Continuing the discussion about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s controversy over how she managed her emails while Secretary of State, Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle sums up the obstacle for her campaign: “Hillary Clinton gave a very tough, very good speech on Iran about 10 days ago—go find it. There was no coverage of it because no one can see what she stands for through the fog of this email controversy. And there are more emails that are going to become public. It’s going to be the drip treatment over the next five, six, seven weeks.” Watch the conversation on MSNBC and find out why Mike believes it’s not so much the content of the emails that concern voters but what that the controversy adds to the overall public perception of the Clintons.
“He is in the enviable position of having every knock be a boost,” says Mike Barnicle of how Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump perplexingly continues to gain from negative ads against him. Watch the MSNBC Morning Joe panel discussion on the ongoing Trump phenomenon here.
Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle tells Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton how to improve her campaign.
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Stuart Stevens, author and former top strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, stopped by Morning Joe to talk with Mike Barnicle about his latest book, “The Last Season,” written about his father. Mike says to Stevens: “I never really knew my father. He died when we were all pretty young. My wife says ‘you could have done so much more with your life,’ but I couldn’t of because I spent enormous amounts of time with my boys. And I wonder—what did your dad want your life to turn out to be when you were 18, 20, 22?” Watch the conversation between Stevens and Barnicle and hear Stevens’ exploration of the relationship among fathers, sons, and sports.
“Bernie Sanders is talking to millions of people in this country—gone unaddressed by most politicians—who feel unmoored from the foundations of the country since 2008, when the economy collapsed. They think that no politicians care about them. They’ve lost jobs, homes, hope, and confidence in the country. That’s who Bernie Sanders is speaking to,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle of presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) decision to reach across political ideologies and re-address economic inequality with his recent speech at Liberty University, an Evangelical Christian college. Listen to the MSNBC discussion here.
Continuing the discussion about Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) monumental speech at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian college in Virginia, Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle highlights Sen. Sanders’ focus on economic inequality and its resonance across both liberal and conservative voters. Listen to the MSNBC panel’s take on Sen. Sanders’ similarities with Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump.
“Hillary Clinton is an accomplished, formidable candidate who is hamstrung by her inability to handle her self-inflicted email wounds. The email wounds—perhaps lethal—have prevented her from getting a message out. She also, clearly, should fire most of her staff. She is so overly stage managed that she sets up a curtain between herself and the audience,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle in analyzing the source of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s ongoing campaign struggles. Watch the MSNBC panel discussion here on the causes of Clinton’s decline in the polls, including her perceived inauthenticity and recent loss of support among female Democrats.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle considers the massive ongoing rallies for “outsider” presidential candidates Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump. “My guess is… you’re going to have to go back to the Spring of 1968 in this country to see crowds gathered for two candidates: Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy, both coming from the outside,” says Mike. “Bernie Sanders’ speech [at Liberty University] was incredible,” Mike continues. Watch the conversation here.
Singer-songwriter Carole King joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe and talks to Mike Barnicle about the touring version of her smash Broadway show “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.” “The interesting thing to me is your initial reluctance to do it. And when we finally see it, the thread of your life is so interesting. It’s a terrific show and a gift to anyone who really enjoys music,” says Mike to Carole King of the show’s success. Watch the full conversation here and listen to Carole King describe what it’s like to have a jukebox musical based entirely on her life and career.
“It seemed like the welcome mat to 2016 was rolled out for the grieving Vice President this week. Will he go for it?,” ponders Mike Barnicle in his latest column for The Daily Beast. Following a moving and insightful interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” this week, Barnicle continues to cover the topic of whether or not Vice President Joe Biden will decide to run for the presidency in 2016. “The Vice President of the United States is an unusual man in a sour business spoiled by oceans of money, colossal egos, politicians who lean on pollsters and handlers before uttering a single sentence rather than rely on their own soul or common sense. He is, despite the trappings of his office, an actual human being,” writes Barnicle of VP Biden. Read the full column here and learn more about why Barnicle believes the Vice President and his politics of personal tragedy stand out in a positive light as Biden considers whether to jump into another presidential race and challenge—and contrast—Hillary Clinton.
