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Alex Castellanos

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first: 2016-12-12
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“And that's why corporate balance sheets are loaded and we're seeing Wall Street go the way it is. There's not a lot of confidence to invest it. I don't think that just cutting taxes, though I'm for that, is going to provide the growth Republicans always expect. The pipes are frozen. When you're pouring gas in the car and the tank's already full, you're just going to overflow. The engine is frozen, and we've got to open up this economy so that it can grow organic. I think you missed the hard thing.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unless, of course, you get a lot of growth and get back to 4% growth each week. I know the dynamics. My concern is that right now the American economy is a wash in cash, in money.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't know if it's his conservative. Well, in his appointments, maybe we're seeing how he would govern, and in the philosophy of those he's chosen, he's picked a very Reaganesque cabinet so far. So I think that's encouraging. And when you look at the economic plans he's put on the table, there is a lot of My big fear on his economic plan is not that he's supporting Republican tax cuts like Republicans always do, which”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I can encourage you though. I can encourage you. One is when you start looking at some of the cabinet selections, there are people there with a very concrete philosophy, and probably this is”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To be as transformational as the country needs. I think bringing enough change is going to be the problem ultimately. We've seen CEOs elected governor, David, and they're going to go in there and run it like a business. It is really nearly impossible to change the beast.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I honestly I think that's right. And, um, I think a lot of people are concerned that At the disruption that he may bring would be too large and would be a perhaps frightening and uncertain, that this beast we institutional government, that the institutions of government are have so much mass and inertia. There's so much poured cement that I think his challenge will be”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's all on TV, right? All of us. It's on Twitter. All our lives are everywhere now. Yes, experience communicating to people. And he cleans up the books and maybe stops our competitors from kicking sand in our face and gets the business back so it's running again. But yes, do we still need a Republican Party that is larger than any one man when administration? Of course we do. And by the way, our Republican Party was in such shit shape that an outsider who'd never been part of it came in and mowed down sixteen of our best and brightest. That's how hollow we were and how little value we provided. So we still haven't fixed that problem.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I'd say that he's my hope for Donald Trump is that he's the right man at the right moment, that he's the turnaround CEO who gets in here, cleans up the books. We got a $20 trillion debt, fires some people that need to be fired, which he's had experience doing, and stops our competitor.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That political and artificial top-down solutions can't keep up with a dynamic and changing world. I believe in more open bottom up organic solutions. I believe in more government. I just don't think it's old factory-like government from Washington. I believe we have other tools in our toolbox to with which to govern ourselves, and we ought to open our culture, society, and politics up to all that. I do think Donald Trump So I think Donald Trump has a lot of Democrat in him, Republican in him, which I think, by the way, may help him become an effective president here.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think in many ways Donald Trump is a corporatist. He is a CEO not in many ways unlike Mitt Romney, and you've elected candidates, David. You've elected business guys to governorships, and you've seen that MO. Hey, they can run it better. That doesn't mean they want to make it smaller, alter it, or change it. And Donald Trump said that when he ran, you know, he doesn't really have a problem with big government. He just thinks losers and morons are running it. I have a little different view of the Republican Party and what I believe. You know, I do believe that's what I'm saying.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, maybe we don't have to worry about that as much until we open it up because if Washington's idea of opening up the economy is more of the same and another way.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is quite a bit. Granted, but also here the national influence that we have has trapped a lot of this economy in amber. The head of carrier, the CEO of carrier, the other day said he would trade every benefit he got in this deal for less regulatory pressure. And the way I would characterize it is we've closed up our economy. With the best of intentions, one layer, you know, it's almost like sedimentary layers in the Grand Canyon. One layer at a time we have helped this economy. Washington has so much that it's closed it up. And we have, and you can see that in action in the new economy. We have a new economy that's booming, inventing the future right and left because they haven't had that help. And how do we make, how do we open up the old economy more like the new? And how do we open it up in a way that the...”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, we were talking about this the other day, and you have Germany subject to the same global forces that have affected manufacturing here, yet Germany has a net trade surplus, is an industrial giant, and has a 2% unemployment rate. So what's different here? And I think one of the things that's different here is quite a bit of a bit of a bit of a”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, hey, I've written direct mail. I know what you got to do to raise direct mail dollars, and I guess to run a website. That's kind of its own thing. I think how you govern. Well, I think that's the test.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Steve Banner, this could be a first is that he's the first guy I've seen who envisions a coalition of everybody left behind, not just white working class Joe Budweiser, but if you're black in America and you don't have a And you don't have a job and you don't have a life with a family or you don't have maybe the same opportunities that others have. I mean, the black middle class, somebody was telling me the other day that from 40% of the black middle class being employed in manufacturing in 1975, we're now down to 10%. Right. Been left behind, but that, Hispanics.