Senator Raphael Warnock On Where Morality Meets Politics

参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克:道德与政治交汇之处

What A Day

2026-07-30

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We don’t often talk about what the most moral path forward for the Senate, or Congress, or hell, politics in general might be — but it would probably look more like doing something about ensuring everyday Americans can afford groceries and less like going to war with Iran. Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock gives this a lot of thought in his new book, “The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America,” where he lays out some of the biggest problems facing our country. We speak with Senator Warnock about his book and how we might move forward together. And in headlines, the U.S. and Iran trade strikes after days of calm; the Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady despite persistently high inflation and a spike in energy prices caused by the Iran war; and Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the fifth to more than 100 questions posed by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee members. Show Notes: Check out Sen. Warnock's book – tinyurl.com/583vnpz4 Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com
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  • I often say that a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children.

  • And certainly for African-American people, the ballot is a bloodstained ballot.

  • It's a sacred event.

  • And so when you see this all out of salt on voting rights

  • and the Calais decisions and in the decision prior to that, they're literally playing with our dead.

  • I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show saluting Devin Dalton.

  • Now, you might not know her name,

  • but if you saw The Odyssey or have seen the posters for the movie, you know her work.

  • Or more specifically, you know her arms.

  • Here's actor Matt Damon talking to interviewer Josh Horowitz, explaining

  • how the film made it look like he was fighting giants.

  • There were these kind of stuntmen who were all seven feet, right?

  • And then they got stuntmen who were under five feet.

  • And so my double.

  • Was a woman, a female stunt performer, who had the greatest arms I've ever seen.

  • Dalton has been doing stunts for nearly two decades,

  • but the Odyssey was the first time she got to be a body devil for a male star of Damon Scalibur.

  • And yes, her arms are spectacular.

  • On today's show, we talk to Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock

  • about what our moral responsibility is to one another and how to build a better politics.