Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Master political strategist James Carville and revered journalist Al Hunt convenes a war room each week to discuss the battle for the soul of the nation! Join them as they gather the sharpest minds from across the country to see who has the most compelling case for the American people on the issues that matter most.
284: The Dems Are Dazed and Confused with Ambassador Frank Wisner
283: We're Going To Need A Whole New Media with Michael Tomasky
282: The Post-Election Plan
281: Live in Boston with Doris Kearns Goodwin
280: What The Polls Tell Us with Jim Gerstein & Dr. Whit Ayers
279: McConnell and Michigan with Michael Tackett & Melissa Burke
278: Fascism & The Fight For NC with Dr. Michael Bitzer & Max Boot
277: Battle For The Silver State with Jon Ralston
276: Putting It All On The Line with Ben Wikler And Martina Navratilova
275: Pennsylvania & The Fools On The Hill With Gov. Josh Shapiro & Dana Milbank
274: Live at 92NY
273: From Mississippi to the Battleground States with Michael Podhorzer & Wright Thompson
272: Trump Gets Trumped
271: The Electoral Landscape Past & Present with Dr. Whit Ayres & Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky
270: The Post-Biden World with David Ignatius
269: Why Harris Will Win with Mitch Landrieu | DNC Day 4
268: DNC Day 3 - The Battle for North Carolina with Gov. Cooper
267: DNC Day 3 - What The Pollsters Really Think
266: How To Win With Nancy Pelosi - DNC Day 2
265: DNC Day 2 - Justin Pearson & Don Scott
264: DNC Day 1 - Senate Insights with JB Poersch
263: DNC Day 1 - Four Party Chairs
262: Communication Breakdown
261: Winning In Sport & Politics with Dr. Edwin Moses
260: Kamala & The Youth Vote with John Della Volpe
259: They Got Hit In The Mouth with Jim Gerstein
258: Fire The Cannon with Pam Karlan
257: Thank You George Clooney
256: The Next President with Ron Brownstein
255: As Goes The Election, So Goes The World with Jim Steinberg
254: Debate Prep with Bob Shrum
253: The Fall Of Roe with Lisa Lerer
252: How To Win An Information War with Peter Pomerantsev
251: Oxbridge Sentences with Ed Luce
250: Around The World with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
249: The Lost Cause with Heather Cox Richardson
248: God & Country with Katherine Stewart
247: Campus Chaos with Professor Emeritus Mark Yudof
246: War & Peace with General John Allen
245: Convicting Trump & Finding The Center with Fred Wertheimer & Billy Ray
244: Supreme Allied Commander for The War On Women - Senator Tina Smith
243: The Court & The Constitution with Justice Stephen Breyer
242: March Madness with John Feinstein
241: Pestilence and War with Admiral James Stavridis and Dr. Cornelia Griggs
240: Rural Rage with Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman
239: Biden’s Last Campaign with Evan Osnos
238: Greedflation with Senator Bob Casey
237: Putin, Trump & Lincoln with Sidney Blumenthal
236: Catching A Supreme Court Case with Professor Pam Karlan
235: The New York Times with Adam Nagourney
234: From The Civil War To The Middle East w/ Professor Sean Wilentz and Indira Lakshmanan
233: Democratic Rebels with Joshua Green
232: After Iowa
231: Iowa Caucus Kickoff with Jill Abramson
230: Polling Prognostication with Fred Yang & Jim Gerstein
229: And A Happy New Year
228: We Wish You A Merry Christmas
227: The State of the Nation
226: Religion & Speech with Professor Marci Hamilton
225: Evangelicals and Extremism with Tim Alberta
224: The Day The President Was Shot
223: Generational Victory with John Della Volpe
222: The Return of the Religious Right with Thomas Edsall
221: Bibi’s Face with Indira Lakshmanan
220: Strategy of War with Admiral Stavridis and Ehud Barak
219: Israeli Intrigue w/ Alon Pinkus & Congressional Chaos w/ Carl Hulse
218: Israel with Jim Gerstein and Brigadier General Ty Seidule
217: Beating Boebert with Adam Frisch & Identity Politics with Yascha Mounk
216: The Shutdown with Rep. Brendan Boyle
215: 2024 Election Prospects with Elaine Kamarck & Susan Swecker
214: The Fight For Our Kids with Senator Chris Murphy
