james carville. so you are an honest broker. >> i used to think when i went ontelevision and i said something it would convince somebody. so much for that rot . look, one thing is going to be one hell of a big story after the election. turnout is going to be a hell of a big story. people say this is not normal. you're very observant. you're very observant, it is not and you're going to see it. we're talking about foreign policy so i was thinking coming here, it's a nice prestigious hotel that they invited us to be here and something i can tell my grandchildren or something but i can give you a nice bullshit answer or i can tell you the truth. foreign policies influence on this election is going to be about that much. the great foreign-policy question of 2014, pulling back from argentina and i'm reading a college professor i don't know anything about . that was october 2014. and i'm reading a business week article and the expert on people up is a scientist at tulanemeskill school, a guy named robert g

. >> james carville. most of you are too young to remember this. >> okay, so that comment came out of nowhere. it shocked people who heard it. but it has history. it has a history that people need to know. let me give you some background. there is what graham is referring to, a remark made by james carville, james carville is a former advisor to bill clinton, president bill clinton after paula jones accused clinton of sexual misconduct back in the early 1990s. carville's exact words were, if you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find." lindsey graham was apparently trying to say that this has been done before. meaning the tactic of defending a man accused of bad behavior by attacking the woman he is saying it's not new. trashing women, mocking their claims was wrong then. and it's wrong now. but for this crowd, it always goes back to the clintons. judge kavanaugh went back to the clinton well himself last week with his testimony. remember he worked with ken starr back in

that was carville's best movement moment. how is any of this going to make america's lives better? what is the new platform? we'll spend the next few years and will torture anyone who's remotely associated with trump? please. the thuggish win at all approach was on full display during the kavanaugh battle. >> don't you wave your hand at me! i wave my hand at you! how dare you talk to women that way! >> we believe survivors! we believe survivors! we believe survivors! >> laura: it's fitting, isn't it, the women one of the architects of the politics of destruction, along with carville, has no problem with any of that. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. that's why i believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and/or the senate, that's when civility can start again. until then, the only thing the republicans seem to recognize, and respect, and strength. >> laura: this is so juvenile. it's like your kid, right -- "i'll start behaving, mommy, once i get the extra piece of candy." okay! unless the democ

. >> tomorrow, democratic political consultant james carville and his wife republican political consultant mary matalin take part in a discussion about trump administration foreign policy and its impact on the midterm elections. watch live from the council of foreign -- foreign relations. with nine days left until election day, make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. now, the debate in the illinois 12th congressional district race. the candidates include bost,ican incumbent mike and green part or candidate randy. the cook political report rates this brace as leaning republican. this is about 90 minutes. >> good evening and welcome to the only broadcast debate of these candidates. the candidates are brendan kelly. green party candidate randy. and the incumbent republican congressman mike bost of murfreesboro. the candidates will be questioned by

this is just a james carville theory. if, in the florida senate, if nelson wins by five, the senate is in play. if he's ahead by that much -- and i know north dakota's different and nevada's different, but elections move in tandem. they just do. and they almost -- this might be the rare exception, >>> if you're like me, you want a cheat sheet going into election night. those three house seats, and i think the margin on the florida senate is going to sell us a lot. i think it is something very important to focus on. in addition to the high turnout, the most interesting demographics by far in this election are white people. i don't know how you have done it white people, but you have made yourself a really interesting dynamics, because it is hard to believe. but, like in the 80s, the college and noncollege folk among likes -- whites, it was 1% different. which, you are going to see with realignment, i am talking about college white females. we did a post, white females, not college white females, all white females, millenni

rob: he quoted james carville and people said it was his quote.was something james carville said. >> also a little bit ridiculous. teresa made needs to stop dancing. >> usually not a good idea when a politician stands in public and teresa may, you can imagine, take a look. ♪ a little bit of back story. she actually chose the song when she decided to dance as a way to make fun of herself for the video we played in africa so she has a good sense of humor. >> i give her credit. dance moves coming to a wedding near you. >> not as bad. >> she is good at the robot. there is a dance for her. you see this right here? talking about an ad in the new york times, america turns to fox news and here's the proof. jillian: dominating the ratings during coverage of the brett kavanaugh hearing. if you opened a major newspaper today you will see the at you see on screen with the numbers fox news averaged 5.7 million viewers during the dramatic hours long hearing topping msnbc and cnn combined and beating out all broadcast coverage. you got to take a moment. >> cbs,

