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good about how she did and i feel very, very good about defending her performance tonight. >> james carville, thank you. lawrence o'donnell, thank you, james. lawrence o'donnell standing by to give his assessment. >> brian, rudy guiliani's comments were interesting. they began with something that wasn't true. he said that donald trump had to talk much less than hillary clinton. in fact, the official count is in. donald trump talked for one minute five seconds longer than hillary clinton. i think each side always has the feeling that the other one is getting more time there. and rudy guiliani's willingness or eagerness to immediately shift back 20 years when asked anything about what happened on friday, what happened on friday was for the first time in history first time in presidential campaign history a candidate confessed on videotape to sexual assault. sexual assault is a crime. rudy guiliani's been very fond talking about all the crimes he could prosecute hillary clinton for if just given the cannes and chris matthews question question about this was important. now, what's true is we don

we also have james carville watching along with us out in arizona, james, your assessment of what you just witnessed. >> well, i think pence's objective was to attack hillary, which would have endeared him to the base. he was a very religious guy, almost meditative when he talked about abortion at the end. i thought senator kaine came for and wanted to keep the tax issue front and center. also we'll hear a lot about netwo nuclear weapons as campaign goes. that was clear it was pretty much his strategy. the debate was a little more acrimonious than i thought. kaine was very aggressive. you know, he jumped in a lot. i think the base of both parties, i think the democrats saw things they would like out there. i think the religious people really saw stuff in pence that they liked that they did not see in trump. my guess is, it's not going to change very much. but it will give the religious people something to be excited about. and i think the democrats will be very satisfied with senator kaine's performance. >> put it this way, to rachel's point do you think the departmedemocrats are goin

trump doesn't give them much. >> james carville, thanks, thanks for watching along with us. steve schmidt a lot of people will see the biggest policy difference between pence and trump on syria, a real clear difference between top of the ticket and number two, also, interrupting is new in our lifetime. you can watch 30 years of debates and not see what we witnessed tonight say nothing of the first presidential. >> when we look at this event it will be forgotten and not long remembered. it's not going to have an impact on a single person's vote in this country with the two dominant figures at the top of the ticket. that being said, i think tim kaine was borderline rude, interrupting, and i don't think he came across particularly well to a person who's not following this race every minute of every day by way of introduction. however, in the course of that interruption, he put mike pence into a difficult box. because the indelible image that will shape this debate in the coverage tomorrow is, mike pence repeatedly shaking his head no, no, no. donald trump didn't say that. almos

let's bring this james carville in new orleans. the try to do this. give us there, it will be very pugnacious. what do you think it will look like? >> normally, if the normal person were doing it, you would say trump is falling behind. he has to solidify republican as little bit. he has to appear to be a little less scary than he is. that's what i would. do anybody else would do. that's what you would do. i think ron costa made the money point tonight. it is all a breitbart thing. international bankers and you know, obama's half brother and every kind of thing he can think of. so i have no idea. in terms of secretary clinton, i hope she comes across as answering the questions. straightforward. policy oriented. likable and gets those numbers up that you keep referring to. gets her favorability up. i think she has a good position the run away with this thing right now. >> she once said to a crowd, i'm sure the crowd enjoyed it. whelmed somebody is coming ought, deck them. deck them. you're suggesting a kind of, rope a dope -- that's not right. make a fo

james carville, watching from new orleans. , that was something as well. >> there were a lot of moments in the debate. a lot of news that was made. from a political person's point of view, we started tonight before the debate. it was generally acknowledged or it is acknowledged the fact that she had a pretty comfortable lead. would anything happen that would jeopardize that and change the fundamental dynamic in this race. i honestly think clearly nothing did. where we were, if anything, she might be slightly better off. trump had to make gains. i don't see he did that tonight. some people say his performance was better than other debates. other people said her performance was better than other debates. i am very favorable. i thought she did great. i thought the visuals were good. at a minimum, i think we are faced with the same situation we had five hours ago, which is a pretty favorable thing for hillary clinton and the democrats going into this election. that's where we are tonight. this is the end of the public part of the c

