Mike Barnicle on TV

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation between MS NOW contributor and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about the ongoing, controversial ICE operations under President Donald Trump, after Liam Conejo Ramos—a 5-year-old boy “detained" by ICE in Minneapolis—was finally released. "Liam and the other children in that facility with him have in effect been kidnapped,” says Barnicle. "You are a member of the United States Senate, 100 strong, the House of Representatives, 435 strong. Are you telling us, the nation, that there is nothing you can do about this—nothing?” Hear Murphy’s response” “We are not powerless,” he says in describing what methods lawmakers have to stop the “murder” of American citizens and the tear-gassing of schools.

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ICE under fire

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Tune in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump continuing to insist he "didn't make a mistake" and refusing to apologize for his Truth Social video post that included racist imagery of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, which has received bipartisan backlash. “When you realize what it was and people see it, and you understand the president's reaction to it—that he's not going to apologize, that he's not going to admit a mistake—he defines himself even further as to who he is: Are we really surprised?” says Barnicle.

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Trump refuses to apologize for racist post

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"Peter Baker, you've been covering Washington, D.C. for quite some time. So on this particular never-ending story, the Epstein files, do you get the sense that it's the intent, the plan, the plot of the Trump Administration to just run out the clock on this—by redacting so many names, keep sending up papers that are meaningless, really, with no proof, no real hard evidence that you can talk about publicly—just run out the clock on it?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker as the Morning Joe panel discusses President Donald Trump's rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which has been marked by accusations of cover-up, noncompliance, heavy redactions, and political deflection. Listen to Baker’s response here.

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Epstein file continued fallout

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, Eugene Robinson and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on President Donald Trump having called U.S. Olympic skier Hunter Hess a "real loser” after the athlete exercised his First Amendment rights by expressing "mixed emotions" about representing the United States in the current political climate. “The most American thing you can do is say: I love America. I'm a member of the United States of America. I'm a citizen. My family has grown up here. I love this country. I just wish that we would stop putting five-year-olds in refugee camps and taking them out of their homes and off the streets of the cities that they live in. There’s nothing more American than that,” says Barnicle.

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Trump attacks olympic skier for his opinions

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“One of the problems in this country, I would submit, is the lack—the death—of so many local newspapers where people would get their news about what's happening in their state or their small town or their city that they live in,” said veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about the state of journalism today and how major outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, are providing hope because they’re thriving under strong leadership and proving that high-quality journalism can still succeed if done right. “There are a few papers still doing the job….My old paper, The Boston Globe, is doing very well. It's doing very well under the ownership of John W. Henry. His wife, Linda, helps run the paper. She does run the paper...and it's a dominant newspaper and it can happen. The death of the small papers in this country are part of the slow diminution of people's appreciation of government, of democracy, and we need more healthy newspapers."

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Great journalism is not dead

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie address Donald Trump’s call to “nationalize” U.S. elections—with Christie positing that the Founders deliberately placed elections in the hands of the states to protect accountability and public trust, and that state-run elections help keep power closer to the people who actually vote. “I think most people think our elections are free and fair…but having one entity, the federal government, running an election, a national election, as opposed to 50 states running their elections—boy, you can see something easily done by putting your finger on the ballot, literally from the national level, and taking care of it, rigging it one time, rather than 50 states doing it in charge,” says Barnicle.

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Free and fair elections

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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment as veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and former Atlanta Mayor and 2026 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms discuss the FBI having executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center in Georgia as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election.

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2020 Election Investigation Continues

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“Some of us feel nostalgic about a country called America that we grew up in, that our parents gave to us….The country doesn’t belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to us. It belongs to everyone in America. It belongs to my children and my grandchildren. And I’m fearful for them….There’s something wrong out there in this country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist as they weigh in on the ‘chaos’ in the country being exacerbated by the situation in Minneapolis, where the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents have ignited protests, political backlash, and intense scrutiny of ICE’s tactics.

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It’s OUR America

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they react to MS NOW reporter Josh Einiger's coverage of the fear and intimidation that’s blanketing Maine as ICE starting to make arrests in the coastal state. “They're also doing something that is forbidden by nearly every major police department in the country, in that they go to places like Auburn, Maine, or Lewiston, Maine, and they will stop people based on skin color alone. That's it. You have an accent, you have brown skin, everything like that—‘pull them over.’ It's outrageous, and it's daily, (and on an) hourly basis that they're doing it,” says Barnicle about the arrests being conducted by ICE under the Trump Administration’s “Operation Catch of the Day."

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ICE blankets Maine

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“Senator Schumer...There’s been a lot of Democrats who have stood on the floor of the Senate and outside the Senate complaining about and pointing out the inequity, the outrages that are taking place in the streets of Minneapolis today. Why haven't you gotten like a dozen Democratic senators and maybe a dozen New York City cops flown to Minneapolis, stood there in the crowds and said to the guys wearing masks, ‘we've brought people who know how to operate, we’ve brought people who know what law and order really means, and you are wrong, and they are right, and that's why we're here?’” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a Morning Joe conversation regarding tensions in Minnesota reaching a breaking point following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer as daily clashes between protestors and federal agents—who have come under criticism for their inadequate and brief training in many cases—have intensified across Minneapolis. Hear what Schumer has to say here.

