james carville didn't understand and talk about james carville, probably won and academy award. i am not that person. [talking over each other] >> that is the most tragic events one can conceive of. vincent foster and hillary clinton were best friends in the rose law firm. they had lunch every day. they protected her when the law firm was taking too much time on politics and not enough on the law firm. when she threw a birthday party and a belly dancer to perform they were so close it was incredible. when he went to the white house relationship changed and he became someone she gave orders to. she gave orders to handle travelgate and suppress evidence of her involvement. she also could have been charged in the whitewater papers. his comment was this was a can of worms and was a can of worms. their relationship basically lost its fiber. there is one incredibly tragic story. he was very depressed. he went to a psychiatrist to get some anti-depressants but they had not kicked in. a week before he killed himself, hubbell and foster and hillary were at a swearing-in ceremony and hill

. >> carville invented it in '92, so goes back that far. and before that, i don't know what they said. i wasn't covering national politics. >> they just didn't know what it was. and then carville came from the moup tapes and said it's -- mountains and said it's the economy. >> now we all read morning mun. >> thank you to cnbc's amman jabbers for all the answers. >> coming up, after months of campaigning had hundreds of stump speeches four debates and two conventions this race may come down to a tale of the tape, his honor versus the donald. the boss, versus ricky skaggs. we will compare and contrast when "new york" magazine jonathan chaits joins us next on "now." now it's stirred. let's get a cookie sheet. i am the ghost of cookies past. residue. so gross. well you didn't use new pam, so it looks like you're "stuck" with me. that's a really good one. thank you, i'm here all week, folks. no wait... i'm here forever! ha ha ha! ba-doom chh! ba-doom cha! [ female announcer ] bargain brand cooking spray can leave annoying residue. but new pam le

the story, florida, florida, florida, as james carville said.e're watching results come in, and the state of ohio as well. jim acosta standing by. we have new information about what it's like behind the scenes of the romney campaign. jim what are you hearing? >>> anderson, we've heard that the mood inside romney headquarters, war room where they are watching returns come in is "very tense," they are watching returns come in from across the country and seeing states they hoped to capture tonight slip out of their fingers, and that's somewhat the mood in this room. what's going on behind us, through the big jumbo screens, campaign showing different networks and their programming as to what is being reported tonight across the country as returns come in, and each time, it flips to another network, there seems to be more bad news reported to the campaign, and it appears to be having an effect on the mood in the room. each time the channel flips, the mood gets a little more somber. >> we'll continue to check with you. wolf, let's go back. >> the stat

david frum and james carville, you have been on every side of this.t with you though david. republicans talking about raising revenue by closing loopholes. as opposes to raising tax rates. you can get a heck of a lot of revenue that way. is this smart for them r or not? >> republicans are going to be yielding ground, but they have to avoid seemingly yielding ground underressure. president has a strong hand. they have to keep their party together. frankly, i think loopholes are the wrong place to -- so-called loop homes, meaning deductions for home mortgage, are the wrong place to look for new revenue. the place is look is with different kinds of tax sources. not by making it more difficult for people to work save and invest. >> wow, adding even more taxes. did you switch parties? i'm just teasing you. >> if your goal is to keep the top rate low, i think a top rate of 35 is already quite high. if your goal is to keep a top rate low. you have to look at other kinds of sources other than the income tax. >> james, i guess the question is here would the de

carville, we wanted to see norfolk city coming in. president made up a lot of ground there, and more of the northern virginia suburbs have come, the president, fairfax county, almost 60/40, more votes to count there. the president winning big. alexandria city, come into the areas here. where the votes are out in virginia, they are mostly out in democratic areas. the romney campaign wants to wait. can't blame them. but when you look at the map, whether this map or looking more importantly at this map, we have the president over the top, president got 365 electoral votes last time. if he runs the board. he'll get 330, 331 i think. maybe one or two for governor romney. but warm up the fat lady. >> one more electoral vote, john. we projected that in the state of maine, we earlier projected he would get three of the four electoral votes. the fourth electoral vote in the state of maine will go to the president. that numbers will go up to 274 to 275. another one electoral vote for the president. the magic number 270. with ohio, he has enough

