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Watch this Morning Joe conversation about the lack of significant progress to end the now month-long government shutdown, following an unusually irate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) having erupted at Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján (NM) on the Senate floor as frustrations continue to mount over the shutdown. "Don't you think (Thune) desperately wants to make a deal...how can they not make a deal? What is the problem here?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough.

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Government shutdown: 1 month and counting

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“If you're at home and your children are in college or whatever, and they're training themselves educationally for a specific series of jobs or a specific profession that they're interested in, will that profession still be there when they graduate from college? And the after effect of that is what you just raised: Are we confident that the United States Congress has a significant membership, a percentage of its membership, that realize the threat of AI?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about the inaction of Congress amid the AI revolution impacting the U.S. job market and beyond.

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AI blamed for massive layoffs

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump’s current diplomatic tour in Asia as he is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. “Everything that he's speaking about is obviously critical, all the business deals, as you indicated—we hope they work out well for the United States. But the Taiwan aspect of it is really interesting. You wonder what is going to happen when they talk—the two of them—about Taiwan…It's a vital component of peace in the South China Sea, and we still don't know where we are going on Taiwan,” says Barnicle amid reports that some of Trump’s aides have advised him against shifting the U.S. position on independence for Taiwan to favor China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping.

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The stakes of Trump-Xi meeting

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has significantly restricted the ability of Pentagon staff to communicate with Congress, issuing a memo that requires prior approval for nearly all interactions with lawmakers. “The leaks to the media are going to increase hundred-fold; that's one aspect of it. The other aspect of it that is really kind of interesting is how long can they get away with building this protective cone around the secretary of defense, so, that he they keep him from the public,” asks Barnicle about Hegseth, who is significantly changing the Defense Department’s policy of interacting with Congress.

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The Hegseth bubble

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“I’m wondering from your perspective, a few weeks ago, the secretary of defense and the president of the United States assembled combat leaders from all across the globe to Washington for a lecture period where they were told some of them were too fat, some of them were too lazy, some of them weren't in shape and as you enlarge the photo that was on the front pages of the Times and the Wall Street Journal and many of the papers in this country, you see hundreds of Silver Star recipients, hundreds of Bronze Star recipients, hundreds of men wearing CIBs – combat infantry badges. And I'm wondering what you thought when you heard and listened to that performance by the secretary of defense and the audience that participated in it?,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby during a Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth having hastily gathered hundreds of top U.S. military leaders from around the world to the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia, to outline their vision of a "warrior" culture for the military, emphasizing merit, strength, and an end to "politically correct" and "woke" policies. Listen to Kirby’s concerns about this administration’s efforts to “politicize the military” as he transitions from a long career in government to become the newly appointed Director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics.

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Military brass meet with President Trump

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle questions Karine Jean-Pierre, the former senior advisor to President Joe Biden and former White House press secretary, about why no one on Biden’s team intervened before his infamous debate performance during the 2024 presidential election, which ultimately contributed to his decision to withdraw from the presidential race the following month. “Why did not anyone see a clearly ill President Biden approaching the podium? Why did not anyone around him say, ‘wait, wait a minute?” Hear her response here.

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Biden’s Blunder: Why wasn’t it prevented?

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"We've got to end the confusion that the government, as we describe it, are the people in Congress and the guy who is knocking down the East Wing of the White House. That’s not the government,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the state of America during this Morning Joe segment, following an estimated 7 million people having participated in the weekend’s No Kings rallies to protest President Trump’s policies. "The government is the people of the United States of America, and we have to remind ourselves—and remind everybody who was out there over the weekend and everybody who gets up and goes to work and pays their taxes: They are the government. We are the government, the people."

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Barnicle: “We” are the government

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"We have a dysfunctional government….We don't know our own history in this country. If we knew our own history in this country, it would be twice the revolt there was this weekend I would submit with the rallies all across this country. If people would concentrate on what this country has meant over the years, the decades, the generations and what it represents today—there would be more outrage at what's going,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel discusses the sentiment in America over the ongoing government shutdown after this weekend's nationwide No Kings rallies to protest President Trump’s policies brought out an estimated 7 million people.

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Barnicle: “We don’t know our history"

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the Major League Baseball playoffs after the Seattle Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 3 of the American League Division Series, taking a 2-1 series lead. “The Lou Piniella era, I mean, he could have been in the World Series three separate years—they missed. They had Alex Rodriguez, then they had Ichiro; they missed. This team here, might be, it might be Seattle-Milwaukee,” says Barnicle about the potential of the Mariners finally breaking through these playoffs and making the franchise’s first ever World Series appearance.

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MLB Playoffs

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"This is going to be a transformational papacy, based partly on the fact that he speaks English, and as well as the fact that he has tremendous courage and conviction and beliefs and is willing to speak about them each and every day—whether it's migrants, whether it's what's happening in America,” says Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle about Pope Leo XIV in response to the Pope’s comments about abortion and immigration in America. "He is unafraid in his confidence, and I think he’s going to be a transformational pope."

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The new Pope speaks out

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who represents one of America’s poorest congressional districts, about our “paycheck-to-paycheck” country amid the government shutdown.

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What does the government shutdown mean to you?

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