DC Democrats: “Forget it"

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“If you go out to the country and look at Democratic governors, Democratic legislators in various states, you'll see a different Democratic Party. You'll see people fighting back, you'll see people organizing protests. You saw the huge reaction this weekend. Millions of people, five million people, around the country, parading against Donald Trump and the military parades and all of that, and they were largely led by local Democrats, state Democrats, from state, to state, to state. Washington D.C.—forget it. They are hopeless,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Democratic politicians at the federal versus state level during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about a recent Quinnipiac University survey that found most Democrat voters disapprove of how their party's lawmakers in Congress are handling their jobs.

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DC Democrats: “Forget it"

Young kids: Danger ahead

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"I would suggest and submit that Robert F. Kennedy Jr's appointment is the most dangerous of the cabinet appointments. And I say that thinking of my grandchildren, because I think he poses a threat to normal health conditions of young kids in this country and even of adults in this country, but specifically young kids,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has unveiled the eight people he has chosen to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel – just two days after taking the unprecedented step of removing all 17 sitting members. Find out more here.

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Young kids: Danger ahead

The Red Sox’s major league trade

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with three members of Red Sox Nation – Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle – as they unpack the stunning blockbuster trade in Major League Baseball that sent Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. “Rafi is a terrific kid, but that's the underline – the kid. He's a child, a spoiled child, and the fact that he began disagreeing with the Red Sox front office when they made a trade for Alex Bregman, a much better defensive third baseman and a much better all-around ball player than Rafi. Rafi is one of the top ten hitters in Major League Baseball, but he's no Alex Bregman offense and defense. So, I mean, that's what happened there,” says Barnicle about his beloved Red Sox making a franchise-altering decision with their trade of Devers.

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The Red Sox’s major league trade

Are we now a nation alone?

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Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president emeritus, joined Morning Joe to talk with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle about America’s relationship with its European allies in the President Donald Trump era following the chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warning that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on NATO territory to test if NATO’s Article 5 guarantee of mutual assistance will be honored. "Are we now a nation alone?” asks Barnicle. Hear Haass’ response here.

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Are we now a nation alone?

Barnicle: “A troubled country with a troubled issue"

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss a Quinnipiac University poll that shows President Donald Trump's approval rating is underwater on every issue as immigration protests have erupted in major cities including Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., in response to recent ICE raids. “With regard to the president's popularity on this, again, we go back to the visual. People see on their home screens watching the news; they see men jumping out of SUVs, wearing masks, grabbing American citizens off the street, and within 24 hours, that citizen—he or she—might end up in Texas at some prison or in Arkansas at some prison, whether they're taken off the streets in New York, or Boston or Somerville, Massachusetts—where that happened to a young woman. So, you've got all of that going on at the same time. This portends to be a long, hot summer because…the contagion factor has now set in, as we were just reporting from city, to city, to city, people are out, and sometimes the local police departments aren't up to handling to it. This is a troubled country with a troubled issue,” says Barnicle about the current immigration protests in America.

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Barnicle: “A troubled country with a troubled issue"

A Tale of Two Cities

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“This is literally a tale of two cities. There's the tale of one city being told by the administration—by sending the National Guard and the combat ready Marine Corps, onto the streets of an American city. Then there's the other tale of another city, Los Angeles itself—and when told by the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, you realize the facts of the tale of the two cities. And the facts are that Los Angeles is calming down, that there are no riots in the streets, that the activities of the protesters is confined to about four or five square blocks in a city—a tumultuous, large, sprawling city in America. Four or five blocks, that's it,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe segment with Mika Brzezinski and Katty Kay about the immigration protests in Los Angeles over the ICE raids which led President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard and Marines to the city.

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A Tale of Two Cities

What is an authentic life?

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“Suzy, there's so much in here in the book for people just getting off the launching pad as well as others; but I want to take you back to a specific moment that you mentioned in the book. You're going to Stanford, and you're taking your son to college, his freshman year, and they're playing 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters,' and you're starting to cry, okay; but, you know, it seems like the snap of a finger that, that occurred, but in terms of things that happen in the culture around us, it seems like ancient history. So today, young people or people, middle age, whatever, confronting job possibilities, job opportunities, the introduction of artificial intelligence in our lives. What does that do?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Suzy Welch who joins the Morning Joe panel to discuss her new book “Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career.”

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What is an authentic life?

Elon v. Trump

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Chris Matthews about Elon Musk's rebuke of President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill, calling the GOP megabill currently making its way through Congress a "disgusting abomination.” Only on MSNBC.

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Elon v. Trump