i am bewildered by that. >> look, i can't figure out james carville.s not what they are saying. nancy pelosi said we are not talking impeachment of trump nor kavanaugh. jerry nadler, chair of the house judiciary committee, said we're going to look into that investigation. we could put it in the air quotes. it was a joke what the fbi did. he's not talking about impeachment. some are, i will concede that. chris coons. cooler heads are saying it's a waste of time. if the senate is close to where it is now, it's futile. >> tucker: continuing to the investigation into brett kavanaugh, to what end? i don't think as a political matter it's working for democrats. as of tonight, doesn't seem to be winning new voters for the democratic party. how does it help the country exactly? >> the whole point of what the democrats will do in the house is be a check on trump that has not been in effect. whether that's his dealings personally with women, whether it's his tax strategies, whether it's dealings with the russians, both his staff and frankly -- >> tucker: democra

. >> dana: you know who we need to hear from right now, james carville. he said "it's the economy stupid." apparently in 2018, he could be kavanaugh as the big issue. >> kavanaugh is going to be the big issue in 2018. he's going to be an issue in 2020. democrats are going to keep digging up stuff. the press is not going to stop the things they are working on about kavanaugh. >> dana: the press is not going to stop. >> greg: he gets dressed for halloween so early. i have advice for democrats. they may not listen to me. they are trying to create a battle in which all men are the oppressors and all women are the victims. this is part of the leftist identity politics strategy. the problem is that women live with men. they love men and vice versa. the bigger problem with this gambit is that there are black men and hispanic men in the democratic party who are as concerned about false allegations as everyone else in the world. you may say it's going to be about oppressors versus victims but there are people who are sensibly saying wait a minute. what about due p

then we hear from political strategist james carville and mary matalin and political analyst amy walter with their take on the upcoming election. later, a debate for nebraska's 2nd congressional district seat and another in new york's 31st district -- 2 the 1st district u.s. house race. .. the reason that we are weary are today, is because of decisions that were made all the way back in 2002. after the florida presidential debacle, for the supreme court essentially decided the presidential outcome, the lawmakers in congress and senate wanted to get rid of the punchcard and where they thought the problem in the election. so the past station called the help america vote act, which was divine design to get rid of punchcard machines. they gave states $3.9 billion to upgrade election administration processes and procedures. also the voting machine. they couldn't use that money on punchcard machines. it really pushed states into buying electronic voting machines and many of the states, the majority of states at the time chose to move into paperless, what we called direct recording electronic

back to torture in the western hemisphere we speak to professor james carville who has spent years working with some ideas of major nations i. mr norman baker on continued u.k. intervention in the world's worst humanitarian crisis in yemen and this week's bombing of gaza more coming up on today's show but first forty four years ago today muhammad ali was celebrating his eighth round rumble in the jungle knock out against george foreman in what is now the democratic republic of congo in those days americans arguably did more than take a knee of the game they said things like this about nato nation foreign intervention in the developing world and went to jail for it. that all right in my. mind. i'm going to do. what i will tell you. you want to. do you want me to go from one fight where you want to. while britain's biggest stars have yet to turn out to against to raise a maze hostile environment legacy the u.s. does of course have swapped stars like this. you have upset president donald trump you have tops that are murdering people we have cops in s.f. p.d. that are blatantly racist and thos

eastern, democratic political consultant james carville and his wife mary join a discussion on trumpinistration foreign policy and the midterm elections. watch live on c-span two. on "washington journal" we are looking at battleground states. the most competitive races of the midterm election. in minnesota, new york, california, pennsylvania, and florida. join us for a life campaign 2018 call in during washington journal at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. announcer: this week on "q&a," james mann, author and resident will james mann, author and resident of the johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. he talks about his biography of george w. bush.

