“I didn’t hear one of them saying about the President of the United States, ‘he’s a good man. He’s a decent man. He’s an honest man.’ I didn’t hear one Republican say that,” explains veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about the final hours of debate between House Democrats and House Republicans regarding the articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, before President Trump became the third president in history to be impeached. Listen to more of the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that he’s made up his mind that President Donald Trump should be acquitted if Trump were to face an impeachment trial in the Senate and dismissed the notion that he has to be a “fair juror,” claiming that he doesn’t see the need for a formal trial in the Senate. “How will history view these people? Unfortunately, we are now in an age and in a culture where there is no more history. There is no more truth. It’s all within the next hour, it’s all within what’s on your phone. There’s no more conscience in the United States Senate, really….Impeachment is being dealt with in a truly frivolous manner,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle about prized free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees having agreed to a record nine-year, $324 million contract. “We talk a lot here about the taint in politics having to do with money and the corruption of cash in politics. This is an example of it being extended into Major League Baseball, until and in less Mookie Betts gets $350 million from the Boston Red Sox,” jokingly says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the 2020 presidential race, specifically how the candidates stack up against President Donald J. Trump and how they are doing on the campaign trail with former Vice President Joe Biden “more than holding” Iowa while Sen. Elizabeth Warren has seen her support in Iowa drop by almost half. Join the conversation here.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Julia Ainsley about an upcoming report from U.S. Attorney John Durham focused on the possibility of FBI and Justice Department misconduct in the run-up to the 2016 election through the spring of 2017, following Attorney General William Barr and Durham having held meetings with Italian intelligence officials in Rome as they sought to trace the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s alleged collusion with President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Hear more about what’s next in the process here.
Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph stopped by the Morning Joe studio to talk about his book “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea” and how Netflix, as Mike Barnicle noted, “literally changed the studio movie business for all time.” Listen in on the conversation.
Listen in on the Morning Joe panel discussion of The Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson’s article: “Trump insiders are finally speaking up. What took so long?” with Robinson, Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor. “Gene is talking about and writing about a town filled with cowards. From anonymous to Republicans who you know—who we all know—who will speak to you off the record about how dangerous this is, about how all of the norms and standards have been either broken, or lowered, or disappeared and yet will not put their names on it,” adds Barnicle. Hear more of the conversation now.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and legal analyst Danny Cevallos about the federal court ruling that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena in its Trump impeachment inquiry because top presidential advisers cannot ignore congressional demands for information. “In this sea of subpoenas, Danny, that have been issued, many people who have been issued a subpoena have just totally ignored the subpoena. How does that happen?”
Hear Cevallos’ response here to what’s next.
The Morning Joe panel of Willie Geist, Eddie Glaude Jr., Richard Haass and Mike Barnicle analyze the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates with the addition of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the race. “Already it’s a factor, but it’s going to become a larger factor after the holidays are over, at the beginning of the new year: Which among these candidates—who can beat Donald Trump? That’s going to be the factor,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.
The Morning Joe panel discusses Republicans having shown “disrespect” in their “attacks” of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient and Iraq war veteran, during his public testimony in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and the ramifications their behavior may have on the Republican Party as a whole. “As we speak this morning, the United States Army is providing 24-hour security for this man who did his duty to the country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Vindman, who testified in his Army dress uniform.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about Kurt Volker, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, having revised his testimony—during his public hearing in the House impeachment inquiry—from his Oct. 3 private deposition, now saying he didn’t know at that time that military aid to Ukraine had been linked to Ukraine launching investigations that would have been politically beneficial to President Donald Trump.
Listen in on the conversation between Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade recapping the first week of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and the effectiveness of the Democrat’s lead counsel Daniel Goldman, who has been tasked with questioning key witnesses in the public hearings.
Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarbough, Mike Barnicle and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson review Week One of the public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and look ahead to this week. “One of the things that set the week apart, I would think, would be Dan Goldman’s questioning on the Democratic side—Dan Goldman’s questioning, of each and every witness that appeared before the committee because it was professional, it was concise, it was to the point, it was deliberate and explanatory,” says Barnicle about Goldman, the Democrat’s lead counsel in the impeachment inquiry.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Michael Bloomberg apologizing for the New York Police Department’s policy of “stop and frisk,” a controversial policing method the former mayor and potential 2020 candidate has repeatedly defended as helping to lower the murder rate during his time in office. “The stunning thing about this…was that Mike Bloomberg, who so vociferously backed this policy for years after he left the mayoralty, all of a sudden, boom, he turns around,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion here.
Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell as he discusses the specific cases in his latest critically acclaimed book “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know,” which is based partly on interviews with scientists, criminologists and military psychologists. “We’re increasingly living in an age where what we’re doing right now is of diminishing value – eye contact. We have these things,” says Mike Barnicle says of his smart phone. “How does that add to the lack of communication between people?” Hear Gladwell’s responses here.
Listen in as the Morning Joe panel analyzes the status of the Republican Party heading into the 2020 national elections, following the state elections where Democrats won control of all three branches of government in Virginia for the first time in a generation. “If you’re a Republican strategist…measuring last night’s results, looking forward to a year from now, your next year’s election, it’s a shop-worn phrase, ‘the canary in the coal mine.’ But if you’re a Republican strategist, can you tell your clients ‘got to watch out because the canary is dead?’” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hear Kornacki’s response here. Only on MSNBC.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Elise Jordan, John Heilemann and Mike Barnicle about the “destruction” of the Department of State in the era of President Donald Trump, after transcripts revealed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators that she felt shocked and threatened when she learned what President Trump had said about her on a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president. “It’s hard to believe, but there might be a larger story than the threats to Ambassador Yovanovitch—and it would be the slow destruction of the State Department as evidenced here in the release of these transcripts,” says Barnicle. “We’re seeing this play out in real time now with the destruction of a single department, the State Department, that is key to the United States role in the world.” Join the conversation here.
The Morning Joe panel discusses the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals’ trip to the White House to celebrate their victory with President Donald Trump and whether star pitcher Stephen Strasburg will rejoin the team after opting out of the final four years of his contract, three days after being chosen MVP of the World Series. Hear what Willie Geist, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle predict Strasburg’s next move will be.
“You don’t have to go to Virginia or Maryland. Go to New Hampshire, one of the first primaries. You walk around and despite what the New York Times says on the front page: ‘Joe can’t speak English,’ you go to New Hampshire, go to a shopping mall up there, people like him, they want to like him. He has a tremendous resilience in his support,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle about Vice President Joe Biden in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hear more of the conversation with Elise Jordan and Jason Johnson about the field of Democratic presidential candidates after polls show Biden remains the top candidate in the Nevada, Michigan and Texas primary races.
Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Associated Press’ White House reporter Jonathan Lemire about voter trepidation over some of the policy plans of the Democratic presidential candidates, following Sen. Elizabeth Warren releasing her $52 trillion healthcare plan. “The idea of handing over your healthcare to the federal government is scaring a lot of people,” comments Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion now.
