Concerned about the 2024 election.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us this Sunday morning is James Carville, and we had a great breakfast the other day among Clinton alumni, Bill Clinton alumni, and it was a great breakfast because all of us we just let it out and James, I enjoyed the breakfast the other morning and we let it all out and the one thing that came out.

0:29 It was about seven or eight of us. We were all miss our friend President Bill Clinton and his common sense. And James, tell us how you’re feeling these days?

0:45 Speaker 2 Well, you know, well, first of all, I always love seeing you and your friends. And it was a very robust conversation in our eater at that And when it comes to my friend prosion Clinton, you used tell people in the nineties, I said, what they do so mad the piece of the prosperity because something really bothered you,

1:04 the fact you were making money. He wasn’t getting shot at So I think it’s one of the great presents we’ve had in a long long time. But the nineties were then, and this is where we are now, and you know, we have a choice to make in November, and it isn’t the choice that I was crazy about.

1:31 I actually was very public that I thought that President Biden should not run for reelection, but he did, and there’s him and Trump, and that’s where I am. And I’m a thousand percent behind President Biden. Just the choice I got.

1:45 Speaker 1 Well, remember, James Clover, when you go to the the voting booth, it’s a secret ballot, right, So I want to ask you which way you’re going to vote.

1:56 Speaker 2 Well, if you could look and see I’m voting for Joe Biden.

2:00 Speaker 1 Well, I don’t think. I don’t think your wife agrees with you.

2:05 Speaker 2 You know, we have kind of come to armistice where we generally try to stay away from it. You know, she’s got a lot of friends, a lot of them never Trump people, some of them are Trump people. And I’ll let her make her own decision. I’m not gonna tell you.

2:25 Speaker 1 Well, that is the that is the the value of America. That we can all argue with each other. We can all disagree with each other, but friends are friends and we can argue, yell, scream, but at the end of the day, we still love each other.

2:43 Speaker 2 Yes, sir, you know, I’ve lost money and somebody everybody loses money from time to time. You lose anything. Worst thing you can lose is a print that that leads a permanent but you know you can you can make up money, you can make up a lot of things, but you lose friends and you don’t respect other people.

3:06 That’s where your life has become shallow. And that’s why you’re my good friend and I you know, you’re not Argie a lot and I’m kidding you know, but we were able to speak frankly and respect each other and stay friends. And I enjoy that cat and.

3:23 Speaker 1 Tell me, uh, we both talked over breakfast that if anything, uh, if President Biden decides not to run or is ill and can’t run, where does the Democratic Party go?

3:41 Speaker 2 Well? One of the underappreciated things about current state of the Democratic Party is there is enormous I mean almost could say. I mean there’s no Bill Clinton. You can say that about someone. But with that type of skill, there are any number of current people. I don’t start start naming the names Malie, somebody off and I hate

4:04 to do that, but the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, the government Kentucky, one of the most talented people I’ve ever seen. Uh, there’s Senator Warnock and Georges.

4:13 Speaker 1 I had I had breakfast I had breakfast with the governor of Kentucky. He is very talented. I agree with you.

4:21 Speaker 2 He is really talented guy. He’s a good friend of mine. He has stated that Democratic frome within twenty points. Then he won about five or six points. But there are other There’s so much talent, and a lot of it is young and vigorous and energetic. I think King Jeffers is doing a great job. By the way, is a leader.

4:45 You know much more this part, but I don’t. I thought that Biden, Biden could consider not running for the election, but that’s not the choice that he may And so I got to I got to live in the world and got to live there, not the Royle. I wanted to live in, James.

5:04 Speaker 1 The other discussion I had, I don’t know it with you or some other people the days when the the the parties themselves picked the candidates of who’s running, so common sense prevailed more so than open primaries. It ended up we ended up with better candidates. Sometimes. Do you remember those days. We’re both old enough to remember some

5:32 of those days.

5:33 Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah. In the general theory was at the party elder’s sort of new governor and they could go back and forth. The other thing that I remember is when you had real discipline in the Congress, and you know the party could could enforce it. I think, be fair, the Democrats have much more discipline, but the Republicans and

5:56 me and mar the Taylor Green doing near this and Matt Gates doing that, Paul gaff you know that they don’t. Other than Trump, they don’t have a very discipline party. And as you and I remember, most time, it was the Democrats that weren’t just fruen in the Republicans war.

6:14 But that’s been a big change, a big, big change understood.

6:19 Speaker 1 Well, it’s early Sunday morning, we’re drinking our coffee. Anything else you want to tell the American people.

6:28 Speaker 2 Well, you know, I guess what I would say is really distresses me. And I’m older, I’ll turn eighty years here. But the lack of enthusiasm among young people for public policy, of public service, of being involved in the public square is quite disheartening. And I can understand it on one level.

6:53 I mean, I talked to them, and they feel like things are not working for them. They feel like two eighty year old guys don’t mean much to them. And I am really afraid that We’re going to lose a generation of young people as they go. That’s part of my greatest fear for the United States, CATS is that

7:11 young people are disengaging.

7:15 Speaker 1 My greatest fear, James, is we going not going to make twenty seventy six to three hundredth year of our country if we let socialism take over our country, and the free world depends the free world depends on the United States of America. And if we can’t depend to defend the free world, then the free world will no

7:39 longer be free.

7:41 Speaker 2 I would say amen to all that. God bless you for socialism and our party in Nited States being a beacon of light in the world.

7:51 Speaker 1 God bless you, and God bless you.