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Michael Bennet

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  1. “Well, I don't think Trump could be filling any more judicial seats. He's filling. He's got, I mean, they are now, because they got rid of the two-hour rule, they got rid of all. All we do is judges. Right. What I'm saying is there'll be more vacancies.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Colorado has the chance to have two Democrats. New Mexico, we've got two Arizona. We would never thought we'd have two and we might have two. Nevada. I think there's southern states that are going to change. So look, I think the much more important point from my point of view is we need a Democratic Party message that's compelling to enough people that not only can we accomplish what we're trying to do, but we can sustain what we're trying to do. And that's a really tough challenge. I mean, this is the fundamental challenge with where we are in this democracy. It'd be a lot easier if we were an autocracy, but we're not.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Well, maybe they should have sent him to Wisconsin. But I think that would have been helpful too. But I think there are changes in the South. We've got in the West.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “It's hard to get to 60, that's true. By the way, I'm not quite as pessimistic as you are. I think that we will in our lifetime be able to get. Do”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Politicians in Washington that are influenced by special interests and money can flip us back and forth on climate based on 51 votes. You tell me how long it's going to last, especially when I take your point that it's hard for Democrats to get a majority. It's hard to get a majority, it's hard to sustain a majority.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “We don't have time to wait on climate change. And it's unlike any other issue that we're confronting in that respect. Because, you know, as much as I wish that kids all over America were going to decent schools when they're not going to decent schools, I know that we can try to fix that now or 10 years from now or 20 years from now, we'll still be fixing it and able to fix it. With climate, it's different. If we don't act now, it might not be able to be fixed. It probably can't be fixed. I think climate makes the point. much less on the filibuster than more broadly on the pitch that I'm trying to make to Democrats and to the American people on what we have to do with our politics, which is this is much more important than just what the filibuster in climate, as I said, you can't fix it for two years. We have to fix it for a generation. And we have to sustain it. It doesn't mean the policy doesn't change or it doesn't mean that, but if...”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Would have done between George Bush when George Bush the son was president. That would all be done. And I don't think we should be sacrificing protections for the most vulnerable people in our country because we think we can't for some reason make a compelling case to enough Americans to beat these Republicans. Our job should be to win the presidency and win a majority in the Senate and hold a majority in the House and reset the table here politically. The American people are with us, not with them.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Is a totally different thing. So the result of this is we now have reduced what was for 200 years a bipartisan approach to advise and consent in the Senate that every time we did it reinforce the independence of the judiciary, we've now infected the judiciary with the partisanship that's supposed to be hopefully temporary of the legislative branch. So I think the history on this is bad. But beyond that, I've got another argument, which is Mitch McConnell is the majority leader of the Senate. If we really are going to take the view that we should get rid of the filibuster while he's the majority leader and again set the precedent for McConnell to change the rules, then we're going to have to accept the Senate where he can privatize Social Security if he wants, where he can go after reproductive rights, go after voting rights, go after the environmental stuff, all of which they”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Around that. And we didn't do that. McConnell strategically waited and waited until the moment, and we basically played into his hands over and over again. And now he's getting exactly what he wanted. This is to say nothing of what he did to Garlic Garland.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Because we gave McConnell the ability to blow the nuclear option on Gorsuch instead of holding it for the next one when obviously he would have tried to do it again. But that was when it was five four Roe v. Wade was at stake. It seemed to me that that's when we would have wanted to organize the American people.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “But what I mean by that is that we entered into the sort of the preemptive retribution that led to our changing the rules first. So those guys wouldn't allow President Obama to get any of his, not any, but a lot of his nominees through. He wouldn't let in particular the D.C. circuit judges through. You'll remember that. Chuck Hegel, who is the Secretary of Defense nominee for President Obama, and was a Republican senator, was filibustered by the Senate, and a Secretary of Defense had never been filibustered in the history of America. So we changed the rules. I didn't believe that was the right thing to do at the time, and I think the history has shown that it wasn't because Donald Trump has been able to get more judges on the courts. In the first two years than any president in American history, I believed it was wrong for us to filibuster Gorsuch. You know, I took a lot of beatings for that. But the reason why was that I thought we were playing right into Mitch McConnell.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “So I think, first of all, the history with the filibuster with the judges is instructive. It's not dispositive, but it is instructive, and that's a history of Mitch McConnell winning and America losing and Democrats losing. What do you mean?”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “I think there is a greater chance we can get that done sooner because 96% or something of Americans say there's too much money in our politics and something like 94% say that wealthy people have an outsized influence. So if we can't make the politics of that work and we can't use that to overcome McConnell and these guys, I'm not sure what we can do. I mean, climate is in the 70s, I think, compared to that. So that would be one that not only do I think we could get it done sooner, it would have the really useful effect of giving people the opportunity, like my daughter, who's here today who are in the next generation, the opportunity to organize around politics to get their voice in politics and to get money out of politics. That's why I've sort of prioritized that.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “I do. I think we'll be dead by the time we do that, so it's not high on my list of stuff. I would rather be focused on an amendment to overturn Citizens United, and maybe you could do a little of both, but for all the reasons that you say, yeah.