The Veteran Candidate

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman and presidential candidate, joins Isaac Dovere this week. Moulton shares his thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, ‘the squad,’ and the direction of the Democratic Party. Speaking soon after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s hearings on Capitol Hill, Moulton gives his reaction as an early proponent of impeachment. And the decorated Marine veteran discusses his campaign’s focus on national security issues and why the current commander-in-chief is “putting American lives at risk.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You! This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Isaac Dauver. On this week's show I sat down with Seth
0:22.2	Moulton, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts.
0:25.0	Moulton is probably best known for his opposition to Nancy Pelosi.
0:29.0	He's argued that the party has too much power at the top and worked to unseat her over the last few years, though it obviously
0:35.2	didn't work.
0:36.2	Now he's one of the many Democrats running for president, but he's not one of the 20 who made
0:40.9	the cut for the debates next week. His focus as a candidate is on national
0:44.9	security. Before he won his house seat in 2014, Multim was a marine who served four tours in Iraq
0:51.0	and was awarded the Bronze Star. That experience has informed a lot of
0:55.2	his criticism of President Trump and why he thinks impeachment is long overdue.
0:58.9	We got into that and more in our conversation. Take a listen.
1:04.0	Congressman Seth Moulton, thanks for being here on Radio Atlantic.
1:08.0	Isaac, thanks for having me.
1:09.0	So I think the first question is we're a couple days out from the debates in Detroit,
1:14.8	they're going to be 20 candidates on stage, two nights.
1:17.9	People already are saying this field is too big,
1:21.6	can't some people start to drop out.
1:23.3	And you're saying, no, I got another candidate for you
1:26.4	who's not on the debate stage.
1:27.5	Why should people be looking to you
1:32.1	over the 20 candidates that are already there.
1:35.0	Because my background and experience are different and what I'm running on in this
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