213: Biden’s White House with Frank Foer & The Extremist Threat with Kathleen Belew
212: The State of The Economy with Roger Altman
211: The Media with Sarah Ellison
210: Trump’s Indictment & American History
209: Dropping A Bombs & F Bombs
208: It's The Economy, Stupid w/ Professor Laura Tyson
207: Building A Democratic Majority with Simon Rosenberg
206: Running Things with OMB Director Shalanda Young
205: Al Gore: Climate Crisis
204: Chris Christie
203: RUSSIA
202: #StillWinning w/ Ron Brownstein
201: Espionage w/ Fmr SecDef Bill Cohen
200: Ro Khanna
199: The 4 F’s with Paul Begala (there’s actually 5)
198: Artificial Intelligence w/ MIT Prof. John Guttag
197: The World In Review w/ Ed Luce
196: Law & Sports w/ Aitan Goelman & Luke Russert
195: Gov. Josh Shapiro
194: Tucker's gone, now what? with Sarah Ellison
193: The Business End of a Mop
192: Political Violence w/ Thomas Edsall & Michael Fanone
191: Trump Arraigned
190: Rep. Dan Goldman & John Feinstein
189: WisDems with Ben Wikler
188: The Two Franks
187: From The Middle East To Middle America
186: Gov. Wes Moore
185: Trump’s Malfeasance with Marcy Wheeler & Morgan Cloud
184: Rep. Colin Allred
183: The Big Battles with Greg Cosell & Brandon Presley
182: Policing with David Harris
181: Admiral James Stavridis
180: A Tale Of Two Documents with Andrew Weissmann
179: Coming Challenges with Professor Julian Zelizer
178: Speaker Madness with Carl Hulse
177: Ringing In The New Year
176: Mary & Judy
175: Butt Plugs & Dildos
174: After Georgia with Michael McDonald
173: Glob of Protoplasm
172: Dark Money
171: Ro Khanna & Tyler Bridges
170: Election Aftermath with Robert Draper
169: Midterms By The Numbers with Stanley Greenberg
168: PA & UK with Ed Luce and Jonathan Tamari
167: From Georgia to Iran with David Ignatius & Stephen Fowler
166: The Battle for Arizona with Yvonne Wignett Sanchez
165: Michael Kofman & Howard Wilkinson
164: Nevada Midterms with Jon Ralston
163: Introducing: It Was Said Season 2
162: Tar Heel Politics with Michael Bitzer
161: The State of Wisconsin with Ben Wikler
160: Michigan Midterms with Bill Ballenger
159: A history lesson with Stephen Kotkin
158: Richard Ben Veniste & Mark Leibovich
157: Sean Wilentz
156: Will Bunch: After The Ivory Tower Falls
155: David Maraniss: Path Lit By Lightning
154: Rico with Law Prof. Morgan Cloud
153: Lis Smith: Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story
152: Foreign Affairs with Ed Luce & Michael Abramowitz
151: Revisionist History: The Triplicate Program and Opioid Epidemic
150: Tim Miller: Why We Did It
149: The State of the Supreme Court with Linda Greenhouse
148: Ryan Grim from The Intercept
147: Rep. Ro Khanna
146: The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America with Ira Shapiro
145: To Risk It All with Admiral James Stavridis
144: It's The Economy Stupid with Roger Altman
143: This Will Not Pass with Jonathan Martin & Alexander Burns
141: Debugger - Defending democracy from big tech
142: Fmr. SecDef Bill Cohen
140: Jeff Nussbaum
139: Will Be Wild
138: Sen. Mallory McMorrow
137: War & Peace w/ General John Allen
136: Border Breakdown w/ Amna Nawaz
135: Just Smell It & Go On w/ David Pepper
134: From Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: Six Levels Down
133: Dr Fiona Hill on Russia & Jon Macks on The Oscars
132: Just back from Ukraine with Nick Schifrin
131: Is Russia a real country with Peter Pomeranzev
130: Ron Brownstein
129: 180º Addict
128: Ukraine with Anne Applebaum
127: Senator Bill Bradley
126: Super Bowl Special
125: SCOTUS With Walter Dellinger
124: Ukraine with David Sanger
123: Sherrilyn Ifill & Michael Waldman
122: Molly Jong-Fast
121: 1/6 with Rep. Jamie Raskin
120: Happy New Year With Friends
119: RETRO: In memory of Harry Reid
118: Holiday Spirit
117: Omicron Is Here
116: PHD In White-Trashology
115: Remembering Pearl Harbor with Craig Symonds
114: John Feinstein
113: Rep. Dan Crenshaw “Jellybeans in a turd”
112: Danny Meyer
111: Senator Angus King
110: Rep. Liz Cheney
109: Rt Hon. Tony Blair
108: Paul Begala
107: Dems working it out ?
