More Democrats Call for a Ceasefire
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The President says a deal is close that would free hostages in Gaza, while more Democrats in Congress call for a ceasefire or conditions on military aid to Israel. Meanwhile, Biden celebrates his 81st birthday with more bad polling and anxious Democrats. Trump continues his run of bonkers campaign stops in Iowa and Fox News kicks off the holiday season with a meltdown over “woke” Christmas. Then, ProPublica and NPR reporter Andrea Bernstein joins the show to talk about the newly announced Supreme Court ethics code and her podcast about right-wing judicial activist Leonard Leo, “We Don’t Talk About Leonard”. Finally, we kick off a new Thanksgiving tradition and pardon our favorite political turkeys of 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to POD Save America, I'm John Fababor. I'm Pardon Turkey, John Love it. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:26.4 | Leave it in. On today's show, President Biden |
| 0:32.1 | celebrates his birthday with more bad polling. |
| 0:34.4 | That's such a dickish way to say. |
| 0:37.4 | Sorry. |
| 0:38.4 | That's how he feels about it. |
| 0:41.4 | I know, I'm just telling the truth. Trump tries to wrap up the primary in Iowa and Fox News kicks off the holiday season with a war on woke Christmas. |
| 0:48.8 | Then ProPublica's Andrea Bernstein joins to talk about Supreme Court ethics in her new |
| 0:53.7 | podcast on right-wing judicial activist Leonard Leo and later we inaugurate a new |
| 0:59.7 | Thanksgiving tradition we're gonna pardon some of our own turkeys. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, all right. But first, President Biden said Monday, a deal that would release hostages held by Hamas is close. |
| 1:13.7 | And this comes as the number of House Democrats calling for a ceasefire has grown to 37, |
| 1:18.4 | a group that now includes three Jewish Democrats, |
| 1:21.1 | Becca Baylent, Sarah Jacobs, and Jamie Raskin. |
| 1:24.0 | Over in the Senate, Jeff Merckley became the second senator |
| 1:26.4 | to call for a ceasefire, and Bernie Sanders released a statement saying |
| 1:29.4 | that, quote, not one penny should go to Israel |
| 1:32.4 | until they stop the bombardment, |
| 1:34.0 | allow displaced Gazans to return home, |
| 1:36.4 | and pledge not to pursue a long-term blockade or reoccupation of Gaza. |
| 1:40.4 | Other Senate Democrats, like John Osoff, who's's also Jewish and Chris Van Hollen |
| 1:44.8 | have also started to talk about putting conditions on the 14 billion dollars in |
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