. >> james carville. >> jon: james carville, you win. >> i think we ought would have gotten it right. and look, a strange thing happening here, i think liberalism has sort of concluded that obama is kind of a turkey. and they're sort of trying to distance themselves from him. carville is a great example of this. it's not that the republicans, not that they like republicans any better, we'll get to that later. when you see, for example, ron sus stein, a well-known author, known conservative as far as i can tell, talking about what a feckless and ineffective economic policy president obama has enacted, he can't keep track of his own treasury secretary, something is breaking loose in terms of the liberal watch dog. >> you're getting nods from judy, you agree. i didn't expect to agree with jim on this one. i have to say when you hear ron brownstein and others saying, this is how effective a leader obama is or the other thing i heard on friday, on morning joe, quoting chuck tight task saying, gosh, is he even serious about this american jobs bill? is this not just a kind of political talki

>> james carville put it best with a one-word reaction -- panic. it is time to panic. that loss in that congressional district -- they made it from the outset a referendum on a barack obama, unequivocally. not just with respect to his jobs program with the economy, but also on the treatment of israel. he has got to decide now what to do a good james carville says to fire people. >> fight. >> he has to show something, because this is a really bad and -- >> and execution. >> a democratic president cannot campaign in a new york city district for the democratic -- that is not a good sign. >> at a georgetown fundraiser, the president saw to reassure supporters who fear that these growing economic headwinds are going to reain danger his reelection bid he says the odds of his being reelected are higher than his being elected in the first place. >> and, it's always have advantages. the big disadvantage of running as the incumbent is the record. that is the problem. it is as bad that said, he has the record year -- is as jonathan said, he has the record here -- >> kabul imagine

james carville joining me. just ignore that tulane hat. you always want to create controversy about college football. surfing the sites this morning and the papers, i didn't see a lot of pushback on what you wrote yesterday. >> what i'm really guilty of here is plagiarism because i was writing what a lot of people were saying. and i think the president, you know, to send a clear signal on anything when it's not going wrong. i was a friend of mine, six generals before he got the grant. so, that's what happens sometimes. i remember 1994 when democrats president clinton fired a lot of people and a lot of good people. >> so, let me ask you this. on this friday, if you had the opportunity, if you were given the position to do so, if you were the general, who are the first three people you would fire? >> well, i would identify what the problem is. i was on yesterday with professor and he said the problem is communication. we'll have to ask what the problem he thinks is in communication. i would fire people in communications. economic policy, i w

james carville is joining us now. james, you created quite a stir in this article you've written for cnn.com. let me read a couple of lines. among other things you say, "what should the white house do now? one word came to mind, panic. this is what i would say to president barack obama. the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed." what are you talking about? >> well, simply this. we lost two elections tuesday night. we lost 65 elections in november. it's sliding back. macroeconomics say there is 1/3 chance we are going into recession. you look how crazy the opposition party is cheering death. this is not working, not politically, economically or anything. bring in a new team and indicate to people you get it, they understand you were dealt a tough hand, but you keep playing the same hand over and over again. it's not working. >> you have two specific recommendations in your cnn.com article. fire somebody and indict people. let's talk about both. what d

james carville joins me live. james, you're pretty intense about this.sident should fire some people here, we talked about that with your op-ed on cnn.com. i know you have great sources. is there any indication that the president is going to do that, going to fire people? will we see the change you're calling for? >> i think that there are going to be changes in the white house the . i don't know if somebody will be fired, probably natural attrition, turnover but it probably will happen. i thought this morning was a refreshing and interesting departure from the strategy before. we had two major setbacks. this debt ceiling deal was a huge setback, didn't help the white house at all, actually hurt, and these two elections were a clear signal. we should take it at that and that prompted the piece that i wrote. the best time to plant an oak tree was 25 years ago, the second best time is yesterday. they planted one yesterday. let's see if it works. it seems they're signaling a change in direction, which is regarded as a good thing. >> yesterday we saw the pre