106: Barney Frank
105: Emily Bazelon & David Wessel
104: Prof. Joseph Ellis
103: WORTH: Ken Feinberg & Camille Biros
102: Election Experts - Kristen Soltis Anderson & Amy Walter
101: Afghanistan with Ed Luce & Vali Nasr
100: EPISODE 100 !!!! - Professor Craig Symonds
99: DeSantis Is A Giant Asshole also Donald McNeil discusses COVID
98: Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré (Ret.)
97: Professor Randall Kennedy
96: Fmr. US Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman
95: Michael C Bender
94: Admiral James Stavridis, Fmr Supreme Nato Commander
93: Mayor Phillip Levine
92: Penis talk, Brett Kavanagh with Jackie Calmes and Tucker Carlson with Ben Smith
91: Andy Slavitt and Bill Leonard
90: Coach Pete Carroll & Audrey Cavenecia
89: Alex Gibney: Crime Of The Century
88: Fmr. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
87: Sphincter Hall of Fame
86: David Leonhardt
85: Michael Waldman
84: Zach Carter and Evan Osnos
83: Jim Gerstein & Phil Klay
82: Our Towns, w/ Deb & James Fallows, Jeanne Jordan & Steven Ascher
81: Manchin, Gaetz and James's famous tuna sandwich recipe
80: From G. Gordon Liddy to Matt Gaetz
79: Ron Brownstein & John Feinstein
78: Dr Sean Carroll
77: Ret. Brigadier General Ty Seidule & Former NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu
76: Amanda Carpenter
75: Rep. Colin Allred
74: Jane Fonda
73: Senator Doug Jones
72: Laurie Garrett & Greg Cosell
71: Michael McFaul & David Folkenflik
70: Inauguration Day w/ Leon Panetta & Walter Dellinger
69: Impeachment Day... again w/ Professor Kathleen Belew & Walter Pincus
68: John Couvillon & Sec William Cohen
67: Joe Drape
66: David Sanger, Mary Matalin & Judy Woodruff
65: Ron Brownstein
64: Tim O’Brien & John Barry
63: Senator Chris Dodd & Stephen Fowler
62: Bill Kristol & Evan Osnos
61: Shane Harris & Chris Huttman
60: Ed Luce & Tom Edsall
59: In Limbo: Paul Begala, Jill Abramson, Tara Setmayer & Cass Sunstein
58: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Live Stream 'Election 2020
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey
56: Sarah Silverman and Michael McDonald
55: Dr. Richard Murray on Taking Texas and Fred Wertheimer on the Influence of Dark Money
54: Andrew Weissman on Trump's criminality and Kathleen Belew on the hidden threat of white supremacy
53: Ben Ginsberg and Mayor Michael Coleman: James Carville and Al Hunt Discuss the Debate and the State of the Election
52: Sen. Cory Booker on the Battle for the Supreme Court and Sean McElwee on the Strength of Progressive Democrats
51: James and Deborah Fallows on Trump's Alternate Reality and the Concerns of Small Town America
50: Sen. Timothy E. Wirth on protecting our Republic, and Joseph Serna on the Toll of California's Wildfires
49: Andrew Bacevich on the Future of Foreign Policy, Michael McDonald on Florida's Fate and Billy Begala on Trump's Texas Titanic
48: Conor Lamb on Biden's Everyman Appeal and Rashawn Ray on the Aftershock of Kenosha
47: Charlie Cook handicaps the Presidential race post-convention
46: Senator Jeff Flake Denounces Trumpism and Jerry Seib on How Reagan Led to Trump
44: Senator Michael Bennet on Russian Collusion, Corruption within the Trump Administration, and the future of our Nation
43: House Majority Whip James Clyburn champions his bill to save the US Post Office and America's right to vote-by-mail
42: Ben Wikler on the Realities of a Virtual Convention and Dan Mathews on America's Relationship with the Elderly
