12: Jonathan Martin on Democratic Debate and LSU's Epic Football Season
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
New York Times National Political Correspondent Jonathan Martin joins James and Al to breakdown the Democratic debate and Louisiana State University's historic National Championship victory. Christy Harvey runs the 'Numbers' segment with the focus on the Houston Astros' sign stealing scandal. On the 'Back Page', the spotlight is on LSU and Impeachment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to War Room Politics with James Carville and I'm Albert Hunt. Subscribe to 2020 Politics |
| 0:13.3 | War Room on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. James, before we get to this |
| 0:20.8 | week's Dependus guest, I want to say we're starting a partnership today with American University |
| 0:26.7 | Sign Institute of Policy and Politics from the campus. Now with enormous respect for LSU and Wake |
| 0:33.6 | Forest, no university will more light up the boards than AU with its rock star president Sylvia |
| 0:39.8 | Burwell. We hope Sylvia and the Sign Institute's Amy Dacey will let us ride those co-tails in the |
| 0:46.4 | times ahead. We have the guests that you would want to have today. Jonathan Martin, a chief political |
| 0:52.6 | correspondent in New York Times, Jonathan, I'm going to start with a really tough question because |
| 0:56.6 | that's the status that you command. You're not only a great reporter but you're married above |
| 1:01.7 | yourself as Carville and I did. So I'm going to start with a really, really tough one. Monday night, |
| 1:07.7 | you watched the LSU Clemson game Tuesday night, you watched a democratic debate, which was more |
| 1:15.0 | interesting. Oh, that's the easiest question you could ever ask me. I've, well, |
| 1:21.8 | having married Louise Ziannon and I adopted the LSU Tigers, I can say without hesitation that |
| 1:28.7 | Monday was far more entertaining, especially if you take out the first quarter. It was far more |
| 1:34.6 | entertaining. The final three quarters of the game were excellent and riveting for my money. |
| 1:42.1 | The debate last night had a few moments but I don't think of the anal of political history. |
| 1:47.6 | We're going to be talking about the January 2020 debate here in the years to come. |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, I actually thought it was kind of a desultory but tell me, did anything change? |
| 1:58.1 | Did any dynamic change? Does anything different on January the 16th? There are 15th rather than |
| 2:06.4 | on the 14th? I thought Warren helped herself last night out. I thought she made a compelling case |
| 2:12.8 | for why she can win, not just in the moment with Senator Sanders and talking about women |
| 2:20.0 | and the question of electability. I thought throughout the night, she's a really articulate |
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