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On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle reacts to Vice President Joe Biden’s personal, emotional interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “It was an extremely rare sighting given our culture and politics today—it was an actual human being,” says Mike of Biden. “Who among us has not been damaged at some point by what life brings to the table? And Joe Biden represents that, he symbolizes it. Stephen Colbert will go on to have many, many wonderful shows, there’s no doubt about that—(but) none as fine as last night,” Mike continues. Watch highlights from Colbert’s interview with Biden, who discusses the recent loss of his son and what considerations go into deciding on a presidential run.
In discussing today’s 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Mike Barnicle talks with NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counter-terrorism John Miller about the upswing in potential terrorist plots. “Where would you place the activity level today as compared to when you first came back to the NYPD with Commissioner William Bratton?,” asks Mike. Listen to Deputy Commissioner Miller, a former journalist, detail the increased activity in efforts to prevent ongoing terror threats here. Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA, discusses his evolving views on U.S. foreign policy toward Iran on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “If you could be more specific on the non-nuclear aspects of our attitude toward Iran that bother you, what would they be?,” asks Mike Barnicle of Gen. Hayden. Hear more here.
“I want someone running for the presidency, and winning the presidency, who knows how to coordinate a government, how to pull a government together, how to talk to people on both sides of the isle. You have to get people with different views in a room and say ‘we have to pull this together for the United States of America,” says Mike Barnicle about the challenges President Barack Obama has faced during his presidency. Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
As Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton continues to slide in the polls, Josh Alcorn, Senior Advisor of the Draft Biden Super PAC, joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe and talks with Mike Barnicle about the organization’s efforts to lay the groundwork for a possible presidential run by Vice President Joe Biden. “Is there a logistical drop dead date in terms of getting the Vice President on the ballot in primary states? How far can you let it go?,” asks Mike.
“Marco Rubio strikes me as somewhat of a neophyte in almost everything he’s doing, both serving in the U.S. Senate as well as running for president. There’s a way to balance that out. There’s a way to figure out how to make a specific number of votes, not all of them, but certainly more than he’s missed,” says Mike Barnicle of Republican presidential candidate Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has missed 77 roll call votes this year, more than any other senator. Watch the conversation about Senator Rubio on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
“The coverage of (Democratic presidential candidate and Senator) Bernie Sanders is interesting because it almost always, right up at the top, mentions that he’s a socialist. But if you go to a Bernie Sanders rally, he’s not speaking to socialists. He’s speaking to American citizens and they are nodding their heads, buying 99% of what Bernie Sanders is saying . He has enormous crowds, enormous support, and the demographics skew very young. We ought to have him on (the show),” says Mike Barnicle on MSNBC’s Morning Joe of Sanders (D-VT). Watch the discussion on Sanders, followed by Mike’s conversation with the New York Times’ Jeremy Peters on changes in the Republican party that are sustaining Republican presidential candidate’s Donald Trump’s popularity.
Ahead of tonight’s highly anticipated season kickoff game between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers, CNBC’s Eric Chemi joins Morning Joe to talk about the NFL’s continued success with ticket and merchandise sales even amid scandals like Deflategate and the latest Spygate surrounding the Super Bowl champion Patriots. “I will tell you this: the Patriots and Coach Bill Belichick will use this ‘us against them’ all during the season,” says Mike summing up the team’s attitude. Listen in on the conversation. On MSNBC.
“She can win New Hampshire,” says Mike Barnicle of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, despite the latest polls showing fellow candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) continuing to rise to lead Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire. “There has been a precipitous drop in her support over the past six or seven weeks, but she has been pummeled nearly every single day, all day, in various media over a self-inflicted wound,” continues Mike, referencing her email debacle. View the latest poll results and hear what the Morning Joe plan attributes to her slip in the polls. On MSNBC.
“When you see the crowds and listen to Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson, Donald Trump… do you hear anything common in what each of them is saying to the public?,” Mike Barnicle asks Haley Barbour, former Governor of Mississippi, of the “outsider” presidential candidates in both parties early in this election cycle. Watch former Governor Barbour’s response on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and why he thinks neither Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) nor Trump will get the presidential nomination of their parties.
