Television
Jan 09, 2019
The nation’s emergency

While the Morning Joe panel reviews President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address last night, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle puts it into context: “It raises the question—an important one…What happens when there is a real crisis? When there is a real emergency? Does he take to the air waves? Do we give him the air waves? Do we believe him? That’s a real question that’s going to have to be answered. The president continually…gets right up to the edge of ‘this as a national emergency’. Well, there is a national emergency I would submit, and we saw it last night: It’s him.” Listen to more of the conversation here.