(logo swooshing) [reporter] you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for president biden, and the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. You talked earlier about that record low approval rating for president biden and the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. Only 36% of democrats think that their party should nominate joe biden for a second term. 58% say they would support someone else. You're seeing real weaknesses in the coalition that powered biden to the presidency back in 2020. I've been running 350 days a year learned hotel hall running mr. Carville, glad you're enjoying your afternoon walk. You know shit, i thought i was jogging the world to ecuador. Probably one and a half times joints. You can shower right after. There's no wind. There's no rain. There's no cold there's one big downside it's not overly scenic but any 79 year old will tell you they don't look at the horizon any way. You just look at what's in front of you because you're scared you're going to trip louisiana's gift to america. And they don't want him back. Jimmy carville it's my first guest. Helped put bill clinton he ran the. He ran the little rock war room home to the famous sign. It's the economy stupid. You are considered probably, james, the hottest political strategist in the country look james, in all due respect is a political hack i ain't apologizing to no one for what i did for a living. And you shouldn't either. If you want to go into politics that boy looks like he swam too close to a nuclear reactor james is affectionately known as the ragin cajun drag, a $2 microphone through the bayou you just might find james carville democrats whine too much there are a lot of people who don't know him, who thinks he tries very hard to be eccentric those of us who know him know that he's actually trying very hard to be normal and just not ever getting there no knock on your experience that you've lived some history sir. Too much he is a dreamboat, although we're quick to concede that he's an acquired taste i always think i'm going to win, and that'll go into any contest. Would defeat on my mind you are here for a purpose. You are here to help people so when did you finish this national poll cost of living and crime were the two biggest issues undecided. Shouldn't be more than seven. Am i right yeah. I'm in town until after memorial day hey hey hello. Tommy tuberville made my day. He is a colossal fool, and he doesn't know it. Yeah every day, crack of dawn, that you would pick up a french language radio station ambrose thibodaux. Hey, ma'am, are you grew up it was very rural. It was very pristine now officially in carville louisiana the naming of carville is an interesting map of louisiana prior to 1909. It was called island and there was a sicily island. It's a pecan island. There's about five other island place names. And the mail kept getting mixed up and my grandfather at the time was the postmaster. So they said, well, we'll just name the postal designation carville because it was named after my family. People assumed that we were land barons. Understand? we were small time bureaucrats. We had a good name. We could get into any club. We just couldn't pay the dues father was born in. If you were in carville in 1920, this would definitely be top three pieces of residential real estate louisiana architecture probably if you lived here, you were black my daddy said we had the best climate in the world we were the luckiest people in the world. He didn't say, you are growing up in some shit hole on the mississippi river. (gentle piano music) see when the air condition, that was a big thing. I discovered air conditioning political strategist james carville is back in the news again. Democrats are telling him to keep his damn mouth shut. Don't talk about biden's sinking poll numbers. You said, quote, nobody's saying, james, you're wrong. They're saying, james, you can't say that. James has been very honest and up front about what he sees as joe biden's weaknesses. But like any other political strategist, sometimes we get it right. Sometimes we get it wrong. I'm not bedouin, not yet. Democratic senator john fetterman went after famed political strategist james carville. Quote opportunity to tell james carville to shut the quote up. They'd rather bury their head in the sand than listen to what carville's trying to tell him, and that biden is going to lose on issue after issue. They're trailing trump where they really shouldn't be, including on the issue of democracy, by the way, where biden's only leading him by three points. And if you want to make that the centerpiece of this election, which i believe it should be, you know objective facts would suggest he should be blowing them out of the water on that one. Alicece, back to the politic. Do doubts remain about the president's age? yeah, but to say this does not make me into a breadwinner or whatever loser has someone called you that i think that, yeah, i think they've called me a bedwetter on any number of occasions. I'm not offended by it at all. I guess i'm 5% offended that if you really think calling me a bedwetter is going to make me change my mind, i don't think you know who i am. Elections always boil down to decisions. A bedwetter is a person who overly frets i have become the kind of person that i used to hate. One of these carping democrats. They know they never goddamn satisfied the people said that president biden, physically or cognitively, can't do the job by the way, he is old age is something that everybody deals with. If you like me, you're dealing with it as we speak. If you're a younger person, you deal with it through your parents or your grandparents or somebody down the street. You can't pivot from that. Mr. President, on your right, mr. President, i've heard james on the phone saying, what if i stop saying he's old, he's going to get younger? i mean, it's not going to hurt and i'm very pro age. I love that james is