316: It’s July 2nd, Stupid
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Politicon
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
James and Al castigate our corporate masters and the oligarchs in control of Fox before welcoming historian Joseph Ellis to celebrate the founding and tell some of its finest stories. They discuss the legacy of our earliest politicians, explain why July 2nd is a better date for a national holiday, and whether our democracy will continue to survive over the course of future generations. Then they welcome award-winning filmmaker Eva Orner to continue to expose the SA scandal at Ohio State, and examine how we treat university students and men in sports when they need us most.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt. |
| 0:14.7 | This week our guests are Pulitzer Prize winning historian Joseph Ellis and the Emmy Award-winning film producer and director |
| 0:23.2 | of surviving Ohio State, Eva Orner. Now, remember, we love taking your questions, so write to |
| 0:29.8 | Politics Whirlroom at gmail.com or send a tweet to add Politicon for next week's show. We'll get to |
| 0:36.1 | as many as we can, but don't forget to tell |
| 0:38.7 | us where you're from. Even more importantly, we want you to vote on the worst of the worst |
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| 1:24.6 | in the show notes. We thank you for supporting our sponsors because it helps |
| 1:28.4 | make this podcast happen. James, Congress is on the verge of passing a humongous spending and |
| 1:36.8 | tax bill that will, just to go over the highlights, take from the poor and the working class |
| 1:43.4 | and give to the rich. Let me make sure everyone heard that right. It take from the poor and the working class and give to the rich. Let me make sure |
| 1:45.8 | you're, everyone heard that right. It takes from the poor and working class and gives to the rich. |
| 1:51.7 | That's not just something from no nothing journalist or left wing politicians. That's what the |
| 1:56.7 | Congressional Budget Office concluded, the Penn Wharton model, the tax policy center. |
| 2:02.2 | You know, earlier conservative bills would sometimes give crumbs to the working poor and a lot more |
| 2:08.1 | to the rich. This one doesn't even go through the motions of doing that. They take from the |
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