it sounds like james carville is expecting the law to be tossed out by the high court.'s overturned? >> i sure don't hope it's overturned, but i agree with james carville to the extent that if health care reform is, in fact, overturned, it will expose republicans because republicans have no real plan to address almost one-fifth of our economy and the millions of americans that have been denied coverage and struggling right now to afford medical services. the issue for me about this health care reform battle going on is that from day one republicans oppose obama's efforts to fix our health care system. this was never about the constitution, because republicans previously supported individual mandates. they previously supported different formats of health care reform. the issue is about as jim demint put it who previously supported the individual mandate, jim demint said this was about breaking president obama and about making health care reform his waterloo. the collateral damage are the american people. >> is that the fallout if overturned? >> well, listen, the minute y

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james carville, good to see he hasn't aged since they discovered him in a wall in pyramid.he spun faster he would take off like a helicopter. according to his logic, if mitt romney is elected president that is a great step for democrats. >> dana: everything is good. always spin. >> greg: this is exactly what a guy says when he gets dumped by a fiancee. this is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. i'm going to go to gym. everything is going to be awesome. i feel great. then he goes home and eats package of oreos in bed and cries himself to sleep. dabs save me from myself. >> bob: what carville said makes sense. if this goes down, mandate goes down and most of the guts of the bill are taken down, you still have 40 million uninsured americans. now it's up to the republicans to do something about that. >> dana: not true. >> bob: yes, it is. >> andrea: they argue about medicaid. that would mean 17 million americans would get coverage under medicaid. the court, though we are unsure likely how it will rule is probably going to keep the medicaid and medicare provisions

show james carville my tape.his is the biggest issue the republicans have to run against president obama. the economy is better so that issue is gone. just this week mitt romney had a big campaign slogan, obama care. repeal obama care. that's gone. what does romney have left? good hair? rich friends? this is the greatest blow to the republican party ever. it shows that the president -- we have a balance of powers. no more overreaching. >> get on your medication, dean. >> i don't take medication. >> the economy isn't getting better. >> this is the third question. the buzzer beater. 20 seconds reach. mitt romney offered jay leno his thoughts on an unexpected vice presidential option. listen. >> really, it's never come up? i'm not even running, and i discuss it with my wife. so you haven't thought of -- i'll tell you what. >> i'll tell you what. i can do you a favor with this. i'll choose david letterman. i'll help us both out. >> there you go. >> okay. so what comedian is the best running mate for each candidate? d

thank you very much, appreciate it and now, james carville and rion join us. james, first with the good news. your guy, president barack obama, i know he's careful in how he talks about it, but he has got to be thrilled with the jobs numbers. >> i think they are and i think it's very, very good that he's very, very careful. you know, people see this and they're still a lot of things in the economy. look, this economy was wrecked by the financial crisis and now, we know that coming out of these things is brutal and very hard. i think these numbers are in line with that and people are starting to give him a little bit of credit. they're seeing some improvement, but there are pitfalls. >> rion, mitt romney talked about the jobs numbers today and i find it sort of strange that he keeps harping on the fact that the president said the unemployment rate would never go above 8% because if it goes below, it's going to be very difficult for mitt romney, but here's what he finally said when someone asked him about it today in jackson, mississippi. >> don't forget by the w

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you buy harry reid's arguments and james carville's argument the democratic consul tonight that this will help democrats. >> i don't see this at all. something they've been trying to do for 70 years. >> only 70? >> yeah. >> it was, i mean, talked about during the depression and the roosevelt years and this is the crown jewel of president obama's, excuse me, first term. and for the supreme court to overturn it, i think is a significant blow to the democratic idea and sure, they'll try to demonize the supreme court, what else are they going to do and out there among average voters, it's going to suppress the president's support. >> but you have a lot of republicans, even this week who are fretting, oh, my gosh, we'll lose our best issue, if this is dehe feeted. i mean, steven king, and our colleague wrote about the iowa congressman saying oh, man, this would be bad. does that make any sense? >> well, it makes sense if you think about how it's bad for obama if the law is upheld because that means he has to run on this widely hated law that is going to have terrible-- >> if you're like d

so in a sense it was a movie -- luckily we bumped in to james carville and we couldn't realize at firsts the guy doing strategy in the campaign. once he allowed us in, we knew we were someplace special. >> what about you? >> the rules so called of the "the war room" which was a basketball court sized place full of beer cans and popcorn and 25 people, actually press was not supposed to be this. that was our refuge. we had visitors on our -- and it was sort of hard to maintain an interest when everybody would then go out to some parade or manifestation somewhere and we'd be left alone in the office there. and that is when we decided to call the film "the war room" because nobody could fault us because that's where we were. >> right. it's amazing when you look at the numbers, bill clinton's '92 campaign raised 70 million dhz. barack obama in 2008 raised almost $750 million. the money, internet, news cycle. what do you make of how the political system has changed. >> i wouldn't have any idea how to run a campaign now. it is hard to think back in those days. rel really, the major impetus was