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ICE training in question

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"Wouldn't one of the big things be with people retiring at the age of 64, 65 and lifespans continuing to increase, 79, 80 years of age being average, sometimes, what happens to health care costs for those people, 62, 65 retiring, who walk around looking for part time jobs, looking for something to do, not finding anything to do, loneliness becomes a factor, their physical health might become a factor. What do we do about that?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of TIME senior health correspondent Alice Park who joins Morning Joe to discuss her new article "The New Old Age," which explores how the traditional American life arc—school, work, family, and retirement in one's 60s—is becoming a relic as life expectancy and health spans increase around the globe. Watch the conversation here.

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"The New Old Age"

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“During the course of putting the piece together, assembling the reportage on the piece, did you run into at all the idea that there seems to be a very short training period for ICE agents, and their backgrounds might not be all law enforcement prior to getting to be a member of the ICE brigade that goes to places like Minneapolis, and that could result in them using force that is truly banned by most large police departments in the country?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of ProPublica reporter Nicole Foy who joins Morning Joe to discuss her reporting that found over 40 cases of ICE agents using chokeholds and other moves that can cut off blood flow to the brain or airflow—controversial techniques banned by a significant number of police departments across the country.

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ICE’s controversial techniques

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“You two boys changed the way news is delivered and devoured over the past 20 years, and my question to you is: Given the attention span of today's news based customers, you've fed that as well, quite well, but how do you maintain—and you have maintained thus far—the credibility that comes with delivering news?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen who join Morning Joe to discuss their new editorial piece “Behind the Curtain: 20 years of Media Revolution,” which reflects on two decades of media transformation—starting from their departure from legacy news institutions forward to the current fractured landscape. Watch their conversation here.

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20 years of news

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"Adam, so much of your work is filled with insight. I want to ask you one question about one of the themes in your book: 'Ask for advice, not feedback.' How do you do that in a culture where everybody looks at their iPhones thinking that's going to give them the answer to every question they ask? How to lose weight, which direction to take to get to Chicago, stuff like that. How do you do it?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of organizational psychologist Adam Grant who joins Morning Joe to discuss his book “Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things,” which challenges conventional wisdom about talent and explores how anyone can achieve greatness through character development, making mistakes and effective learning strategies. Watch the conversation here.

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How to get answers

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Watch this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) about the White House's new website with a rewrite of the historical record of January 6, 2021, hailing the pro-Trump mob who stormed the U.S. Capitol five years ago as “peaceful protesters” who were provoked by law enforcement and the missing plaque that is by law required to be on display at the Capitol to honor the police who defended democracy that day five years ago.

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January 6th history rewritten

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Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple joined Morning Joe to discuss his new high-profile exposé on White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, based on 11 interviews, during which Wiles said President Donald Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called Vice President JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files. "Chris, I've known you for a while. You can be a very charming guy, but charming doesn't cover 11 sit downs with the chief of staff of the White House….Over the course of 11 interviews, did she ever once say, you know, ‘what is this for?'” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Whipple. Hear Whipple’s answer and learn a little more about the making of this deeply reported profile of Wiles.

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White House cracked open

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Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Katty Kay and Mike Barnicle as they weigh in on the latest regarding the Trump Administration’s controversial boat strike operations as Navy Adm. Frank Bradley, who was authorized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a controversial Sept. 2 follow-up strike that reportedly killed the last two survivors of a Venezuelan boat targeted for suspected drug smuggling, is set to brief senior members of the Senate and House Armed Services committees on the Trump administration’s actions. “The darkest element of this is clearly, in my mind, the concerted effort to hang out Admiral Bradley…You cannot find a single person in the upper echelon of the Pentagon who has been there for the past five, six, ten years, who will not tell you that Frank Bradley has the highest credentials in terms of character, courage and competence,” says Barnicle about the public appearance that the Trump Administration is laying responsibility for the second strike that the killed survivors on Adm. Bradley rather than on Secretary Hegseth.

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Who’s to Blame?

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MS NOW Senior Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff joins Morning Joe to talk about his latest reporting on the ongoing, aggressive immigration crackdowns by ICE agents in various U.S. cities, including Chicago, the hometown of Pope Leo XIV, who came out in support of a rare special message released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in recent days that lamented a "climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement” during this second Donald Trump administration. “The bishops issued a statement last week about this specific topic. Parts of it were read in many Catholic churches this past Sunday….The pastor of this particular church that I was at...received an ovation when he indicated Pope Leo said this, and this is what it's all about. This is going to be a hot button issue for the Catholic Church. They are all over this,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the Catholic Church ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

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Catholic Church’s hot button issue

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Ken Burns joins the Morning Joe roundtable to talk about his new documentary series and companion book entitled “The American Revolution,” which examines the virtues and contradictions of the birth of the United States. "Thomas Paine, who was the greatest pamphleteer in the history of writing, I would submit, he says, ‘our great title is Americans.’ And it's a story about sacrifice, about honor, about hard work, about love, of what you hope your country to be. And it's a story that resonates specifically about today, about the times we are living through now—and the toughness, the grit, the stamina of Americans in Thomas Paine’s words, and it leads to everything we have today,” offers up veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Watch the segment here.

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What the American Revolution means today

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CNN anchor Bianna Golodryga and Israeli news anchor Yonit Levi joined Morning Joe to discuss their new children’s book “Don't Feed the Lion,” which discusses antisemitism and how young people can stand up to hate. "I'm interested in the `why' we have to talk to young people about antisemitism—why this sudden growth, this seemingly explosion of antisemitic behavior, verbally and physically, in this country and around the world? Why?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Golodryga and Levi. Hear their answers here.

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