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“You've got a lot of European leaders, both economic and political there, and Europe, of course, is combined of a group of nations that were ill informed or uninformed about Donald Trump's plan to go to war with Iran, and there's contentiousness on both sides now. I’m wondering what your view is going to be in terms of trying to extract from them their anger over how the United States has behaved,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith who joins Morning Joe to talk about the upcoming Semafor World Economy 2026 forum in Washington, D.C. that will feature hundreds of top global leaders from business and government. Hear Smith’s assessment on the emotional “balance” European leaders are seeking amid the war with Iran, suggesting they are “infuriated by American government policy and obsessed with the U.S. economy.”

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Europe vs. America: Economic Friction

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“When you're born Catholic, raised Catholic—especially by my mother, we used to call her ‘my mother, the nun'—the one thing you retain, I would think, is that the theory of the Catholic Church is rooted in a simple phrase—the least among us. So, if you look at the Trump Administration's behavior toward the least among us, it is almost criminal. It is certainly a sin because they don't care for the least among us, and we should all care for the least among us because when we care for them we care for ourselves,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist about an article in The Free Press that details the strained relationship between the Trump Administration and Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope.

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Trump v. Pope Leo XIV

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"You just mentioned tectonic plates of the economy. When the tectonic plates move, when gas prices go up, things like that—that's not the only thing that happens. The residual effect, the shipping, the airline prices going up, everything going up. And it sometimes seems that the tectonic plates that move quickly, move very slowly in terms of prices coming back down. What happens then?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett who joins Morning Joe to discuss the economic impact the war in Iran could have on the world. Hear Tett’s assessment on why the “big level of disruption in the system in the last few weeks” caused by the war will cause shock waves, pointing out that “you can’t just magically switch the system back on again.”

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The Ripple Effects of War

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"Did not Iran, though, just play rope a dope with the United States? They won. Iran won,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle to Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, during his Morning Joe panel conversation about the United States and Iran having agreed to a two-week provisional ceasefire, which came less than two hours before a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face "total destruction." Hear Haass’s assessment about how Iran is “stronger” now since the start of the war, explaining “we hurt them in the classic sense but in the strategic sense they are much better off.”

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Did Iran win

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"Palm Sunday….My wife and I went to the 5 o'clock mass at Saint Ignatius in Boston. It's on the Boston College campus, so you'd expect a few college students at 5 o'clock mass. It was packed, standing room only. People outside the church. The demographic, I thought in my mind's eye, would look 25ish to 30ish—youngish. Most of them reciting the prayers by knowledge, just by rote. They knew the prayers. It was stunning to me, absolutely stunning. And I give credit to a couple of things: One, the times we're living in, and Pope Leo,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, Mika Brzezinski, and Donny Deutsch as they weigh in on the Catholic Church seeing an increase in attendance during this “dark time” in America, particularly with younger men in America. "There's a phrase that was used repeatedly on Palm Sunday that I think has struck a chord among younger people as well as people my age or your age—'the least among us,'” Barnicle says of the phrase drawn from Gospel of Matthew 25:40, referring to the marginalized, vulnerable, and overlooked in society, emphasizing a call to compassion by teaching that serving them is equivalent to serving Christ.

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Young Faith Rising

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire, Katty Kay, Donny Deutsch, MS NOW National Security Analyst John Kirby, and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump now threatening to launch massive military strikes against Iran's civilian infrastructure if the country does not agree to a deal and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz on the 39th day of the war. “This is a country of 93 million people, and everyone who has ever had any experience dealing with the Iranian people will tell you they are more culturally inclined to the West than any other groups of people in that region. And so what you're going to do by wiping out, by making the country go dark, by taking out their water supplies, all sorts of things, all sorts of damage to the civilian population—you're going to risk malnutrition, you're going to risk a refugee crisis coming out of out of Iran. You've got to think that the military, more than anyone else, is thinking about these things, much more so than the political leadership of this country,” says Barnicle amid the stark threats from POTUS toward Iran.

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Iran Crisis Deepens

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