41: Geoff Garin on Truth in Polling and Jim Tankersley on the Slow Demise of America's Middle Class
40: Kelly Burton and Jessica Post on Bottom-of-the-Ballot Battles and Seth A. Richardson on Corruption in Ohio
39: Julian Zelizer and Thomas Patterson on the Modern History of the GOP
38: Lisa Remy on the Safest Path to Schools Reopening and Ben Sheehan on the Contents of the Constitution
37: David Paul Kuhn and Stan Greenberg on Democrats' Alienation of White Working-Class Voters
36: James Lankford on the State of Lincoln's Party and Matt Bai on the Truth about Trumpism
35: Walter Dellinger on the Eroding Justice Department and Keith Mason and Paul Begala on the Odds of Texas and Georgia Going Blue
34: Howard W. French on Race and the Media, and Ron Brownstein on Shifts in the Electorate
33: Timothy L. O'Brien on the Methodology and Madness of Trump
32: David Harris on Essential Police Reforms
31: Charlie Sykes and Tim Miller on the Fight for the Soul of the Republican Party and Ron Chernow on the Truth about Ulysses Grant
30: David Wessel on the Unpredictability of the Current Economy
29: Norman Pearlstine on Journalism During a Global Crisis and Jung H. Pak on the Real Power of North Korea
28: Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue on Marriage Lessons from Quarantine
27: Drew Faust on Dignity and Death in the COVID Era and John Feinstein on the Sports World's Pandemic Response
26: John R. Allen on The Readiness of the U.S. Military During the Pandemic
25: Madeleine Albright on America's Role as a Global Leader
24: Michael Tackett Talks Going Toe-to-Toe with Trump and Joanne Lipman Illuminates A Hidden Healthcare Crisis
23: Journalist David Shribman Juxtaposes Canada's Coronavirus Response With The United States' Efforts
22: Author Deborah Fallows and Journalist James Fallows Examine the Pandemic's Effect on Small Town America
21: Stephanie Cutter Discusses Joe Biden's Next Moves and Dr. Zeke Emanuel Explains the Scope of the Coronavirus
20: John Barry Compares the Coronavirus to the 1918 Spanish Flu
18: James Carville Super Tuesday Wrap Up and Roger Altman on the Economy
18: Antjuan Seawright on South Carolina and Amy Dacey on Possible Brokered Convention
17: Jon Ralston on Nevada and Ruy Teixeira on Ideological Motivations
16: Governor Terry McAuliffe and Jeff Berman
15: Ann Selzer on Iowa and The Fate of the Democratic Party
14: Impeachment Trial in the Senate Analysis from James Carville and Al Hunt
13: Former White House legal counsel Greg Craig compares Trump's impeachment defense to Clinton's and Jim Dunnam breaks down Trump's legal defense team member Ken Starr
12: Jonathan Martin on Democratic Debate and LSU's Epic Football Season
11: Trump Plays the War Card and Michael Gartner on the Iowa Caucuses
10: Michael McDonald and our Democratic Candidate Report Card
9: Judy Woodruff and Mary Matalin
8: Former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen on Impeachment
7: Jill Abramson on the Media's Coverage of Impeachment
6: Kamala Harris Bows Out and Walter Dellinger Talks Impeachment
5: Roger Altman on the Economy and The Fall of Rudy Giuliani
4: Pollster Ann Selzer on the Pete Buttigieg Surge
3: Elizabeth Warren Rejects the War Room and Ed Luce dissects Brexit
2: Election 2020 presented by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette & Highmark
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