MLB Opening Day is here!

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On this MLB Opening Day, the Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Willie Geist shifts to a memorable June 1986 column by the late Richard Ben Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, titled “What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?” which provided an inside look into the life of baseball legend Ted Williams. “The Richard Ben Cramer piece captures Ted Williams in the winter of his life down in Islamorada, Florida, where he would go bone fishing all day long…He was supposedly the most expert caster that professional fishermen had ever seen….It’s a spectacular profile,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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MLB Opening Day is here!

"When the Going Was Good"

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"The reflections on your life contained in this book are kind of a gift to anyone who is interested in print and in writers and in great editors. We mentioned Bob McFadden, Bill Geist, Nora Ephron, Ben Bradlee, Maureen (Orth). It’s always what you have on the page….I won't ask you to name the four or five most memorable pieces in your career, but the daily push towards excellence. Where did that come from?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new memoir “When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines,” which revisits the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture. Listen to Carter’s response here.

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"When the Going Was Good"

Leadership is about trust

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"You mentioned leadership. You’ve led troopers into battle. So, the signal flap that's going on right now in the front pages of every newspaper. We are still the tip of the spear around the world, the American military, from eastern Germany to Africa, troops on the ground, submariners in the arctic, South China Sea, all over the world. We are the force—still. So, what does it tell you in terms of leadership when we have the signal flap and not a single person involved, not one single person steps up and accepts responsibility?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) who joins Morning Joe to discuss President Donald Trump characterizing an extraordinary security breach as a minor transgression, insisting that top administration officials had not shared any classified information as they discussed secret military plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic magazine. Watch Hertling’s response here: “Leadership is about trust,” he says.

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Leadership is about trust

Social Security cuts

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel discusses the uncertainty surrounding the future of social security as the Social Security Administration has been crippled by cuts to the agency pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. “I can guarantee you that Elon Musk has absolutely zero sense of what a social security check for $375 means to an elderly couple living largely off of social security—none, zero. This is an item that is going to hemorrhage in terms of Trump’s weakness,” says Barnicle about the Trump Administration's cuts to the Social Security Administration. Join the conversation here.

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Social Security cuts

DOGE cuts protested in Wyoming

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“About a month before he died, I called our old pal Al Simpson out in Wyoming, in Cody, Wyoming, just having a conversation with him about how things were going, and he raised the possibility that all of his neighbors—who he knew voted for Donald Trump twice; they voted for him in 2016, and they certainly voted for him last fall—that they would not know what to do when they went down to the local social security office and he said in the spring or early summer and the office was no longer there; he said, and then there's going to be hell to pay. Well, hell has already arrived I think,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Ali Vitali and Mark McKinnon as they discuss the state of the Trump Administration and Republican Party after a GOP town hall descended into chaos when a military veteran interrupted proceedings with an expletive-laden rant against DOGE cuts.

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DOGE cuts protested in Wyoming

Clooney’s new play is “spectacular"

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“This play is spectacular….It moves miraculously fast…But most importantly, it makes you think about what is happening right now, today. And we cover it every morning. The news each and every day contains some new nugget posing a threat to free speech, or to the judiciary, or to the media. Every day we hear this and you wonder if America has been narcoticized to what's going on now because people just shrug their shoulders. ‘Oh well, just one more day.’ No, it's not one more day. It’s one more danger. George Clooney has done a public service with this play,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in his review of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” now on Broadway, written by George Clooney, adapted from his 2005 film of the same name.

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Clooney’s new play is “spectacular"

Jackie Robinson’s military career erased

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, Jason Crow and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Trump Administration’s efforts to erase diversity, equity and inclusion from the federal government, following a report that an article about baseball great Jackie Robinson’s military career in the Army has been removed from the Department of Defense's website. “Jackie Robinson, that's only one of many. There is an African American recipient of the Medal of Honor who has been removed from the records in the Pentagon, a recipient of the Medal of Honor. That's not DEI. That’s courage under fire. That's what it is,” says Barnicle about the Department of Defense removing acknowledgements of Black history under Trump’s DEI removal policy.

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Jackie Robinson’s military career erased

Lucky Loser: Tennis player turns comedian

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"What is harder? The pursuit of a tennis goal is incredibly hard and incredibly competitive. The pursuit of writing comedy is both dangerous to your ego, very tough to crack, especially as a novice going into it. So, what's harder? Getting to Wimbledon or getting to the Daily Show?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of stand-up comedian Michael Kosta who joins Morning Joe to discuss his memoir “Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy,” which provides insight into Kosta’s unlikely journey from professional tennis player (#864 in the world) to professional comedian. Watch their conversation here. Only on MSNBC.

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Lucky Loser: Tennis player turns comedian