Hello and welcome to Politics World Run with James Carvel and I'm Al Hunt. This week we have a special

New Year's episode with some of our closest colleagues who we have a Sunday Zoom call with every weekend,

and they have such expertise. It's George Stevens, a movie director, Broadway producer,

Academy Award winner. It just knows more about the entertainment business than anybody I know.

Roger Altman, who co-founded Evercore, Wall Street Powerhouse, and just so

interesting and knowledgeable about the economy. And Joe Abrams, the former executive editor of the New York

Times, and a professor at Harvard and now a professor at Northeastern University, it's going to make for some fascinating

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All right, you out there. We have a real treat for you today. This is a reprise of a call.

We have every Sunday with some of the smartest people in the universe makes Carville and me look good.

Everything we learned from them on Sunday, we then try to repeat to you several days later.

But anyway, I've introduced them all, and so you know how good they are. I'm going to start

with a couple questions. Then James will have some, and then we'll just do what we do on Sundays

with our Zoom call. We'll just make it a free-for-all. Everybody can jump in, and no, Jill,

you do not have to ask permission, just jump in. And we'll go from there. Roger, let me start with you,

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