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Paul Begala

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Paul Begala is a prominent American political consultant, strategist, and television personality, best known for his role as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been influential in shaping political discourse and strategy in the United States. Begala has also made a name for himself as a commentator on various news networks, where he provides insights on political issues and campaigns.

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Jul 18, 2017

But he promised is impossible and voters should have known it.

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Jul 18, 2017

If you are the lawyer for sake Paul Manafort, Jeff, do you let him go and testify under oath with risk of perjury, if you haven't kept your deal with Mueller?

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Jul 11, 2017

But right now the Senate has passed pretty good sanctions, I'd still want more. The Houses bottle them up, Senate pass them 98 to two, every set of Republican had two vote against -- almost everybody in both parties in the Senate was for…

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Jul 11, 2017

We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia or whether we should blow up the KGBO or GSU or GRU.

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Jul 11, 2017

Every patriotic American should subvert an election with a hostile foreign power. That is what Donald Trump Jr. agreed to do with Mr. Kushner and Mr. Manafort in the meeting.

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Jul 10, 2017

The Russians hacked our country. John McCain, a war hero called it an act of war.

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Jul 10, 2017

What Donald Trump is doing is trying to divide us and he is siding with the enemy, with Russia.

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Jul 10, 2017

If that's their story, they should stick to it. It's not going to hold.

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Jul 10, 2017

This president seems obsessed with the Russia story. And for good reason because he knows there is something there.

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Jun 21, 2017

This is carefully lawyered. It actually comes with a recently reported electronic surveillance.

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Jun 21, 2017

His credibility is a national asset. And he has squandered it.

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Jun 20, 2017

Democrats need to put their big boy pants on, and go after the doggone Republicans instead of taking incoming.

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Jun 20, 2017

If there was a Mt. Rushmore for speakers, Nancy Pelosi would be on it.

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Jun 7, 2017

I don't think the president can't afford many more days this good. I disagree with the president it's a good day.

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Jun 6, 2017

The August recess is not. Every president gets the bulk of his most important domestic accomplishments by August recess of his first year.

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Jun 6, 2017

They controlled the House and the Senate and the White House and yet they can't seem to get their program through.

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Jun 5, 2017

They actually care about things like jobs, like health care, and like the opioid addiction crisis, which seems like nobody in Washington is caring about, certainly not Donald Trump.

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Jun 5, 2017

He's often very, very tactical and not strategic. When Jeff Sessions, for example, recused himself is a terrible story for Donald Trump because it going to speak to Russia.

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Jun 1, 2017

Let me take, I come from my native Texas. Texas is the home of ExxonMobil, the biggest, baddest oil company in the whole wide world. They support the Paris agreement.

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Jun 1, 2017

They don't answer it because they can't answer it, but the president has answered it.

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May 30, 2017

We have all 17 intelligence agencies who say Russia hacked our election.

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May 30, 2017

What historians will remember about this election is not that Hillary made mistakes. It's that the Russians intervened.

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May 24, 2017

By far the most damaging leak of this presidency was when Donald Trump leaked to the Russians that we had a source in ISIS that apparently we got from Israel.

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