Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman likely upset many in his party — again — during a Fox News segment on Tuesday, not just by appearing on the right-leaning outlet once more but because of what he had to say about several of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees. During an interview with evening anchor Bret Baier, Fetterman ticked off a list of nominees that he is going to support, while indicating he is open to supporting several others.
As Baier opened his line of questioning, Fetterman revealed he had met three hours earlier with a former Fox News host, Sean Duffy, a former GOP lawmaker who has been nominated to become the secretary of transportation, and came away with a favorable impression. The anchor then noted that Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chair Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) had met with another Trump nominee, former Dem Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, for director of national intelligence and asked Fetterman if she was someone he could support.
“Well, you know, I met with her, in fact I think I’ve met with virtually all of them, and the ones that I haven’t, they’re on my schedule, RFK and Governor Noem, so I’m happy to meet with all of them. And that’s also part of this, I don’t know why that was controversial. I mean, I got a lot of blowback just, you know, even to meet with them, and to me, I see that as just doing my job, and I’m going to have a conversation with anyone that would like to have a conversation with me,” he began.
“And if someone believed everything that’s been written or said about me was true, I mean, you can’t possibly know me, or I think I could know her either, just based on someone read, but I’m going to sit down and have a conversation, and I’m really glad that I’ve done that, and some of these nominees I’m going to vote for already. In fact, you know, whether it’s our colleague Rubio, Representative Stefanik, or even Sean Duffy, and I expect to vote for him as well too, and Brooke Rollins for agriculture, again. So there’s a lot of them, I can say right now here on FOX, I’m going to vote for them,” he added.
“But then there’s others, you know, that we’re going to go through the process, but I’m open to hear from everyone, and I don’t know why that’s controversial, and I also would like to remind everyone on the Democratic side, that’s the way democracy works. Trump won, and now they’re going to run the table, and so they get to pick those kinds of people, and if you don’t have to agree with all of it, but I want to find a way to work together on a bunch of them, Fetterman said.
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