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nixon goes to Taiwan now. Yeah. Nixon, but I think you'll see Nixon go to Detroit, and I think you'll see Trump go into the inner city. And I think you'll see Trump try to be a president that, you know, we've got so much of black America now trapped in these islands of poverty and despair. And all that has been offered is more the same. And I think you're going to like about Steve Bannon from what I've seen so far is that he sees no one yet.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think one of the things you're going to, that I hope you see in Donald Trump is I think you're going to see some Nixon goes to China on some issues where Republicans.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe in a time, in a time where that whole industry and the economics of it led a lot of other people that way too. But I don't think that's who he is.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I never thought that the first Republican to go into the inner city and say I want Black America to vote for me would be Donald Trump. The same Donald Trump who said that, you know, rapists and murders are coming in over the border, and I'm sure there's some good people too. I don't think Donald Trump has a racist bone in his body. I think he's a business guy. He's a New York guy. He grew up on construction sites with people of all walks of life.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think, David, you're right, that's what you say can change everything, but that is not as an excuse for Never to say anything. That is, and by the way, there are times that in that situation you want to be thoughtful and you want to plan things out, but you don't always want to do that. There are times that you want, whoever sitting across the table from you, to respect your unpredictability as well.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Another way to look at it is to say he is almost always, not always, but when he is speaking about issues like whether it's immigration or NATO or free trade, he's almost always speaking to a larger truth. And for example, I don't think he wants to get out of NATO. I think he wants to readjust the relationship we have with other NATO countries so that they have carry a little bit more of the weight. We're not the country we used to be. We can't bear the burden on our own way we used to. But, you know, he's a deal maker. He always starts somewhere beyond where he hopes to end up. So yes, by definition he's going too far. But I think Americans have seen a lot of politicians from both parties go to Washington. Here's my five point plan. Here's what I hope to achieve. And back up from there.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I did not appreciate is the importance, for example, of strength in this election. I think this was an alpha dog election and some of you probably don't talk about enough. The world's spinning apart, the center does not hold a stagnant economy frustrating people. It seems like, you know, the entire world is moving beyond our control, but also your individual life. And of course lots of forces in that. We talk about globalization or everything. But government has a role too. And that's when you want strength in leadership, somebody to hold the world together. And I thought in that, maybe going a little too far sometimes in what he said, he demonstrated a certain fearlessness.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I didn't understand and I think have come to respect, and look, there are a lot of things Donald Trump has said that I cannot defend, will not defend I think they're in defensible.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think that's true, and I think he spoke to a larger truth, and the larger truth is nobody's doing anything about this immigration problem. And if what's required to shake things up is to Shout when others have just been speaking pleasantly, you know, because to me the equivalent of a shout, not something that you would take word for word literally. So that didn't bother me. To your question.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Required to communicate in the age of Twitter and the Internet. You know, my son has every meal he ever said, that's the best meal I've ever had. Donald Trump kind of speaks that way. And I think a friend of mine, Brad Todd, I think, coined the phrase that Selena Zito wrote about take Donald Trump seriously but not literally.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, that part of it never did because Early on, I got the impression pretty clearly that Donald Trump speaks in hyperbole. Donald Trump is a different, yeah. He speaks in the language.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's a lot of Democrat in Donald Trump. There's a lot of Republican in Donald Trump. There's a lot of everything in Donald Trump. And you're right, I wasn't for Trump early on. But in back in March, when I became at least obvious to me that he was going to be the nominee, then I think it became our job to try to help him be the best nominee and the best, if elected, the best president that he could be. Let me ask you, let me just stop right now.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Seconds after that went on the air and was a completely different closed cold very guarded person, and I wonder if it's not because she has led such a tough life to get where she is she has had to be very hard, very tough, otherwise I don't think she would have made it, and she, I think maybe she's put up that shell in self defense, but it also walls her off from a lot of people and makes it very hard to trust everyone with anything.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there's a reason for that. I met her in the green room at ABC this year, the most delightful person you could imagine said hello to everybody, came over to me and said, hey, Alex, how you doing? All that we chatted for a while. As she was leaving, she kind of leaned in and said, You know, the way things are going in your party, don't count us out. I said, hey, the way things are going in our party, leave a key under the mat. She said, I'll leave a light on for you. Delightful person. And then she went,”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Law the Car Keys If you're going to give somebody the car keys to take you somewhere, to lead the country, what do you want to know? Where they promise to take you? Yes, you have to have a plan and a vision, but they also want to know who you are. Can they trust you to take them there? Otherwise the promises are hollow, and so that's why getting to know somebody making that connection, and for me it was always tough because he is so perfect that he's distant. You know, all of us know some of us more than others know how hard perfection is, and when we see seeming perfection in someone, it makes it false. And, you know, we found out we couldn't shoot mitt on film because he was too pretty. He was too perfect.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we actually were able to tell in 2008 Larry McCarthy recycled that one for Mitt because there's one of the few things Mitt would let anybody say. And mid explain”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First time he ran when the race that I did with him, it took us three months to get him to allow us to make a commercial about how he helped someone, a business partner at Bane. Right. The child that was missing. Yeah. And Mr. Gay, I think was his name. And Mitt shut down the business, took everyone to New York, the entire office, and set up. They finally did tell that story.