It’s Mike Barnicle’s birthday! How will he spend his birthday morning? MSNBC’s Willie Geist documents the morbid details on Morning Joe. “I gotta check to see if I’m still in the line-up,” jokes Mike. See how it unfolded here.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle discusses his latest column for The Daily Beast, which breaks down Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s absurd, action movie-inspired remarks. “It is astounding to me where Ben Carson is in the polls given what he says,” says Mike of Dr. Carson’s perplexing popularity amid controversial comments about the mass shooting in Oregon. Watch the discussion here and read Mike’s column, “Ben Carson Gives New Meaning to Crazy,” at https://thebea.st/1K4JORi.
“The Forgotten War… it’s been more than sixty years. You were awarded a Bronze Star Medal. You came home. How long did you carry that war with you—till today?,” Mike Barnicle asks former Governor of Virginia Douglas Wilder, the first African-American governor of any state since Reconstruction, about how serving during the Korean War has impacted his life. Listen to Governor Wilder discuss how his experiences in Korea, fighting alongside white soldiers, led him to get into politics once he returned home to Virginia. Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Four-star General Mark A. Milley joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe and talks with Mike Barnicle about a generation of U.S. Army service men and women who have known nothing but war during the last decade and a half. “What have the constant deployments and redeployments—three, four, five, or six of places like Afghanistan—done? What kind of stress have they put on the U.S. Army given the numbers within the Army?,” asks Mike. Listen to General Milley’s explain how the Army has responded to ongoing pressures.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle sums up what Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-VT) needs to do during tomorrow’s CNN/Facebook Democratic Debate: “Not lose his temper.” Watch the conversation on both the Democratic—Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton—and the Republican—Donald Trump’s ongoing popularity—presidential races here.
American diplomat and author Dennis Ross joins the Morning Joe round table to talk with Mike Barnicle about his new book “Doomed to Succeed,” which focuses on the shifting relationship between the U.S. and Israel. “You’ve just outlined a region of the world that most everybody knows is one long, continues burning fuse. Do you think the President of the United States, especially as he looks at this region and our relationship with Israel, is naïve?,” asks Mike. Listen to Ross’s comments on President Barack Obama’s approach to dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu here. Only on MSNBC.
On MSNBC, Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie talks with Mike Barnicle and the Morning Joe team about Wall Street. “How does getting tough on Wall Street result in growth?,” asks Mike. Watch the discussion here and listen to Governor Christie’s views on the financial services industry. Wait – and what about Mike Barnicle’s socks? Find out.
Continuing the conversation on Donald Trump’s defiant presidential campaign, the National Journal’s Charlie Cook talks with Mike Barnicle about why he believes Trump, despite his popularity, will never be elected President of the United States. “Do you think Trump has a definite floor—I don’t know whether it’s 20% or 18%—because the people who show up to see him… are not leaving this guy?,” asks Mike. Listen to Cook’s response and watch the conversation on “the alleged decline of Donald Trump” only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle reacts to President Barack Obama’s recent interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, during which correspondent Steve Kroft asked the President about Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server during her time as Secretary of State. “I don’t think the President would go on national TV and say national security wasn’t threatened unless it wasn’t… I don’t think he would risk the embarrassment of having it slapped back at him,” says Mike of President Obama’s comments. Watch excerpts from the interview here and listen to the conversation. Only on MSNBC.
“The collective media can sit and wring its hands as long as it wants, but you cannot deny that he’s connecting… and it’s built upon the past 10 to 15 years of political ineffectiveness in the thoughts of many people,” says Mike Barnicle of Donald Trump’s ongoing, successful presidential campaign. Hear the conversation on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on the likely, seemingly confounding reasons why Trump continues to lead the Republican race despite political analysts predicting his campaign’s collapse.
In his latest column for The Daily Beast, Mike Barnicle applies some movie analogies to the latest absurd remarks made by Dr. Ben Carson, the perplexingly popular Republican presidential candidate. “His supporters list several reasons why they would consider voting for him: ‘He seems like a nice man. He speaks softly. He is a fine Christian. He speaks his mind.’ He is also a few quarts short of a gallon,” writes Mike. “When it comes to Ben Carson’s preposterous campaign, count me in with Chauncey Gardiner who said in ‘Being There.’: I like to watch.”