james carville and ari fleischer, they are here this hour. we're going to talk about the gop's hand wringing and back stabbing. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> hamas militants -- [ gunfire ] -- there they are. hamas militants in gaza keep unleashing rocket attacks on israel and get alarmingly close to jerusalem. a new provocation as they continue the air assault on what it calls terrorist targets in za. the death toll i rising along wiars of anall-out israeli ground invasion. the israeli cabinet has just approved the call-up of 75,000 army reservists in addition to the troops already positioned along the border with gaza. a visit to gaza by egypt's prime minister failed to stop the bombardment and pull the region from the brink of all-out war. u.s. officials blame hamas for starting this conflict. but they are also urging to be measured in its response. the defense secretary leon panetta says israel and the palestinians need to negotiate a more permanent piece -- his words, a more permanent piece in the region. our penta

lined up on the ground before being repeatedly shot with automatic rifles festive journalist james carville says it's a rare example of opposition type pics finally coming out of the international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous stock human coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and if it be hyp

away from the single focus if you recall we've all heard those magic words that came from james carville's mouth during the clinton years and that is it's the economy stupid they were incapable of focusing on that because they had a hearty that has become dysfunctional dissolve it had been taken over by the lunatics who have been taken over by the fringe lunatics such as that is the weird in evangelical right the tea bag movement they were incapable of arriving at a simple theme instead they picked wars with everybody and i think we're going to see that play itself out tonight and i think if you really look at the numbers as they sort of didn't float during this campaign some of the times when romney was at his best at his highest for example was right after that debate when when we saw a very moderate mitt romney when we saw somebody who didn't you know wasn't trying to play to his base as much what's going to be the takeaway if governor romney loses tonight what is the takeaway for the republican party do they need to have a serious conversation about saying hey if we really want to win

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the james carville rule is, incumbents get the last poll, that would mean a 52-48 victory. i think it's bigger than that. my guess is 53-47 or more. but let's look at what happened in new jersey or new york. i think if the vote had been on friday, obama peaked on friday out of sympathy. now we've had saturday and sunday and monday for people to realize, remember, the government that is failing on staten island is the government obama wants to deliver health care. so i think you're go fog see a lot of people vote against a failed government as they watch the mess in the northeast. >> mr. speaker, it's been great talking to you for the last 18 months. we've had a lot of ups and downs but always entertaining and interesting. i wish you and your party all the very best tomorrow night. >> thank you. >>> coming up, one of the most powerful men in hollywood, harvey weinstein. it's so mmm you might not believe it's a hundred calories. new yoplait greek 100. it is so good. new yoplait greek 100. chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico,

: you are going to hearken back to the -- >> as far as i'm with axelrod and rove and caddell and carvilleause we are the only ones that have done it. >> bill: all right. dick morris standing there and taking the heat. all right, morris. thanks very much. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. bernie goldberg has some thoughts about the future of the republic party. and media reaction to the president's victory last night. dennis miller on how he is feeling today. not real good. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. i would calling the far left loons in that party to tamp it down a bit. president obama didn't win by very much. far left politics hurt him more than helped him. with us now were the five bob beckel. you were pretty close in your prediction. you underestimated barack obama's electoral college win. what did you know he was going to win? first of all. >> i knew he was going to win about a week ago. you said something last night. i think it had something to do with it the sandy thing did it. i don't think that romney had momentum like a lot of people do. i d

david frum and james carville, you have been on every side of this.art with you though david. republicans talking about raising revenue by closing loopholes. you can get a heck of a lot of revenue that way. is this smart for them r or not? >> republicans are going to be yielding grown, but they have to avoid it under pressure. president has a strong hand. they have to keep their party together. frankly, i think loopholes are the -- so-called loopholes, deductions for home mortgage, at this point, the wrong place to look for new revenue. the place is look is with different kinds of tax s. is this a do or die line for democrats? >> it's 39.6 under clinton. as i recall, we did pretty well. i think that's a fine number, but at any rate there's going to be some kind of give wrg on revenue. that's obvious. i think the democrats have a stronger hand as a result of the election, and the fact that by the way during the election it wasn't about big issues. one issue was big and that was raising taxes on wealthy people, and people knew that's what president obam

james carville and mary matalin, they make it work, so why can't anybody else?ing is barbie adler, president of selective search. is it possible to find love across party lines or is there no possibility of compromise? >> it really depends on how politically active you are. for some they will not cross the party line and for others you can agree to disagree but it really comes down to your core values and beliefs. for some you are preconditioned in terms of your belief system and it would be a deal breaker and there would be no way to consider going red or going blue. >> everybody says, well, opposites attract, but every now and then opposites gets on each other's nerves and drive each other apart, right? >> opposites attract for the short term but long-term compatibility the more you have in common with your mate the more chances that you'll have a long lasting, happy relationship and marriage. >> you are a very selective matchmaker. this past election was fierce. what kind of political requests were you seeing? were people actually saying, you know, single, fe