hannity was right, those words you will never hear. >> james carville a friend of the program was on . he also said that he was watching tv, he's afraid one of these crazy people at the republican debate is going to get elected. carville calling somebody crazy like chris christie calling somebody fat, i guess. >> oh! >> i love carville, but i'm just saying. >> sean: carville is a fun guy. by the way, we disagree. the guy knows politics. >> and he's given great counsel in the past. when he speaks it is telling. >> sean: the ship has sailed for him to triangulate, do what clinton did, you are right that speech groundhog day. >> i don't think there's ever been a president with that high of an unemployment rate that has been reelected. >> sean: why has the jewish community turned on him? i know he screwed netanyahu twice. >> '67 borders comment. >> sean: he left him in the white house sitting there. >> the thing about the jewish community he has criticized israel about settlements. what has he said about the palestinians? >> sean: next week is going to be interesting to see was in the uni

james carville joins me now. decked out for an lsu football game. >> i'm in starkville, mississippi, at the lsu/mississippi state game. >> you say the white house should panic that he -- and i'm quoting, fire somebody and indict people. those are fighting words. what do you mean? >> well, i think that when you look at these two elections, i think they do mean something. even in nevada, that was a seat we lost by about 8,000 votes in the presidential race and about 22,000. it's not going in the right direction. i think the president needs to show the country that he is unsatisfies with the pace of this recovery and the way to do that is make changes. everybody in 1994, president clinton fired a lot of people and made a lot of changes and got back there, time and time again and when a coach loses a lot of games they make changes. he needs to make some changes. and the other thing is, people are livid about this financial crisis and the it just doesn't seem to be much appetite or aggression for going after some of th

james carville does not mince words.at at this point the white house should panic. and basically, start to do three different things. three or four different things. one of them, he said, is to fire people and not just some people, but a lot of people. here's what he had to say. he said people often ask me what advice i would give the white house about various things. today i was mulling over election results from new york and nevada while thinking about that very question. and he said that the thing that he would do would be to start firing people. so some pretty stark advice from james carville, brooke. >> four different pieces of advice. you can go to cnn.com/opinion. mr. acosta, thank you very much. >>> amid this decadence,there were acts of unspeakable cruelty. this house belongs to hannibal gadhafi. what went on in here was truly horrendous. >> that is dan rivers. he brought us this young woman's story. this is a nanny. once a nanny for moammar gadhafi's family. says they poured boiling hot water over her for not k

we all know our cnn contributor and veteran democratic strategist james carville is anything but shy.ng in all the bad economic numbers and day after day of horrible polling data. today james decided to offer president obama some advice. it's posted on cnn.com. it includes this. "what should the white house do now? one word came to mind. panic." james carville is here to explain just what he means and why. we thought it best to bring in democratic pollster cornell to see if he thinks, too, it's time to hit the panic button at the obama white house. mr. carville, to you, first. panic, why? i should say at the beginning you've been at the front of two successful presidential campaigns for bill clinton. why do you think this democrat needs to panic? >> well, a couple of reasons is panic is a joke here. we have a terrible election in 2010. we had a terrible election night tuesday night. the opposition party in my opinion is totally nuts and the economic numbers keep sliding in the sense of the wrong way. i think that the white house needs to demonstrate to the country that it gets what's

james carville joins me now. l decked out for an lsu football game. >> i'm in starkville, mississippi, at the lsu/mississippi state game. >> you say the white house should panic that he -- and i'm quoting here, fire somebody and indict people. those are fighting words. what do you mean? >> well, i think that when you look at these two elections, i think they do mean something. even in nevada, that was a seat we lost by about 8,000 votes in the presidential race and we lost by 22,000. it's not going in the right direction. i think the president needs to show the country that he is unsatisfied with the pace of this recovery and the way to do that is make changes. everybody in 1994, president clinton fired a lot of people and made a lot of changes and got back there, time and time again. and when a coach loses a lot of games, they make changes. he needs to make some changes. work hard and desent people, you got to make changes. and the other thing is people are livid about this financial crisis and the grief that com

this white house going to take james carville's advice?seems like the last one that would simply go around the table and say, you're fired, you're fired, you're fired. >> this is not the kind of president who does that. even when there was a housecleaning of sorts in 2010, we saw the new people who came in, david plouffe and such, were not really new people. they were people who were very close to obama. this is a president who prizes loyalty. i think we may see some reshuffling of chairs. but we're not going to see the kind of full house -- >> but let's remind people, there is a rom and axe white house sort of -- you know, the chief of staff messaging guru versus now those roles are daly and plu. it's a different style of leadership. >> some of the criticism we saw of bill daley this morning, rom was so orderly. and i thought of the many positive things you could say about rahm emanuel, organized was not at the top of the list i would have written. >> i think they didn't like they were not invited to as many meetings. i think plouffe was

