Fly Out Day: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick on being a moderate in today's GOP

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, the House Intel member, former FBI agent and national intelligence subcommittee chair, joins Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer to break down to chat about being a moderate in today's GOP, FISA and MUCH more. 🎙️ Stick around after with CNN's Capitol Hill Reporter Sarah Ferris and our own Tax and Financial Services Reporter Laura Weiss for That’s Not Gonna Fly! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Fly Out Day, her brand new show here at Punchful News.
0:04.0	You love the Daily Punch.
0:05.2	Join us every Thursday for even more fresh insight from lawmakers and reporters as Washington heads out of town.
0:11.6	Subscribe to Fly Out Day wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.5	Why don't you just become an independent zone?
0:17.1	Because I live in a closed primary state.
0:18.7	Would you if you wouldn't?
0:19.6	100%.
0:20.2	You would.
0:20.6	100%. At would. 100%.
0:21.2	At the end of the week, Washington empties out.
0:24.4	Fast.
0:25.5	Lawmakers, staffers.
0:27.0	They're all heading home.
0:31.0	But not before they stop here.
0:37.0	The end of the week, Washington empties out. This is for you, Jake.
0:46.3	Hello and welcome back to the Punchable News Townhouse for another episode of Flyout Day.
0:50.8	I'm Anna Palmer.
0:51.7	And I'm Jake Sherman. Anna, what a hell of a week.
0:55.2	Republicans have been in a bit of a free fall. They seem to have steadied the ship that's been
1:01.6	rocking back and forth a little bit. But reconciliation. The Senate passed a budget resolution
1:08.3	last night. House basically said they're going to take it up next week. They've been kind of wishy-washy on that. FISA's still not done, and that's a week away. It looks like Johnson has a plan, but it's not clear to us whether that plan has a support. And we have the perfect guest to talk about this. The one and only. Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, the Republican from Pennsylvania, he's a member of the House Intel Committee.
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