This week, comedian and former U.S. Senator Al Franken joins the TakeoutPodcast to discuss his ongoing comedy tour, the state of American politics (and comedy), and the war in Ukraine.
"I should be a senator. What happened was just something very odd at a certain moment. And you know I've had nine of my former colleagues apologize to me publicly for -- all I wanted was due process, and they came to recognize that, and I've had a few apologize to me not publicly. I haven't forgiven them… I believe I should still be there and I believe if I had gotten due process, I would.""I think Biden is doing about as much as he can.
But my argument to Democrats especially is that there's a lot of time to go before November… In June, a couple of things are going to happen. One, we're going to have the hearings on the January 6th Select Committee. Jamie Raskin just said it's going to blow the roof off the house. I think people, Americans, I have this little secret, they like television and the hearings will be on television…I think there's going to be some pretty powerful stuff.
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