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Carl Hulse

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first: 2016-10-31
most recent: 2016-10-31
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, you know, I was talking to someone at Major League Baseball about this because they said, well, those lovable loser days are going to be over. And I'm feeling a little bit of that, right? You're like, well, where does this leave us? Because they have such a great young core of that team. You know, after Boston broke through, they went on to win again.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm fully transparent here. Did you let the black cat loose? Because that's still the craziest. I had nothing to do. I had nothing to do.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm taking one of my childhood friends who is the biggest Cubs fan I know his life is the Cubs he goes constantly and as I said if I could only get one ticket I was going to give it to him this guy had to go so we're going tonight and it is weird it was I'd watch the game on TV the other night and it was just like wow it actually”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Terrible loss wrote the city of New Orleans. But Bob Dernier? Let off with the home run, Sutcliffe hit a home run. It was 13, I think the score was 13 to nothing. And then they had.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Him that he has become I think his wife might have thrown out the first pitch. Is that right? That game. Bob Dernier let off with home.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Go Cubs Go is what Come Fans sing at the saddest of every winning game. That's Steve Goodman didn't get to see that. I think his wife”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. Well, that was in San Diego, but it was so much fun. And it was so great. So the Cubs. Jimmy Buffett sang the national anthem. Steve Goodman, the great songwriter and Cubs fan who died right before that.”
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“The best player, certainly infield player at that time. You know, I was here for the 84 playoffs, which were actually the first postseason Cubs appearance for Leon.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. So the I said to Ernie, I go out must have been something. He goes, Yeah, it was the greatest. We played ball all day and chased women all night. And I go, well, that's what you meant. Let's play two”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was actually in Dick Durban's office. I think, or maybe Reads, one of the two, but you know, I'm sure Durbin arranged it because the LNI thing. So I said,”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the city's electric. But I do think that there's a wistfulness about it for us longtime Cubs fans because a lot of the people who turned us on to the game or took us to our first games. They're not around or guys I went to the games with. So we have to live it all for them. And it's just a great thing. Can I tell you Ernie Banks story when he signed this, by the way? Yes. He had also signed a... Ball for me when I was a kid, and we were talking. You know, he was a little older at the time.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With the not just the organ, but just the sound of the people. But, you know, so to come here on this great historic day of the First World Series.”
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“Yes, there were quite a few. In fact, you know, Wrigley Field, to me, if a game comes on TV, I can tell if it's at Wrigley from the sound because of the grandstand there has its own sound”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then the first ball game, one of the neighbors took me to probably. I think we took the train up was to go to Wrigley Field. And, you know, that was just it. I've always been a huge Cubs fan. When I was in Kanka Key, I had a pass, probably journalistically questionable that let me get in for paying the tax, right? So I could go in and sit in the open grandstand.”
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“You know, not to say I didn't like the White Socks, you know, I like the, you know, Pete Ward and Jack Nicholson. Remember the Strikeout King”
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“So, not only am I wearing an authentic Cubs hat, but it's signed by Erdie Banks, Mr. Cubb, by himself. You know, so growing up in Northern Illinois. We got WGN. That was the beginning of cable, you know, and all the old WGN shows Frasier Thomas and the news. Those were the things we watched. So the Cubs were on all the time. That was their programming. I had an aunt, a maiden aunt, and lived a block away from me, had the cubs on constantly. You know, she would sit in front of the TV, which I'm sure was like this black and white TV. Which Jack Brickhouse. Yeah, and listen to Jack Brickhouse with her TV tray, you know, eating. And so if you're in that house, you're watching the Cubs. I was a huge baseball fan as a kid.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have a huge advantage in the seats up. I hate to say that we're still stuck here, but I mean, all signs point to that. Hopefully I'll be wrong.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I know. I am kind of Debbie Downer on some of this stuff. I don't see it. You know, always chants for a miracle next two years, right? Because then the Senate Republicans.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Agrees that needs to be fixed. So maybe tax reform, but it's going to be a tough situation. Actually, the healthcare law, something has to be done under normal circumstance, they would be able to make some fixes to that. They're not able to do that.”
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“Financing the other. You're going to have to get the money from somewhere. You know, the overseas tax situation, which that's my limit of the knowledge. Overseas tax. You've got guys over there at the New York Times who write about that stuff. But that, I think that everyone...”