going to be 80 and still whipper snapping around, but he quits teaching at lsu because it was too hard to drive to baton rouge. Imagine being president at that age. I am very comfortable that i am saying publicly what people are saying to themselves. I have enough money. I have enough, whatever. I could just shut the fuck up. James is nothing if not consistent. He's consistent in his boldness, consistent in his willingness to say things that his allies might not want to hear. James is saying the flames are coming out of the engine. The plane is going down and we're all just watching it happen thank you worked out that this is dating me was in 1959. This is my eighth decade in politics and my job was to work for a guy named price leblanc against a boise jamelle bouie and my job was to tear boise human bills telephone poll signs. Now and uh, price went on to be one of the great toyota dealers in the united states. Happen to be alive at your action. Toyota dealer. We're loaded with trucks. Trucks, cars and trucks he taught me the value of salesmanship and hucksterism and democrats were not huckster enough and louisiana has this incredible history of having colorful politicians. And james, of course, is the epitome of that color. They go farther and farther and farther into economic slavery. We followed politicians, campaigns and got attracted to it like it was a circus sideshow. You are my sunshine my only sunshine. The defining political character of my youth was a man named earl long. He had this unbelievable way obscuring people and he really went after powerful people. There's only two classes of people that can get first class hospital treatment. That's the poor and the rich. Rich? these guys were bigger than life because of their oratorical skills and fanciful personalities. Why do you keep talking out of both sides of your mouth so a person with nothing between his ears, such as? you can understand what i'm saying. There was a state senator dudley j. Leblanc. He was a huckster of the first order. He comes up with a product called hadacol. Do the hadacol boogie hadacol boogie. The hattie call boogie. Anything that you had had a call could cure it was a hugely successful product. Leblanc did a road show called the hadacol tour, kind of a traveling circus, and the whole combination of politics and hucksterism. It got people out and made politics relatable with a show business component of course, the fda found out that it was nothing but alcohol and bullshit. Hadacol what's that good for? well, it was good for $5 million for me last year and that's good enough for me young person, and you envision a career or life in politics. I never envisioned this carville was a poor student and dropped out of college to join the marine corps. That experience imposed discipline on him, and james does not take the discipline. He doesn't take to structure and yet you can't exist without some. After the service he finished college and then got his law degree from lsu. I practiced law for two years and was terrible at it. Then somebody in the law firm started putting me to work on campaigns for politicians. So i started doing that. I found what i liked to do, you know relatively late in life. I managed my first campaign in 1982, which was when i was 30, you know, 38 years old on election night. I gathered the world did not beat a path to your motel room. No, they didn't beat a path anywhere. The term political consultant as a profession was almost nonexistent for him to say, hey, you know what i want to. This is what my life career is going to be. Was a pretty big lift. I spent a lot of time staying at the phone, waiting on it to ring. 1984 my first campaign, i was the lowest man on the totem pole. It was my first job out of college carville was coming to texas to be interviewed for this job as a campaign manager for lloyd doggett. For u. S. Senate. I carried the candidate's bags. Somebody had to go pick up the outofstate guru at the airport. So i go and get him you know, dropped his fifth fbomb. By the time we'd loaded the bags in the car. I learned more in 15 minutes driving in with him than i'd learned in four years of college. Getting a degree in political science. You could see after 30s that he was ten times more talented than entire room put together. I just remember saying to myself, man, i'm not going anywhere without this fucking guy target. Target. Target. Target had got crushed in the reagan landslide. It was, up until that day, the biggest ass whipping a democrat had ever gotten in texas history. Phil gramm just beat the living shit out of us i went there, boy, and i left a man james was famous for losing races over and over again. He was pretty much nobody in our party, and he just wasn't sure he was ever going to really make it absolutely broke. He had an oldsmobile. He had 3 or 4 changes of clothes and that was it so i go back to baton rouge, worked in the mayor's office, will also be proposing some new school lights at school crossings to ensure the safety of our children. The mayor feels very strongly about this. Then i get a call to go interview for a campaign in philadelphia and i said, well you got to send me the ticket and he said, well, we're going to reimburse you. We're not, you know, just get you don't understand. I don't have the money to get a ticket. You got to send me the money to get the ticket to go to philadelphia took a job in 1986 working for a man named bob casey who was then running for governor of pennsylvania. This is pennsylvania in 86, when the worst of the rust belt collapse is going on. Casey would go around this state, spurred on by carville, and casey would go out and said, if you've ever been knocked on your butt i know what it feels like i've been there. I'm going to fight for you. Okay, here we go. This way james understands the struggle that people have to put two paychecks together because he lived it results came in and we won, james got on the phone and called miss nippy and