what are you laughing at james carville? >> i'm not laughing. i'm in a good mood.lad to be on your show. glad to be discussing my favorite person in the world, hillary rodham clinton. >> you got leon panetta, hillary clinton and bob gates all saying the president is really screwing up with this whole thing. >> well, you got people saying we should have armed the, quote, good rebels. good rebels, by the way, just made a deal with the bad rebel. i think there was a big policy distinction there. i think then-secretary clinton wanted to and so did secretary panetta, but you know, we can look and would have, should have, could have, i don't know what side was right. maybe what we could have done. but he's a pretty close ally to presidents. he served as president obama's head of the cia, so leon is a pretty independently minded guy. >> you have the chairman of the joint chiefs, top military commanders all in one way or another have said that this strategy the president's adopting is the wrong strategy. they're all saying it. >> i saw him say he supported what the preside

mike huckabee, former strategist james carville predicts romney will run. quote we know he wants to be president. he has run twice. romney would be a classic republican nominee. fueling speculation about a 2016 white house bid is romney's presence on the campaign trail with appearances in iowa, new hampshire, north carolina, and arkansas in a schedule that includes three dozen political rallies and fundraisingee vents over the past year. >> -- events over the past year. >> will romney run? if he does will 2016 match romney against hillary clinton? >> i don't think romney will run unless the whole field collapses and they turn to him and the possibility of that happening is the one in a million. >> do you know how much he lost by? >> 5 percentage points in the general election. >> because it was a hurricane that took everything off the screen for about a week. >> it was a hurricane of women, john. >> and he didn't show up with the governor of new jersey remember all that? >> i do. >> he was going to win the election before that hurricane. >> no he wasn't. >>

now, let me start with you, james carville. lot of these forecasting models like nate silver's do show a little bit of movement towards the democrats away from the republicans in the last week, but the old-school analysts charlie cook, stu rothenberg still predict the republican wave. >> i don't agree with charlie on a republican wave but i do say that more things can go wrong for the democrats than can go wrong for republicans and that's never a kind of playing field that you want to enter in a cycle like this. would i be shocked if the democrats won? no, but i would be surprised somewhat on the upside and there's a lot to be going on. i've seen a lot of encouraging things for democrats around the country but still too many things have to go right for us and too many things go wrong for them. >> ana, what about that republican race in kansas? something has gone wrong and you see all the big guns coming in now to try to save that seat for pat roberts. >> that's right. you see bob doyle is getting involved but also seeing some o

from nashville where he's giving another paid speech, james carville, analyst "fox news america. "amazing people pay you to speak. how great is this nation? >> tennessee democrat does not pay -- >> you know, i heard that under president obama your speaking fee vs. gone down. i don't want you to comment, but -- [ laughter ] >> all right, carville. 70% of the american people think the country's on the wrong track. you're an ardent obama supporter. but even you must believe that there's something wrong someplace here. no? >> well, i mean, something wrong someplace, of course there's something wrong someplace. like asking a football player where does it hurt. but you know, here -- look, if you look, the economy is improving, i'm sorry. you know, look at -- >> no, we're not -- >> the auto sales last year, the job market is improving substantially, the deficit has gone down at a record rate. okay -- that's just the facts. >> no, the facts are wages are not improving, and every week you say the same thing. >> but -- >> that's not going to improve wages. and that is the indicator that pe

reaction, joining us from washington republican kate obenshain and from new orleans democrat james carvillerville, very specifically, all right? we don't want to go into the valley of theory. >> right. >> where am i going wrong? >> first of all the entertainment industry was actually defending obama in the the clip that you just showed. if you take the isis thing, we now arab nations that have joined us. we have the europeans bombing instead of running out like some cowboy to put a coalition together that the united states is an integral part of but not going alone. in iran the sanctions were crippling to iran. had had like 70% inflation and unemployment is like triple what we have. the value of their currency has dropped to like 7 5%. you know,. >> it doesn't seem to be affecting -- let me go back to the entertainment industry thing. okay. he was clearly mocking, myers was clearly mocking obama's stated belief. arming the syrian rebels was somehow going to be clearly mounting. >> i took it he was mocking the people thatted to apartment rebels. >> the leader of the people want to arm them,

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she is married to james carville. every day is a bad day for her. [laughter] there is the vice president himself on the phone probably talking to the president. i'm sorry i bored you with that. things are going to get really hectic and happen really fast from here on out. one minute later, they get a situation report from cnn on tv that says the south tower of the world trade center just collapsed, 9:59. we were all in disbelief. that could not be right. maybe the top couple of floors melted and pancaked on each other. there's no way that 110-story building is on the ground. no, it's on the ground. vice president cheney yelled out to all of us in the room -- "does anyone know how many people work there?" someone said there were seven buildings in the square. 50,000 people work there on any given day. he literally flipped over a sheet of paper and started punching numbers. he gets the president on the horn goes, "mr. president, the south tower is on the ground. it's our best guess we have 20,000 dead americans. mr. president, while i've got you on th