Markets, War, Politics

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"What an incredible thing: Gas prices are up, stocks are down, and we're spending $1 billion a day in Iran—wow,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this discussion with Joe Scarborough and POLITICO politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin about the political fallout from the renewed U.S.-Iran conflict, the difficult choices facing Republican candidates, and how rising gas prices especially this upcoming Labor Day weekend could shape the midterm elections.

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Markets, War, Politics

ICE Under Fire

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This is not for the first time this has happened in a city or a town in the United States of America where ill-trained or untrained federal officials shoot and kill someone. In this case, they shot a resident of Maine. And the idea that the federal police—the ICE people—are there to take over that investigation is beyond outrageous. The Maine State Police, I'm sure, has a very good homicide unit. They should be the ones covering this, they should be the ones. They should have encircled that area right there, frozen it for evidence. It's a shooting scene, and no ICE agent should be allowed to interfere in that investigation,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mara Gay about the circumstances around another fatal ICE shooting of a person in a car—this time in Maine—and who should investigate federal immigration officer-involved shootings.

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ICE Under Fire

Trump v. the NYT

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This Morning Joe conversation among Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and New York Times investigative reporter Michael Schmidt delves into the Trump Administration’s having issued subpoenas to five New York Times reporters. What are the implications on press freedom and should the White House Correspondents' Dinner be canceled "given the war that the president has waged against the press?” asks Barnicle. Watch the segment here.

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Trump v. the NYT

ICE’s lack of credibility

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire, former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and Mike Barnicle about the fallout from the fatal ICE shooting in Houston and the broader implications for political rhetoric, public trust, and leadership. Hear Johnson explain why he believes fatal ICE shootings like the one in Houston require local involvement to ensure public trust and accountability.

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ICE’s lack of credibility

Trump’s Ukraine meeting

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with The Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer discussing President Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit, Ukraine's recent military gains, and the urgent need for additional missile defense support. “A sidebar—a sad sidebar—to the NATO meetings, there was the conversation—the brief conversation—between the President of the United States and Zelensky and Ukraine. And the consensus has always been, if you speak to people in the Pentagon—who will still speak to you without getting caught—they will tell you that if they had been supplied, if Ukraine had been supplied, properly over the past year, year and a half, Russia would have collapsed already within Ukraine, the military would have collapsed. What were you thinking when you saw the two of them together?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Hear Foer explain why he believes “Ukraine has seized the initiative” and why this could be a pivotal moment in the war.

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Trump’s Ukraine meeting

POTUS corruption questions

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“It’s a staggering amount of money he’s made personally….It’s incredible what’s going on—the level of corruption in Washington,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle in this brief conversation with Willie Geist about new reporting on President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures, which reveal billions in cryptocurrency-related earnings and raise fresh questions about ethics and conflicts of interest.

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POTUS corruption questions