james carville kept saying it over and over again that he's a popular man, but he is. i've been to places like ireland with him, and he's loved. why is he loved despite his public behavior. something is there. why does that not hurt bill clinton? >> it's partly because of who bill clinton is as a person which donald trump and hillary clinton couldn't do last night on the debate stage which is make a real connection with voters. bill clinton is the american dream. he came from nothing to become the highest office in the land, and i think also, secondly, people have fond memories of a better time in terms of the economy as well. the 1990s were undoubtedly -- in disputably a growth era for blue collar voters. >> he kept coming back. this idea that we all sin, we all fail, we all keep asking for forgiveness and we all keep coming back. he's catholic, too. the one thing that got to me last night, i'm a complete sentimentalist about politics when something nice happens. i thought what she said about his kids was very nice. and donald trump called her a fighter. i don't think

next, steve schmidt and james carville, where we stand heading into tonight's debate. >>> election day is just 35 days away. the race between hillary clinton and donald trump is back to looking a lot like it did prior to the weekend. clinton had to leave the 9/11 memorial due to poor health. her polling took a noticeable and appreciable hit. current polling averages have her nearly four points ahead of donald trump in both a two-way race and a four-way race when alternative candidates are included. the question now is whether there is still potential volatility in this race. joining me now, democratic strategist and msnbc political analyst, james carville, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst, steve schmidt. james, let me begin with you. the big question here is, has the race been volatile or relatively stable with the exception of those two weeks that were pretty bad for hillary clinton and can it still turn around in that way. there's a school of thought from plouffe and pfeifer and the obama people that it was actually pretty stable, there's nothing to worry about in th

i think it will be quite a bit different than tonight. >> james carville, joiningi us from louisiana re is something that chris matthews got to tonight with rudy july annie and kellyanne conway, trump isn't making the case that there is going to be widespread voter fraud and that's why trump might not concede the election if and when he loses. he goes from saying he won't concede to complaining about the media, as if the media is the election means it is rigged or inherently unfair and, therefore, it can't accurately decide the will of the american people. there is a case he is making that is different. giuliani and kellyanne conway are making a case about the voter fraud and donald trump is making a case about the media. that sets you up for your web radio show or whatever it is he is going to try to do. >> one pretty picture that came out of tonight has come to our attention. do we know anything about what flight this was on what airline. it is virgin, virgin american. in all those seat backs, save one or two, is the debate. all those folks on that plane, i would love to hear the re

james carville is standing by to talk to us. he's in his beloved city of new orleans, louisiana, tonight. and james, talk to us about the advice and counsel you would give to hillary clinton going into that room. >> well, i think what she wants to do is come across answering the questions, being very knowledgeable, being very warm, not so much engaging trump, whatever he's going to do, i have no idea. i also think that chuck todd made the real money point earlier. if the question is not will trump do well enough to make this race competitive. i don't think he will. can he stop the hemorrhaging that the republicans around the country are so worried about? i think that will be the important point here. can he put some kind of a floor on where it is now? because it has been a terrible two weeks for him. >> james, you agree this wikipedia story that keeps playing out by the thousands of revealed e-mails every day, so many that news organizations with people devoted to it running full bore can't keep up with the numbers, can't read i

james carville in the big easy, watching this debate. james, your reaction. >> well, first of all, like you, i was struck with the visual right after the debate ended in which when she walked and shook hands and her facial expressions and how trump just stood there. i was kind of struck by the same thing you were. in terms of the question, did this change the race in any fundamental way, no, it did not. the question we were asking early, did it stop trump's hemorrhaging? i don't know. i kind of think maybe it didn't. there was no change at all in his strategy. there was no change in his demeanor. and i agree with what everybody said so far that he would not accept election return is the headline. it ought to be the discussion we have tonight, the discussion tomorrow and from now until election day. so, i mean, quite honestly, i thought the visual after the debate, i totally agree with you on that. and i don't know if he was even able to stop his hemorrhaging tonight. and it was a remarkable moment back and forth in the debate. but it was