in 2009 james carville did a poll and found that rush limbaugh -- many people find that rush limbaughleader of the republican party and that has not changed over the course of four years. rush doesn't need to run for any office. he's beholden to no one except for advertisers and viewers. so republican officials need to stand up to limbaugh first before they can really go out and get more votes in the broader sector of the electorate. >> but margie, is it risky for a republican to stand up to limbaugh when he's popular in the vote unless the chris stooer example of standing up on the president and doing his job becomes a new model for our republicans to say, you know, maybe this is not as risky as i thought? >> i don't think it's risky. you're trying to reach more voters. you have to love the voter in order to be able to talk to the voter and if you are, as an elected official, beholden to rush limbaugh, who really puts -- pitting one group of voters against another, that's his m.o. and when he's talking about chris christie, we're talking about banishing people in the party for simply

handoff approach and was criticized james carville being lack daze gal and chris matthew said he lookedn observer. he took heat from that. i think six days out from an election what do you expect the president to do? of course he looks presidential. do i think it will ultimately have an impact on the race? probably not. he was going to win new jersey anyway. it worked on a campaign. big natural disaster came in. the candidate was able to look in charge of the situation. >> dana: we'll come back to politics in a second and your point is about early voting which we'll get to. governor christie said halloween is canceled. >> greg: yet they are keeping the new york marathon. blows my mind. >> dana: you think they will? >> greg: yes, they will. a new phrase after hearing this stuff, i call it political looting. use a catastrophe for political aim you were unable to push before. a couple of examples, maureen dowd talking aboutie's relationship with obama. the hurricane is fault of the climate change deniers. al gore using other people misery to advance his own profile. >> dana: there are very

. >> james carville is a man of mystery, but -- >> i went the whole last couple weeks of a campaign oneime and didn't change my underwear. i washed it at night. >> didn't bill clinton famously campaign up until the end? >> 24 hours, he went around the clock. >> probably he's going to do it again tonight, why not? >> until the last dog dies. >> i think one of the things that's happening here. there's some stuff you can't poll, we talked a lot about the polls and the numbers. there is a level of intensity on both sides that i think when it's this close, we're going to be surprised tomorrow. there are people who are in the tea party who have convinced themselves that this president is a threat to everything they believe in. they're going to strain every effort to make sure he doesn't get reelected tomorrow. the naacp are going to put a million extra black people in the polling areas. we're going to be surprised tomorrow, because neither side wants to -- >> that's one of the things going back to ohio and -- take the campaigns out of it, you're talking to a lot of the third party groups that

. >> james carville and raylon salom. do you think the party agrees with what mr.rrez is saying? >> i think mr. gutierrez has something a little bit wrong. you have a lot of people talking about immigration reform right now, and while immigration reform might be good on its own, i think the republicans' deeper problem might be that most don't see it as the party that attracts middle class interest. when you look at latino voters, african-american voters and also the blue collar white voters who stayed at home in very large numbers in this last presidential election, it's really about middle class economic interests not being adequately represented by the republican party. i think that's the problem, not so much immigration as such, and i think mitt romney's remarks were very ill advised partly because of that reason. mitt romney lost because a lot of blue collar middle class folks did not turn out this time around. it's not about minorities or just about young people. >> james, if you were revising the republican party, and i know you never will, but if you were, w

the democratic party is back to being the party that james carville had to save. there are those next republican generation leaders out there. >> it's going to do nothing but get better. >> the country will go bankrupt. >> alex i don't want to get into this because everybody says it's only 15% of obama's policy. it's not the discussion now to have this discussion. we can do that later. the discussion is that and you're right somebody will grab hold. there's going to be a healthy debate in that. tomorrow morning people will say romney lost because he wasn't conservative enough. >> they're already saying that. >> chris christie stabbed us in the back or the storm helped or the media was against us. until somebody says we got to deal with what it is that people are seeing about us that are turning them away. >> this is the best advice he's ever given the republican party. that i agree. >> if you're playing identity politics, the democrats are going to win. that's the way it is right now. the republicans have to find a different message. the thing about mitt romney wa

