no wonder he is trying to revive james carville's mantra. >> it's the economy, stupid. did you ever hear that one? >> from the use of executive power to neil gorsuch to the russia probe, the trump presidency has wrestled with an unusual number of issues. so what lies ahead? we'll find out. but first, looking back at his first year as president, i keep thinking about how i predicted all of this years ago. without realizing it and nobody believed me. in the midst of the outlandish bhi birtherism allegations, i decided to write a book about the negative impact that talk radio and tv fire brands have on our national discourse and public officials. i've long held the belief that we have ceded and i should try to make a point in an entertaining fashion, primary color, an insider look at the bill clinton campaign became my inspiration. the result was talk. my novel published in 2014 by a sma publisher. my protagonist, a stoner and slacker parlayed his affinity for classic rock into a successful career as a deejay, rising to afternoon drive in pittsburgh. and then offered the c

and alabama in the middle is kind of -- he meant it pejoratively, when carville said that 30 years agot i think it's a working-class, it's a lean-republican kind of state. >> yeah, but trump is no ronald reagan. >> we got to go. >> it's a critical swing state. we're going to see everybody in pennsylvania. >> inside stories of the week coming up. ♪ >> 6abc's "inside story" is presented by temple university. >> insides stories of the week. we start with donna. >> so, former mayors oftentimes will go and teach. former governor and mayor rendell to penn and taught for a number of semesters. former mayor street is teaching at temple. he's been teaching since he left office. former mayor michael nutter has been teaching at drexel, and the word is he's no longer at drexel, so there's a story there, we just don't know what it is. >> my inside story is meryl levitz, who runs "visit philly," has done such a masterful job, announced her retirement at the end of this year. she's a friend, at times a client, but tourism, individual tourism was up 30% across the country, in the last 20 years, it's u

her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled carville is a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flies bloodstain mattresses for company. about a month ago sagitta who doesn't remember her age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others attempted suicide but i'll but i but if fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on him bringing his gram. in hospital i don't know she'll find no cure in that as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just a few hundred metres away sagitta needs to get to damascus to survive but lacking identification relatives and trapped in a war zone it's difficult to see how that's possible. sagitta doesn't get so many visitors but there is one little person who always makes a smile that. if you left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people there is

strategist and a former adviser to hillary clinton's two presidential campaigns in miami we have john carville oh he is host of off the cuff on rebel media and in phoenix we crossed to josh bernstein he is a t.v. talk show host all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate josh i'm going to go to you first because one of my one of the crosstalk rules is always go to the person that got up early is for this program and that is you want to talk about some of the things that's coming out of the the f.b.i. in the in the special investigation into. alleged collusion with russia during the election we have this peter stroke you know and he's written some you know with his .

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others are man going to carry all of it can never compare to see go to the american press frantically carville and matthew. emma films confound with him over the matter noir compared to palin they lack the will to carry all of the need for a third of the truth i mean what are we worrying about then why can't we get fanfan spent fourteen fifteen sixteen trillion dollars and continue on with that what's the problem i think debate about that. well there's no problem the only real issue here the only thing that we have to consider is whether or not that spending at some point leads to an inflation and the only way that's going to happen is when the government spends beyond the capacity of the economy to produce in other words when every single person in this country who is able to work is working and when all of our resources are used up and you spend beyond that that's when you have a sustainable inflation that's the real issue we should be talking about that's the question we should be asking ourselves and frankly with a nine percent unemployment rate and millions of people at a work and industr

ads are manic or the country all of it can never compare to see they are not compelled frantically carville and matthew. they must be almost confound with him over the matter noir compared to palin they lack the will to carry all of the need for a third of our. troops i mean what are we worrying about and why can't we get fanfan fanfan into the fourteen fifteen sixteen trillion dollars and continue on with that what's the problem with the big debate about that. well there's no problem the only real issue here the only thing that we have to consider is whether or not that spending at some point leads to an inflation and the only way that's going to happen is when the government spends beyond the capacity of the economy to produce in other words when every single person in this country who is able to work is working and when all of our resources are used up and you spend beyond that that's when you have a sustainable inflation that's the real issue we should be talking about that's the question we should be asking ourselves and frankly with a nine percent unemployment rate and millions of peo