. - oh yeah neera tanden on democratic activist said that and then james carville reiterated it to me and said it's as though you found out peyton manning didn't like football. it's just confusing when you can do it so well why you stay on the mountain top. - [evan] right right. - and don't wanna mix it up and when you see the american experience has been playing biographies of presidents and lyndon johnson's and when you see he would just spend every minute of every day. - [evan] yep. - you know, doing it and obama just really doesn't like to do that. - he's not into it. - no. he's just not into it. - it's so fun to talk to you. - ahh thank you evan. - thank you so much for coming by and good luck with the book. - okay. - i just, i want you to explain the rest of the campaign thing so get back to work. maureen dowd! - thank you. (applause) - [narrator] we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q and a's with our audience and guests, and an archive of past episodes. - my older brother michael said angrily, y

craig: what james carville said in the first clinton presidential campaign, is the economy stupid?omists have used that as an iron law and we put all of our chips on the belief that economic risk to london would other argument. when immigration came to the floor it overtook it. we also believe that millions of people who have not engaged in the political process for years would not do so this time. they did in huge numbers for leave and that was enough to take it over the line. francine: do you think david cameron regrets calling the referendum? day in and day out your newspapers bashed europe so for me it felt counterintuitive that you could win the referendum. craig: a lot of people did -- it has become inevitable in our political system you have rebellious mps rebelling on anything to do with europe. the uk independence party was doing well but they won the elections in 2014. you also had the so-called democratic deficit meaning you needed to be 60 two vote on europe. of the eu, i think it is also true exactly the point you are making, for 40 years nobody had really done positiv

once they had the sly james carville fondly known a serpent head and now they have a slippery david brock accurately known as a snake. we have video we are going to show eventually of david brock before and after. ms. dowd: right. mr. lamb: why did you call him a snake? ms. dowd: this is something that concerns me about the coming clinton administration because she does have this idealistic public service side, but then she also over the decades has developed a kind of, a different side where she often makes decisions from a darker place, of fear and insecurity. her secretiveness and defensiveness trips up the public service side. to that end she has surrounded herself with a lot of henchmen who will slime people who are even saying accurate things about the clintons. i think that speaks to this paranoid side that she has. they are going to come with her in one way or another, either outside the white house or inside the white house, and you know, it just worries me because i wish she could have the confidence to throw off that kind of person. and i interviewed bernie sanders and he was r

james carville again this week is watching with us. he is out west in arizona. ames, what are the risks? take each vice presidential nominee on. what are the risks for each guy tonight? >> well, i think first of all they want to defend their candidate. i think it's going to be -- let's look and see how much is about the vice presidential candidates, how much about the presidential candidates. i wouldn't be surprised if we hear a lot more about the top of the ticket than the actual people participating in the debate. both of these guys, i know both of them, neither one of them are particularly relish the attack or like it. they both kind of polite people. pence is more ideological than senator kaine is. it will be interesting to see how much he promotes and defends conservatism as to how much he promotes or defends trump. that will be an interesting dynamic in this race. pointed out earlier, is this an audition for 2020 or pushing himself in 2016? there's a lot of hidden stuff going on here tonight. it will be fun to watch, i promise. >> i was thinking about that

but james carville and i think is hard for you to hit me when my fist is in-your-face. clearly that is exactly what donald trump was going to do. i tweeted right before the debate started that he was not going to show up with his tail between his legs he was going to be loaded, prepared and he was he brought his game tonight. >> don't obviously chuck was talking metaphorically he was not saying domestic violence but this was an aggressive >> woman: it was aggressive because he had no choice. he lost support by the minute from his own leadership. the titanic is going down this minute. this was a desperate attempt, we have to remind ourselves that bill clinton isn't running for president. it is hillary clinton. so him doing this is a desperate attempt to get back on the news and that is where he is that. is probably thinking this video does it. that is it, drinking and having a party but it didn't really and the debate. he seemed to sidestep it by saying no. >> woman: but clearly the republican leadership, the new, i am going to jump ship go ahead, they denounced him. it

. >> james carville standing by to talk to us. often of counsel as part of our coverage. james, this was part, probably the worst component you had to deal with in running a clinton campaign. the thing about it is, it was a different clinton. that was bill. this is hillary who's going to be on the stage. >> should be talking to tom brokaw, since these allegations have come out to remind people that bill clinton left office with one of the highest approval rayings ever. almost the party's nominee. was confirmed as secretary of state by a huge senate majority. but only thing i find shocking about this is this some were shocked he would do this. this is consistent with everything we know about donald trump. with his entire campaign. not shocked at all. its effectiveness is dpoipg to backfire. >> james, on the question of the effectiveness, i feel like a little bit disconnected from the story because i feel the political analysis we're working from, a scorched earth tactic, the button that says do not push. what i don't understand is why this works against hillary clinton. why

