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The Gist

Al Franken Gets Specific About Senators

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Lindsey Graham is a cynic, Joe Manchin can still be reached on filibuster reform, Michael Bennett…that one still hurts. In the second part of his interview, Senator Al Franken discusses the failings of Betsy DeVos and explains his former colleagues' motivations. Plus, a Spiel about Best Picture Nominee "Don't Look Up" — a warning for everyone already heading the warning. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1

would be here without the verb deployed, it's thought by many better not to hear the

0:37.8

verb deployed.

0:39.0

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022, from Peach Fish Productions, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska.

0:49.6

There are a number of arguments one could make for or against President Biden's choice

0:54.2

of Supreme Court justice. But given that the president has not chosen a Supreme Court

0:59.5

justice, but that has only chosen a demographic profile of a Supreme Court justice, the range

1:04.8

of arguments is pretty restricted. In fact, on this show, hours after Stephen Breyer announced

1:09.4

his retirements, I told you what many of the arguments would look like. I could play

1:14.4

the tape of that January 26th show, but it'll sound exactly like this, me talking, right?

1:18.7

So I'm just going to tell you what I said. I said that Tucker Carlson or some Tucker-like

1:23.1

entity explicitly saying he's supporting a black woman. We'll call it racist against

1:27.9

whites. That has happened. And then I predicted that some maybe even Biden supporters, I said,

1:34.8

quote, won't love the fact that the president, even before reviewing the candidates ruled

1:39.4

out 93% of the American public. Well, yesterday it was a non-biden supporter, Ted Cruz, who

1:46.1

said this.

1:47.1

He's saying to 94% of Americans, I don't give a damn about you. You are ineligible.

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