Carville: ‘Stupid’ ‘Sweatshop’ WaPo Inventing Fake Dem ‘Freakout’ About Hillary

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CARVILLE: "I had to come out because of all the foolishness going on. Mr. Cillizza talks about a total Democratic freakout and then he quotes a guy who talked to a guy. You know, the guy running that sweat shop in Seattle needs to go to "The Washington Post" and get this place in order. There's nobody editing this newspaper as far as I can see." 
RUSSERT: "If there's full-scale Democratic freakout, why is there a rise for Bernie Sanders and why does she have the lowest approval rating since 2001, March." 
CARVILLE: "Why is she beating every Republican and has better favorability ratios than any Republican running for president? It's supposed to be the Democrats that are freaking out? Look, polls go up and down. This is -- this is foolishness. I'm having to come out of my vacation to deal with this kind of stupidity that these people are putting out. Hillary is going to be just fine. She's going to be just fine." 
RUSSERT: "So if this is just the media doing this, why is it the FBI investigating? Why is there --" 
CARVILLE: "Did you read the Jeffrey toobin piece that said basically there's zero chance that she did anything that was wrong. This always goes on. This goes on and on, it's never going to stop. You know, these people, we don't like Hillary, why is the poll -- why is Jim out there defending her. Why can't we attack her like I want to? I understand this, I've been dealing this for 23 years now." 
RUSSERT: "So one of the highest paid political operatives in the world, you have no problem seeing FBI, Clinton and criminal investigation next to each other in headlines around the country?" 
CARVILLE: "No, it's not going to amount to a hill of beans, just like all of the other stuff that I've been through. It doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's just a bunch of people talking to each other, spinning themselves up over a pile of garbage. People like "The Washington Post" talking about a total democratic freakout. You want to talk about a freakout, look at these Republicans all like they want to get rid of all the people in the country, repeal the constitution and god knows what. You want to freak out on something, freak out on that." 
RUSSERT: "Is all this part of a vast right-wing conspiracy then? It's just the same old, same old." 
CARVILLE: "It's just stupid media people talking to other stupid media people and spinning themselves up on something that's not going to amount to a hill of beans. By the way, I'm looking toward to the Benghazi hearing in October. We should see how many questions they're going to ask on Benghazi. What they need to do is just calm down and, you know, enjoy the race. There's going to be some interesting politicking coming up and it will be fine." 
RUSSERT: "All right. What was your honest interpretation of her performance yesterday in Nevada? Because she came across to a lot of people as sort of crass, dismiss dismissive, flippant, not wanting to give this issue the time, despite the impact that it's had on her numbers." 
CARVILLE: "Well, look, if you go out to the press and you do things, I thought she was fine. I thought she was superb in the black lives matter thing. I thought that the education stuff was superb. I think her campaign has some really good things going out there. They're just going to have to deal with this. People are going to interpret every word, every expression that she makes. Everything -- you know, the rule of the media is this. The clntons don't deserve a defense. They get irritated if somebody comes on and defends them. I just don't play by those rules, I never have and I'm not going to play by those rules. I think she's put some really good stuff out there. She's going to have to run a campaign from day one I can assure you that the democratic nomination is going to be competitive. People are going to do that, but I have every confidence that she's going to be fine and really looking forward to the general election." 
RUSSERT: "What do you make of the fact that she's below 50 with Democrats, that now a majority of Democrats want Joe Biden to run and even Al gore's name has been floated? Is this not sort of sounding the alarm bell that there's still a lot of Democrats on the sideline saying, hey, Joe, take a serious look at this?" 
CARVILLE: "Look, Democrats like the vice president. I like the vice president. You know, if he wants to run, that's fine. At the end of the day I have -- completely confident that our nominee is going to be Mrs. Clinton. But I like the fact -- you can't stop people from running. The presidency is a very high office and a lot of people wanting to run for it and do it. That's fine. But I'm going to campaign hard for her and I'm going to call out the stupidity in the media when I see it, just like the stupidity that was in T "The Washington Post," full democratic freakout, give me a break." 
RUSSERT: "Okay. Let's talk a little bit just to end the show -- or end the segment, rather, about the Republican side. Donald Trump, how do you explain his rise in the polls?" 
CARVILLE: "Because he reflects what a lot of Republicans in the united States think. Remember Mitt Romney's position the last Republican nominee as I never tire of point out was for self-deportation. He actually thought that 13 million people were going to go back to the country of origin. Trump has upped the ante. By the way, Scott walker is now mimicking what trump is saying. They're all doing that. He's just a reflection of where the Republican party is. That's what he is." 
RUSSERT: "Do you think Scott walker has the best chance of moving forward, like we thought a few years ago?" 
CARVILLE: "You know, actually I probably Cruz if something happens to trump is in a better position than any of these guys. But I think the big story here is the failure of Jeb Bush to really do anything. I mean he's sort of been going down and people thought otherwise. But it's going to be a fascinating race over there. I tell you what. But if I had to guess and trump goes down, that Cruz is better positioned than anybody right now." 
RUSSERT: "Yeah, he says that trump is renting his voters. We'll get your wife to talk about that. James Carville, thanks so much. Thanks for the time." 
CARVILLE: "You bet."