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Veteran political strategist James Carville turned a boast by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about Congress into a punchline by simply agreeing with him.

On the latest episode of "Politics War Room," Carville and co-host Al Hunt zeroed in on Johnson's claim that the current Congress was the most productive since Harry Truman's in 1948, a comparison that collapsed the moment anyone checked the history. Carville and Hunt were sizing up Republican vulnerabilities heading into the midterms, with President Donald Trump's approval sitting at 36 percent.

"Speaker Johnson's expertise does not extend to history," Hunt said. "That was the do-nothing Congress."...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said on Monday that he "felt a little lonely from time to time" because most of his colleagues did not want to use U.S. military force against President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria.