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james carville, i want to show you headlines. getting it from right, left, and center. bottoms up, lame duck. is obama already a lame duck. even "the financial times" barack obama captive on capitol hill. we've seen the president's poll numbers drift a little below 50 right now. how do we fight the notion this early in the second term he's already a lame duck? >> when the democrats won in 1986, they said that was the end of the reagan administration. in 1994, the republicans took the house. and clinton was re-elected, saying he's not going to get anything done for the rest of his term. when president bush lost the house and the senate in 2006, it with us the same thing. look, there's not a lot of legislation that's going to happen. probably between now and 2014. the president has enormous influence in a lot of places outside of legislation. and the idea that anybody has as much constitutional power as the president of united states, is irrelevant -- >> and mary matalin, he's more popular than republicans in congress. >> so what? that's irrelevant. he single-handedly wip

james carville on what he sees as the j nation's >> bill: personal story segment tonight. analysis of what the biggest problem in america actually is joining us from new orleans democratic strategist james carville. s you heard the bloviating on the program. first youhe define what you d say is the biggest problem and where i am going wrong and perhaps the other guest as well. biggest problem is a long range problem since thet' 1970s we have not been able toob grow incomes in this70 country. between the end of world war ii and say 1973, 1975, everybody in america got a pretty consistent raise. since around 1975 or so, until now, basically nots been a raise for 65, 70% of the people in the country. we are just having a very very hard time figures out how to deal with this. right now the currently the biggest problem we have had is too many w peoplee unemployed for too long a period of time. this is a human tragedy of perverse order. looking to see if there is anything we can do about.n this in my opinion probably still in a wen session. technically still out of aon recessio

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james carville, who is no stranger to dealing with political scandals, says the white house should just wait this one out. current congressional hearings are over a scam not a scandal. >> i think the white house got to just live with this for 30 days, get the truth out, and you know, roll with the punches. >>> it looks like former congressman a maman anthony weis to make a come back. he could jump into the new york mayoral race as soon as next week. >>> someone else making a comeback. former democratic vp nominee john edwards will speak next month on historic trials of the septemberry. no word on if he plans to mention his own. >>> maryland has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. martin o'malley signed a bill that requires people to submit fingerprints to on stain a handgun license. >>> after the house voted for the 367th time wednesday to repeal the president's health care law, a war of words broke out on twitter. after darryl issa asked republicans to describe the legislation in three words. the white house responded by saying, it's the law, complete with the president's sig

relations between the two asian powers both are also locked into contest over another island chain james carville the editor of a japan based news a website says china is able to pressure japan into making concessions elsewhere. it is at the very least an interesting new development in the territorial dispute and obviously meant to at least increase pressure on japan over the the disputed senkaku islands which is another part of this territorial dispute that's going on but in terms of okinawa itself it's been within the japanese sphere of influence for at least the last four hundred years now but of course this brings up the fundamental issue of all of this which is china is trying to argue that it has historical claims over the okinawa islands japan has these formal claims that it's set up in a major era back in the eighteenth seventy's but it's this group completely excluded from this is the fact that of course there is an ethnic indigenous population in okinawa who are the ones who are completely forgotten in all of this and are being used as pawns as they have had to suffer through basically

plus, expert insight from charles krauthammer, monica crowley, james carville and bernie goldberg. >>nted benghazi, to use one example, to go away and the mainstream media pretty much helped it go away. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now.

james carvill is on another network and he says the major scandals with the irs will be over in 30 days. do you agree? do you think this is going away? >> we are not known for our attention span in the media. it very well could go away. as things come out, if the president -- i will put my political strategist hat on, but the president needs -- >> i don't see it. >> it is invisible. the president needs to act boldly and swiftly. if the investigations -- there are like 8,000 investigations going on right now. so if they come back and they don't have any real issues other than some people acted stupidly, i think it will go away. bob bob what do >> what do you think? >> well, i am looking at your head and you definitely have hat head. >> this was not sculpted or anything. >> you think this is going away? >> sorry about that. i don't think it is going away. >> the hair? >> i don't think bill is going away. >> i mean, it probably is. everything but the ap thing. that has the reporters all annoyed. they will stop talking about it once the ratings take a nose-dive. it is another bad date. but

joining us from washington liberal guy james carville. [ laughter ] >> bill: you are not a far left guy, right? >> well, first of all, these people may be far left, they are criminals. they are breaking the law. let's call people for what they are. >> bill: they are doing it in the name -- >> -- it doesn't matter. >> bill: ideology. they are not drug dealers. they are doing it in the name of political ideology. >> they are breaking the law. let me tell you something. the catholic church is very far left when it comes to economics. this pope is very critical of capitalism as was pope john paul. you don't see them rushing the barricades they issue cyclicals. that's the way you have debate in a civilized society. those people don't represent any of the liberals that i know, progressives or democrats or whatever the heck you all call us. >> bill: you would say they are far left people. >> anarchists, also breaking the law. you and i may disagree on politics, but we agree that you have got to follow the law. you can't assault police officers. >> bill: rule of law is what makes democracy hum.

