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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

93: Mayor Phillip Levine

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

James and Al welcome former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine for a discussion about our failing infrastructure, what our politicians need to do, and how Democrats can win over a Florida that seems less Purple and more Red by the year. More importantly, does the modern party have what it takes to reclaim the state from Governor DeSantis?


Email your questions to James and Al at [email protected] or tweet them to @politicon.

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0:00.0

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0:19.0

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0:24.0

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0:40.0

Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carvelle and Amelheim.

0:44.0

Thanks for joining us. This week we are joined by entrepreneur and former Mayor of Miami Beach,

0:50.0

Philip Levine. Remember we take your questions each episode. So right to Politics War Room at gmail.com

0:57.0

or send a tweet to add Plittacon for next week's show. We'll get to as many as we can and don't forget to tell us where you're from.

1:04.0

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1:09.0

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1:14.0

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1:22.0

Hey James, a terrific reporter Jonathan Carl, published excerpts of a new book in which Attorney General William Barr

1:31.0

reveals how he stood up to Trump who was demanding that the Attorney General try to fix the election after Biden won.

1:38.0

You know, I'm sorry. Barr under this post, the post facto excuse of trying to play Kate Trump,

1:46.0

while he did the right things, actually enabled an encouraged Trump in the months before the election and in the month afterwards

1:54.0

with this big lie that the election might have been stolen. Bill Barr is not a hero in this story or many others.

2:01.0

He did this at the request of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who cowardly refused to admit for the first month that Trump lost the election.

2:11.0

Now, he wanted Barr to speak. Why didn't he want Barr to speak to do the right thing to set the record straight to get the country moving again?

2:19.0

No, no. He did it because he said if you do that, it will help us win two Senate seats in Georgia in early January.

2:27.0

Party over country. No surprise for Mitch McConnell. No. And just to support him was totally politicized as an arm of the Republican Party.

2:37.0

They don't set it. They admitted it. They don't even think anything's wrong with that. And of course, you can look at Barr or look at Jared.

2:46.0

They don't Trump. I never heard of this guy. Who is he? I had nothing to do with this. Absolutely nothing. It's just all mass confusion out there.

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