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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

83: Jim Gerstein & Phil Klay

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

With troops due to come out of Afghanistan, James and Al welcome veteran and author Phil Klay and pollster Jim Gerstein to discuss the state of world affairs and when we should be going to war. How are things looking in the Middle East 20 years on? Are we leaving too soon, or is it time to focus our attention here at home where we have enough problems?

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0:00.0

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

0:16.1

you as always for joining us.

0:17.8

This week we are joined by Iraq, war veteran and author of Missionaries in redeployment,

0:23.9

Bill Klai and the founding partner of GBAO at Top Democratic polling firm Jim Gerstein.

0:30.8

And remember we take your questions each episode so right in the politics war room at gmail.com

0:36.1

or send a tweet to at putacom for next week's show.

0:39.2

We'll get to as many as we can and as I always remind you don't forget to tell us where

0:44.2

you're from.

0:45.2

This episode is sponsored by Blinkist.

0:47.6

Please check out their links in the show notes.

0:49.9

We thank you for supporting our sponsors.

0:54.0

Please tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

0:58.8

Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.

1:02.6

James Carville, this is going to be a great show.

1:05.6

What's first talk about the news of the week, Derek Chauvin, the cop who murdered George

1:11.0

Floyd, found Gillian All Counts.

1:13.5

We earlier agreed that we don't bring any special expertise to this story.

1:18.9

It was a verdict I think that was justified certainly welcome by many.

1:23.4

I think two political points.

1:26.1

One obviously how unacceptable any other verdict would have been given that video of him

1:31.4

kneeling on Floyd's neck for what nine minutes and 30 some seconds.

1:36.4

It was you're rarely going to get I think the kind of proof, the kind of evidence that

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