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Bob Casey Jr.: “I missed 13 days of work and was voting on, I think, the…”

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Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024

Published January 14, 2024 | Video Starts at 03:49

First of all, how are you doing? Doing well. Yeah. I had a successful operation on Valentine's Day 2023. I missed 13 days of work and was voting on, I think, the 13th day. Okay. And based on that experience, does that inform you in any way about what may or may not have happened with the Defense Secretary? (03:49–03:55)

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Asserts that he missed 13 days of work due to his operation.

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“I think [January 6, 2021] was [an insurrection].”
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“There wasn't the kind of transparency that anyone should expect [regarding the Defense Secretary's health disclosure].”
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“When you're in that position, you're in a chain of command, and also in succession to the presidency, there has to be a lot more…”
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“He [the former president] fomented it and he, he participated, and then participated that day in the, in calling for the storming of the…”
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“He [the former president] had plenty of chances, hour after hour, to call it off and didn't.”
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“Apparently, there's some internal review that will be conducted [regarding the Defense Secretary's health disclosure].”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 02:39-02:44
“No, I'm not satisfied with what transpired [regarding the Defense Secretary's health disclosure].”
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“I had a successful operation on Valentine's Day 2023.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 03:45-03:50
“I don't think he should resign, but I think he's got a he and his team, and I think his team has some. Has to bear some of the…”
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“They've got to do a much better job of informing the public when something like this happens and informing the White House and others in the…”
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“It heightens the urgency of having a protocol in place to provide that transparency.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 06:08-06:14
“We've got a supplemental bill that's ready to go, but for except the negotiations on border policy.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 06:22-06:31
“This isn't simply a Ukraine bill that will provide something in the order of 61 billion for Ukraine.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 06:32-06:40
“It's highly likely, if this aid isn't provided, that Vladimir Putin will prevail.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 06:45-06:51
“It's vital for Ukraine, but it's also, I think, vital for the free world if we're going to allow an invader like Putin, a murderous…”
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“The funding for the border, the extra funding, I should say something in the order of 14 billion is a lot of money for hiring 1,300 Border…”
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“In 2022, we had an appropriations vote at the end of the year, December, in the Senate, I think it was December 22nd. Republicans voted…”
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“They had a chance to vote for, you know, north of $25 billion in border security. They voted to defund it in 23.”
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“When our side put money on the table for more technology to stop fentanyl, more Border Patrol hirings, more DEA agents, they blocked it. The…”
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“I think it's a moment that you... Where you had to do it in one bill.”
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“More than 1200 people [were] killed [on October 7, 2023, in Israel].”
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“Hamas is engaged in... using rape as a weapon of terror.”
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“I've seen no evidence on the record that Israel has not taken a series of steps to avoid civilian casualties.”
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“Embedded within IDF units are lawyers and others who are making determinations in real time about whether this particular strike, what will…”
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“Been and will always, always will be in support of the two state solution.”
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“I have been and always will be [a supporter of a] 2 state solution.”
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“Some comments by [Netanyahu's] cabinet have made things worse.”
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“You cannot abide that kind of West Bank settlement.”
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“When the Israeli government has been more forward leaning on [prosecuting violence], you've seen some of the violence recede.”
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“I don't think that [absolute presidential immunity] makes sense because of the nature of our system.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 22:36-33:33
“A lot of the Arab nations in the Middle East...haven't done much over the last 50 years to help the people of Gaza.”
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“Behind closed doors...they're all saying, please take out Hamas.”
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“Hamas can't be the governing party or have disproportionate power in Gaza.”
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“I thought [Senator Menendez] should resign.”
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“The bar on [removing a presidential candidate from a ballot] is very, very high.”
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“I think he [the former president] is [an insurrectionist].”
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“I think he [Joe Biden] can [win Pennsylvania] and I think he will.”
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“I think he [Joe Biden] can [win Pennsylvania] and I think he will. But it'll be close as it was last time, 1.2%.”
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“A lot of folks out there are undergoing prosecution.”
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“Every public official, to some degree, at some point, is going to be held accountable, either during an election or because they've violated…”
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“There was nothing in Pennsylvania that was inappropriate about [the 2020] election.”
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“We had a record turnout, the highest presidential turnout in the history of our state.”
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“A dramatic increase in voting from 2016 to 2020. I think it was more than an 800,000 vote increase.”
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“We had, thankfully, a mail in ballot law in effect. And it worked.”
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“It passed in 2019.”
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“Anyone who signs a brief like that is an election denier.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024 | Uploaded January 14, 2024 | 37:37-37:41
“Every Republican member of Congress from Pennsylvania who was elected in 2020 on that ballot, on that same ballot through those procedures.”
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