: you are going to hearken back to the -- >> as far as i'm with axelrod and rove and caddell and carvillee are the only ones that have done it. >> bill: all right. dick morris standing there and taking the heat. all right, morris. thanks very much. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. bernie goldberg has some thoughts about the future of the republic party. and media reaction to the president's victory last night. dennis miller on how he is feeling today. not real good. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. while energy development comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing generations of cleaner-burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self-contained well systems. and, using state-of-the-art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities and the environment. we're america's natural gas. i would calling the far left loons in that party to tamp it down a bit. president obama didn't win b

i was sitting next to james carville last night and he was really almost uncharacteristically empathetic to republicans and said look, this hurts like heck. if you've been running for eight years, which mitt romney has been doing, this is a heartbreak of a night. but the gracious thing to do is give them a little time to figure it out, get their thoughts together. the romney camp has said they didn't even prepare a concession speech they were so confident going into the evening. >> but not just for the particular romney campaign. erick erickson what about the gop in general? this seemed to show the exit polling some real flaws in the strategy, if you have a campaign that really is not appealing in any significant way to minorities, if you look at president obama, and his win with women, some of that messaging from the democrats about republicans was very effective. what -- >> yes and no. >> what has to be done? >> the republicans are going to have to come up with some way to appeal to hispanic voters. they really are. mitt romney got less than john mccain got with hispanic voters having

i was at a summit last week that james carville and mary mag lin hosted.k is is right about everybod there, the comments mr. romney made was the day before. everybody said that's not helpful. on an immigration, we agree that has to be done. there are a lot of elements in the republican party that want to get it done, i think. we have to figure out a way to make it happen, and sthaets something the president will push for next year. >> mark, it's already starting, 2016. marco rubio this weekend was at terry branstad's birthday in iowa, and now according to the pittsburgh paper he's asked for an invitation to go to new hampshire in february for a lincoln day event. they're off and running. >> well, again, i see that as a good stein for the republican party. as republicans they're already talking and thinking about young, vibrant and new leadership that is rethinking the old paradigms. it's a quick gun on 2016. it's an acknowledgment by the republican party we need to look to new, younger faces and new leadership in the party for a new direction for the futur

and it would be like bill closinggetting in and the door to james carville. >> bill: you were down in the -- i didn't see you though. you were in tampa. >> we couldn't get on the floor and get press passes. >> bill: they wouldn't let you in because you would mock them. >> i didn't realize that was their objection. >> bill: why should we let this guy in he is going to mock us? >>is the dnc put us up this is true in south carolina. >> bill: you took their money. >> they did not allow us to be -- they wouldn't even put us in a hotel in state. we were set up in south carolina. and the north carolina peoplepl i will tell you i will say, this the nicest people, most hospitable you want to meet. there is a certain point because you know us coming from new york. where i felt like it was almost sarcastic. >> bill: that they were morning you like being too nice can i get you. are you doing good? i would be do you want a pies of this? >> bill: running screaming into the night. was there anything at all at the democratic convention that impressed you? >> at the democratic convention? >> bill: yes

. >> wasn't it bob ruben who said during the clinton years -- or james carville -- the same thing. look what happened, clinton cut the rate and you had a huge rally in stocks and bonds. the stork market may do the same thing here. >> if you want to root for a bullish stock market, maybe in the short term, let's get a deal going and then do tax reform and entitlement reform. meantime, i think stocks are warping these guys you're going to put us on the precipice of a recession, and that's bad for earnings and stocks. >> the fed has done the same thing. they've come out in recent weeks and said instead of just buying $45 billion of bonds every month, we may have to double that and extend it out further. >> richard fisher of the dallas fed told me last night they don't do that. actually, that's not fair. he said in his opinion they shouldn't do that. we don't know, you might right. mike of "forbes," thank you very much. >>> this is truly the video of the day. the israelis get their man. the military head of hamas taken down with a missile strike and the fighting isn't over. what's it m

and it would be like bill closinggetting in and the door to james carville. >> bill: you were down inidn't see you though. you were in tampa. >> we couldn't get on the floor and get press passes. >> bill: they wouldn't let you in because you would mock them. >> i didn't realize that was their objection. >> bill: why should we let this guy in he is going to mock us? >>is the dnc put us up this is true in south carolina. >> bill: you took their money. >> they did not allow us to be -- they wouldn't even put us in a hotel in state. we were set up in south carolina. and the north carolina peoplepl i will tell you i will say, this the nicest people, most hospitable you want to meet. there is a certain point because you know us coming from new york. where i felt like it was almost sarcastic. >> bill: that they were morning you like being too nice can i get you. are you doing good? i would be do you want a pies of this? >> bill: running screaming into the night. was there anything at all at the democratic convention that impressed you? >> at the democratic convention? >> bill: yes. >> street