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"It would be hard not to admire Jimmy Kimmel after watching him last night in that performance. It was heartfelt, it was sincere, it was personal, it was moving, and it was genuine—and it was about something that affects everyone in this country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel having broken his silence in an emotional return to ABC’s airwaves as he spoke to the controversy that briefly sidelined his late-night show and sparked a national debate over free speech. "We have something that very few people in the world have. We have the right to speak. We have the right to say what we want to say, when we want to say it with very few restrictions, and that goes from late night comedians to what we do here in the morning, to what you say on a bus or in a school room or whatever: Freedom of speech is the core of the United States of America.” Watch the discussion here.

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Jimmy Kimmel’s back on ABC

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"You've been in the business all of your life. The power of movies when you first began doing 'Arrested Development' on TV was far different than it is today, and the power of Netflix is just incredible. Can you talk about the power of Netflix compared to the old studio things, the way they used to go?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of actor Jason Bateman who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new Netflix crime drama “Black Rabbit,” which centers on two brothers who own a popular New York City restaurant, Black Rabbit, and get pulled into the city's criminal underworld.

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Jason Bateman talks about his career

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“I was struck by how much I thought I knew about the origins of this country, that I did not know—that I found out during your classroom, and it’s a classroom. It’s an epic classroom, this film. What did you learn? What surprised you as you made it?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new 12-hour docuseries “The American Revolution,” which premieres on PBS on November 16, 2025 and airs on six consecutive nights. Watch how Burns explains that the making of the film provided a “daily humiliation of what I thought I knew."

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Ken Burns’ new docuseries “The American Revolution"

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Tune in to this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jeffrey Goldberg and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Trump Administration's plans to crackdown on liberal groups, following ABC having pulled late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely after pressure from the Federal Communications Commission over remarks he made about the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. “Every American household with a television set, that television set comes with an automatic censure thing: It's called a remote control. If you don't like what you're hearing or what you're watching or the person presenting it, you change the channel. Instead, they (the Trump Administration) want to change the philosophy of the country,” says Barnicle.

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White House crackdown on “liberal” thought

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"What does it say about us, right, that if you pick up a grammar school textbook history, a high school textbook history, and look for Emmett Till, you might not find him in the index?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of author Wright Thompson who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” that revisits the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, revealing the true location and nature of the crime, which took place in a barn rather than the location indicated by a false confession. Thompson, a Mississippi native, explores the historical context of the event, the forces of white supremacy that enabled it, and the efforts of individuals to uncover the truth after decades of obfuscation, which he writes "painted a poor picture of Mississippi and its white citizens."

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Revisiting the murder of Emmett Till—70 years later

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“Dr. West...when you talk about these scores and you look at them: They're down in science, they're down in math, they're down in reading. What is wrong with the American educational system—that pretty much across the board, every subject, important subject taught in schools—the scores are way down,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle to Dr. Martin West, vice chair of the National Assessment Governing Board, who joins Morning Joe to discuss National Assessment of Educational Progress test scores showing drops in science, math and reading for eighth and twelfth grade students. Hear what the contributing factors are here.

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Students’ test scores dropping

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the latest in Major League Baseball, including why fewer teams are now winning one hundred games in one season and what Lemire called an “epidemic" of pitching injuries in Major League Baseball. “What's happened to pitchers in Major League Baseball over the course of the last six or seven years is really extraordinary. More pitchers are going out now for surgery at younger and younger ages, and they can't figure out why,” says Barnicle.

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MLB updates

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle ask they reflect on Axios CEO Jim VandeHei’s latest op-ed titled “A message to college students,” which suggests that today's college students are being "duped" by a narrative of "impending doom" and a "crisis of hope" promoted by social media and politicians. Barnicle suggests reading about the country’s history, in books written by Rick Atkinson, for example: “You come away stunned—stunned at what the United States of America meant to the world and still means to the world. It's amazing to read histories like this of who we are, the fiber, the spine of what it means to be an American and that still exists today.”

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The importance of learning history