Mike Barnicle

Watch this Morning Joe segment between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Washington Post columnist Max Boot about whether or not COVID-19 vaccinations should be made mandatory for school teachers so that we don’t have to shut down schools again as the deadly Delta variant runs rampant. “I think that’s the heart of each family: You want your children to be better in life than you have been. But if your children are struck with a virus, that’s a critical condition for them, obviously. Aim at the children in public schools, get the teachers mandated vaccines: I’m wondering if you think that would work,” asks Barnicle. Hear Boot’s response here.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown about her new book, “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story” and why the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida allowed basically “a slap on the wrist” for charges Epstein faced related to charges of sex with underage girls.

Watch this Morning Joe segment as contributor Mike Barnicle talks with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about whether COVID-19 vaccinations should be mandatory for New York City school teachers as they head back to school this September and for the city’s health care workers, only half of whom are vaccinated on average, according to de Blasio. He said more aggressive measures may be warranted if the Delta variant continues to grow. See the discussion here.

ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, about whether COVID-19 variants will be prevalent in the coming years as the Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 83 percent of COVID-19 cases in America and what—if anything—we can do to prevent new variants.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights in Philadelphia, where he issued a dire and angry warning that the very underpinnings of American democracy were under threat, calling an ongoing assault on voting rights the gravest challenge to American democracy since the Civil War. “It was certainly perhaps his most powerful speech as president,” says veteran columnist Barnicle.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Eric Adams, Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, about Adams’ plans to rebuild trust in the NYPD if he is elected mayor.

“I can’t imagine a more dangerous time in the last 100 years than the time that we’re enduring and going through right now—when every institution of government is suspect by so many people, when the core of this country: Freedom, liberty, free speech, the right to vote—all of it seems to be under question, almost each and every day,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the state of America during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough. Tune in for their discussion here.

Join this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about Los Angeles Angels hitter and pitcher Shohei Ohtani, who has dominated this MLB season. “He’s more than just a phenomenon….He’s multitalented. And he plays for a manager in Joe Maddon, who’s an old school guy who loves baseball and has made the decision to allow Ohtani to both appear at the plate as a hitter when Ohtani is on the mound pitching. It’s a tremendous show. I’d pay to go see him,” says Barnicle. Learn more about Ohtani here.

Morning Joe host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle discuss the erosion of bipartisanship in American politics. “We now are part of a process—a political system—where members of Congress, members of the United States Senate, some of them, are more afraid of Twitter and their own constituents than they are of any great issue that they’re going to have to resolve. Tip O’Neill, one of his best friends in the House of Representatives was Gerry Ford, and that does not happen today. You don’t see friendships like that today in politics,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

Morning Joe continues the conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about President Joe Biden’s upcoming high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland amid escalating tensions between the two countries. “Success is the fact that they’re going to have the summit—that the two men are going to meet together. Joe Biden…has dealt with Vladimir Putin before. He has looked him in the eye before. He’s had tough talks with him before,” says Barnicle. Watch the rest of the conversation here.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor John Bolton as they discuss U.S.-Russia relations prior to President Joe Biden’s upcoming high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland amid escalating tensions between the two countries. “Could you please, for us, define success and failure from that meeting?” asks Barnicle of Bolton. “What would be success for the United States? What would be failure for the United States?”

ICYMI: Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss President Joe Biden’s Memorial Day speech where he defended America’s “imperfect” democracy. “We have lost touch with one another. We have lost touch with the term ‘neighbors.’ We have lost touch with the loose connection that bonds us all, that once bonded us all together….We have all collectively become the ‘other,’ unfortunately,” says Barnicle about the current state of America as he and Scarborough talk about the existing divisions in the country, particularly inside the halls of Congress. Tune in for the segment here.

“When Liz Cheney said, ‘We must speak the truth. Our election was not stolen, and America has not failed.’ Those are words that should resonate throughout this country because what we’ve talked about here today, what we’ve witnessed in the news, this is a very fragile republic of ours right now,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with host Joe Scarborough about former President Donald Trump’s impact on House Republicans voting to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from their party leadership, following Cheney’s searing indictment of House GOP leaders seeking to expel her after she voted to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6th Capitol riot and her continued denunciations of the former president. Watch more of the discussion about “How did this happen?” here.

Watch this Morning Joe discussion about how voting rights are under attack from the GOP nationwide and the possible underlying cause. “Florida, Texas, they are just 2 of 43 states in this country at last count, 43 state legislatures dominated by Republicans that are trying to really fix election laws, because apparently, that’s the only way Republicans can win a national election is to deny the results or try to fix it for themselves. And yet what we’re talking about, these attempts by state legislatures to alter and make tougher election laws, making it impossible for people to vote or very difficult for people to vote, I would consider that to be secondary to the larger issue, and the larger issue would be, is the damage that Donald Trump has done to our country, to our institutions: Is it permanent, is it lasting, or is it temporary? What’s your view?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of branding expert Donny Deutsch.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Evercore Founder & Senior Chairman Roger Altman about the ever-changing employee base and their impact on the corporations they work for in terms of social and political activism.

On this Morning Joe segment, veteran journalist Mike Barnicle talks with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about her proposed legislation for police accountability, which focuses on establishing an independent federal agency to investigate deaths that occur in police custody, officer-involved shootings and uses of force that result in severe bodily injury. Learn more about it here.

ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the status of policing in America following the shooting death of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, this week. “My instinct is that in police academy after police academy, especially in big cities…they don’t teach recruits about the culture of the cities that they are policing, and it’s vitally necessary to do that in this day and age, when we have such a mix in this country of so many different people, so many different languages,” says Barnicle, who added policing is “a complex, dangerous job….That’s what police officers are trained to do and he did it,” Barnicle says of the officer, whose body camera footage shows Bryant was confronting another girl and wielding a knife as shots were fired.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and former prosecutor David Henderson about the ongoing trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. “You can measure evidence, you can measure testimony, but you can never measure human nature in the jury pool. You don’t know what they’re thinking,” says Barnicle about the trial.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss “This is a Robbery,” a new Netflix series created by two of Barnicle’s sons, Colin Barnicle and Nick Barnicle, which chronicles the world’s biggest art heist. “I’ve been stunned to realize at this late stage of my life that my children have much more discipline and reportorial skills than I ever had. It’s an incredible piece of work, a four-part documentary, over half a billion dollars worth of art stolen one night in 1990, 31 years ago. None of the art has surfaced. God only knows where it is; but the film is filled with characters…funny characters, sad characters, criminal characters. And it’s a great piece of work. I’m obviously very proud of them,” says Barnicle about his sons.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as Barnicle dissects the ongoing saga over Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s controversial decision to remove the 2021 All-Star Game from Georgia after the state created more restrictive voting laws, to the dismay of Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams who urged MLB to keep the All-Star Game in her state, which will reportedly lose an estimated $100 million in revenue from the move. “Baseball has always lagged behind the other professional sports, especially the National Basketball Association, in terms of addressing prominent, social and cultural issues, especially regarding race in this country, and this is an opportunity for (Manfred) to declare Major League Baseball on the right side of history, which he did, and he did it by himself,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the details here.