as james carville said, this doesn't represent the left. these are criminals.close to home. >> the far left, the msnbc people, they are starting to dominate the conversation now. they are starting to put forth these things -- >> look, i don't view rachel maddow as far left. i don't view them as far left people. i just don't. >> the crew is really pushing the envelope to the left. that's a pretty generous thing. >> reverend al, he's a pretty liberal guy. >> pretty liberal? >> well, okay, he's a liberal guy. >> gee, thanks bill. i'll take the compliment. but let's get back to his big word, that the far left is gaining more power in america. he is right. progressives are dominating the conversation now because we're for fairness, for women's rights, for equality. bill, i think you should try leaning forward. but before you do, did you think we wouldn't call you out for your bogus spin? nice try but we've got you. it's eb. want to give them more vitamins, omega 3s, and less saturated fat? it's eb. eggland's best eggs. eb's. the only eggs that make better taste and

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zany impression of james carville during weekend update.do you make of the recent defeat of background checks in congress despite the fact that 90% of americans support the measure. >> let me start by saying i have nothing against guns. and where am not just saying that because i look like a bullet. i think after the last election all republicans had a meeting that went like this. we lost. what are going to do? why don't we pretend we won? and it is working. i used to walk all over b barack obama and now they walk right through him like he is a ghost. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is humira helping me through the twists and turns. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for over ten years. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra s

james carville and mary matalin joins our powerhouse roundtable. >>> jason collins makes history. >>he sky is blue. but you keep telling yourself it's red. >>> and whoopi goldberg shines in our "sunday spotlight."

plus, expert insight from charles krauthammer, monica crowley, james carville and bernie goldberg. >>azi, to use one example, to go away and the mainstream media pretty much helped it go away. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now.

this has a very special meaning in memory of james carville. but it does have an interesting meaning. it was also a part of their favorite poem. in 1863, james carville went washington and became a first-time member of the u.s. house of representatives. on december 1, 1863, their first daughter was allies. they had nicknamed "trot", she died. this is tragic for them. about the much closer together than they had ever been. they had written impassioned letters to each other, just about two weeks or so after the daughters that. he told his wife, lucretia garfield, that he had been reading the poem written by alfred lloyd tennyson and it was offering him great comfort as he tried to do deal with the death of their daughter. he suggested that lucretia garfield read the poem as well. he hoped it would bring as much comfort to her is to have brought to talked to him. any kind of suggestion that this became part of their history. and it did. one lucretia garfield had an in memoriam verse carved in her husband's office, she acknowledged not only the tra

. >> we'll have a lot more sunday on "this week" and our powerhouse couple, james carville and mary mataline going to turn to the mysterious and sudden death of a prominent and popular pennsylvania doctor, also the mother of a 6-year-old. she collapsed suddenly at home and police say tests later revealed high levels of cyanide in her blood. abc's gio benitez has the story. >> reporter: investigators are now trying to figure out who could have given autumn klein an esteemed pittsburgh doctor, a toxic dose of cyanide and why anyone would have wanted her dead. klein seen here in a video produced by the discovery channel. >> preconception counseling is incredibly important to women with epilepsy. >> reporter: was a beloved professor. the chief of neurology at the university of pittsburgh medical center until she suddenly collapsed in her home late last month. her husband, a well-known area neurosurgeon reportedly called 911. >> she was young, she was vibrant, a young doctor. we were just stunned. >> reporter: the 41-year-old mother was raced to the hospital, but died three days later. that, pol

james carville alex balden and others all make cam mows. virginia. this is the nbc maris poll which is a huge switch over the "washington post" poll over the weekend. the poll also shows that virginia voters don't know much about either man. we're back after the break. young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. (vo) next, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping

. >> neil: james car veil -- carville was improcessed by you, senator -- i adopt know whether you findt to be good or bad -- but he said that guy, i'm telling you, he will outdebate -- just saying he is a talent. i'm not rooting. i'm sincere here. don't agree with him but i'm tell you he is more talented than any of those guys if you were all in a room, talking about the prominent republicans, he said you would eat their lufn. what did you think of that? >> those were very, very kind comments. i was certainly flattered. i don't nor mr. carville but i appreciate his kind comments. i will say in most other circles saying you're one of the better politics is not much of a compliment in most of america. >> neil: i also think what he is saying is, unlike newly elected senators, you are not quietly assuming membership in the club or being polite and genteel and don't rock the boat. you have violated all of those and many of your aay, to your credit, but that you're going to deliberately rat something cages and this is going lead to a presidential run in 2016. is it? >> well, i'll tell you, n