177: Ringing In The New Year

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

With 2023 almost here, James and Al ring in the new year with friends George Stevens, Jill Abramson, Fred Wertheimer, and Jane Mayer. Together, they discuss the current state of the media and entertainment, before forecasting the political future of the speakership, the presidency, dark money, and the Ukraine-Russia war– with a solid takedown of lying George Santos.

Email your questions to James and Al at [email protected] or tweet them to @politicon. Make sure to include your city, we love to hear where you’re from!

Get More From This Week’s Guests:

George Stevens:
Oscars.org | IMDB | website

Jane Mayer:
Twitter | The New Yorker | Author of “Dark Money” & Other Books

Jill Abramson:
Twitter | NYT | Harvard | Author

Fred Wertheimer:
Twitter | Just Security | Wertheimer Lipton | Democracy 21

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Politics War with James Carvill and I'm Al Hunt.
0:15.6	This week our guests are the brilliant George Stevens, Jill Abramson, Jane Mayer and
0:21.0	Fred Worthheimer.
0:22.5	Remember we love taking your questions so right into politicswarromegmail.com or send a
0:28.7	tweet to add Pluticon for next week's show.
0:32.1	We'll get to as many as we can and don't forget to tell us where you're from.
0:36.4	Please check out the link to our sponsor Blinkist and the show notes.
0:39.9	It really helps make this podcast happen so we thank you for supporting these sponsors.
0:45.0	Please tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe and Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
0:49.7	Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.
0:52.9	All right now for our last listener questions of 2022 and boy, James, they have been so
1:00.4	good.
1:01.4	At one point I felt let's pick the top 10 but you can't.
1:03.4	You have to pick the top 100 at the top 200 because they're that good.
1:07.2	So this week Ken and Williamsburg, Virginia, as a Democratic minority, can't prevent the
1:12.8	election of Republican speaker but they might be able to influence the choice if they all
1:16.8	voted for a sane Republican.
1:18.7	A few Republican votes could put him or her over the top.
1:21.7	Do you see this possibly working?
1:23.7	Yeah, but in some chances I've over and call it likely or probable but it's certainly
1:31.7	possible and you know they're going to be a big mess.
1:37.8	I mean it really could.
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