war room with al hunt. james, i am so happy to have you on. thank you for joining, sir. good to be on with another louisiana guy. yeah. if i say who dat or go tigers, i will say both of them. that s it, man. let s stick to the point here. the president was on the road today pitching his economic agenda. i want you to watch this. this has been declared dead on arrival from the moment i introduced it. i think we are going to surprise them because people are beginning to figure out what s at stake. folks, look, these bills are not about left versus right. or about moderate versus progressive. or anything that pits one american against another. these bills are about competitiveness versus complacent say. so he has to sell this. is that messaging working when the spending package still unfinished, unclear what exactly is going to be in the final bill. is it working? well, first of all, the messaging is improving.
mandating this? i served in the state legislature for 14 years. i thought that was the purview of the states. you know, i get it. we have a voting rights act, some states abused african americans years ago and we had to correct that at a national level. some of those provisions i think, frankly, ought to be enacted at the state level and many states have done so. thank you, both. i appreciate it. i have to move on. see you soon. thank you. let s bring in now veteran democratic strategist james carville, the co-host of politics war room with al hunt. james, i am so happy to have you on. thank you for joining, sir. good to be on with another louisiana guy. yeah. if i say who dat or go tigers, i will say both of them. that s it, man. let s stick to the point here. the president was on the road today pitching his economic agenda. i want you to watch this. this has been declared dead on arrival from the moment i introduced it. i think we are going to surprise
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and he is as good as anybody. i didn t sense in any sweat. let me go to you. you were there the other night, weren t you? at the gridiron? no. annie was there. i was there. he put on a show. his speech was good for about five or ten minutes and then bad and good at the end. it was a very surprising speech. it s not the kind of speech i ve ever heard from him before. you automatically think back to the al hunt dinner where his jokes didn t go over well. al hunt oh my goodness, you re right. al smith dinner. and this speech, he made some very edgy remarks. it wasn t funny and charming. but it started off with the funny thing. i can do self deprecation. i m the best there is at self-deprecation. you can tell when a person, i was watching him up at the podium. he was starting to go to his notes and people came up and started to talk to him. he wasn t as prepared as much as he should have been.
ball i never hit the wall before all i wanted was to break you up. abby: that s a fitting song for this next topic. steve: miley cyrus singing about hillary clinton? abby: came in like a wrecking ball. todd: now i have that image of hillary on that ball. abby: let s not go there. yuck. abby: hillary clinton has a book coming out. steve: it s called what happened where she talks about what happened with her race to the white house. and we don t know whether the emphasis is on what happened? or what happened! exactly. but what we do know is that according to al hunt who is a bloomberg columnist he writes essentially the democrats do not think having clinton in the news helps them and wish she were not releasing the book in he want is. abby: the democrats are wanting to move forward. they are wanting to figure out who their leaders are