And now from luminary media and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, the Axfiles,

with your host David Axelrod.

Sui Jeneres, one of a kind.

That's my buddy James Carville.

In the world of politics, he is a singular figure, a brilliant, brilliant strategist, passionate,

funny, hilarious, really, and incredibly incisive.

He engineered the election of Bill Clinton as president and was involved in many, many other

battles over the years, electing Democrats across the country.

And he's still a hugely important voice in Democratic politics.

I sat down with him this week at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago to

talk about his life and career and this 2020 race that's just unfolding.

James Carville, my old friend, it's great to see you here at the Institute of Politics.

You know, I thought I knew a lot about you, but I studied up for this conversation.

I learned that when your great-great-grandfather came here, he didn't come to Louisiana.

He came to Wisconsin.

So you're the rage in Beijing.

You could have been the bark and badger.

Well, let me go back.

He was actually my great-grandfather in a story that's fascinating.

I did not know it.

So I was asked about my family, when I was a kid, about who he was.

I said, well, it was from Wisconsin.

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