henry olsen? guest: i think a lot of the criticism of the president's handling of coronavirus is partisanship. he would have been distracting the country from the important questions of impeachment and ukrainegate. win with a large segment of the national media. i watched every democratic debate, particularly for 2020, and i do not recall any of those people talking about the coronavirus coming. it was so obvious, as it is being reported now, why weren't they talking about it? it was not obvious. it was a difficult decision. i think the president has got the response pretty reasonably well. host: does the president have self-discipline -- self-discipline? not shown it. he likes to spew his messages. he likes to think in terms of 24-hour, 40 a eight-hour media cycle, rather 48-hour media-- cycle, rather than a large effort to bring a point home and he has not shown signs of changing his stripes. host: the article linking russia kill a troops,o yourounty story, what is thought? examplehis is another

henry olsen?uest: i think a lot of the criticism of the president's handling of coronavirus is partisanship. he would have been distracting the country from the important questions of impeachment and ukrainegate. win with a large segment of the national media. i watched every democratic debate, particularly for 2020, and i do not recall any of those people talking about the coronavirus coming. it was so obvious, as it is being reported now, why weren't they talking about it? it was not obvious. it was a difficult decision. i think the president has got the response pretty reasonably well. host: does the president have self-discipline -- self-discipline? not shown it. he likes to spew his messages. he likes to think in terms of 24-hour, 40 a eight-hour media cycle, rather 48-hour media-- cycle, rather than a large effort to bring a point home and he has not shown signs of changing his stripes. host: the article linking russia kill a troops,o yourounty story, what is thought? examplehis is another o

joining me veteran democratic strategist and msnbc political analyst james carville and henry olsen, post." thank you both for being here. james carville, you are the only person on our show this evening who has been part of a campaign that's defeated an incumbent president. i'm going to start with you. looking back at your experience in 1992, taking out george h.w. bush president in '92 and where trump is right now, do you see a way for trump still to win this election? do you think he's finished? >> no, i'm not smart nuf to do that, maybe henry can. most important number when an incumbent is running is right track number. an average of 23. he's got every one of those. for him to win, he would either have to change the number or penetrate -- have people that think the country is off on the wrong track to vote for him. both of these are highly unlikely but it's the only way he can possibly come back. all of the people on the right track are voting for trump right now, all 23% of them. the challenge is he's running for re-election in a country that is not very pleased with the way it