Mike Barnicle on TV

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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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"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

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"What we often fail to do is recognize the innate genius of Donald Trump in terms of building up the exhaustion factor, like...that three hour and fifteen-minute cabinet meeting. The exhaustion factor. What happens when you're exhausted? You either go to sleep, or you turn away and try and do something else. That's what's happened to the American electorate I think; that's what's happened to the Democratic Party. They’re exhausted from this every single day, instead of sitting down and saying, ‘listen we've got to come up with a proposal here,’” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the Democratic Party’s inability to sway or reach voters in the era of President Donald Trump during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

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Trump’s "exhaustion factor"

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"The reality is we now live in a world, a political world, coming out of the White House, where if you sign a letter saying: ‘This is going to be trouble, you know, you're letting this go. It's not as good as it used to be,’ you are dismissed. You are sent home. You are told to go home,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel weighs in on the Trump administration placing more than a dozen Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on leave after they signed an open letter of dissent about the agency’s leadership.

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Dissent = Dismissal

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“Donald Trump's position on the National Guard, inserting them into Washington, D.C., allegedly trying to put them into places like Chicago and Baltimore, has shades of 1968 when the Republican Party first took over law and order as an issue and then remained strong with that issue since 1968. Richard Nixon campaigned for president talking about law and order throughout the country…But today… it’s a misuse of the National Guard. You insert them into a city where probably more likely than not many members of that unit don't come from the District of Columbia. They don't know the neighborhood, they don’t know the players in neighborhoods, from one neighborhood to another, and they’re wasting their time really,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. as part of his crackdown on crime.

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National Guard in DC: “They’re wasting their time"

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Watch this Morning Joe segment about the impact the federal government is having on the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois due to its withholding of funds that would benefit local school children and threats of deployment of the National Guard to deal with crime. “Chicago, it's just like a lot of other American cities, big American cities, especially if you pull the string on crime...you’ll find that, that string will lead you to fractured family structures, it will lead you to juvenile crime—growing juvenile crime—and it will lead you eventually to not enough good teachers and not enough good elementary schools. So, my question to you is in terms of the money that you're talking about, the federal government taken from you: How much is being deprived from getting to local public schools in Chicago?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D), a former public school teacher serving as the 57th mayor of the third-largest city in the United States by population.

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Trump eyes Chicago for National Guard deployment

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“In a litany of tragedies, the hostages still remain number one, number one. And it's been going on now for two years, held hostage. And now we're down to, according to news reports, perhaps less than 20 have survived, less than 20….The reason the hostages are still hostages, the reason the war still continues is because Bibi Netanyahu knows the day the war ends his trial begins in Tel Aviv,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the hostages being held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Katty Kay, David Ignatius and Mika Brzezinski.

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Barnicle: Hostages are number one

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“In addition to the enormous human tragedy that we're talking about right now and that occurred just a couple of days ago, this is a tragedy for Israel as a whole—a global tragedy for Israel,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this morning’s conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist as they remember the five journalists killed in Gaza after an Israeli strike on a hospital, which has received mounting international condemnation. "Israel needs friends. It has always needed friends; but under Bibi Netanyahu and the conduct of the IDF in waging this war against Hamas, Israel is winning no friends. It's losing friends rapidly and the idea that the IDF is continuing to wage war against Hamas under the goal of, as Bibi Netanyahu has pointed out, eliminating Hamas. You're never going to eliminate Hamas. It's not going to happen, and the reason it's not going to happen is because of the constant warfare against Hamas in Gaza. You've earned another generation's contempt of Palestinians toward Israel.”

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Remembering the five journalists killed in Gaza

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump signaling that he might deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities including Chicago, even as his crackdown in the capital of Washington, D.C. has been met with anger from local residents. “It's a sad case when you have National Guardsmen patrolling streets like in Georgetown or whatever, or central Washington, D.C. which is quite active, quite thriving, restaurants and everything...and now they're strapped with pistols on leg holsters. These are largely weekend people who train maybe once a month….This is a disaster waiting to happen—and the idea of sending the National Guard to Baltimore or Chicago is beyond outrageous for similar reasons,” says Barnicle about President Trump’s strategy of deploying the National Guard into American cities to combat crime.

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Is the National Guard coming to your city?

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Tune in for this Morning Joe panel discussion with Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) about the future of the Democratic Party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and how the focus needs to shift back to an economic message. "What's the Democrats' plan in the House to deal with lack of primary care physicians?...It's impossible to find a doctor now, rising electric costs because AI gobbles up everything and, your electric bill is like 50 percent higher now than it was earlier. And the cost of living, the cost of living continues each and every week to go up for a lot of people, especially in the one place that everybody goes to—the grocery store,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Hear what Gottheimer has to say here about how Democrats "care about" and are “still fighting" for everyday citizen.

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Dems: We care about you

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment with Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnicle and Helene Cooper, the New York Times' Pentagon correspondent, as they discuss President Donald Trump deploying the D.C. National Guard in the nation’s capital and placing D.C.’s police department “under direct federal control,” citing a public safety emergency. “Part of it is performance art from the President of the United States. It fits his personality—that he can do this, that he can insert uniformed troops of the United States government on to city streets,” says Barnicle. But what are the ramifications? Is this federal overreach? Watch the conversation here.

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Trump deploys National Guard to DC streets

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and NBC News medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta about the Environmental Protection Agency moving to revoke its long-standing finding that greenhouse gases harm human health and roll back vehicle emission standards, setting off what it describes as the biggest deregulatory action in American history. Learn how this will impact everyone, especially those with asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

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