The Farmer Senator (with Jon Tester)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “The Farmer Senator,” Preet answers listener questions about Vox Media’s acquisition of CAFE, CAFE Insider co-host Anne Milgram’s nomination by President Biden to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the prosecution’s strategy in the Derek Chauvin trial. Then, Preet speaks with Jon Tester, the senior U.S. Senator from Montana. For references and supplemental materials, as well as a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/the-farmer-senator-with-jon-tester/ Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis by Elie Honig, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges. Head to cafe.com/brief. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, David Kurlander, Noa Azulai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune.
0:02.6	I'm Pete Barara.
0:04.6	You've got different kinds of farmers, just like you've got different kinds of lawmakers,
0:09.3	your small businessmen, or working folks that really dedicate their lives to what they're
0:14.2	doing and others that don't.
0:15.8	I will say this, you work hard on the farm.
0:18.8	There's no doubt about that.
0:21.5	But I'll tell you that I was a teacher for a while.
0:23.8	Most people work damn hard too.
0:30.4	That's John Tester.
0:32.0	He's the senior United States Senator for Montana.
0:34.8	He's also a Democrat, which makes him a rare breed in Montana, a state that voted overwhelmingly
0:39.8	for Donald Trump twice.
0:42.4	Tester is unusual in other ways.
0:44.2	He's a third-generation farmer, and he travels back to Montana every weekend from D.C. to
0:48.6	grow wheat, barley, peas, and lentils.
0:51.9	Tester published a memoir about his life in political philosophy.
0:55.4	It's called grounded, a Senator's lessons on winning back rural America.
1:00.0	As her moderate and a closely divided Senate, Tester has become a crucial swing boat.
1:04.7	Today, Senator Tester joins me to talk about his life as a farmer, the state of the United
1:08.9	States Senate, and how the Democratic Party can win back rural voters.
1:21.0	Now let's get to your questions.
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