ari is up there with james carville having one of the panels here.ou can actually go into our msnbc -- if you just want to live in msnbc, this is the place to come. why you'd want to do that, i'm not exactly sure. we've got buttons over here. the number one seller is not this one but i'm going to bring one home for my mother. she's very excited about that. but we've also got kasie hunt, we've got steve kornacki, morgan radford will be out here. what is the top seller and who are people throwing away? >> oh, people love jacob soboroff. >> that was a setup. how's your morning joe coffee, by the way? take a sip, take a sip. >> it's pretty good. >> delicious. >> do you think the democrats are going to take back the house? >> oh, yeah. i think it's going to be closer than they say, it's going to come down to california and be late in the night. they need 24, 25 seats. >>23 that hillary clinton won in order to flip. >> they're going to get it for sure but it's going to be closer than they say. >> he makes a great point, david. this is the state where there

james carville laid out the political calculation. >> kavanaugh is worth more alive than dead.e democrats win the house they will hold hearings on people think he perjuried himself. he will be an issue in 2018 and in 2020. the democrats will dig up stuff. the press won't stop all of the things they are working on about kavanaugh. it's one of these amazing things that probably never happened before in american politics. >> tucker: richard is an attorney and former advisor to bill clinton and hillary clinton. let's say i am a democrat and i want you for healthcare and i am worried about my premiums. i vote democrat. man my healthcare prices will go down. but the first thing let's impeach brett kavanaugh! i am bewildered by that. >> look, i can't figure out james. that's not what they are saying. nancy pelosi said we are not talking impeachment of trump nor kavanaugh. and the chair of the house judiciary committee said we will look into the investigation that was a joke what the fbi did. but he is not talking about impeachment. some are, i will concede that. cooler heads are sayin

>> to quote james carville, it's the economy, stupid.le hired for part-time holiday jobs. those will be the highest paid jobs in a long time. it looks as though retail jobs seasonal wages will be up 54% from last year. in part because amazon is going to pay $15 an hour, walmart is paying $11, target is paying $12, but the holiday workers are in super high demand. that's something voters will be feeling. this 3.7% unemployment rate, it's a really good time to get a job. the holiday workers in particular. noncash incentives. employee discounts. paid time off. jcpenney is offering a chance to win a paid vacation. retirement benefits. i have never seen seasonal work in such demand. it's just, i think, emblematic of how strong the economy is, the labor market is for the seasonal jobs, working real hard to try to get your time and your business. for more on holiday retail and on jobs and the tight labor market and how strong the economy is and tech, media, and finance, go to the new cnn business. we have exclusive interviews with newsmakers, i

>> let's be real aside from the carville marriage, most people marry people who think similarly. >> i.de women are man? >> what i am saying is it is not a hard point to make that like mary's like. you tend to marry somebody you think like. at that is the argument that was made in a "new york times" piece. >> laura: the assumption obsesh the whiteness. it is not breaking through to a lot of people. they just want a better life. they don't want an obsession is with how the other day with stacy abrams were she said, i represent black, white, disabled, differently abled. pacific islander and then it was, the undocumented and documented. everything is too hyphenated. i think people want to be more unified. more hopeful about being together as americans like we were after 9/11. what is wrong with that? >> i don't think we need a terrorist attack on american soil before we recognize that. >> we don't have to go back. we can find that in other ways. >> laura: we could find five major things that we agree and if we set down for an hour. about confirmation come about how to treat animals. rachel