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her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled carville is a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flies bloodstain mattresses for company. about a month ago sagitta who doesn't remember her age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others attempted suicide but i'll but i but if fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on him bringing his graham. in hospital i don't know she'll find no cure in dead as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just a few hundred metres away sagitta needs to get to damascus to survive but lacking identification relatives and trapped in a war zone it's difficult to see how that's possible. sagitta doesn't get many visitors but there is one little person who always makes a smile. if you left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people there is cool

well as discussed that point now with our guests and joining us here in doha we've got more on carville and he's director of policy analysis at the doha institute for graduate studies in moscow pavel felgenhauer columnist with. and in dubai via skype dr masson a syrian opposition member a very warm welcome to all of you thanks for joining us on inside story so pawel we've got these geneva talks which were led by the un we've got a standard talks which were led by russia and turkey why do we now need such she talks. well this was seen and planned as a kind of grand conference that would give the ultimate authority to the russian vision of the future of syria and the kind of a solid the farai of the russian. turkish reigne and access in imposing a solution on syria that these three countries want and for russia of course the presence of turkey is a suppression important because turkey is most work with the key right now in the entire russian policy in the region ok as a new member of the s.n.c. why you know there. i would never go to sochi because. this is not and utra place this is an oc

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but i think republicans are hoping that the james carville statement about it's the economy, studen -stupid, hold. you have plenty vacating. 35 seats republicans are vacating by retirement, or they have been appointed. there is going to be concern since we have a president who is unconventional and definitely liking the twitter feed these days. charles: it's ironic, it creates de facto term limits. and i think maybe that's why the democrats never do it. speak of president trump, the twitter feed and his presidency. how important is it for him to have this great economy continue and hit the road and reach people who may be new voters. >> the chairwoman has been clear to say that every candidate who welcomes donald trump to their district. every area we lost donald trump did not go to that state. people pointing to new jersey. and i point them to the first special elections we did win. so we have a good record of victory. charles: you are watching live president trump and the first lady and the first son barron getting off air force one. they had a long weekends and hopefully back to wo

charles: as james carville said, it's the economy.ee the media trying to tweak that saying that won't matter anymore. i find it hard to believe if the market continues the what it is and we have gdp growth, that someone will ignore that because they don't like a couple of tweets. >> 2018 will be about the economy. it will be about the 2 million individuals who already have gotten trump raises. by that i mean companies giving bonuses and raises. i want to point out that the poll did oversample democrats by 8 point. they are projecting it will be an electric raft democrats. charles: are you concerned what happened in wisconsin. it was a huge swing in democratic votes. these are newly minted red states. wisconsin, pence vein yaz, the ohios of the world. can you hold on to them? >> yes, i think we can. we did at the republican party win the first few special elections. but the economy is unstoppable. voters are going to start to feel that. factory workers in wisconsin are about to see jobs come back. charles: should president trump hit th

. >> james carville said it's the economy.s it matter what he treated if the 401(k) is going through the roof? >> it doesn't matter what he treated spirit 401(k) is up, paychecks are up at the tax reform in place. i saw more money in my paycheck. listeners who called me when they got paid they saw more in their paychecks. everyone is happy with it in their ignoring tweets right now because that has no bearing on the economy. leland: president trump had an interesting opposition for african-american voters saying democrats haven't done much for you over the past couple of decades. give me a try. callers into your show, are they still undecided yet? are you getting cause of people saying i'm happy with the way things are going? >> they are definitely a mixed bag and that's where the president has to stop with the treating of the firestorms because it's impossible for somebody to say i support the president on tax reform and regulations in the infrastructure plan, but also i'm of african descent. i don't like my country being cal

fedex does today, you'll be up against that message from another famous democratic operative james carvillehe economy stupid why aren't you worried about that >> listen, i think anybody who's a democrat and is over confident about november 6, 2018, is wrong. i agree with your point that this is going to be a very tough election if that's your point, i agree with you i think the fact of the matter is there's going to be -- this is going to be a hotly contested election it's going to be two dramatically different views of the country and our values you talk about the stock market. the stock market is basically benefits rich people and so it is going to be highly contentious. i completely agree with you and i think anybody who is, you know, overconfident or taking anything for granted is wrong. >> tom steyer, we'll have you back again, tom. every time we're on i can't even look at my twitter mentions right now given the mail coming in we'll see you soon tom steyer joining us from san francisco. >>> we have a big show ahead on pace for the best day since july of 2014 on earnings chief financial