james carville says a friend of mine, a friend of yours, james carvel says, the best thing that couldn would be for the supreme court to overturn it. i want to hear from you, 866-55-press. yes usei think he is wrong, dead wrong. you don't want to lose. i don't think you ever want to lose. >> that's like saying, you know, kentucky goes into the finals this weekend and it would be great for them to lose because then they could say, yeah, we won all the way, all the way, almost won. no. no. you don't ever want to lose. i am afraid losing would mean too many people are not happy with the health care plane in the first place because there is no public plan option. they are going to say, you see it was a waste of time. let's walk away. obama can't get anything good done. i want to win. i want to win. sharon is calling from loveland colorado. hi, sharon. >> hi, bill. >> hi. >> okay. thanks. i don't think so. >> you don't think what? >> i don't think that it would be all bad if we lost. >> really? you agree with carville? >> in a way. i don't think the compromise that we made with the right,

and in las vegas, democratic political strategist, james carville. thanks to both of you for coming in. matthew, let's start with you. the insurmountable delegate lead that mitt romney has. he won 213 delegates to rick santorum's 84. huge, huge. then you look overall, he's got well more than twice as many delegates than santorum right now. they will make the case. there's no way santorum can catch him. >> they'll make the math argument all day long, send out 20 excel spreadsheets. there's no way rick santorum can do this. two things can happen. mitt romney won the math. i think he lost a big part of his mojo. i think he thought he would come into this thing, and begin to unify the party. at the end of the night, give a big speech and say we're now moving forward against barack obama. he cannot do that. he's got a bad slog against him. rick santorum could win five primaries or caucuses if the next two weeks. james carville, usually gives at advice to democrats, take that hat off for a second. give advice to mitt romney, how does he handle that right n

james carville said he thinks that the republicans will on the health care system but you could just say the same argument i made earlier that the democrats have put forward a health care system they didn't fit it i mean you can say what you want to about it still fits in the supreme it won't mind my question let me look it becomes a political it because i want wins and who loses if this gets knocked down thinking and i wave and i think people are looking at it sort of. i honestly i can't at this . sort of a loss as to who wins this because obama is a liability for obama at this point it makes him look weak able her liberal makes him look weak but also obamacare in general him having it's unpopular and i think that actually it being struck down could help him politically it's unpopular with way males and being struck down makes him look weak so i mean there are two there there are many different ways to look at it and i think it's got to play our agree and a lot has to how it's marketed because when you ask people would you like obama care only about half of americans say yes when yo

let's talk with james carville and kevin madden. s, despite his success last night, you know, questions remain about mitt romney's ability or inability to connect with conservative working class voters, evangelical christians, strong tea party supporters, people that say faith is very important to them. what is keeping him from connecting with those voters? >> you know, our colleague at cnn pointed out he can't carry the south or evangelicals or blue collar voters. he has a real problem with basic constituencies in the republican party. having said that, he's the only one in the field i've maintained this consistently that has any chance whatsoever to be the nominee. he's in a race against 1,144. it looks like he's not going to get there until may or maybe june before he ties them up, and they have to bring the superdelegates in for him to tie it up. this has not been a kind process for governor romney at all but he's still going to win it. >> kevin, is the inevitability argument the right one to push? >> i've never liked that argume

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joining us, james carville and david frum.post" abc new poll numbers. hypothetical matchup. who would you vote for. this is all americans. romney right now gets 47%. president obama, 46%. look how close it is also, with santorum, 48% and 45 for santorum sampling a 4%. james, very, very close in march right now. even though the republicans are beating up on each other big-time, look how close this is. how much trouble potentially is the president in his bid for re-election? >> i think this is always going to be a close race. probably attributable to high gas prices in large part. he was four points ahead, he's one down. he's floating around a certain zone. once romney secures the nomination and it's apparent that he gets it but once he acknowledges as a nominee the campaign will get engaged. i don't think anybody suspects that it will be anything other than a close election and to some democrats that were getting overconfident i think this poll has helped. i think it's necessary and healthy for the party. >> in terms of electab

would you energize the base if the law were overturned as james carville suggests?2008 and they were pretty excited as in 2008 and it's on the republican side because you can see with almost every single one of their primaries they've had a huge drop in turnout and they had a lackluster field. they're flailing around and trying to find who it is that should be their nominee. mitt romney has not been able to close the deal. so if there's any concern over lack of enthusiasm it shock on the republican side. they're fired up and ready to go. >> how worried are you about the open mic incident yesterday in south korea when the president was overheard saying to the russian president, you know what? after the election we can do something else. don't worry. just i don't have to be reelected anymore and i'll be able to do things then paraphrasing, that i can't do now. president obama has done a remarkable job in terms of foreign policy, being commander in chief and bringing osama bin laden to justice and making sure we re-established the united states and diplomatic influence

joining u is political contributor james carville, also rich gailen. s, is this big energy push from the white house basically a sign of desperation, a sign that those gas price attacks by the republicans are having an effect? >> it could have a little bit of the latter. i mean every energy expert agrees on it. the president doesn't have anything to do with gas prices. every political person knows that when these things rise, you know, it hurts the president a little bit. so it could be that they decide to get out f front of this. the other explanation is, they may think energy prices will go down and by doing this action they'll think they get more credit for it. i have no idea. >> rich, whether it's fair or not, is this line of attack by the republicans working? >> well, of course it is because any president at this point it happens to be a democratic president, it has been a republican president, the roles would have been reversed but the language would have been exactly the same. another point that i think may particularly bother the president and t

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