00:00Oh, Congressman, what are you hearing right now from your constituents about Senator Fetterman?
00:06My constituents and folks all over Pennsylvania are pretty frustrated with John Fetterman.
00:10They're pretty disappointed.
00:12I've been all over, not just my district of Pennsylvania, trying to help us flip the most competitive congressional races.
00:18And John Fetterman is nowhere to be found.
00:20And frankly, folks don't want him on the trail.
00:23He's spending his time, frankly, going on right wing media to bash the Democrats.
00:29It comes down to, for me, Jake, a sense of duty and whether you have one on the job.
00:34And increasingly, it looks like John Fetterman just doesn't.
00:37It's a serious job to be a senator.
00:39You got to show up.
00:40You got to vote.
00:41You got to take meetings.
00:42These are the basics of the job that folks expect you to do.
00:47What are the odds that you challenge Fetterman in a Democratic Senate primary in 2028?
00:55Look, I've gotten a lot of encouragement to do it.
00:58I'll make that decision when the time comes, because right now we have competitive races to win.
01:03My own races across Pennsylvania to affect the control of Congress.
01:07That's what I'm focused on.
01:08That is the most important thing we can do.
01:10I'll decide my future after that.
01:12But I'll say this.
01:13My ambition is far bigger than any one job.
01:16It's our country to be different, our government to be different, for the American dream to once again be real
01:21for hardworking people.
01:22And that matters to me more than any one job that I might have in this.
01:26What are the frustrations that you are hearing from voters about Senator Fetterman?
01:33Because there is polling suggesting that he's very popular with Republicans in Pennsylvania, just not with Democrats.
01:42Yeah, look, he's spending his time on right-wing media bashing the Democratic Party.
01:46Remember, this is a guy who campaigned to be a strong, strident, populist Democrat who sought a DSA endorsement earlier
01:54in his career.
01:54And we're seeing him, and this one really frustrates me, cheerlead the Iran war.
01:59I'm a veteran of the war in Iraq.
02:00I don't want to see another generation of veterans being sent needlessly to risk their lives, recklessly in my opinion.
02:08John Fetterman has been cheerleading this war.
02:10I could go on and on, but at its core, the frustrations I hear, and I heard a lot of
02:14them on Labor Day from union workers in Pittsburgh,
02:17they just don't think this guy wants to do the job and show up and work and doesn't have the
02:20respect for the office that he occupies.
02:23The United States senator has a pretty special job that one could have and doesn't seem like he wants to
02:27meet the duty required of him.
