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John Fetterman

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first: 2023-10-20
most recent: 2023-10-20
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2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a fantastic book. It's illustrated, so it'll go quickly. It's funny. Basically, a lot of the stuff we've said on the podcast and a lot of advice that we've gotten from people much smarter than us, politicians, activists, organizers, appears in the book. We're doing interviews with a lot of those people. Those will appear in the book too.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We wrote a book. We wrote a book. There it is How to save America, democracy or else how to save America in 10 easy steps.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Washington and the Republicans seem like assholes, but I also am wondering who's going to speak to me, who's going to help me. And when you start thinking about that, you're like, oh yeah, how does Biden, who's got to deal with all these international challenges because they've fallen in his lap and he has no choice? How does he do that and still have a message that says, by the way, I know that you're still hurting out there, but Donald Trump's going to be a disaster.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I'm thinking about the point Simone made earlier, which is like, And this is a challenge for anyone who's president, right? Which is crises come up that whether they fit into your political message or not, you just have to deal with because that's the job, and you're there to make a difference and protect America. And Joe Biden's up there tonight, and he's like, yeah, $100 billion for Ukraine and Israel and the border and Taiwan. And first of all, how many people are tuned into that speech and are going to get the message or are they going to get the takes about the speech from both the far right and anyone on the left who is critical, right? That's number one. And then number two, if they have consumed the speech, are they going to think, well, I still feel like I'm seeing all these headlines that inflation's coming down, but the price does still seem a little high. And I still have student debt and my healthcare is kind of expensive. And I'm like wondering, I'm seeing all this chaos and why.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's a good thing Trump is, of course, choosing to be in court. He seems to think these appearances are helping him. If you look at the polls, they're at least not hurting him. His crushing lead in the Republican primary keeps growing, and he's either tied or ahead of Joe Biden in nearly every recent national or swing state poll Dan, what's going on? Answer, Dan. Help us out.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know what? He's focused like a laser on this issue. He is as thoughtful as ever. And here is Donald Trump outside of the Manhattan courtroom where the civil fraud trial, they could bring down his business empire is taking place. This was him yesterday”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This and recognize that there is a common humanity here, which the information environment we live in right now does not really allow for. And that's just something, but that we have the choice to decide to just take a beat on that. All right, so Biden's likely opponent in 2024, who is”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your point about everyone getting off the internet, it's like there is a lot of bad information out there, there's a lot of incomplete information out there. There are social media algorithms that lift up the most extreme examples on both sides and force you to watch them all the time and consume them all the time. And you know what? Not everyone has to give their take on everything in that moment or ever. This is just like it's fog of war and for everyone to take a breath. And like you said, there are families and children who are massacred in Israel and there are civilians and children and families who have been killed for nothing in Gaza right now. And there is anti-Semitism that we are struggling with and there's Islamophobia that we're struggling with. And part of this is being able to take a beat, take a pause, give people grace who are trying to understand.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two things are true. One, I think intersectional social justice movements should include concern about anti-Semitism. One, two, separate thought, like big picture, you can support a country and its people and its ideals and dislike its leaders. Right. I think a lot of people abroad love the United States, what it stands for, the people who live here. They didn't love Donald Trump, right? That's how I feel about Israel. I want Israel to exist. It's got an incredible dynamic people. I think it is suffering from terrible leadership under Bibi Netanyahu. And I think talking about his leadership and policy failings is an entirely different thing that we should all do and feel comfortable doing. I mean, look, I think it's...”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All right. I do. That's great. Senator Fetterman, thank you so much for joining us. So great to have you here. Thank you so much Alright, let's get into the fun stuff. President Biden has returned from a quick trip to Israel, where he met with BBN Netanyahu, convinced him to allow food and medical supplies into Gaza, and pledged $100 million in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people. Biden is now the only president to have visited not one but two active war zones. And just minutes ago, right before we started, finished up a primetime Oval Office address to the nation where he asked Congress for $100 billion to support the people of Israel and Ukraine who struggles he linked in his speech. Let's listen.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a lot of indictments. So, voters, and not just Republicans and independents, but also Democrats keep telling pollsters they are worried about Joe Biden's age, and they don't think he's done enough to bring down prices, even though inflation is starting to come down. What advice would you give to the president on how he can keep Pennsylvania blue? Very tough state, very competitive state in 2024.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why do you think that there are still some Senate Democrats, including Leader Schumer, who still haven't called on him to resign? That's what I can't understand.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, speaking of foreign entanglements that are dividing the Democratic Party, got to ask you about Bob Menendez. Who you apparently confronted on an escalator this week about his refusal to resign after being indicted for bribery and acting as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government? So first of all, good for you.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's wild. It's wild. So you called out some of your progressive colleagues this week for blaming the Gaza hospital explosion on Israel, and you said in a statement, quote, we can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized. So what do you say to people, including a lot of Israelis, who absolutely agree that Hamas needs to be neutralized, but are worried that a massive ground invasion of Gaza could lead to tens of thousands of more civilian casualties, a bigger war in the Middle East, and ultimately potentially a less secure Israel”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's like there's that going on. It seems like Congress can't do anything but pass a resolution to stop you from wearing a hoodie on the Senate floor. Have there been moments when you thought, man, I had a pretty good gig in Pennsylvania. Like, what the hell did I come here for?”