it's nobody's business, and my friend paul's friend james carville said you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park. the reaction was totally the opposite. i'm just suggesting here that there are a lot of double standards here. we need to focus on the issues. what goes on in the e-mails, what's the economy, foreign policy, et cetera. >> is your candidate focussed on the issues? he held a press before the second debate. >> right, because i think you to fight this stuff. let's be candid. as a republican when they went after mitt romney, the romney campaign rolled over when "the new york times" went after mccain. the mccain campaign rolled over. donald trump fights and that's what people like. >> i don't think it's a wash. first off, as the last tape story was breaking, the polling collapses for donald trump, in fact, he went down to 28% among women. 28 in the atlantic prri poll. that's a catastrophe. i think it's going to hurt normally because it comports with what trump said. his most damming witness is donald trump who said essentially, i'm not going to repeat it, but he basically sa

and my friend paul's friend james carville said you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park whatever. the reaction was to the opposite. i'm just suggesting here that there are a lot of double standards here. we need to focus on the issues, what goes on in these e-mails, what is the economy, foreign policy etc. >> but is your candidate posting on the issues? he's the one who held a press conference before the second debate and -- >> right because i think you do have to fight the stuff. as a republican when they went after mitt romney for the steel workers wife commercial. the rom campaign more or less rolled over. and the mccain campaign more or less rolled over. donald trump fight asks that is what people like. >> i don't think it is a wash. off. as as the last tape story was breaking -- in fact he went down to 28% among women. 28%. that is a catastrophe. think this is going to hurt enormously. why? because it comports with what trump himself said. his most damning wince is himself. now you have women coming forward saying precisely the same thing. by the way in the last hou

james carville said i think about a month and a half ago that democrats were being oversampled like 15% to 25%. i see no reason why the media would change that narrative because for all intents and purposes i think the minor people believe the media wants to get hillary clinton elected no matter what. >> let's say that's the sxas these polls understate donald trump's support. do they understate it that much? naturally depending on how they roll out to us, curt, there are seven to ten-point gaps there. that would be a lot of ground to make up. >> i guess i would ask you, neil, in the last 10 to 12 days, or two weeks during the slippage in the polls what's happened to cause him to lose support? the two tapes. but daily we've gotten affirmation that hillary clinton's exactly what we believe she was. >> but that's getting ignored in the media -- i agree with what you're saying, but that is getting ignored in the media. the trump stuff gets a lot of attention. >> no, you're right. there was a report the other day, there was a 66-minute news cycle on i believe it was msnbc or cnn and the trum

. >> if only james carville was here this morning.o "morning joe." >> shake down the corporations in haiti ends up putting $66 million in his pocket, somebody going to hell. >> october 27th, still with us, we have bloomberg -- >> if there were money to be made in hell i'm sure they would direct the foundation down there. i want mark halperin. . >> i'm so happy to be here today. >> why did does this always happen to me? >> let's talk about trump business deals. >> also with us to help you out there, steve, we've got in detroit associate -- >> we'll be on your side. >> ron fournier and in washington, msnbc political consultant, casey huhn. >> ron fournier in retirement. >> wait -- >> so, you're out of retirement. and for good reason. >> why don't i do this story first? >> i want to talk to ron first. so, the washington post, just an amazing story, top aides leaked em mow details bill clinton inc, talked $66 million they think they can shake down from people who are also giving money to the foundation. lead story in the "the new york tim

james carville saying after a sexual harassment claim that was settled saying i guess if you drag a dollar bill through a trailer park, no telling what will come up. i guess that's what is so surprising to me when we have people selected with the people campaign being so shocked by what's going on here, i think we're all deeply disturbed by what's going on here, but i would only say to hillary clinton you had me at nuclear winter. you should probably just leave this to the press. and just, please, we were all there in the 1990s. our memories are not that short. leave it to the media and stop being self-righteous about something that you know all too much about. mark halperin, the josh green report suggest that we're going to had a he said/she said on both sides over the next three weeks. is this any way to run a campaign? is this any way to run a country? >> people say this is the most negative campaign we've ever seen. we're now in the most negative campaign i've ever seen. donald trump is behind, right? he's behind. his campaign would acknowledge he's behind. and they recognize their opt

