Okay, I am joined today in studio, one of the hottest races in America.

Of course, I'm talking about the Michigan Senate race.

I have Dr. Abdul-El-Sayed.

He is a physician, a former public health official running for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

He has spent his entire career

eliminating medical debt and taking on corporate polluters. And now he's running a campaign

focused on ending corporate influence and politics and standing up for working people.

That is such a joy to read that, that you're interested in helping people with medical debt and corporate people. That is such a joy to read that, that you're interested in helping people with

medical debt and corporate polluters. How are you today? I am well. It's such a privilege to be

here with you. We talk about refreshing the content you're putting out, the conversation that

you're leading. I just really appreciate you. So it's an honor and privilege to be with you. Thank you. All right. So right now we have an incompetent

federal government, especially the executive branch, and arguably in Congress, for sure in Congress,

not even arguably. And gas prices are something that cannot be spun.

And triple Trumper, an independent, a leftist, anybody's going to go and fill their car up,

and it's something that you cannot escape from.

What do you see if you were in the Senate right now, what would you be demanding of your colleagues

in this very moment?

Yeah. I mean, we filled up last week $20 more than we had a month ago.

And that's a consequence of our tax dollars being used to raise our gas prices.

There are two parts of this job.

There is the procedural part of the job, and then there's the platform part of the job. I think too many folks in the U.S. Senate forget that there's the whole platform part of the job. Your job in the U.S. Senate is not just to do the procedural things. It's to make sure that you are narrating outcomes for people in explaining what's going on. And I think part of the problem is that Democrats have kind of forgotten how to persuade. Like we've given up on the idea that there are people out there who are persuadable. And so if we're talking at all, we're talking specifically to people who already agree with us rather than going out there into the places where people can be won over because you're exactly right. If you're filling up your hunker truck, at the end of the day, you're paying a lot more

money to do it because of the consequences of your tax dollars. Go take that argument out to the

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