Mike Barnicle

Tim Barnicle, PhD, author of the Substack “American Times,” joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest article titled “Citizen Stern” which explores how shock jock Howard Stern’s run for governor of New York in 1994 served as a precursor for the new era of politics. “I understand that you grew up in a house where there were always printed newspapers around? Is that like, so old that I’m making myself even older than I am?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of his son, Tim. “What’s the story about the way to get to authenticity today for candidates?” Hear Tim’s answer and watch the conversation here. Only on MSNBC.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, the Atlantic’s Peter Wehner and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on President Donald Trump’s latest flip-flop on his approach to the war between Russia and Ukraine, after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a shipment of U.S. weapons headed to help Ukraine over what U.S. officials said were concerns about its own low stockpiles.

“It’s interesting that the BRIC nations meeting in South America this week, apparently according to the Wall Street Journal and other news reports, are now talking amongst themselves, ‘Well, let’s just trade with each other and let the American situation settle down. We’ll see what President Trump does eventually with the tariffs, but let’s just keep business going and flowing with ourselves.’ Now, you wonder whether the contagion factor there transfers itself to European nations also being hit with high tariffs and that all of it is a mushroom cloud around the level of uncertainty that this has brought to the global economy,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire about the economic uncertainty caused by President Trump’s tariff policy amid the BRICS nations holding their annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Watch this Morning Joe discussion between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the hostages still being held in captivity almost two years after the Hamas-led attacks that resulted in roughly 1,200 people being killed in Israel and 251 others taken hostage. “We are incredibly just three months short of the second anniversary of October 7th. Three months from now, it’ll be two years. How is it that the hostages have still not been released?” asks Barnicle. Hear Haass’ answer here.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Stew Leonard’s Grocery Chain President and CEO Stew Leonard, Jr. about the cost of grocery items and shoppers’ habits this year ahead of the July 4 holiday.

Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle digs deeper into President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration bill with NBC News medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta, who sets the record straight on pending hospital and clinic closures and the loss of many “good paying” jobs that will result if the bill is approved.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Wille Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss House Republicans being on the verge of passing President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill, which would increase the nation’s deficit and make cuts to Medicaid, ahead of a July 4 deadline imposed by Trump.

“Just reading the internals of this particular piece of legislation that’s about to pass, clearly, it’s obvious that many Republicans are total amnesiacs. They have no sense of history. Nearly 60 years ago, probably 62 years ago, this very summer Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty. And now the Republican Party over the past few months in concocting this bill and putting this legislation together and getting it approved…They have turned the war on poverty into a war on the impoverished, a war on the vulnerable, the most vulnerable among us,” says Barnicle about President Trump’s sweeping policy bill that will certainly also impact the nation’s biggest employer — the health care industry. “They clearly have not thought this out.”

Journalist Charlie English joined Morning Joe to discuss with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle his new book “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature,” which tells the story of the CIA’s covert operation to smuggle millions of banned books into Eastern Europe during the Cold War, particularly Poland, to undermine Soviet censorship and promote intellectual freedom. Watch their conversation here.

Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich who joins Morning Joe to discuss Senate Republicans pushing to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, despite divisions within the party about its expected $3.3 trillion hit to the nation’s debt pile. “A Republican Party led by Donald Trump is on the verge of inflicting a tsunami of personal grief on millions of Americans. One in five Americans are on Medicare, and one in five Americans who are on Medicare. They’re not wealthy….Governor Kasich, I want to know what you think of the differences in the Republican Party and this Republican White House from the days when you were in the House…(the) difference in politics today as compared to then, in terms of getting things done for people,” asks Barnicle. Hear Kasich’s response about how “unbelievably terrible” it is that lawmakers have put their own self interest above solving the nation’s problems. “The Republican Party was my vehicle not my master,” explains Kasich.

“If you go out to the country and look at Democratic governors, Democratic legislators in various states, you’ll see a different Democratic Party. You’ll see people fighting back, you’ll see people organizing protests. You saw the huge reaction this weekend. Millions of people, five million people, around the country, parading against Donald Trump and the military parades and all of that, and they were largely led by local Democrats, state Democrats, from state, to state, to state. Washington D.C.—forget it. They are hopeless,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Democratic politicians at the federal versus state level during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about a recent Quinnipiac University survey that found most Democrat voters disapprove of how their party’s lawmakers in Congress are handling their jobs.

“I would suggest and submit that Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s appointment is the most dangerous of the cabinet appointments. And I say that thinking of my grandchildren, because I think he poses a threat to normal health conditions of young kids in this country and even of adults in this country, but specifically young kids,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has unveiled the eight people he has chosen to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel – just two days after taking the unprecedented step of removing all 17 sitting members. Find out more here.

Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with three members of Red Sox Nation – Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle – as they unpack the stunning blockbuster trade in Major League Baseball that sent Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. “Rafi is a terrific kid, but that’s the underline – the kid. He’s a child, a spoiled child, and the fact that he began disagreeing with the Red Sox front office when they made a trade for Alex Bregman, a much better defensive third baseman and a much better all-around ball player than Rafi. Rafi is one of the top ten hitters in Major League Baseball, but he’s no Alex Bregman offense and defense. So, I mean, that’s what happened there,” says Barnicle about his beloved Red Sox making a franchise-altering decision with their trade of Devers.

Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president emeritus, joined Morning Joe to talk with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle about America’s relationship with its European allies in the President Donald Trump era following the chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warning that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on NATO territory to test if NATO’s Article 5 guarantee of mutual assistance will be honored. “Are we now a nation alone?” asks Barnicle. Hear Haass’ response here.

Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss a Quinnipiac University poll that shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating is underwater on every issue as immigration protests have erupted in major cities including Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., in response to recent ICE raids. “With regard to the president’s popularity on this, again, we go back to the visual. People see on their home screens watching the news; they see men jumping out of SUVs, wearing masks, grabbing American citizens off the street, and within 24 hours, that citizen—he or she—might end up in Texas at some prison or in Arkansas at some prison, whether they’re taken off the streets in New York, or Boston or Somerville, Massachusetts—where that happened to a young woman. So, you’ve got all of that going on at the same time. This portends to be a long, hot summer because…the contagion factor has now set in, as we were just reporting from city, to city, to city, people are out, and sometimes the local police departments aren’t up to handling to it. This is a troubled country with a troubled issue,” says Barnicle about the current immigration protests in America.

“This is literally a tale of two cities. There’s the tale of one city being told by the administration—by sending the National Guard and the combat ready Marine Corps, onto the streets of an American city. Then there’s the other tale of another city, Los Angeles itself—and when told by the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, you realize the facts of the tale of the two cities. And the facts are that Los Angeles is calming down, that there are no riots in the streets, that the activities of the protesters is confined to about four or five square blocks in a city—a tumultuous, large, sprawling city in America. Four or five blocks, that’s it,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe segment with Mika Brzezinski and Katty Kay about the immigration protests in Los Angeles over the ICE raids which led President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard and Marines to the city.

“Suzy, there’s so much in here in the book for people just getting off the launching pad as well as others; but I want to take you back to a specific moment that you mentioned in the book. You’re going to Stanford, and you’re taking your son to college, his freshman year, and they’re playing ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters,’ and you’re starting to cry, okay; but, you know, it seems like the snap of a finger that, that occurred, but in terms of things that happen in the culture around us, it seems like ancient history. So today, young people or people, middle age, whatever, confronting job possibilities, job opportunities, the introduction of artificial intelligence in our lives. What does that do?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Suzy Welch who joins the Morning Joe panel to discuss her new book “Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career.”

Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Chris Matthews about Elon Musk’s rebuke of President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, calling the GOP megabill currently making its way through Congress a “disgusting abomination.” Only on MSNBC.

The Morning Joe panel congratulates Mike Barnicle on his sons—Nick and Colin Barnicle—winning the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series for their Netflix docuseries “The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox” that tells the story of the Boston Red Sox’s historic comeback, breaking an 86-year World Series drought and overcoming a 3-0 series deficit. “They won for a documentary called “The Comeback,” a three-part documentary on Netflix that surprised everyone because sports documentaries don’t usually shoot to the top of the top ten Netflix list and if it does, falls off right away; but this stuck on there, and it told a terrific story that was about more than baseball. It was about: Don’t give up, come back,” says Barnicle about his sons’ docuseries. Watch the segment here.

Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they remember actor George Wendt who has died at 76 years old after earning six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his role as Norm Peterson on the popular sitcom “Cheers,” which ran for 11 seasons. “Every character was perfect,” says Barnicle. See the tribute here.

“How is it that one specific political party, the Republican Party, seems gravitated towards, captured by, and clings to one individual—Donald J. Trump. How did he do this? How did he transform politics in America and become so all-consuming to so many people, including Democrats, including people making $50,000 a year or less, including laborers, firefighters, police officers? What is it about him? You have to look at your enemy in order to defeat an enemy. You have to know who you’re fighting. It seems to me and a lot of other people, I think, that the Democrats simply have never sat down and defined who he is and how to go about that,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel of Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Anand Giridharadas discuss the Democratic Party’s failure to pull American voters away from President Trump.