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.
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“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.
“These headstones behind us are literally—it’s no stretch of history—the building blocks for the alliances that keep us safe today, that keep Europe safe today,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle, referencing the graves of D-Day soldiers during this morning’s live show broadcast from Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, to memorialize the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Listen to more of the discussion with Joe Scarborough, David Ignatius and Barnicle about the evolution of Germany since World War II. Only on MSNBC.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle live from Normandy, France, to commemorate this 75th anniversary of D-Day. “We did this in conjunction, of course, with the British and the French. But largely us—the United States of America did this: What occurred here 75 years ago on this truly momentous day that brought the hope of freedom and liberation to the world—it was us,” says Barnicle. More of the moving coverage is here.
Listen in to the Morning Joe remembrances about D-Day just days ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Allied forces having launched the most potent combination of sea, land and air power in history headed for Normandy. “I sometimes worry about—maybe because I’m old— is that in this age of Twitter, and Instagram, with the attention span so fleeting in this country, that we don’t remember what happened at places like Normandy on June 6, 1944. It’s such, such a stark reminder of who we really are and still remain,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during the conversation with Willie Geist, Tom Brokaw and Walter Isaacson. Only on MSNBC.
NBC News Correspondent Heidi Przybyla and Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss former Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) declaration that President Donald Trump should consider being indicted to avoid an impeachment investigation. “This would be so great. It would be a gift from heaven if he ever acceded to Trey Gowdy’s request—just simply for the cross-examination. It would be the highest rated TV program ever: Donald Trump being cross examined by a skilled prosecutor,” says Barnicle about the hypothetical situation. Listen to more of the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe debate about the merits of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) decision not to participate in Fox News’ town halls in her 2020 presidential bid. “This fits Elizabeth Warren, this is who she is,” says contributor Mike Barnicle. “Elizabeth Warren arguably is the only candidate—whose policies she articulates very well—who speaks to the needs of not only everybody else in the country, but the Fox audience specifically. Hear more of the conversation with Donny Deutsch, Nicholas Confessore, and Willie Geist here.
Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses the inherent problems in President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will impose 5 percent tariffs on all Mexican goods, a tax that would “gradually increase” until Mexico steps up its immigration enforcement actions. “Part of it gets to the root of this presidency. He issued a statement—the White House issued a statement on the President’s behalf…surrounding this trade policy. It’s a lengthy statement, it’s an incoherent statement and it begs the question, is there still a White House staff?” Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the Trump Administration. Join the conversation here with Republican strategist Susan Del Percio and CNBC’s Brian Sullivan.
The Morning Joe panel of Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss with Accenture executive and “Pivot to the Future” author Omar Abbosh the upcoming revolution of new 5G technology, which is “more than faster networks” as President Trump announced it’s a race “America must win.” Hear more about what the next five to 10 years might bring and who will be most impacted and benefited by the new technology.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Thomas Maier, author of the new book “Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro.” Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle asks Maier: “In the course of living this book as you reported and wrote this book, do you think there is a truth out there that the American public does not know and might never know?” Listen to Maier’s response here. Only on MSNBC.
“There’s a certain sadness with me about Memorial Day because you think of the word ‘memorial’ and part of that word incorporates memory. And with all the tools we have today—with Snapchat, and Twitter, and our smartphones, they’re incredible instruments—but they’ve caused a loss of memory in America: Memory about who we are and who we’ve been. Memorial Day used to be a time that was not just the start of summer, it was a time when nearly everyone remembered the fallen because nearly everyone in this country had been touched by the fallen…in the people they knew. That’s gone. We now live in a 1 percent world, where less than 1 percent of people serve in the military,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Jon Meacham about the very essence of Memorial Day and the decline in recognition of the significance of this national holiday. Listen in 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.
