Sen. Brian Schatz and why Senate Democrats are walking on eggshells

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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POLITICO Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza interviews Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) to talk the next bill on the Democrats' agenda, whether or not Democrats will have to go around Republicans to get anything done and what his philosophy degree can tell us about this moment. Come for the policy, stay for the Kant*.*Actually it was the German poet Novalis (formally Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg) who said "Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality." There's your trivia for the week. Ryan Lizza is a co-author of POLITICO Playbook.Sen. Brian Schatz is a Democrat and the senior Senator from Hawaii.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you had to live in a desert island with four of your Senate colleagues, two
0:06.0	Republicans and two Democrats, who would you bring?
0:11.0	And why?
0:14.0	Todd and Mitt on the Republican side.
0:17.0	Todd Young and Mitt Romney to be clear.
0:20.0	I like them both and they're fit.
0:23.0	And so they'd be useful.
0:25.0	You mean physically fit?
0:26.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:27.0	That is some advanced thinking for this kind of question.
0:29.0	That's impressive.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:31.0	Introducing the senior senator from Hawaii.
0:34.0	Brian Schatz.
0:35.0	And on the Democratic side, it's, you know, I guess it would be Booker and Murphy just because
0:40.0	they're my buddies too.
0:41.0	No, no, sorry.
0:42.0	But Murphy gets out.
0:43.0	I get Heinrich because Heinrich is actually capable.
0:47.0	You know, he did that thing with Jeff Flake on the Pacific Island and, oh, he did like a,
0:52.0	he did a show actually like a reality show.
0:54.0	Right, right.
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