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Rahm Emanuel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2668 total appearances

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Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

He knows he's going in weakened and he's desperate for Xi's affirmation.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

And Xi has another card on him, which is I helped get your chestnuts out of the fire in Iran and you owe me.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

So at every level, I think this is a very bad situation for the United States and the Indo-Pacific and a very bad situation for our allies.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

who not only rely on us, we rely on them.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

For President Clinton, I was his senior advisor for policy and politics and replaced Stephanopoulos in that position.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

First term, I was director of special projects doing the crime bill, the assault weapon ban, welfare reform, immigration policy, to name a couple.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I was a congressman from the fifth district in Chicago.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

Second term was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to help not only take the House back for the Democrats, but make Nancy Pelosi first woman speaker.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

And then I was fourth.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I was caucus chair.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I served, get elected four terms, serve only three, become President Obama's first chief of staff and help him pass the ACA health care bill and the financial reform, the Recovery Act and the auto industry bailout and savings.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I then run for mayor of the city of Chicago, served two terms, most probably left with Sean Ritter at Stanford calling it the single best education system of the top 100 in America, when it was once called by William Bennett the worst in America.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

And then I served as our ambassador to Japan for the United States, and in that process brought a historic meeting together between Japan and Korea, the United States, that culminated at Camp Davidson.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

So the goal is not titles, but results.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I'm a results-driven.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I don't need titles.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I'm seriously evaluating it.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

I think we're at a crosshairs as a country.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

What I'm most interested in getting across if I decide to do this, I think we've had two presidents back to back, both Trump and Biden, who were focused on restoring a past that's not coming back.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

2028, I'm going to make a bit about the future and who has a plan to make that future.