james carville, the democratic strategist for al gore and bill clinton. he said it's the economy, stupid. by the way, meet the man who owns the company the president just toured. we do need to get to capitol hill. the house is deebeding funding, the government, right now, past friday's midnight deadline and hoping to pass a continuing resolution that would extend government funding until february 16 and lock in children's health insurance program for six years, but folks, there has been a big bit of news in just the last hour. rand paul, in the senate is saying he's out. he will give whatever the house sends to him a thumbs-down. that makes two senators, rand paul and lindsey graham, who say they will now be no votes on the stopgap budget measure that would avert a government shutdown in less than 33 hours, folks. republican senator lindsey graham, and kansas senator rand paul told fox news' harris faulkner on "outnumbered" overtime, he feels this deal that would buy 28 days of funding would add to the gigantic and already ballooning deficit. guess who el

remember even james carville, the strategist for bill clinton, it's the economy, stupid. the economy is doing great. we will have 4% gdp. we'll see 17% earnings growth. bullish. trish: 30,000 on the dow by year-end? >> by year-end is a push. but we'll certainly see 27, 28,000 in short order. again it is for very real reasons. earnings, employment, tax reform, we're about to get a budget. that will put money back into defense, into infrastructure. companies are giving people money back. a great american story. trish: still buy at this level, 25,000, 768. >> thank you, trish. trish: democrats not wanting to admit the economy is in good shape despite company after company after company handing out bonus, raising wages because of tax reform. americans will get bigger paychecks come next month due to tax reform. there is a lot of good economic news out of washington and out of the country but you just wouldn't know it listening to the democrats. we're going to show you a little bit of what some of them are saying next. kind of looks like a monster coming to eat ya. holy smokes

they sit down to cut a deal, and it is because you pointed out, it is the president, and if it were carvillee president, stupid. this is how he described the dreamers a few months ago. i have a love for them, they are young and educate and accomplished young people who have jobs and many times praised the young people, and today he pout a statement with hateful language about them and so did the press secretary, and so who are you -- >> excuse me, paul, what is hateful about saying illegal immigrant, and that is using the english language correctly and that is not hate. >> and they are are dreamers. >> and americans don't have dreams. i object to that term dreamers, by the way. they are not kids. >> you object all you want, but it is a long way from calling them good educated and accomplished young people. >> and that and they are illegal immigrants. i am for protecting them, but that is not a hateful term, but it is a precise and correct term to use the english language and not speaking in code. the democrats wants to us speak in code where we can't have a honest conversation. >> i am tryin

. >> feels like the personal focus of all these responses has put an asterisk or changed james carville the economy is stupid. if you can get the chew right everything else falls into place. let's me ask you about this. what is the country going into the next year, what are their priorities, what are they concerned about? >> we asked people, if you can give the state of the union, what would you say? they would say the economy is doing better, most folks said that they felt like we were divided. and back to this point about the personal being involved. the president's opponents feel like not just he disrespected them but for many they feel like he's working against their group in particular. lot of our african american respondents felt like the president was working against their group, lot of folks felt like he was working against their economic class. remember, we saw lot of people vote for the president because they thought that he would do well by folks who had been left behind, by the new economy. well that's only at best mixed there are lot of folks feel like he hasn't addressed t

well, james carville did. >> that's not hillary clinton. >> right. >> are they the same person, lowry that your contention here? >> she could have said, no, why are we calling paula jones names? don't do that, not on my watch. >> we don't know what she said. >> she was an aggressive defender. did she come out at any point and say, please don't attack these women? >> no, she didn't but we don't know she was part of attacking this women. the only thing anyone ever comes up with that she said about monica lewinsky, she did have some choice words for monica lewinsky, but if you sleep with my husband, you will have some choice words from me. she told her best friend. >> either she leaves the husband or she decides to support the husband. >> she can stay married to him, but she doesn't have to enable his political career. not every husband has to run for president. that was the compromising choice she made. she was like, i'm all in on this, and you have done these things that were wrong -- >> if every man that -- >> that were embarrassing to both of us, and as a political operation, we have

