Ep. 44 - Mike Murphy

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Republican strategist Mike Murphy sits down with David at the Institute of Politics to discuss his time at Georgetown as a member of the College Republicans, his time on the McCain campaign’s Straight Talk Express in 2000, his assessment of Jeb Bush’s failed bid for the Republican nomination, and more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:17.0	I've known Mike Murphy for probably three decades.
0:20.6	I did battle with him and admired him in my years as a political consultant.
0:27.8	He's obviously been in the middle of the news this election year with his unsuccessful
0:32.8	efforts on behalf of Jeb Bush, but there isn't a more hilarious or incisive commentator
0:40.0	on politics.
0:41.7	As you can hear from this conversation that we recorded recently at the Institute of Politics
0:46.7	where Mike is a spring fellow.
0:51.8	Mike Murphy, my old war horse counterpart.
0:56.0	Welcome.
0:57.0	Welcome to here.
0:58.0	Welcome to the Institute of Politics, the University of Chicago.
1:01.8	I'm going to start off by telling secrets about you that I ran into your parents from Michigan
1:10.6	in 2008, wandering around the snows of Iowa, working for one Barack Obama.
1:19.8	So what happened to you?
1:23.3	Did they drop you on your head?
1:25.0	Did you?
1:26.0	That's my giant joke that I fell out of the stroller because they were both Democrats.
1:30.8	My mom had talked my dad reluctantly into being in their first Iowa expedition for Howard
1:36.4	Dean.
1:37.4	They had the glow in the dark hats and everything.
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