plets bring back in ari fleischer and james carville. james, you heard from our friend there.of it? zbho >> let's give ed credit. he's so honest. usually they make light of it. he gave very honest answers and i tend to believe him. he's 68 years old. he had a stroke a year and a half ago. given the pace of a presidential campaign, my gut instinct was right. at least health issues contributed to his decision. you never know what else goes on in a campaign and sometimes it takes a long time for the truth to emerge. the other thing i noticed was watching the tape of her on television, she's an energetic candidate. >> on the human side, people don't realize unless they've worked with this, how grinding and grueling it is. i have nothing but sympathy for ed rollins. his personal reasons are his personal human reasons. but the thing that raised my eyebrows is when he said this is a perry/romney race and michelle become man is in third, that caught me by surprise whp when you work for someone you typically would say it's per perry/bachmann/romney. >> i think he said that earlier and

let's bring back in ari fleischer and james carville. ave been hearing from our friend there. what do you make of it? >> let's give ed credit. he's an honest guy. in politics, people try to make excuses, oh, no, we are doing fine in spite of governor perry getting in. i tend to believe him. he's 68 years old. said he had a stroke a year and a half ago. i think ari can believe that, too. given the pace of the presidential campaign our gut was right. at least health issues contributed to his decision. you never know what else goes on in a campaign. sometimes it takes a long time for the truth to emerge. the other thing i noticed is watching the tape of her on television. she's an energetic candidate. she'd be hard to keep up with. she moves around quite a bit. >> ari? >> well, two sides. the human side, the political side. on the human side, people don't realize unless they have worked the presidential or reporters who cover it how grinding and gruelling it is. i have nothing but sympathy for ed rollins. his personal reasons are his persona

i laughed out loud when i heard james carville say fire people. what he's really saying, fire people and hire me. like he was applying for a job. any incumbent today from or ren hatch to barack obama has got to be concerned because the american electorate is frustrated. the president has got to work his butt off and build a strong campaign and raise the money he can. that's what he's doing. i think if anybody ought to panic right now and some of them are, it's republicans who feel that they may end up with ludser rick perry as their nominee. that's the panic, ron, admit it. >> i wouldn't admit that, bill. republicans are in great shape right now. it's not true. i would take a perry or mitt romney or any of the republican contenders vying for the president up against this president and his record and his approval numbers. >> let's talk about the jobs bill quickly because the president is parentally running into trouble from democrats. here's what a few told the "new york times" today. joe manchin, quote, i have questions about the level of spending

james carville and -- >> i agree with david. they're totally out of control. maybe they need some adult supervision or something. but what you're seeing right now is some pretty strange stuff. maybe the republicans need something to crack the whip on them, to not be as crazy. but the stuff is pretty weird right now, i have to say. >> james carville and david frum. appreciate it, guys. our coverage continues all week. we'll take a look at why things are so dysfunctional in washington. let us know what you think, i'm on facebook. follow me on twitter, i'll be tweeting tonight as well. >>> up next, we bombed libya for killing libyans, sanctioned syria for killing syrians. so why is the u.s. apparently now rewarding bahrain for killing bahrainians? a proposed arms deal with the country. >>> also opening statements in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. we'll preview that and tell you about the courtroom action today. a fight over a potentially key piece of jackson video. >>> anderson, the world is already watching the amanda knox courtroom drama. today some of

james carville and -- >> i agree with david. they're totally out of control. maybe they need some adult supervision or something. but what you're seeing right now is some pretty strange stuff. maybe the republicans need something to crack the whip on them, to not be as crazy. but the stuff is pretty weird right now, i have to say. >> james carville and david frum. appreciate it, guys. our coverage continues all week. we'll take a look at why things are so dysfunctional in washington. let us know what you think, i'm on facebook. follow me on twitter, i'll be tweeting tonight as well. >>> up next, we bombed libya for killing libyans, sanctioned syria for killing syrians. so why is the u.s. apparently now rewarding bahrain for killing bahrainians? a proposed arms deal with the country. >>> also opening statements in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. we'll preview that and tell you about the courtroom action today. a fight over a potentially key piece of jackson video. >>> anderson, the world is already watching the amanda knox courtroom drama. today some of

