POLITICO Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza interviews Senator Brian Schatz
(D-HI) to talk the next bill on the Democrats' agenda, whether or not
Democrats will have to go around Republicans to get anything done and
what his philosophy degree can tell us about this moment. Come for the
policy, stay for the Kant*.
*Actually it was the German poet Novalis (formally Georg Friedrich
Philipp von Hardenberg) who said "Philosophy can bake no bread; but she
can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality." There's your trivia for
the week.

Ryan Lizza is a co-author of POLITICO Playbook.
Sen. Brian Schatz is a Democrat and the senior Senator from Hawaii.
Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.
Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.
Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.