289: Happy Holidays with Judy Woodruff & Mary Matalin
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Politicon
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this special holiday episode, James and Al are joined by their wives, Mary Matalin and Judy Woodruff, for an eclectic discussion of their holiday traditions, the power of marriage, Title IX and women’s sports, the making of James’ documentary, delivering puppies, and their upcoming plans. Then, they take your questions on how to fight back against Trump, the best issues to champion in the coming election cycle, their theories on UFOs, prosecuting a sitting president, and the year's biggest stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carvel and I am Al Hunt. |
| 0:15.3 | This week we have our special holiday episode with our wonderful, accomplished wives, Judy Woodruff, and Mary |
| 0:24.0 | Madeline. So remember, we love taking your questions. So write to politics war room at |
| 0:28.8 | email.com or send a tweet to at Politicon for next week's show. We'll get to as many as we can, |
| 0:34.4 | but don't forget to tell us where you're from. In other exciting news, the documentary Carville, winning us Everything Stupid, is now streaming |
| 0:42.3 | on Max. |
| 0:43.3 | Get updates and some great behind-the-scenes content by following James on Twitter at James |
| 0:48.9 | Carville and on his new TikTok at Real James Carville. |
| 0:53.2 | You can also get text updates about what's next for Pluticon at PoliticsWRum |
| 0:58.4 | by signing up at puticot.com. |
| 1:01.4 | Tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, |
| 1:05.4 | or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:07.4 | And please check out the links to our sponsors, Laundry Sauce and Beam. |
| 1:11.2 | We thank you for supporting our sponsors. |
| 1:13.8 | It really helps make this podcast happen. |
| 1:17.5 | All right, James, we have to be on our best behavior because we are outgunned today by Mary Madlop, |
| 1:25.1 | I'm going to start off, Mary. |
| 1:27.2 | I want to ask you first, what was your reaction to the James |
| 1:31.3 | documentary? |
| 1:33.4 | How'd you do what portrayed you? |
| 1:35.6 | Well, that's not the issue for me, because I don't want to talk about it, because I didn't |
| 1:39.8 | really ever want to do it, but my reaction, and on that, I'm so happy to be wrong. I just didn't want to |
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