346: Imperial Trump With Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Politicon
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
James and Al blast Trump for his increasingly crazy governance and game out the implications for the country, before taking a detour into the exciting turnaround of the championship-winning Hoosiers. Then, they welcome Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi to discuss the administration's provocative and flailing attempt to control Greenland and the situation in Venezuela after the arrest of Maduro. From there, they pivot to the chaotic operations of ICE, the dire need to reform our immigration system so that things don’t escalate further, and review what Congress is doing in the lead-up to midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Politics World Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt. |
| 0:14.6 | This week our guest is Illinois Congressman Roger Krishna-Morthy on the Intelligence Committee |
| 0:20.0 | and a strong candidate for the |
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| 1:05.5 | You know what this is about this week? Crazy Donald. Let's review the week. |
| 1:13.1 | He sent a note to the Norwegian Prime Minister saying, since you didn't give me a Nobel Peace Prize, I'm going to penalize you and not focus |
| 1:18.4 | as much on peace. He launched a board of peace, which he'd be the chairman with a veto, superseding the |
| 1:26.2 | UN, and he invited Vladimir Putin, that great peacemaker, |
| 1:30.4 | to be a member. He doubled down on his crazy plan to take over Greenland, even if by force, |
| 1:35.9 | put out a childish memo of Trump holding the American flag over Greenland with his puppies, JD, |
| 1:41.5 | and Marco Rubio, chailing behind. And then at DeVos, he backed down, taking him by force, but said it's still ours. |
| 1:49.2 | And there must be great fear, James, in Reykjavik, because on four occasions at Davos, |
| 1:54.6 | Trump talked about taking Iceland, when I guess he really meant Greenland. |
| 1:59.2 | He threatened massive tariffs on Europeans who don't support |
| 2:02.7 | a Greenland power grab, 200% on French wines, and he just doesn't care about threatening the |
| 2:10.4 | greatest strategic alliance the world has ever seen, NATO. Just to add a few more, he went |
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