About this episode

James and Al discuss Trump's State of the Union, the Democratic response, and interview filmmakers and authors about corruption and the British Monarchy.

James and Al rip Trump’s State of the Union and analyze its impact and the effectiveness of the democratic response in the context of the approaching midterms. Then, they welcome Oscar-nominated filmmaker Andrew Jarecki to explore his findings on corruption in the Alabama prison system and how to hold the government to account for its chronic mismanagement of our jails. From there, they are joined by author Andrew Lownie to discuss Prince Andrew’s relationship with Epstein, its effect on the British Monarchy, and whether it will lead to increased transparency and reform to ensure its continued relevance going forward. Email your questions to James and Al at politicswarroom@gmail.com or tweet them to @politicon . Make sure to include your city– we love to hear where you’re from! More from James and Al: Get text updates from Politics War Room and Politicon. Watch Politics War Room & James Carville Explains on YouTube. James Carville & Al Hunt have launched the Politics War Room Substack Get updates and some great behind-the-scenes content from the documentary CARVILLE: WINNING IS EVERYTHING, STUPID by following James on X @jamescarville and his new TikTok @realjamescarville…

People in this episode

Hosts: James Carville, Al Hunt, James, Al

Guests: Andrew Jarecki, Andrew Lownie

Topics covered

• Trump's State of the Union
• Democratic response
• midterms
• corruption
• Alabama prison system
• government accountability
• Prince Andrew
• Epstein
• British Monarchy
• transparency
• reform

Keywords

• politics
• commentary
• government
• prison reform
• monarchy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Tale Of Three Andrews, State of the Union, Oscar, Politics War Room, CARVILLE: WINNING IS EVERYTHING, @realjamescarville, Entitled: The Rise & Fall Of The House Of York, WARROOM

Places: Alabama

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