Amy Klobuchar on Running for Governor, Democrats Fighting Back, and State Fair Food

It's 9 a.m. This is my first hot dog of the day. It's a prancho pup. There's the big pumpkins. This is the snack I'm having while waiting for Centauri Mclobuchar. There's just no way to eat this on camera without looking insane. So I'm gonna take a bite of this, but we are gonna block it out like it's pornography. Whenever I take a bite of food We are going to bleep it. We're gonna like cover it. Okay. Okay, because I'm gonna eat a lot today, and it's gonna be disgusting. Disgusting Oh, fuck it up. We're doing it Look at this. How are you Amy? Oh, thank you. You're doing good. You're doing great. We're talking about the governor's race Yeah, these you early for prancho pup No, it never is right. Oh Now we've got beer at 9 a.m. I got like that. I love it. I love it. I love it. He's got like a cool show. Yeah, yeah, super famous Yeah, the interview being over the course of one prancho pup is kind of funny How long have you been coming to the fair? Since I was probably five years old So can I tell you a story? Yeah, so when when you came on love it or leave it when I was in Minneapolis Yes, I'll never forget this. We had a great time We're ready and right but when I came down and said hello to you Yeah, and We're saying oh, we're gonna go we're gonna have a great conversation and we're gonna talk about Girl Scout cookies Yeah, and I went out to go produce a show and you were in with your staff Yeah, and my producer Travis who was writing the show with me Happened to still be in the room and you just you turned on a dime and you turned your whole team and you're like We're talking about Girl Scout cookies. What do we know about Girl Scout cookies? Girl Scout cookies. There is a reputation for you that you are tough at times has become almost a little bit of a joke Do you feel sometimes that like you know what like? That's a badge of honor is there a ways in which you feel like you know what? I've learned how to be a tough boss in different ways like how is that? How do you think about that? I think right now we need accountability and I believe in high expectations Of me my staff and we need that right now because otherwise Things just people you don't want people to lose trust in their government. You see this across the country People I don't care if people are left middle right if they can bring people with them and do good things and gain trust That's good for democracy right now Are you seeing ads? Are you seeing negative ads on TV? Oh, yeah, are you seeing attack ads about about center club? You know who to pay for them. It's a billionaire from Wisconsin is paying for my opponent's attack ads and I'm gonna go negative. He is a packer's fan. That's really all you need to know. You got to close that border. Yeah, I mean My partner is from here and I like come to really love coming here Yeah, and there was that period of time or just it felt like the twin cities were just getting hammered No, it's just hammered by so many things and I just said I want to get us to a better place You look at the spirit of Minnesota through what happened with ice When you think about 50,000 people marching in 10 below zero weather and people bringing strangers kids to school people Feeding people they didn't know and bringing them food standing guard. I was here. I came. I came during that time What happened here? It really was it was like it's gonna be one of the top five civil rights moments of this century It really is hey It's John last year 2500 people joined us at Cricacon for conversations with some of the smartest organizers least annoying politicians and most Interesting voices in politics about how to fix this mess. We're doing it again November 5th through the 7th in Washington, D.C It's even more podcast panels and workshops Plus there will be drinks which will lead after the midterms no matter which way they go get your tickets at Cricacon.com Where we'll also announce the lineup if you're a friend of the pod subscriber a limited number of discounted tickets are still available Get them before they run out. See you at Cricacon What number statewide campaign is this for you? So this will be the fifth one. I'm not counting presidential I went back and I looked at those 2020 debates and there's this famous moment where the moderator says to everybody on that stage Would you decriminalize the border and basically everybody I raised their hand you got wearing the night before and you said There are ways in which you can make reforms, but no, you're not gonna sign on for decriminalizing the party You know, we're in this moment of people saying woke one was crazy. I Feel like there's a way in which people kind of lost themselves during that primary But I don't think that applied to you I think you actually and I think it hurt you a little bit, right? Like that you were tagged as being somebody who was like kind of not where the base of the party was And I wonder how you think about that now and how we're in this moment where people are Evaluating or a apologizing for what they said back then and what you think about that. Yeah I didn't have to apologize because I've been true to myself and I think that's how you run That's what you do and From the very beginning that I have been consistent and I have tried to be someone Who thinks what's the right thing to do here and then to do it? And I knew at that moment or they talk about decriminalizing the border and I there's no way I'm gonna be for this I'm a former prosecutor. I believe we should have comprehensive immigration reform I've been on every bill to do it, but this that's a way different than saying we should just have an entirely open border Which I don't agree with so I said it then