James Carville at the Sir Harry Investigative Journalism Summit 2025 said he is more scared now than when he served in the Marine Corps during Vietnam.

JAMES CARVILLE: People come to me all the time. Wherever I am in the country, it’s this. What I like is people generally call me James, all right? And they said, I’m really worried, I’m really scared. And you know what I tell them? You should be, you should be, okay? There’s a lot to be scared of. And you know, things that we didn’t think were imaginable are now playing out every day. And if the opposition, if we’re not smart, we could blow a gasket here. We really could. I’ve never, and I’m 80 years old, I was born on the day of the largest naval battle in history, October 25th, 1944, Lady Gulf. It was the day of the first Kamikaze attack, by the way. It was on the day I came into this world. And I literally have never been more afraid than any point in my life. And I served in the Marine Corps during Vietnam. Thank God I didn’t get shot at, but that’s another story. I’d have probably been more afraid if I’d have been shot at. But I really think when I cannot tell people in good conscience, oh, don’t worry about it, we’ll gut through this. That’s not what I feel at all. I feel like it’s an obligation to do everything that I can do or you can do to try to save this experiment or whatever the hell we got here. And it’s at risk. I’m not gonna bullshit you. I’m not gonna tell you that I think it’s, the Atlantic Alliance is fine and it’s all gonna be great and we’re just gonna hang together or we’ll hang separately or all that other bullshit. I don’t believe that anymore. I think we’re in real trouble.

Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Investigative Journalism Summit 2025 is co-hosted by editor and author Tina Brown CBE, Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni, and Durham University vice chancellor Karen O’Brien.
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