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“I think that's the main thing that everybody can kind of agree on. And that goes back to what we were talking about earlier. Earmarks. It might not be specific. Totally out of the realm. I mean, Schumer's a finance committee guy. Ryan knows tax. And they could be confused.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So you see that sometimes the Doing the best thing that strategically from a political standpoint may be a tough sell to your”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, and the influx of Puerto Rican voters There, who are much more democratic. So my story after the last election, 2012, my story on the front page of the New York Times was Republicans to going to explore what they need to do to fix this. They've lost the popular vote in six out of the last seven elections. They're going to have this big naval gazing session. Which they did. Right. And what did that find? It found that you need to quit an alienating Hispanics. And women”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Governance Yeah, I mean, so everything is freighted with these presidential aspirations. But in governing, you can also use that as leverage, right? They also want to do things, right? They want to get something accomplished. They might have certain things that they want to do. And you go, so if you're Chuck Schumer, whatever you're there, well, you know, this is going to help you here. Or, what about this? Schumer and Ryan have a decent relationship. They've talked immigration. You”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This race in Indiana. Yeah, it was to me, I thought at the time, wow, he's really going to give up running for governor. And he must have known better than we did, right? But I think he'll be formidable. There's certainly other people in the Senate who maybe didn't take a run at it this time.”
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“Which is where he is, right? But I think, you know, he's done pretty well in this campaign. He had a good debate. Against Tim Kaney.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. Mike Pence, I covered quite a bit in the house. Really, a conservative guy. Really conservative, but he's a deep conservative, but his favorite line is always, why make be conservative, but I'm not angry about it. So he's Hall Fellow Well Met sort of attitude that he takes.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, you saw Ted Cruz already. He was one of the ones most vocal about, well, we can just leave the Supreme Court seats open. So he's already running. Paul Ryan, you know, he doesn't, he says, well, maybe he's not interested, whatever, but obviously he is someone who is considered one of their top people. But Mike Pence is now a wild card in this.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was a shock. We all just sort of expected he was going to go along there. And he reversed himself. But there's been others who haven't. And I think that they're the ones right now who are, you know, Jeff Flake, you know, feeling pretty good about the position they've taken. And you had these members who were backing and forcing after the The video, and you know, it just doesn't look good. But they're reacting to this public outcry at home, right? What do you mean you're not going to support Trump? Well, here comes a primary Republicans are mainly worried about being primaried these days. They're not worried about being defeated in general elections.”
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“Yeah, I think that's true. I think that there, but it's been building, right? And I think that they were all surprised by Trump. They didn't quite know how to deal with it. They got out of the way, and now they're paying a bit of the price, right? And that always happens when you grab onto something as a force that can make change and have a big impact, there's a chance that it can get out of control. I think, Ryan, you know, here he started out that day, Paul Ryan, not endorsing Trump, right? That was a shocking moment to us. I was in the newsroom watching it on TV.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Since Obama's been in there, I was going to say a different word for it, but I decided not to. You know, have been making all these promises. We're going to repeal Obamacare. We're going to hold the line on the president. We're going to keep him from doing these executive orders. And to the Republican voter out there in a lot of these places, they haven't delivered. And they're mad. In the past it used to be enough to say you were going to do these things. Do you see what I'm saying on that? And now they wanted results, right? It used to be, hey, we're going to do this, but then”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have a chance for, and if they can get that, that makes it harder for the Democrats by quite a bit. But, you know, there's been this part of the Republican Party that I've been watching over the past few years that has a kind of a basic misread of their own constituents, right? There are parts of the party who just aren't understanding who their constituents are in some ways. These people are really angry. They're angry at them. My theory on this, and this is really just sort of theoretical, is, you know, the Republicans. That's most theoretical.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So the people who are against Trump don't like what he's done because it looks political and the people who are for Trump think he's a traitor, I think it's actually if Catherine Cortes Masto wins out there. It's probably going to be because of that. I think this is reflects what I've been talking about for the”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. So, this to Mitch McConnell, I always said to him, this election is totally about the Supreme Court. And that's the last bulwark they have. And he wants to”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's just trying, I think when you try and have it both ways, in some ways, you don't have it anyway, right? I think, you know, his own, this is what stirred up some of this anger against him from the right in his caucus. Like, wait, wait, that's our nominee. I think it's really been a difficult situation for Ryan. He's trying to maintain his own viability for the future. And it's blown up on him a little bit. I mean, he might have wanted to watch Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell has basically gone underground on the presidential race for the past month or so since leaving Congress. I saw some stories. He won't even answer questions at events about it. He's just staying silent. Mitch McConnell is really interested in the Supreme Court, right? He's the champion of anti-campaign finance reform.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, so that's why it's smart to do it in the lame duck. That's another thing you could take off of her plate and she wouldn't have to do whatever she's going to do.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People who think this needs to be done not just for economic reasons but national security reasons. This is a national security trade deal in some ways. And the chamber wants it done and the business roundtable wants it done. And I don't see the momentum there for it right now.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there looked like there was an opening, but I'm less optimistic now. Everybody just seems to have taken the position we can't do this, even though Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Harry, maybe not Harry Reid as much, who's actually not a big trade guy. But people who want this to go through. Well, I don't know about her. No, I mean, she's had some issues with it too.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a moment a couple of weeks ago where I thought it might have a chance Max Baucus, the ambassador to China, was up on the hill. Former Senator, longtime senator, and chairman of the finance committee, which does these.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Days of her name. No, I said people have asked me what I've raised this window, the intercession, the window between the 3rd and the 20th. They said, well, wouldn't Hillary Clinton not want that so she could get her own nominee? I said, well, you know, it's a lot of political capital she won't have to use right then. And I don't know if that's what you want to be your immediate fight. I know from the White House, and you probably know this better than I do, that they probably will renominate him. They would like to see this through. And I know Obama would like to get a third judge on there, right? That's pretty unique situation. So there's a lot going on here But if you also have Republicans saying no nominee whatsoever, I don't know where it is.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I do. I think that. I do think that Mitch McConnell really doesn't want the Republicans to be in charge when that happens because he's looking at 2018 and if he's got Republicans who are perceived of as opening the court to this third Obama nominee. But Jeff Flake has been out there on this. I will say on McConnell on Garland, you know, one of the knocks on Garland the details of it are a little fuzzy. I don't think he's as anti-gun Second Amendment, but there was a decision to McConnell that is disqualifying. But I do think you're going to see a lot of pressure in this direction, but what they can really do with it, I don't know.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's possible, it'd be kind of tricky, get way in the Senate weeds. There has to be an organizing resolution that passes that lets the Senate committees meet and things like that. I don't think it's inconceivable. And that way the Republicans wouldn't be pushing him through.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, this is the big parlor game in Washington right now. How do you get, does Garland get approved? I don't think he gets approved in the lame duck. Mitch McConnell has made it extremely clear that he is not going to have his fingerprints on confirmation of a third Barack Obama appointment to the Supreme Court. What about after the Senate? But if the Democrats take the majority, could you do it in that window, right?”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, because they're like, you know what, you basically packed the DC Court of Appeals by eliminating our ability to require a supermajority on those judges. So we're not going to help you with other judges. Publicly, I think the Democrats probably wouldn't have a very tough time selling this Republicans. But let me ask you a question.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Big kind of strike at the main engine. Right. So you'd have. I mean, there was a lot of blowback after the last time, although the Republicans didn't change it back when they got into the majority. But it was part of the reason that the presidents had trouble in the last year getting judges approved, right? Although it's always somewhat like this. But I think”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All judges and nominees accept the Supreme Court. And the reason for that was there were Democrats Who didn't think that was a good idea because they worry about Rove v. Wade, right? I think Barbara Boxer was in that camp. Some of the other women, they said, well, if you do that, we might not be able to guard against our own problems later on. That might not be a good move. But I think if there was a concerted attempt to stonewall Supreme Court nominees indefinitely, that the Democrats would obviously eliminate that. And they do it in a procedural way that's not according to the official Senate rulebook, but it does apply.”
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“Well, evidently, the Constitution doesn't say you must approve, which is what they're pointing at. But that to me is extraordinary, I think. And Lindsay Graham last year, who's always been involved in his judicial fights and sort of a middle ground figure, said, okay, I'm going to go along with this on Merrick Garland. I don't like it. We can hold it up. But I'll tell you what, if Hillary Clinton sends someone over here who's qualified, I'm going to vote for them. Susan Collins, I'm sure, would be the same way if they have qualified candidate. Not all Republicans are going to do that. But even if there's some who want to do that, it really is something new. Now, if the Democrats have the Senate, they can eliminate the ability.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. And we've had that for a while, especially around 2010, 2012, more aimed at the Senate Republicans and McConnell by these groups that were attacking Republicans. They were sort of Tea Party, but a little bit beyond that. And then when they were trying to knock off the Republicans in primaries, McConnell was able to fight back and sort of studied that ship. But now I think you're going to have much more of that, which goes to kind of the Supreme Court. I know you wanted to talk about that, right? So already you're hearing among Republican groups and conservatives, don't approve any justices. Let's just leave that open. No Hillary Clinton nominees should be approved. I mean, that's a whole new step forward in American government.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So let's say Hillary Clinton has a fairly good election day, right? She wins. She rolls up a nice electoral count, wins the Senate and then faces just investigation after investigation. That is not a great climate for political progress. I said in my story the other day that people who are hoping this whole election triggers a Washington reset should brace for disappointment and I'm probably sticking with that.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think that here's the other thing to watch in the house, though. You have this segment of people who are already saying we're just going to investigate Hillary Clinton every day.”
2016-10-31 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 92 - Carl Hulse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source