What does America look like?

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, discuss how the upcoming virtual Republican National Convention might respond to the “face and feelings of America” that were on display at this week’s virtual Democratic National Convention. Watch the segment here.

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What does America look like?

NJ Governor talks school reopening

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on when and how the state's public schools may open safely amid the deadly and destructive coronavirus outbreak.

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NJ Governor talks school reopening

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro makes erroneous prediction

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“We have incompetence in this Administration. We have corruption in this Administration. We have criminality in this Administration, and we have these virtual clowns on television like Jeanine Pirro making absurd predictions and pronouncements,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a discussion with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about Fox News host Jeanine Pirro's erroneous on-air suggestion that "something's going to happen” so that Joe Biden will not be on the Democratic presidential ticket in November. Watch the rest of the conversation here..

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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro makes erroneous prediction

National Urban League’s annual report “Unmasked"

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial about the release of “Unmasked,” the organization’s annual State of Black America report that addresses the various ways that that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed long-standing disparities for Black Americans when it comes to the economy, access to health care institutions and the criminal justice system. “Black people have caught hell this year,” says Morial, explaining they are more likely to be infected with coronavirus, more likely to die from it, more likely to be unemployed and less likely to have the ability to work from home. Hear more of the discussion here.

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National Urban League’s annual report “Unmasked"

When will Americans get financial relief?

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Morning Joe veteran columnist and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discuss the latest report that over 1 million Americans will file for state unemployment benefits for the 21st consecutive week due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing negotiations between the Trump Administration and Democratic leaders over the next economic relief package for Americans.
Asks Barnicle: “During your discussions—you and Senator Schumer, your discussions with Mr. Meadows and Mr. Mnuchin—is it ever raised the fact that millions of Americans who have lost their jobs will take months and years to recover economically? Some will never recover economically. Some of the jobs they’ve lost will never come back. Do you talk about these things?” Hear Speaker Pelosi’s response now.

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When will Americans get financial relief?

No help from POTUS on coronavirus relief bill

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Is President Donald J. Trump personally involved in the current White House negotiations with Democrats over the next economic relief package that will help millions Americans on the verge of economic collapse amid the coronavirus pandemic? Find out in this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

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No help from POTUS on coronavirus relief bill

Getting poor and low-income voters to the polls

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, about what has to happen to lift up and politically engage this country’s 34 million poor and low income people to cast their vote toward combatting the systemic racism and systemic poverty that plague our nation.

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Getting poor and low-income voters to the polls

Republicans need to stand up

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“People forget a lot of things—we are in a sense, a country of amnesiacs with the culture moving so rapidly….But people don't forget things like not getting a paycheck, not having someone come for them to help them. Government is there to help people in trouble. This time people are in real trouble and nobody is coming, and nobody is coming largely because of the Republican Party led by Donald J. Trump,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about the Republican Party as the coronavirus outbreak and its handling has ravaged the country. Join the conversation here.

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Republicans need to stand up