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The Al Franken Podcast

Sen. Tammy Duckworth Tells Her Story

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sen. Duckworth tells about growing up in Thailand, joining the Army, and being grievously wounded in combat. Gruesome, harrowing, and…very funny!

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0:00.0

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0:08.5

Hey everybody, we got a, a harrowing but funny one today because my guest is Senator

0:21.8

Tammy Duckworth.

0:23.4

Her book, Every Day Is A Gift, is both harrowing and really funny.

0:29.5

And it chronicles her life with a focus on her being shot down the pilot of Blackhawk

0:39.2

helicopter in Iraq and her rehabilitation.

0:44.8

And as I say, unbelievably harrowing.

0:47.5

But also we had a great time discussing this and she has a wonderful, wonderful sense

0:53.9

of humor and so do I.

0:58.3

So it's a harrowing but funny one for a change.

1:02.4

Well, Liz Cheney is willing to give up her leadership post in the Republican House

1:09.8

caucus.

1:10.8

She's been third in leadership as conference chair.

1:16.2

The conference chair actually has no formal defined roles, really kind of a plumb that

1:21.8

you get for being a either well known or very promising popular figure with some promise

1:30.1

in the party.

1:31.6

Liz Cheney took a stand.

1:34.5

She says that the presidential election was not stolen by Joe Biden.

1:41.0

Very brave, very brave.

1:43.9

She must be one of those people that I don't know, thinks God is keeping track of everything.

1:49.8

But the truth is that all God cares about is whether you consider him God or not.

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