YouTube Sensation David Pakman on The Big, Beautiful Bill and More!

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

First time guest David Pakman joins us for this week's show! David is a political commentator and hosts one of the most watched independent progressive programs in the country. With over 3 million YouTube subscribers, David spreads truth and commentary on the devastating impact Donald Trump is having on our country.

Al and David kick around news out of Washington including the "Big, Beautiful Bill" and its chances of survival now that some Republicans have expressed their opposition (and Elon Musk has torn it apart). Plus, we take a look at the new "travel ban" and how Trump's arguments for it make no sense.

David also shares what has shocked him the most about Trump’s second term and discusses what Democrats should do to win more seats and help improve their standing with American voters.

WATCH David's videos on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedavidpakmanshow

LISTEN to David's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-pakman-show/id402050558

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we got a great one today. And this time, this time I mean it. David Packman is my
0:11.3	guest. If you don't know him, I'll tell you a little about him. He has a podcast that has over
0:16.6	three million subscribers, which reminds me, if you like what I do, please subscribe. It's easy to do,
0:22.8	I think. I just record this thing. Peter, how do people subscribe? It's really easy, actually.
0:28.6	If you just go to YouTube.com slash Al Franken YouTube, you can see all of our videos there and join it.
0:35.9	Great. Sounds easy. How many subscribers do we have, Peter?
0:39.9	Not three million.
0:42.2	Well, that makes my point.
0:43.8	David Packman is a very popular, progressive political commentator and a great communicator,
0:48.8	and you're going to love this conversation.
0:51.2	But first, I want to talk about Trump and Harvard.
0:57.5	Be my guest. Okay. Yes, Harvard didn't adequately stop anti-Semitic students and outsiders from being anti-Semitic,
1:02.2	and they've owned that. But this is just an excuse for Trump to go after them, because if you
1:07.4	ask me, Trump is more anti-Semitic than Harvard.
1:14.8	Now, let's look at some of the stuff Trump has said and done over the years.
1:23.0	In a final ad in Trump's 2016 campaign, it featured images of three prominent Jews,
1:34.9	Janet Yellen, George Soros and Lloyd Blankfein, chair of Goldman Sachs, alongside criticisms of levers of power in Washington and global special interests.
1:37.4	I remember that. That was bad.
1:45.7	Okay. Now, about Charlottesville, he said you also had people that were very fine people on both sides, but one side was yelling,
1:47.5	Jews will not replace us.
1:50.7	Yeah, but you know, his daughter married a Jew.
1:52.0	Doesn't matter.
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