Read the whole column here.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/11/ben-carson-gives-new-meaning-to-crazy.html
Actress/writer/producer Emily Mortimer joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk with Mike Barnicle about her experience working on HBO’s “The Newsroom.” “What, if anything, did you learn about the real news business when you were doing ‘The Newsroom?,’” asks Mike. Hear what Mortimer has to say about “The Newsroom” and also about the second season of her series “Doll & Em,” which she created for HBO.
Comedian and car enthusiast Jay Leno joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe and talks with Mike Barnicle about his new show, “Jay Leno’s Garage” and Americans’ love affair with the automobile. “How do you handle your car payments?,” jokes Mike of Leno’s bodacious car collection. Listen to Leno share his childhood car stories and learn more about his new show at https://bit.ly/1MZWs8V, which premieres tonight on CNBC.
As Donald Trump continues to surprise his critics, maintaining the lead in the Republican primary polls, Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle explains his sustained popularity this way: “This is a country that lives of the moment. Most families live paycheck to paycheck. Very few families are thinking about the general election, still a year off. But if you talk to people, anecdotally, and you ask them ‘what do you think about the elections and these guys running for president?’—‘Trump.’ Who do you think would be the strongest dealing against the Russians?’—‘Trump.’ They haven’t thought about it beyond the level of name recognition and the power of the personage on TV.” Watch the conversation only on MSNBC.
Following news that the FBI has interrupted four attempts by smugglers with suspected Russian ties trying to sell nuclear material to extremists, including the Islamic State, the Washington Post’s Kevin Sullivan joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk about his in-depth series on daily life inside ISIS-controlled areas. “ISIS establishes local governments in territories that they occupy or seize. How do those local governments operate?,” asks Mike Barnicle. Listen to Sullivan describe the harsh realities and dire conditions inside ISIS territories and read the full report at https://wapo.st/1PizMmJ.
“You get into an automobile with a kid and what does the kid do automatically? Puts his or her seatbelt on—automatically. It took 20 years to convince some states to have seatbelt laws. It took almost 20 years to convince automobile manufacturers to make seatbelts mandatory. We can do this!,” says Mike Barnicle of implementing tough but necessary gun legislation. Watch the Morning Joe conversation on gun control in the U.S. and learn about the gun-owning background of the mother of the Oregon shooter. Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, son of the late, longtime Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, talks with Mike Barnicle about his new memoir, “A Common Struggle,” which highlights his struggle with painkillers and bipolar disorder, along with his family’s own private struggles. “The stories and anecdotes that you recount have been public knowledge or in the public prints for years. Now they are in the book…. Is your relationship different now with members of your family because it’s all in book form as your story?,” asks Mike. Watch the revealing conversation here and learn from Kennedy, now a leading advocate for mental health and substance abuse care, how his family has reacted to this book. Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle reacts to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s proposals on gun control in the wake of the latest mass shooting. “There is one other opening that she alluded to… and it would require courage, commitment and a constant hammering on it to get it done….Among the 14 weapons that the [Oregon shooter’s] family had were an AK-47 and an AR-15… talking about Afghanistan and Iraq, that’s what those weapons were designed for….There’s no good reason why legitimate hunters or legitimate gun owners would have AR-15s and AK-47s in their arsenal,” says Mike. Watch the frank discussion here on the unrelenting gun violence in this country.
“Are you saying that you would continue to try and repeal Obamacare? You do realize it’s been attempted 47 times in the U.S. House to repeal it—and failed 47 times?,” asks Mike Barnicle of Louisiana Governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal. Listen to Gov. Jindal’s thoughts on the Republicans’ ongoing challenge to the Affordable Care Act here. Only MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Following U.S. airstrikes of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and General James L. Jones (Ret.), former U.S. National Security Advisor, join MSNBC’s Morning Joe and discuss future strategies in Afghanistan, including President Barack Obama’s consideration of keeping as many as 5,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016. “Could you speak to the reality of what war really is—it’s not a video game—and the fact that the U.S. now fights wars from the air, which is inherently dangerous without spotters on the ground?,” asks Mike Barnicle of General Jones. Listen to Gen. Jones’ answer here.