once they had the sly james carville fondly known a serpent head and now they have a slippery david brockcurately known as a snake. we have video we are going to show eventually of david brock before and after. ms. dowd: right. mr. lamb: why did you call him a snake? ms. dowd: this is something that really concerns me about the coming clinton administration because she does have this idealistic public service side, but then she also over the decades has developed a kind of, a different side where she often makes decisions from a darker place, of fear and insecurity. her secretiveness and defensiveness trips up the public service side. to that end, she has surrounded herself with a lot of henchmen who will slime people who are even saying accurate things about the clintons. i think that speaks to this paranoid side that she has. they are going to come with her in one way or another, either outside the white house or in the white house, and you know, it just worries me because i wish she could have the confidence to throw off that kind of person. and i interviewed bernie sanders , and he wa

you even have james carville saying of course there will be some voter fraud.e still registered to vote, irr irregularities somewhere, but i think the whole conversation about american principals and democracy must include the other person on the stage, who has used the state department as a concierge for foreign donations. she takes money from countries that don't respect women, let alone don't respect democracy. so i think it's a two-way conversation on that. >> nicolle. >> i talked to a handful of republicans this week who thought that marco rubio may have catapulted to the top of the 2020 heap should donald trump fall, regarding wikileaks. i heard people saying the gop should stand strong against russian involvement in the american election. are you completely comfortable with the campaign using and trafficking in information stolen by russian intelligence service. >> i am. donald trump addressed that last night. i thought secretary clinton in some of her answers was almost presuming donald trump had access to this information or knew for sure what the sour

coverage of the bill clinton, quote, unquote, bimbo eruptions as they were known by derisively by james carville and other political operatives, they were able to sell that theory to the mainstream media in large part. not like "new york times" didn't cover what went on with clinton and allegations regarding him against women but they covered it as less of a major story because, guess what. he was their guy in office and he got the impression they were looking to minimize it. they're not doing that here. this is like full-on, you know, donald trump is way guilty before anything. and i think, you know, that is the legacy of this election. now, donald trump may be guilty. i don't know. i mean he definitely said something horrible on a tape which makes you think that he has some sort of these inclinations but i will tell you this, he is not been given the benefit of the doubt. and bill clinton was. i was, i was at "the wall street journal" at the time. this is pre-mr. murdoch buying it. i remember how bill clinton was covered and it was nothing, and i remember how "the times" covered it as well. it

my status as a regular on crossfire debating james carville. she said there are so few great men in american politics today, i give you congressman mike pence. i got up and spoke and afterwards i asked my wife what she thought of the speech. she said it was fine. i said, i was thinking about that woman who introduced me and what she said. and my wife said, uh-huh. [laughter] said, if you take yourself totally out of it, great men iny few american politics today. my wife said, i know there is one fewer than you think there is. [laughter] mr. pence: you know where i live. i prefer the introduction that was described to me, a christian, conservative, republican in that order. i appreciate the christian coalition. [applause] mr. pence: it was just a number of months ago that i found myself on a bus in a sloping valley between two gentle hills, one to the north and one to the south. it was a valley north of jerusalem, and there was a tiny creek that runs through it. our guide, who traveled with myself, my wife, and the jewish federation of greater i

james carville in the big easy, watching this debate. james, your reaction. >> well, first of all, like you, i was struck with the visual right after the debate ended in which when she walked and shook hands and her facial expressions and how trump just stood there. i was kind of struck by the same thing you were. in terms of the question, did this change the race in any fundamental way, no, it did not. the question we were asking early, did it stop trump's hemorrhaging? i don't know. i kind of think maybe it didn't. there was no change at all in his strategy. there was no change in his demeanor. and i agree with what everybody said so far that he would not accept election return is the headline. it ought to be the discussion we have tonight, the discussion tomorrow and from now until election day. so, i mean, quite honestly, i thought the visual after the debate, i totally agree with you on that. and i don't know if he was even able to stop his hemorrhaging tonight. and it was a remarkable moment back and forth in the debate. but it was

