Recode Decode: Senator Amy Klobuchar

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Amy Klobuchar, the senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota who is running for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 presidential race, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. In this episode: The infamous comb incident; why Klobuchar thinks she can win; big pharma and big tech; why Klobuchar is aiming for the center while her fellow Democrats are pulling left; what she learned from studying Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss; the crowded Democratic field; the need for urgent action on climate change; Elizabeth Warren's proposal to break up the tech companies and Klobuchar's own agenda for tech; should Facebook and Google be broken up?; the prospects of a federal data privacy bill; does Klobuchar trust tech companies?; do they like her?; Paul Manafort's initial prison sentence; the Mueller Report; President's Trump's coziness with Vladimir Putin and his attacks on the press; impeachment; Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments on Israel; and what politicians Klobuchar looks up to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.0	Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, the editor-in-large of Recode.
1:06.0	You may know me as someone who would never eat salad with a comb for goodness sake.
1:10.0	I eat it with a brush.
1:12.0	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:18.0	Today, we're going to play a live interview. I did recently with Amy Klobuchar, the senior United States senator from Minnesota.
1:24.0	But as you might have heard, she's trying to get a new job, president of the United States.
1:29.0	We spoke at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. Let's take a listen.
1:39.0	Well, welcome here. I'm so excited to kick this off.
1:43.0	Senator Klobuchar, I usually just beat up tech executives.
1:46.0	So this is going to be good.
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