. >> but election after election, politicians have adhered to what is perhaps chester carville junior'smous truism. >> it's the economy, stupid. >> to my panel now. with this latest polling from npr and pbs newshour. issues most important to voters, 20% say economy. before we get into that, let me play a bit of tape here. this is the treasury secretary steve mnuchin back in 2017 talking about the importance of the stock market to this administration. >> the stock market has rallied significantly since president trump took office and since the election and then again as he took office. do you view that as a report card to the administration? >> absolutely. this is a market to market business and you see what he thinks. >> markets go up, markets go down. help us understand the perils of that. >> this is something presidents don't normally do because markets go up and markets go down. but president trump came into office with the market relatively in a good place and it has gone higher. this is something that he believes is a referendum on his policies and that he believes will help him se

so to disagree with james carvill, it was not the economy, stupid, it was racial issues. that was the clear divide we saw. i think trump is betting that will happen again in midterms. >> i think we're seeing in realtime the evolution of the republican party from a conservative party to more of a nativist party. this is less and less a movement driven by convictions about fiscal policy and the size of government and more driven by cultural fears, cultural anxieties about the country becoming young wither and more socially liberal. it's becoming less white, more immigrants here. president trump played on that very effectively in 2016. it's unclear if he can mobilize the same group of voters to show up and pull the lever for down ballot candidates. he's brought the entire party along with him. >> that's one thing that's different from 2016. instead of having others who are campaigning alongside donald trump kind of pushing him away from them, they are embracing him. >> exactly. >> and these tactics. >> absolutely. a number of republican leaders who wanted to run on their fis

. >> james carville. >> we begin there with what the president really thinks and whether that hurts where it matters the most, the jury of three that will decide if brett kavanaugh becomes justice kavanaugh. >> mr. president, it is time to put this embarrassing spectacle behind us. the american people are sick of this. the senate will vote on this nomination this week. the senate will vote on this nomination this week. >> that from the majority leader even as the fbi background investigation into the judge as of this hour still ongoing. senator mitch mcconnell wants to close the book and move quickly towards a final vote. but this morning new anxiety for the majority leader brought on in a familiar variable. the president's words and their ricochet effect on capitol hill. >> i had one beer. well, do you think it was -- no, it was one beer about that oh, good. how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where is the place? i don't remember. how many years ago was it? i don't know. i don't know. >> the senate's top democrat chuck schumer says the preside

then we hear from political strategist james carville and mary matalin and political analyst amy walterh their take on the upcoming election. later, a debate for nebraska's 2nd congressional district seat and another in new york's 31st district -- 2 the 1st district u.s. house race. ..

conversation from the council on foreign relations on the midterm elections with political strategist james carville and mary matalin. >> all right, well, hello, and welcome to today's session. such a great turnout, i think, on the eve of such an exciting election. so i am katie hinman. i'm an executive producer at cnn and i will be presiding with this very distinguished group. i think they probably need no introduction but i will do so

>> isn't it interesting, susan page, that most of us in our adult life have grown up with james carville'sy ringing in our head, it's the economy, stupid, but it's not in off-year elections. this is in presidential elections but in off-year elections, whether it's '94 or 2006 or 2010, even 2014, it's not the economy, stupid, it's a variety of other issues. >> you know, and this is, of course, so frustrating to the white house and to other republicans that the economy is good, the unemployment rate is at a historic low and yet it's not rebounding to their benefit. i think that's also perhaps one reason why the tax cut which republicans once thought would be a driving issue in the midterm election is basically not mentioned. it's a nonissue in this election. you do see president trump being an issue, you also see healthcare being an issue. that is one of the surprises in this midterm election, one of the notable developments, that the affordable care act which was so damaging for democrats in the previous two midterm elections is turning out to be a plus for democrats in this one. >> and, yo

so it's all about distraction you know how i say james carville says look at the bird over there?pening. except now it's republicans doing it instead of democrats. >> it's all about distraction and it has a racist twist to it that it's quite tragic. with secretary nielsen along the border there, standing there, leading apparently fox news, their broadcast with a reporter standing on the border as well. i know shepp won't do that, so you watch fox. you might want to watch shepp smith show. he will lead with the news and not play this game with the presidency. but some people might want to alert secretary nielsen to the terrorist attack on our democracy that transpired over the last 48 hours. some might want to alert the head of the department of homeland security about the attack on our homeland. someone may let her know she can take off her raybans and head back to washington and maybe do something more productive than push more lice and mislead the american people. still ahead on "morning joe," americans would likely appreciate a president who is an early riser, but anti-media tw