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In their last days a lot of kids who, you know, with awful circumstances, who has helped people privately, not just with his money, but with his time and his effort and his wor”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And don't make any mistakes. And boy, that turned out not to be the case. You know, you still got to give people a little vision. And to me, it was kind of criminal that a candidate with that much, I think inspirational ability didn't use it at all.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love Mitt Romney. He is in unusually bright and capable human being. I love Ann Romney more. If she ever primaried him, I'd go with her. But they're great folks, and you know, as I was saying, he is my idea of an inspirational leader ought to be meant at his best. And I think sometimes in the campaign, you know, he lost that. He ran a campaign against you guys, Barack Obama, based not on where he would lead the country, but that why Barack Obama was a bad choice.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we always cheer when anybody in politics makes it over the wall into the real economy. And yeah, purple is a little business that helps corporate America and a lot of trade associations and industries kind of fight for their right to sell stuff and succeed in America. We do BPs advertising in the US have since the Gulf Spill and things like that because it turns out that sometimes building, renewing brands is not unlike building a candidate.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mike Murphy to the Irish Talk Is A Dance Never had more fun working with anybody than Mike. He is so talented and so bright we were We were partners for a short run and we had to decide whether we would remain friends or business partners because he's so bright as obviously somebody who needed to go chart their own course. But we still catch up, just saw him out in California actually.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's true. You know, you go around this town, and there are a bunch of good and decent people who find this the noblest thing they could possibly do and the noblest meaning they can give their lives. And I think that's, I hope that's still true.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, he did. You know, that's one thing. We have both of us, I think. We have a lot of friends in politics and on the other side. There are a lot of folks I disagree with, but I respect how much They love their country and fight for what they believe in. You can't say that about everyone in politics.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Back to work. I remember when Dick said, Look, the guy I'm worried about running for president is this governor of Arkansas because he's the most Kennedyesque future oriented guy out there in that field. And Morris says, oh, don't worry about him. I've got some stories on him. He's running around the track with a bomb strapped to his back, and I have the detonator. That was Dick Morris, so that's why I don't appear on TV with him or do anything else. People kind of tend to think you're like the people you hang around with, so that's not somebody I want to be.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. Well, you know what? I think everybody was in the mix at that visiting here and there. He might have been in the mix.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, but I would that no one should get a job or be denied a job because of the color of their skin. But you understand what the pushback was completely that this was coded language today.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he's receiving a notice that he didn't get a job. And all you see is his hands and crumpling up that letter and with it his future. And the copy, if I recall, is, you know, you. You needed that job. But it went to someone else because of a racial quota, is that really fair Harvey Gant says it is, etc. And the spot that I tried to make with that was that, and it didn't occur to me, I'm a Cuban guy. It didn't occur to me that this was, I mean, we had the conservative base. I was trying to make a spot for swing voters nine points down at the tail end of a race. That, you know, to me, it was a message that Martin Luther King would have been comfortable with, that no one should get a job or be denied a job because of the color of their skin, of which I still...”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The spot, yeah, you needed that. Describe. Well, it's a fellow, you know, typical North Carolina voter, white guy in a flannel shirt, sitting at a desk.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And well at the very end of the race Helms was about nine points down with a couple of weeks to go, and Tom Ellis Cartern came up to DC, brought the polling data, said. You know, we're kind of in a hole. What do we do? And I sat down with him, wrote that spot that night. We shot it today. That's about what we were talking about.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because you mentioned that you needed a job. That was a different race. That was the six years later. That was Harvey Gant six years later.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“a coding machine, a card machine at the university, but I had this playpen in that campaign where I got to make any spots I wanted to. And it was, you know, I learned by doing, there was a fellow there named Earl Ash who was a TV producer and director. And we just teamed up and we made, I think, 150 spots over that year. And after that, you know, a lot of red underlines and bold letters and circles around the words with the red underlines and the bold letters. Remember that, yeah. Heavy-handed stuff. With the voice of.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, this is before you. This is before I got up here. I see. And so I had, it wasn't quite like Bill Gates having access to the...”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From eighty three, when we went on the air in the middle of nineteen eighty three until the election in november of'84 we were not off the air except for a week at Christmas. We were making a new spot every week and so what we do is we'd write spots during the day and go edit it at night and sometimes we'd make as many as five spots a night throw away the ones that didn't work. And it was you and Murphy.”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That young intern was Mike Murphy, the only guy in Washington who knew less about making TV ads. No, actually, during the Helms campaign, what year was this would this have been? I think it was 1848 maybe when... I was in that campaign and had started all the departments and I just kind of gravitated toward working with the TV in the campaign and we I guess what was that?”
2016-12-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 104 - Alex Castellanos · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source