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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

197: The World In Review w/ Ed Luce

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News, News Commentary, Politics, National, Government

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

James and Al attack the politicized investigation of John Durham and welcome Ed Luce for a review of the biggest developments at home and around the world.  Together, they look at the latest in Europe, China’s role in the Ukraine-Russia war and the international order, the risks facing President Biden’s re-election campaign, and how CNN has revealed Trump’s dangerous ongoing pull on the media.  Then, James and Al do a deep dive into how Republicans are screwing the voters in a brand new segment!

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

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Ed Luce:
Financial Times | Twitter | Author of “The Retreat of Western Liberalism & Many Other Books

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0:00.0

Will interest rates change again?

0:02.0

What's new where I live?

0:04.0

Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news on a wide range of stories.

0:11.0

Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk

0:15.0

Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

0:30.0

This week our guest is the Chief US commentator and columnist at the Financial Times Ed Luce.

0:36.0

Remember we love taking your questions so write into Politics War Room at gmail.com or send a tweet to add plitticon

0:44.0

for next week's show.

0:45.0

Now we're going to get to as many as we can but don't forget to tell us where you're from.

0:49.0

Please check out the link to our sponsor Lomi and our episode Shonos.

0:53.0

We thank you for supporting this sponsor.

0:56.0

It really helps make this podcast happen.

0:59.0

Please tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.

1:15.0

James, there's a lot to talk about this week, most of it kind of low level.

1:20.0

The John Durham report on the Russian Trump 2017 connection.

1:25.0

This guy was handpicked by Bill Barr to try to validate Trump's lies about the 2016 election.

1:33.0

Trump guaranteed he was going to reveal the crime of the century against him.

1:38.0

This was the greatest dud since the Edsel, the car, not our dear friend Tom.

1:45.0

Durham acted like a political hack, conspiring with Barr to find stuff that just wasn't there.

1:51.0

His top aid and another prosecutor quit because of unethical prosecutorial behavior.

1:57.0

In four years, more than $6 million of taxpayers' money, here's what he brought.

2:04.0

He had two indictments, both against kind of mid-level figures, both were quickly, in a matter of hours, dismissed by the jury and they were found innocent.

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