it is the economy, stupid, the old james carville line.hat is not something that they worry about. they saw the poll that said hillary clinton was going to be elect and look what happened. >> well, i think that the election has also shown us that this is a democratic wave year and i also think speaking of the economy, he really ran as a populist and what has happened since he's actually been in office? the women quoted the stock market, but if you look at the decisions that he has been in control of, passing a huge corporation tax giveaway, 80% of which went to the 1%, spending most of the year trying to cut health care to working and middle class families, gutting a number of small rules that make a big difference for workers like the right to overtime and a new one that is coming down the pike that would let waiters and wait tretresses have their tips stolen by employers. these are things that the democrats can lead and say the kind of economy they want, they have ample evidence of the ways that trump is just another republican when it c

james carville said it.e economy, stupid. >> he had a higher approval rating. >> what happened tonight gets overshadowed by midday tomorrow with the news about the lawyers saying he shouldn't meet with mueller, with -- >> the memo comes flying. >> does this just disappear tomorrow? >> well, look at what happened last year when the president gave a speech and said put trivial matters aside and then a few days later he tweeted about president obama wiretapping trump tower. boom. >> this was an hour and a half interregnum in what i suspect will be the political wars continuing tomorrow morning maybe as early as when the president wakes up and grabs his device and starts tweeting. >> this is not a presidential year, but we're also having a national conversation, which is sometimes useful and sometimes useful in a midterm election year. there were districts republic republicans that were carried by hillary clinton who have very different political calculations than republicans in other districts who could still f

what james carville said about pennsylvania. on the left-hand side you have got pittsburgh.de you have got philadelphia. in the middle you got alabama. stuart: good one. that is a good one. jeff, thanks very much. i'm sure you will be on fox business all day long on the frigid streets. thanks very much indeed. lawrence jones is with us. i say the president should pound the table for tax cots and what it does for america. i think he will. >> all republicans including the president, need to stop talking about everything else exempt money if they want to win. i'm not saying other issues don't mat per you you have to tell them about something tangible. if you convince them, there is not convincing. look at the pay stubs. when they see that, that is how you win. all this other stuff is noise. stuart: that is how he helps rick saccone is. if the man is in trouble in pennsylvania -- >> if you continue this path we're going as a country, you have to keep republicans in control. stuart: there is risk. if mr. saccone loses receiving backing and from mr. trump. >> correct. we know what

. >> we always love to quote what james carville said in 1992 that it's the economy, stupid. it's not always the economy, stupid. when you have presidents who are seen as culturally out of step with the rest of the country the economy doesn't matter as much. peggy noonan, 1994, the economy was doing pretty darn well but bill clinton was seen as out of step with mainstream america, republicans won a sweeping landslide. 2006 the economy was doing pretty darn well, the rest of america said i don't like where george w. bush is taking us in iraq and i don't like he did in katrina, i really don't care what the gdp is, i want him and his party out of power in congress. you could say the same thing about donald trump in 2016. if barack obama had taken unemployment from over 10% down to the 4%. so it's not always the economy, stupid, is it? >> no, but war is a serious matter. you know? however the economy was doing in 2006, when two wars seemed to be going bad and nobody who had started the wars seemed to know the path through to get the country to the better place and to resolve that

james carville as the democrats are licking their chops for 2018 they can't wait.ing class that brought manufacturing back. leland: just peanuts says nancy pelosi. pete: the other thing we're not talking about but we are going to this hour is what devon nunes said which is groundbreaking. we'll get a look at the fisa warrants used to spy on president trump then candidate trump and they tell a pretty good story. leland: you saw a little bit of the tape earlier. i hit capitol hill this week to find out where democrats stand on immigration reform. didn't go so well. >> why do democrats care so much more about daca than they do about border security, sir? you won't talk to us at all? >> can we talk to you for a second? >> i've got to catch a plane. leland: those weren't the only ones who ignored my questions even my offers to drive them to the airport. pete: they all have planes le land. rachel: move over jessie waters. pete: plus the fbi using that dirty dossier to find the trump campaign why is the rest of the media ignoring this huge story? we're not and neither is