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we are all so, so happy that you got help and that you're talking about it to help other people. That's very courageous. All right, so I heard you tell a reporter, we were just talking about the speaker race. I heard you tell a reporter this week that House Republicans need to get their act together and decide which dick is going to be speaker.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You made what I can only imagine must have been an incredibly difficult decision not only to seek help for depression, but to speak publicly about your struggle. How did you ultimately make that decision?”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you were last on the show about a year ago after you had suffered a stroke during your Senate campaign. How is your recovery going and how are you feeling?”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thurs Well, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. When we come back, we will talk to Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman. Joining us now, the junior senator from Pennsylvania and a friend to all of us who believe that every day should be casual Friday, John Fetterman. Hello there”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So Jim Jordan has not dropped out, even though he met with the 20 holdouts tonight and every single meeting went poorly. None of them have changed their minds. And so he took that to mean keep going. So he's going to hold another votes. They said they might hold votes over the weekend. Meanwhile, Patrick McHenry is like, I don't want to be temporary speaker. It's not going to happen. I don't think I have the powers of the speaker without a vote. So I don't know. I actually don't know where they go from here because it seems like unless First of all, if there was a Republican who could get 217, we would know who that person is by now. So I don't know that this gets resolved without them finally reaching out to Democrats or doing it with Democratic votes.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Congress and beyond is terrible policy views is one of the most radical and toxic and That the vast majority of Americans say. I think we have to tell that story, and this is a part of that story.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People I represent wouldn't know the Speaker of the House if they backed over them with a pickup truck. Quite an endorsement of Jim Jordan. I don't think they could identify the body, therefore I'm a yes. I do think it's incumbent upon us to make it a liability. And look, do I think that we'll be still talking about this speaker's race a year from now? Probably not, but I do think we'll be trying to tell a story about And in one of the most important votes these people will ever face a moment where voting no could really make a difference deciding to say no. They decided that for their own personal craven partisan needs, they were going to support an agenda of someone who believes in an abortion ban, not at 12 weeks, not six. For the insurrection who participated in the insur”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here's what surprised me is that so some of the people who voted against Jordan are in safe districts and they voted against them for different reasons. Some of them are much more conservative than you would have expected. About a dozen, I think a dozen Republicans who are sitting in districts that Joe Biden won voted for Jordan for Jim Jordan as speaker. They are sitting there in Biden districts and they voted for Jim Jordan. How much of a political liability do you think that will be all the way in 2024 when people go vote a year from now? And if you were running a race against those Republicans, what would you say? I think, first of all, so one of those goofballs is a guy named Mark Molinaro. He's a Republican who narrowly flipped to Biden district. And here's what he said. He said, most people, this is why he ran as a kind of bipartisan Republican who isn't like these kooks. He voted for Jordan. Most of the”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One thing that sort of, you know, Of these people Their incentive is to get on television and get headlines and raise money that way and to make a name for themselves. And Matt Gates, Jim Jordan, the thing about becoming this kind of basically right-wing influencer via Congress is it's not a team sport. It's parallel play. And these are a bunch of toddlers who haven't yet learned to play together. They can sit in front of a camera and they can have fun by themselves. They don't get sharing yet. Love it”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got him a $30 million house. Brett, that is. He's read like one book. He knows that Nancy Pelosi would bust some heads to get votes. But that was a good thing. Once she had the power, not like on the way to trying to get the power. So he clearly offended all these moderates. Then he completely backtracked and he supported this short-term plan to empower McHenry. That pissed off all the people on the right, and now they're just scrambling. And, you know, basically all they're doing is like making poor Jake Sherman just like sprint up and”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, I know. They make the argument that government can't work and then they go about proving it. So Tommy, I will admit, I was kind of surprised that Jordan didn't get it today or yesterday only because I figured when everyone was like, oh, Sean Hannity's producers sending out letters, they're threatening people, right? And I was like, usually when the MAGA wing of the party, which is now most of the party, when they start threatening more establishment Republicans, they end up getting their way and the Republicans cave. But apparently, were you surprised that not everyone caved to Jim Jordan's threat?”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dan, why has it been so hard for Republicans to elect a speaker? Kevin McCarthy, by the way, he's been saying this every day for the last two weeks. He's still saying it's Democrats' fault. Even after everything happened today, it's Democrat's fault that they can't elect a speak”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One guy left to go pray the rosary, and then one guy looked like he was about to kick Matt Gates' ass. I mean, sounds like a great workplace culture. I wish I was there. Simone, what do you think Matt Gates in his seven goofballs have accomplished by overthrowing Kevin McCarthy?”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Second in line to the presidency, the House of Representatives has now been without a speaker for 16 days. First Republicans took down Kevin McCarthy, then they voted down Steve Scalise, and now they have twice denied the gavel to a guy who never really liked elections in the first place. Jim Jordan. So they almost decided to give the job to interim speaker Patrick McHenry, at least until January. But when Republicans realized that would require them to do some truly crazy shit like work with Democrats, hold votes, govern. They ditch that plan. And then they started screaming and swearing at each other in a closed-door meeting today. Some Republicans complained about the death threats they were getting because they voted against Jordan. Some of them were waving around their pocket constitutions, apparently.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“John We have an outstanding show for you tonight. John Fetterman is here Virginia State Senate candidate Jennifer Carroll Foy is here. Chef Jose Andres is here And we are so lucky to be joined by our old friend, part of the Crooked family, and now the host of Simone on MSNBC, Simone Sanders Townsend. All right, would anyone here like to be Speaker of the House? Competitive pay, great benefits.”
2023-10-20 · Pod Save America · John Fetterman and Symone Sanders-Townsend on House Chaos (Live from DC!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source