and maybe it stood the test of time So do you wonder what that yeah, let's yeah, okay, so the queen bee you find the queen bee by If it it has a red dot on it all right, I'm good and whenever you find the cream queen bee with the red dot Okay, then you get to ring the belt. Yeah, okay, can I do it then or should we let you got it? Okay, I see the queen bee There we are it doesn't usually sit like that the queen and usually is on the move But right now she seems surrounded There she is there's one queen bee in the hole The hive kind of hive And it's what I'm talking about it showing results then and in fact our tagline is Results not excuses because the way I figure it there are so many headwinds from Donald Trump right now Yeah, but they're a constant but they can't be an excuse when you're a governor you've got to take them on when they're doing things that hurt your state ice or Some of the Medicaid cuts the effect on rural hospitals, but then you also have to be very clear. Hi You have to be really clear that You're gonna try to get things done for the people So there's also I think like, you know I'm Donnie showed a style of communicating what you're doing all the time. That's right Yeah, that's I know that's a yeah, and it can't maybe do that for everything and he's him Yeah, he can dive into a cool and to a suit with a suit up come on I look I think I think I think that would make news. There you go There are examples like with Spencer Cox in Utah, okay? He's taking on some of the tech issues meant it. So I just try to look at examples all over Shapiro it with you know the bridge Getting things done matter, but you're right communicating about it showing accountability Including a minister on the fraud. How many people have been prosecuted what's happening right now? What changes have we made giving them regular updates because otherwise it just feels like Something they see on the news. Okay, here we go people just come up to you at the fair and just feed you You're part of the team, okay, because this has been happy very excited. Can I get in there? Thank you Courts we got G's birds from Now they're out. Yeah, they're the best. I don't know how they want to say hi to my friend. This sculpture The old days they would the butter carvings would end up on the floor the butter shavings and as a kid I would wait because they would put them on saltine crackers and serve them hygiene Dictated new rules and they wait. They got ready to eat the butter off the floor And then you may wonder what happens to the butter bus? What happens to the butter bus? Well, some of them put them in their freezer. They the features do be degrade over time for sure But true for all of us a big freezer They put it in there and then others of them bring them to their town corn feed and people just dig in Super scary to go in there. He sometimes has me visit because it's slippery and so if you go in there and Happened to slip on top of the princesses your political career over. Hey, I'm looking for you here. Oh yeah, where's yours? Right here, coming up. So this was just just yesterday, there she is from Bigelow, Minnesota. Yeah. Come on, pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. Yeah, it was, yeah, really dope. And I want you to know something, I have a long-held position, which is that we should be fighting to declare that it's oat juice and almond juice. It's not almond milk. Milk is milk. Oh yeah, that is a position of our dairy. Like it doesn't actually make sense. If you squeeze an apple, you get up, we'll do it. If you squeeze an almond, you get almond milk. Just because it's, what are we talking about? Thanks for hanging with me at the bear. That is what I'm trying to do. Look, I'll be honest, I think a lot of people were like, oh Amy Klobuchar, she's got this in the bag. I don't need to pay attention to what's happening in Minnesota. I want to make sure Peggy Flanagan was a center race, but you're ahead in the polls. But there's a lot, like I don't think people realize how much money is being dumped into the race right now. So what, just so people, why, what's happening right now in Minnesota? Sure. Right now what's happening is four million dollars have been spent on negative ads against me. So it's a four to one ratio. So this guy in Wisconsin, you line, who is one of top five donors of Donald Trump. He's right underneath Elon Musk. He's four, he's five. First super PAC spending right now. And he has dumped all this money in this race. And I keep telling the people in Minnesota, he is a PACer span, that guy's PACer span. And I don't think that we should be having a billionaire from Wisconsin picked the governor from Minnesota. I want to be the people's choice. My opponent, she can be the choice of this billionaire in Wisconsin. I'm going to be the people's choice. And you said you're going to go on this ride with me right now. Eventually, yeah, eventually. I'm thinking maybe if I can earn the trust of people and be the governor, that that would be a historic moment if we. Is that a promise? Is that a promise? That's a consideration. Yeah, but you're going to have your own, that's politics. You're going to like, you're going like network now. Sort of. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's right. Big the big time Saturday nights, cable news. Would you ever do that? I think I have one, but that was enough for everything once. Thank you to Senator Amy Klobuchar. Thank you for watching and do us a favor and subscribe to this channel. We are building a pro-democracy independent media company. And by supporting what we're doing here, you help get good information in front of more people in a very right wing media environment. And otherwise, I'll see you next year at the state fair. [BLANK_AUDIO]