Hello, I'm Joanna Coles. I'm the chief content officer of The Daily Beast and you're listening to The Daily Beast podcast or you're watching on YouTube where we have had hundreds, thousands of comments, especially about our last two interviewees, David Rothcop and Anthony Scaramucci.

Mock Turtle 1402. You did not like us having Anthony Scaramucci on, and neither did Top Cat 298.

And you hated the idea of Elon Musk being pulled back into the Democratic Party.

Of course, he was a Democrat.

And then he moved over to the Republicans.

You hated Anthony Scaramucci's

idea that he should be brought back under the Democratic roof. Anyway, we have an equally

provocative commentator today. James Carville, who you will remember, got Bill Clinton

elected with a white board, a war room and of course a winning election slogan, it's the economy stupid. So let's get into it.

James Carville, what the hell is going on in America right now?

Well, our president seems to be doing very well. The country is not doing very well. And I don't see that changing here in a

foreseeable future. And when I say the president's doing very well, it didn't mean politically.

I meant financially. Right. So he's very good at distracting us, isn't he? What should we

actually be paying attention to here, James? What we should be paying attention to is that he said on day one that he would get

inflation, get rid of inflation, that the economy would boom, that we would get so tired

winning our head would be spinning.

And right now, the dollars losing its value, you can't imagine what the forecasts are coming up.

I see the airlines are predicting much softer summer travel, Walmart, people like that,

are already issuing mornings.

And so he obviously didn't deliver anything.

They've only passed five pieces of legislation since the public in Congress and he

took over. So he keeps doing things to distract our attention from what's really going on in the

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