Rahm Emanuel

speaker

3,780 appearances 13 recordings 11 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Rahm Emanuel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 4.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Tiger Sisters · The Real Rules of Power in America (How to Use Them) with Rahm Emanuel · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

to expand a surge for Afghanistan.

And I said this jokingly, but it's true.

Those who were for our health care policy and wanted to see it pass were against the president's Afghan policy.

And those who supported him on Afghanistan were opposed to his health care.

And my, as you say, our job, Mr. President, is to make sure these two don't jump the tracks and converge and hit each other.

So his communication ability and people in the end of the day, while they may disagreed with him, trust him and trust his motivation.

And that communication to go from the family room to the classroom, to the boardroom, to the break room, to the situation room was important.

It was a piece of capital that you draw, even in the low moments.

Not even, most importantly.

Yeah, I mean, there's different moments.

Let me give one on a president moment.

Clinton, so he's at a very, very low point, loses the House and Senate in 1994, the midterms of his first term.

People are openly talking about he shouldn't run or somebody's going to challenge him in the Democratic primary.

Oklahoma happens, meaning the bombing in Oklahoma City.

President Clinton goes,

Three days later, and this is the first time we've had a domestic terrorism act like that, not going all the way back to the Palmer bombings that happened at the turn of the century.

And he gives his speech in Oklahoma City, drawing on his own depth and knowledge of the Bible in a church, and he talks about being with you as many tomorrows as it takes until Oklahoma City is back.

Now, pause.

Pause.

Back in 1994, nobody said, or 1995 when this happens, that he was going to a red state and a red city, et cetera.

Showing 541–560 of 3,780 · page 28 of 189