Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) talks about disagreeing with the Democratic party in an interview with HBO host Bill Maher.

BILL MAHER: You think this is the issue that made people sort of turn on you? I see, I saw recently reports you had, I think, your chief of staff quit on you and start talking shit about you. SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN (D-PA): Yeah. MAHER: And we know, you made no secret of it, but you purposely publicized it so that people would take inspiration from it, that you had a stroke, you had issues with depression, and it seemed to me like they were sort of weaponizing that, to say you’d gone crazy. And I did smell kind of a rat here when I read that you were driving recklessly and too much time on Twitter and like, you know, megalomania. I’m like, hmm. So defend yourself here, John. I mean, I don’t think you’re crazy. You don’t seem crazy, but, and I have certainly seen people who refuse to go all the way with the purity lovers on the left suddenly castigated and cast out as an attack like this. So is that what’s going on? FETTERMAN: You know, yeah, absolutely. Parts of my party just wants to turn me into a Colonel Kurtz, you know, and just claim that it’s like, oh, like, I’m just like that. MAHER: You look like you could play the part. [LAUGHTER] FETTERMAN: So really, that would happen, you know, after Israel and at the border. And some of the times I might have to disagree with my party. And that’s really, we brought us to that place where, you know, just that kind of a canceling was a little bit of a different thing. But now we’ve all moved on from that. But, but absolutely, that’s the truth. RealClearPolitics Videos