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Tune in for this Morning Joe segment with Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they talk with American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch who unveiled the AJC’s State of Antisemitism in America 2025 report, which reveals, among other facts, that 73 percent of American Jews have experienced antisemitism online. “…There’s a real sense of more anger out there and frustration in people’s lives. How does that add to it, do you think?” asks Barnicle. Hear what Deutch has to say about the contributing factors fueling antisemitism today and some of the possible solutions.

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New report on Antisemitism

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“It was depressing to watch that, actually, the entire hearing,” said MS NOW contributor Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Joe Scarborough and as they weigh in on “the lack of empathy” from Attorney General Pam Bondi, who faces intense criticism for her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files at a high-tension House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing where she also refused to personally acknowledge survivors in attendance. "It was also another building block in people's lack of confidence—the feeling that they have lack of confidence that the government operates for us, for ordinary people. Watching it and because of my age, my experiences, I started thinking about the Army-McCarthy hearings and Joseph Welch ‘have you no sense of decency, sir?,’ the Fulbright hearings on Vietnam, the Watergate hearings that resulted in Richard Nixon leaving the presidency, resigning from the presidency. All of these things, I think people felt, ‘well, they're doing something for us. They’re explaining things for us, for the people.’.…This hearing, yesterday, I think the only thing it did was cement the average person's accurate feeling that justice is a two-tiered system now in the United States of America. It protects the wealthy, protects the powerful like Epstein and his friends, Epstein and company. And the average person does not get the same treatment in the justice system in America now,” says Barnicle about the American judicial system.

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Empathy Absent, Trust Eroded

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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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