Jason Calacanis
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Now a look at the state of Pennsylvania.
It's one of the most important states in this presidential race.
Both the Pennsylvania senators, Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dave McCormick, voted in favor of the bill.
I thought the best way to kick this off was to actually give both of you a few moments to just say what's on your mind.
And so I think in the rules of parliamentary decorum, Senator Fenton, as a senior sitting senator from Pennsylvania, maybe you can start.
I think that we're at this point now where is it fair to say as goes Pennsylvania, as goes the rest of the country in the sense that if you can find common ground in the state on these very thorny issues, maybe the rest of the country can find ground and the vice versa is also true.
If you guys can't find resolution, what are the odds that California and West Virginia making it up find resolution?
So what is it like a day in the life in the US Senate trying to find these compromises?
Because from our perspective outside in, a lot of the time it just seems like nothing is happening.
Tell us what you really think.
Dave, is there a path to resolution?
I mean, like, you guys are going to be forced to confront the filibuster, which is this critical bulwark that sort of leaves...
some sort of attempt at finding common ground out there, but there's a lot of pressure to end it.
I think Senator Fetterman, you said you'd be supportive of ending the filibuster.
Is that where we're going, to just total tribalism?
And that's I mean, maybe one of the best things that can happen is Shapiro continues to do well in Pennsylvania, irrespective of which party you align with a prominent Jew.
winning in Pennsylvania, running that state well is a very good sign, actually, for the rest of the country that there is common ground and that antisemitism is much more in check than the perception.
I think Josh is fantastic.
I want to just move to just domestic policy and economics for a second.
Dave, you said this incredible story in the green room, which maybe you can start off with, which is the quantum of people that reach out to you every week