over and over again and work and all right so boehner says obama you know should fire people james carville says obama said have you i mean is that the case that does that and this race need to simply change the roster here i mean you seem not to pass up in this town long enough you know where they come in after two years of big changes and we're still not going anywhere i mean it's something more systemic them that it may help on the edges but how do we get there on a i mean to do the critical issues in this country like education then or if we don't do it because we're competing or we're not you know maryland competing with people new jersey we're kids in maryland competing with people all over the world and they're studying harder than we are you know more educated than we are that's what we have to do in this country. just final question for you i want to get your take on i mean your the the way you do things here i mean you have your question marks raising konstam is this working are you getting attention or people coming up to you and asking what do you mean i can get money from the g

house painter or media pundits i want to play one other thing do we have this sound bite from james carville. we lost all the seats at nine hundred ninety four a lot of us got far i didn't have a consulting contract with the d. and c. people he made changes that's what happens that's what president reagan did nine hundred eighty when it started out well he fired john sears and other people in this campaign i want you cussed out like that how many generals did like that far even rumsfeld lost his job it girl publicans far newt gingrich was saying to not go on well i'm sorry to coach the ballot you know this will go forth you've got to do something you've got to change direction here it just looks like you're saying people doing the same thing over and over again and work and all right so boehner says obama you know should fire people james carville that obama said have you i mean is that the case it does that and you say you need to simply change the roster here i don't mean you see not the past i've been in this town long enough you know where they come in after two years of changes and we'r

the house painter or media pundit i want to play one other thing we have this sound bite from james carville. we lost all the seats in one thousand nine hundred four a lot of us got far i didn't have a consulting contract with the d.n.c. people he made changes that's what happened geoff wood president reagan did nine hundred eighty when it got started how well he fired john sears and other people in his campaign committee he canceled like and how many generals did like that far even rumsfeld lost his job with the republicans far newt gingrich when saying to not go well he. coached them have you noticed as we go sports he got to do something you gotta change direction here it just looks like the same people doing the same thing over and over again and work and all right so boehner says obama you know should fire people james carville's obama said have you i mean is that the case it is that and musician it is simply change the roster here i mean you've seen in the past i've been in this town long enough you know where they come in after two years and make changes and we're still not going anyw

>> james carville, come on. he has made an industry out of. throwing from the outside.being said, you know, you're kind of not doing your job in washington, unfortunately, and robert knows this from having worked in the white house and this is my experience in the clinton white house, if you're not being attacked by the "anonymous sources." look, there was a lot of controversy when daley came in because of his ties to the business community, something that was perceived as an area of need within the administration, and without defending obama or daley specifically i think the issues that they are having and the problems are more systemic and i don't think that you can say it's one person or another person. i think they're trying to get their act together as we're seeing in the way that they are pushing out and rolling out the jobs act, but i think it's unfair to blame one person. >> okay so robert, listening to what james carville calls for and others, should the president be getting rid of his economic team and start over? >> i think the president should listen to his

gwen: james carville? hyperbolic? >> shocking, it's true. the problem for the president is that a lot of people on the left want this kind of really passioned action from him. but he's a bit constrained. because for the president to do anything bold much to get everybody to kind of wake up and listen to him, is probably boldness that's beyond his office. people don't like presidents to panic. gwen: we had elections this week. sometimes you can talk about the theory, what they should or should not do. but in the new york ninth district, a district that for a special house seat, anthony weiner's seat, which the democrats had held for 90 years. down the drain. in nevada, which -- even though it was republican seat, the president had actually run neck and neck there and lost that seat by 22 points. aren't they worried about that? >> i mean, they should be. i think both of those were alarm bells. loud and clear. that they were both races that were framed on the president. and while -- like you said, the seat leaned republican, the other a solid d