. >> we'll bring in james carville now, nbc news political analyst. he's been watching all this. give us your initial thoughts, james. >> my initial thoughts is that senator kaine, if you're a democrat, you liked what you saw. enthusiastic, defended the party's positions very well. i think that governor pence did -- if you're particular, like a fundamentalist christian, i think you could identify with him and trump has not excited these guys very much. excited them. he really went on attack on secretary clinton. you know, i thought there was a lot of back and forth. it was also a lot of you said this/i didn't say that. the fact checkers are going to be up all night. but i think both sides came away with something. i think the race is going pretty well for secretary clinton. i think it will continue to go well. i also think the clinton campaign really wanted to get the taxes thing out and i was surprised at how much they went after the nuclear that is clearly something we're going to be hearing a lot more about as the campaign moves forward. >> all right, james. thank you. we're go

james carville was quoted in today's "washing examine -- "washington examiner," of course there willconcierge for foreign donations. when he talked about a lot of rigged, corrupt system, he sounds like bernie sanders. he too complained about that. >> he's the bernie sanders that john podesta called a doofus. there's a missive in the wikileaks stack that shows that donna brazile got a question and fed it to the clinton camp first time. megyn kelly is the first one to watch her about this. i want you to watch this. get your comment. >> you are accused of receiving a debate question before a cnn town hall where they partnered with tv one and that you had this question on march 12th that verbatim, verbatim was provided by roland martin to cnn the next day. how did you get that question, donna? >> i did not receive any questions from cnn. i will not sit here and be persecuted because your information is totally false. what you are -- >> i'm getting it from podesta emails. >> well, podesta's emails were stolen. you are so interested in talking about stolen materials. you are like a thief t

. >> paul begala and james carville said bill clinton is a good man who did a bad thing.ay that about donald trump now. >> why, what's the difference? >> hold on. i'm sorry. >> because he lies? >> mika, hold on. so wait, are you saying carville and begala were saying the monica thing, he's a good man who did a bad thing. >> yeah, and just as you said a lot of women in impeachment? >> as if this wasn't a long string of behaviors of bill clinton enabled by hillary clinton? >> joe, if i could interject on this. further to hillary's performance of the debate, i think that she did have an opportunity to address the whole enabling question. she could well have said, look, this was a traumatic thing for me, played out on an international level. and i didn't handle it optimally, and had she said something like that, i think it could have at least, if not laid to rest concerns about her behavior towards these other women, but at least would have been mollifying to a lot of people in the electoral. i think that was a missed opportunity in what was otherwise a superb debate for her.

. >> republicans seemingly have always been misled about pennsylvania based upon james carville's famousescription of pennsylvania. you have pittsburgh on western end. philadelphia on the eastern end and alabama in between. >> you look at the northeast, mark halperin, you had republicans winning both connecticut and maine every year from '72 to '88. you had them winning pennsylvania a lot more than not. i think they won it every year -- i don't know if ford won in '76 but won pennsylvania from '72 to '88. held their own in new jersey. it's just sort of withered away. donald trump's big argument was i can win these states. i can win in the northeast. i can win in new york. right now maybe he can win in new hampshire. even that seems to be slipping away. the republican party seems locked out in presidential campaigns in the northeast. >> northeast is tough for any republican. trump made the argument that he could win white working class voters and he'll do better with some pennsylvania voters than mitt romney did. in the state polls that show clinton ahead, look at the senate race. pat too

. >> james carville watching along with us. i just was amended a quote from tim kaine on a rope line tonight. i feel good, look after i see all my buddy, [ inaudible ] it was intense, it was intense, but it was fun. it was fun. it was the fastest 90 minutes in show biz. look at the time. another break for us. be right back after this. >>> senator, you whipped out that mexican thing again. he -- look -- >> you can defend it? >> there are criminal aliens who have come into the country illegally, perpetrator indicating violence -- >> you want to use mexicans on that? >> and he also said many of them are good people. you keep leaving that out of your quote and if you want me to go there, i'll go there. >> we've been talking about what lives on from this dwigebate, h this debate resinates into the next day as it competes from the next day, whether anything lives until the weekend when the next presidential debate s. one of the things that may live on is that line in part because at least for a little while this evening that mexican

regular crossfire debate, james carville, there are so few great men in american politics today i give you congressman mike pence. i got up and spoken afterwards i asked my wife what she thought of the speech that she said just find. i was thinking about the woman who introduced me and what she said. and my wife said. [laughter] if you take yourself totally out of it, there are very few great men in american politics today. i know there's one fewer than you think areas. i preferred the introduction described to me and i'm a christian conservative and republican in that order and i appreciate the christian coalition. [applause] it is just a number of months ago that i found myself on a bus in a sloping valley between two channel deals they rose about 300 feet, went to the north and went to the south. a valley north of jerusalem and a tiny creek that runs through it. our tour guide who traveled with myself and my wife said we were passing through the valley and i thought hard for a moment about where i heard that before. that little broke or derivatives thereof is very ready faced young