (and) sneakers that cost ninety bucks in June now cost ninety-five bucks because guess what: We’re picking up the tab on the tariff, on the trade wars that are so easy to win for Donald Trump,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe during a conversation with Joe Scarborough about the current status of the U.S. economy.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle talk with PBS NewsHour’s White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor about President Donald Trump continuing to accuse Jewish voters of disloyalty if they voted for Democrats. Says Barnicle: “The President of the United States in where he is speaking about Jewish people in America, American citizens, as if they are a separate category. He’s put them to one side. And he’s using them as a political tool because it’s all about him. It’s all self-involvement, everything that he says is all self-involvement.”
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jon Meacham and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s foreign relations and the Foundering Fathers’ concerns on this issue. “We’ve seen collectively a remarkable portrait of instability and incompetence on parade from the President of United States talking about events that are current, that are dangerous, that are affecting the lives not only of American citizens, but are affecting our relations with countries around the globe….We’ve seen the videos this morning of his behavior and his rhetoric. This is, I think, getting worse by the day,” says Barnicle about Trump’s presidency. Join the conversation here.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters discuss a front page story about the paper’s investigation that revealed the El Paso shooter’s hate-filled manifesto echoed the incendiary words of President Donald Trump as well as of conservative media stars. “There is also a very short timeline in many instances between the number of times that these words have been used on Fox…and sometimes a very short timeline between that language, that type of language, and tweets from the President of the United States directly reflecting the language,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the conversation and read the New York Times’ article here: https://nyti.ms/2YBWcMu
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the death of Jeffrey Epstein—the financier charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy—in an apparent suicide at a federal jail in Manhattan, which has brought forth much speculation and conspiracy theories. “We need answers as soon as today, and unfortunately, DOJ has been very, very slow getting off the mark here in providing the American public with answers. This is both outrageous, unbelievable, and it tempts people to thinking that the worst has happened—that government is never on the level; and this is just going to be a full-blown conspiracy cloud that needs to be put to rest immediately,” says Barnicle. Join the discussion here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Clint Watts and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that have left at least 29 people dead and the “violent rhetoric” in America under President Donald Trump. Says Barnicle about President Trump: “His language of license lingers in the air like the smell of cordite around mass shootings. That’s a fact. Unfortunately, we will today and we’ve already heard yesterday, one public person after another saying: ‘This is not who we are’ in speaking of the shootings. The sad fact is: This is who we are. This is actually who we are and who we have become….We have these one-man armies of white nationalists. We live in a nation awash with guns—more than 290 million weapons, but that’s just part of it…There is something deeply, deeply wrong in this country.” Join the conversation here.
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss a new poll from Quinnipiac University that asks: “Do you think President Trump is Racist.” Comments Barnicle: “The President of the United States is now in a position where he scares people….Fifty one percent of those people polled think the President of the United States is a racist as opposed to 45 percent who say ‘no, he’s not a racist.’ That is an astounding number, and …he’s going to have real difficulty because you can’t scare people. He has scared people.”
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss and review night one of the second Democratic debate, where liberals and moderates clashed over healthcare and immigration. “The biggest winner last night was substance—because they actually discussed health care legislation in some detail,” said Barnicle, who assessed the debate on CNN was impressive, educational and filled with substance. What do you think?
Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses whether President Donald Trump has enough support to win reelection, after the release of a poll that indicates 54 percent of people say they definitely won’t re-elect him. “Donald Trump in 2016 campaigned as he did—he never expected to win. So, he was outrageous from the beginning, and now he’s in the position of trying to mimic what he did in 2016….Except I’ve got to tell you, I don’t know about the polls; but, there’s only so many aggrieved white guys out there in a pool that you’re swimming in that you could attract. That’s his problem,” adds veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
“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.
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.