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are for our democracy. I don't think they're for a republic. I think they're for themselves and the interest groups that they're serving. And I don't think that represents what Republicans in my state believe.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Anti-voting opinions like the one I mentioned earlier. And I think that's another place where the National Republican Party and their allies, I guess, around the country, have worked really hard over the last 15 or 20 years to deny people the right to vote. And we should be on the side of making it easier for people to vote. And I think that's where the American people are, too. But, you know, let me just, I do think the basic tenet here is that I don't think”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “So there are two parts. There's a way of thinking about it broadly, which is taking the money out of politics, and the other part of it is getting people back into politics. There are reforms in Washington, ending political gerrymanding, dealing with Citizens United, banning members of Congress from beginning to...”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “I think your last, I agree with everything that you said. I think the last point. is the most important one because it's not even about the Koch brothers money. It's about all those guys have to do is rattle the change in their pockets and threaten a primary. And that's enough for people that have said, well, we'll move on to some other topic”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “The Republicans had a relatively honorable tradition, which is that Richard Nixon put the EPA in place and signed the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act. Ronald Reagan closed the hole in the ozone layer. Both Bushes said we had to deal with climate and led efforts at the UN to do that. McCain ran on climate change. What changed? Citizens United changed. And that completely changed the way the National Republican Party looks at this because they're being corrupted into inaction by the Koch brothers. Republicans in Colorado are not being corrupted into inaction by the Koch brothers. They are seeing their farms and ranches threatened because of our inability to deal with climate change. So I think there is a big distinction here. Obviously, there are people that are watching Fox News all day long who now have come to believe McConnell's the greatest guy in the world, having hated him, by the way, for years and years.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “I don't think we can solve climate change two years at a time. Other people might disagree with me. I believe it's a very urgent problem and we need to act urgently, but we also need an enduring solution. We can't do it. Even one administration at a time. It's going to have to last longer than that. And when you look at the issue of climate,”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “I think they are pulling the wool over their voters. And this is a place where I differ from other people in the field and in the Democratic field. I represent a state that is a third Democratic, a third Republican, and a third independent. The vast majority of Republicans I know don't subscribe to the views that the Freedom Caucus has. They're more conventional and more traditional Republicans. These guys, and the manifestation of all of it really is in Donald Trump. I mean, you've got a Republican Party that's turned everything on its head. Let me give you a good example. Climate change.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “The first generation, I will be part of the first generation of Americans to leave less opportunity, not more to the people coming after us. And I think that's entirely unacceptable.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “I think it didn't happen because I think that McConnell and the Freedom Caucus had an ideological commitment to destroying our exercise in self-government that we didn't understand. And I'm not sure President Obama fully understood it. I didn't fully understand it. It's equivalent, by the way, to our lack of comprehension that Donald Trump could ever have been elected president. A lot of us didn't believe that was possible either because we didn't see the reactionary forces building on our political system and we didn't see the ways in which the Freedom Caucus had dismantled our ability to govern ourselves on the one hand, but on the other hand had successfully eluded blame for having caused all these problems to begin with. Now we have an opportunity to do something different. I believe, and this really is why I'm running for president, I think that if we spend the next 10 years in Washington the way we've spent the last 10 years, we're going to be”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Obama's theory of the case which was when he was re elected president that the fever would break and that somehow we would be able to get back to working together. I think I understand why that didn't happen. I think I understand what's going to be required to get us beyond it.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “I would say in my experience I've been in the Senate for ten years and before that I was in business and after that I'd run a school district. There was an over a billion dollars of budget. It was a major school district in this country. So I come with first of all a different set of experiences but my work in the Senate has both allowed me to accomplish big bipartisan things. We didn't finish the Gang of Aid Immigration Bill thanks to the Hastert rule, but we were well on our way to getting it done. We got 68 votes in the Senate. I was part of that. We rewrote and reformed and ended really no child left behind. I was a big part of that. The approval process at the Food and Drug Administration that now has this was signed by President Obama. More than 120 drugs have been approved as a result. And there are other things like that. But just as important as what I've been able to do, I've been able to learn why the place doesn't work, how it's broken, how it's corrupted, why President”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “The Freedom Caucus in Mitch McConnell are not going to fix Washington, they're not going to fix themselves, they need to be overcome. And I think the Democratic Party can lead the way in unifying the American people to do it. It's not going to be easy to do, and I don't think it's going to be accomplished in just one election either.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “Well, that's right. I'm running because, and you saw it up close in the Obama administration. These guys McConnell and the Freedom Caucus have successfully immobilized our exercise in self-government. We have to overcome that. And I think there are two things we're going to have to figure out how to do at the same time. One is going directly at them to undo the structural challenges that are facing our democracy, Citizens United being one of those, but political gerrymandering being another, the attack on voting rights that Shelby versus Holder represents. And whatever it is we need to do inside the Congress to make it work better. And at the same time, I think we have to build a broad coalition of Americans to overcome the intransigence in D.C.”

    2019-07-02 · Pod Save America · 2020: Michael Bennet on fixing Washington and defeating Mitch McConnell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source