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The Trey Gowdy Podcast

Senator Ben Sasse: "We’ve Stopped Doing Civics"

The Trey Gowdy Podcast

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Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary, News

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Trey Gowdy is joined by his friend, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), to discuss the Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Senator Sasse explains his ideas for reforming the Senate, including introducing term limits so there is less emphasis on campaigning and less focus on making careers in Washington D.C.. The Senator also explains why he believes more decisions should be made at a state and local level, why politicians work together more effectively when there are no cameras and the importance of returning to civics rather than politics. Later, Senator Sasse explains Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s qualifications for the Supreme Court and why he believes attacks on Judge Barrett’s faith are unconstitutional and ineffective. Follow Trey on Twitter: @TGowdySC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bins. Bins. Ben Sass is a historian, a PhD, an author, a wrestler, a most importantly, he's a husband and a father, oh yeah I almost forgot he's a United States

0:45.6

senator from the great state of Nebraska he's on several committees several

0:51.0

significant committees including judiciary and

0:54.8

intelligence. Welcome to you Senator Sass.

0:57.6

Right, thank you for having me on. Great to be with you and thank you for doing

1:02.3

a whole bunch of bio hooks and putting

1:05.0

senator last on the list if only more people understood that these public

1:09.5

offices are a way to serve but they're not the heart of our identities.

1:12.8

Dad and husband and even wrestler are more important things

1:17.2

than I think people act less like jack wagons.

1:20.8

Well, you don't have to be around you very long to know that you do not take yourself seriously even though your your current job is a very serious one. You have a different kind of humility than most folks in this line of work, but I do have to question you about one thing. You had the perfect job.

1:37.5

You were a college president and they liked you and you were doing great things and you gave it up why my wife says this like once a week

1:47.5

man she's a fan of yours and she she's not a huge podcast listener but when I told her I was doing this one

1:54.9

she said she'd probably download your podcast so I got a duck here a little bit but I kind of got

1:59.1

recruited into the Senate race in 2013-14 and you're right in a college president is a great job it's

2:05.8

a it's just a great place to raise kids too we went we went from 18 to 29 sports

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