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Sen. John Fetterman on Democratic Divides, DSA & Israel | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 08:46

Don't you think that's a legitimate reason to try and leverage whatever opportunity they would have? TDS seems like a convenient excuse for a lot of legitimate concerns. Yeah, well, The only actual tool and the only actual real leverage that Democrats have, That's the filibuster. 100%. You know, and I just had an op ed in the Washington Post and I was trying to remind America and Democrats specifically that we, including me, we were so wrong about scrapping the filibuster back in the 2022 cycle. (08:46–08:53)

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