James Carville: Why Trump is Scared of the Debate

he's already said this soldiers are suckers why we about to do that and and his fots don't care and that he said look the families wanted this and every minute you're talking about that you're not talking about his abortion vote in georia true in Florida right I mean look is it is it an outrage but there's been so many outrages that don't matter that any other person wouldn't couldn't remotely sustain this no other person would actually say would tell General Kelly that soldiers are suckers or say at his son's grave site so of all of the egregious things that he's done Visa the military this is kind of medium but we just we got him on the run on this Florida vote and he doesn't like it and it it we got to be careful not to go for new shiny things here this I know it's outrage and people should be outraged about it but that's not where we're going to win this election we're going to win this elction on the whole question of you know Reproductive Rights I you know I think you're right uh but I think I I still think there is a I don't know a second tier basket if you will not just of Arlington but of Arlington telling his own chief of staff that fallen soldiers were suckers and losers demean denigrating demeaning John McCain who was a war hero and saying the other day that you know really Medal of Honor winners uh they're dead so right you know that's the I think you put that all together it's not like abortion it's not like project 2025 it's not like trying to overturn an election but I thinking I think selectively you know it still could be useful I look maybe they can do a day with National Security all of EX Admirals and Generals and but right remember in politics to do one thing is not to do another that's true that's the hard thing because say we just do one more thing and I I you know it's a great question for him at the debate I'm sure he'll get it but I just think I don't know what the rules are James because you know he'll lie about it and the question is is it going to be like the last debate no one if she has some good jokes you as I said today one joke is worth a 100 fact checks yeah yeah it doesn't matter he he he now knows that he gles with impunity but right he he is really caught on this Florida thing I mean really caught really uncomfortable and B this thing is so good because when they accuse Paris of flip-flopping from a 2020 presidential campaign she can just point right to this easy this because he says a it ought to be a state issue and when he has a chance in a place where he votes he has sided with a six week abortion ban yes that that is all the above is indisputable that's correct and it's indisputable that this is the best issue that the Democrats have had maybe in my lifetime and and don't don't get too distracted here that' be my message you know I just I still think that this debate on September 10th is going to be a huge event and I think ABC is doing everything they can to try to keep it alive I think you don't know what he's going to do till the morning of September 10 he he could just decide that he's not gon to do it you can see that he's torn uh and she just I'm showing up it was a contract we said we'd be there I believe in honoring your obligations and he's in he's in a tight spot here he doesn't want to do this he wants to get out of it but he doesn't quite know how and he's scared that he might need it to you know get a little bit back get a little bit mojo back so it's going to there's a this thing he's got a lot of questions left to answer here I agree uh he wants to get out he'll be there he has no no choice I think you're right yeah but he you know who I mean he doesn't is the one thing we know his advisor ain't got anything to say about it right I mean his chief not new advis on women's issues is Cory leowski and they have something in common both of adjudicated sexual harasses or molesters or something like that you know Mount rage is the whole prite movement okay I grew up cradle Catholic I don't know how many sermons I've listened to to about is plain and simple abortion is murder uh they had the human life Amendment they were adamant they they presented themselves as having the moral High Ground that there was a real sense of what was right and what was wrong and at a time you could say well I disagree with them but you got to at least give them the fact that they're principal people that they really believe this and this is very much part of who they are and when you watch all of the back and forth and you know 16 weeks or should we have six or should we have this and they they they're they've just exposed themselves it's just a pack of Hypocrites that are trying to save themselves politically and I I don't know how many human right Amendments have been in the Republican Party platform how many sermons have been given on Sunday morning and they just quit and it's like well okay well if you got to be for 12 weeks that's fine or you need exceptions that's fine all right and maybe there's an element of political practicality there who who is James Corville to criticize somebody for being politically practical or politically expedient but that's not what that that would that's not the way youve ran your your your business here for the last 50 years right you ran it as this that you were some moral Superior moral High ground and it turned out you know on a high ground you're just in a sludge pit with everybody else [Music] [Music]