mr. Casey, who was a very reserved irish catholic, took the phone and told that lady how wonderful her son was. They had a vigorous agreement about how wonderful james is i was thinking, i don't have to go back to baton rouge and beg people for a way to make a living the casey campaign without that i'm not me and that didn't come until i was 42. I would have been a massive failure without this he wins, you win. You've given a victory to the people of kentucky tonight. I take it as a great compliment that the voters chose us. Zell miller jorge engels his cards democrats in philadelphia were cheering a new hero. Them how to win since last week's elections political consultant james carville's phones have been ringing off the hook. Democratic candidates running in 1992 are anxious for the advice of the man hailed as the architect of harris wofford's stunning upset in the pennsylvania senate race and ask questions like, what does a comedy show doing on cnn? that's too much fun. Landslide. I want donald now. Can you slice that have i got news for you tonight at nine on cnn amelia, turn off alarm. Amelia weather 70 degrees and sunny today. Amelia, unlock the door. I'm afraid i can't do that jen. Why not? did you forget something my protein shake. The future isn't scary. Not investing in it is. You're so dramatic hi, jen. Nasdaq 100 innovators one etf. Before investing, carefully read and consider fund investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and more in prospectus at invesco. Com. Nothing comes close to this place in the morning i'm so glad i can still come here. 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Okay we see you to our chagrin, we can still see you al okay, uh, we'll start with jeff in saint pete florida. Who says? when is the date when there is no turning back legally as to beinbeing the nome at the convention? it's you know, i have been highly skeptical of the idea of president biden running for reelection. So now i'm hearing well, you might have been right in june, but there's nothing we can do about it. Okay i profoundly disagree lyndon johnson was running for president in march of 1968. The president had been aware of a growing divisiveness within the country good evening, my fellow americans. Lbj gives an oval office address about vietnam, and at the end, he has this sentence i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. Lbj decided not to run. I don't think he told hardly anybody and throws it open the unpopular incumbent dropped out of the race six months later. Democrats go to chicago it's declared an open convention you had a democratic party that had a terrible issue with the vietnam war. There were huge protests police response was excessive the party elders put the vice president up. He hadn't been in any primaries, and they forced him onto the ballot and what happened well, riots, a loss and third party candidate won five states. Richard milhous nixon has been elected the 37th president of the united states stop freeze frame there's another way to do this let's imagine biden says, i'm not running two weeks before the convention good evening, my fellow americans all hell breaks loose. Phone lines are buzzing you say we're going to put five candidates forward all five will be invited to speak to the convention high drama coming in. Who will be on the stated list of five? wait, i just got an indication that newsom's campaign manager is coming out and, oh wait a minute. Now, back to you. I see gretchen whitmer's press spokesman is being invited back in. You got a fucking game and everybody is watching it as compared to we go to chicago there's going to be no suspense if you had a contested convention, it would be the highest rated summer programing in history could turn out bad, but it could really turn out well this could only happen if president biden decides he can't or shouldn't run. And he's made it pretty clear. So with that, i think that james is getting a fair amount of heat from democrats who just say, you know, it's over now. I mean, he's made his decision. What people say it's time to fall in line but i can't say what george carlin said. Fuck i just i can't much. So we got the news, okay. We're off and running. Nikki haley has exited the race she was in it for about 13 months. Mitch mcconnell endorsed trump during this hour as well. So a lot of news. Yeah. We don't expect to see the president today. We might see donald trump today come out and make a statement. To the left is what they call union station may of 1962, when i was a senior in high school, i actually touched john f kennedy he was down here and he was a, you know a sitting in the back of a convertible or something and i'll never forget, i got close enough to actually, like touched his coat rights and to a catholic kid that was like huge i am proud to become an honorary citizen of new orleans and i am proud as president of the united states to come to this city and to ask you to join with all of us in moving this country forward in this decade the entire generation of people were just moved by kennedy to get in american politics began for me i still believe in a place called hope president yeah, i think you're good. We're good. Thank you, i appreciate it. No problem okay i'd like to know what you saw in james carville that made you take a chance on him in 1992. The quarter century before 92 democrats had held the white house for four years out of 25. So the whole question in 92 was kind of, can anybody play this game people were hungry for a win but a lot of democratic candidates thought that george h. W. Bush was unbeatable coming off the victory in the gulf war a number of people were thinking about running for president. They want to work. So james and paul got to pick and choose which candidate they were going to represent. Our buddy george stephanopoulos called me and said i've signed on with bill clinton he's our generation's bobby kennedy, which is the highest praise he could