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he is explaining why democrats shouldn't panic as james carville, his former adviser suggested on cnn.com in a column. take a listen. >> i understand what james was saying and he wants president obama to be re-elected, but when you are out there running against yourself and people feel miserable it is hard to see your i numbers go up. when he has a real opponent and they get to evaluate real alternatives and see other republicans respond to his speech and his plan, including a lot of ideas they have supported in the past, then i think we will be in a different world politically. >> all right. that's why i stopped you guys. it is a continuation of the conversation we are having. lz, is it panic time for the president, or is bill clinton right? >> i was really disappointed that james carville used the word panic because i think head a lot of good ideas. if president obama implements any of them, it is easy to tie it in to looking like president obama is panicking now. so i agree with president clinton. i think he is a brilliant politician. he's absolutely amazing. it is very early and he's

james carville said it is time to hit the panic button.rs says there is no adult in charge. park penn advising don't use class warfare. the president has doubled down on rhetoric, dubbed down on raising taxes, doubled down on keynesian economics his polls at 39% in "the new york times." -- >> why you mentioninging the house and -- [ talking over each other ] >> why you talking about the 12% approval rating of congress run by republicans. >> sean: explain the new york 9, nevada, 2012 election. the president keeps doubling down on what has failed. how does it get him out of the mess politically. >> it doesn't. he's doubling down on losing in 2012. his numbers continue to sly. he's losing support among inches. the man is even losing support among liberals. which is almost incomprehensible. then you've got democrats calling for the president to fire people. which would be an absolute admission that everything he's done up to this point hasn't worked. which of course it hasn't worked. this economy is not going to improve teen now and 2012. the

i don't know where james carville is coming from. the opening salvo of a draft hillary clinton campaign, discontent among democrats of running with barack obama -- >> michael, you know that's a sure-fire way to elect a republican president. >> no question. but it happened in '48 with truman. >> well, then you get, you know that what happens. >> politics, sometimes, is irrational. >> give us the long view, michael, because the other sort of the gossip at the moment is the suskind book. you mentioned the economic team they're all being quoted. we do have some quotes, where larry summers basically trashing the president in a conversation -- saying, really home alone, i mean it. they're denying that, summers and others being quoted. the president clinton said, this time in my administration, things were a lot worse. in other words, from now until the election, is a long time and a lot of things can happen. give us a long view of where the president is right now. >> basically it depends on what happens between now and a year from now. you

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let's big deeper with the democratic strategist, the contributor james carville and the managing editorcousin, time magazine. thanks very much for coming in. first to you, james. who was right in this exchange between the president and boehner on the timing of the president's address. >> first of all, i'm hurt to include me in the hair segment that you had. i don't know whether it was intentional or not. i think the white house messed this thing up. they were trying to be clever and for what reason. why wouldn't you want the public to see these clowns debate each other. that's what i don't understand. you ought to try to have the bigger audiences that you have to see michele bachmann. i am miffed by the whole thing. the last thing is to paint themselves in a situation that looked like boehner outnegotiated them again and that's what happened. >> sorry that what happened? >> they looked like part of the gang that couldn't shoot straight. the way i argued it if i were the president, look. there a lot more american who is were concerned about a 9.1 unemployment rate that paid off. that is

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last year you memorably called the people last year bed-wetters, is james carville a bed-wetter right now. >> i think everyone understands the urgency of the economy right now. our focus is on, what congress should act in a little bit more panic fashion. because people need action right now on the economy. the president has a terrific short-term plan to help the economy, the american jobs act, part of his longer-term economic strategy. our focus is going to be on -- as the president said in his speech to congress several weeks ago, it's 14 months to the next election, the american people don't have 14 months to wait. while there are going to be some big debates in that election, we have to act right now. >> david plouffe, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> so, as the white house continues to push its jobs plan, wall street ended its worst week since the financial crisis in the fall of 2008. for the week the dow dropped 738 points. which is down 6.4%. and anxiety over global economic downturn rattled markets around the world. >> fears have increased over a second wav

so i have to show you what your good pal and old political hand james carville is saying about this president and his troubles. i'll put it up on the screen. what should the white house do now? he writes. one word comes to mind, panic. this is what i would say to president barack obama, the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed. number one, fire somebody. no, fire a lot of people. this may be news t you, but this is not going well. what's going wrong for this president? >> well, first of all, he became president just a few months after the financial crash. now, ke in mind, even before thefinancial crash, in the eight years before the financial crash, we had almost no new jobs. only 10% as many as we had when i was president. real family income was lower than it was the day i left office. the economy was weak as could be. then you have this financial crisis. istorically, these things take five years to get over. and a year after the president took office, the final figures came in and it turned out that the crash was even wor