2020 Election Investigation Continues

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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

It’s OUR America

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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

ICE blankets Maine

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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

ICE training in question

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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

"The New Old Age"

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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"

ICE’s controversial techniques

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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

20 years of news

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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

How to get answers

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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

January 6th history rewritten

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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