Dan Pfeiffer: The Obama Alum Behind Pod Save America

Showing 1 Dan Pfeiffer video from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior aide to Barack Obama, co-hosts Pod Save America alongside fellow Obama alumni Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Jon Lovett, a podcast Charlie Kirk mocks in one segment for its hosts publicly wishing they had pursued government-efficiency cuts similar to Elon Musk's while in office, a moment Kirk cites as evidence of a broader lack of assertive energy within the Democratic Party's own communications class. The same team covered the 2024 Democratic National Convention live, including remarks from Barack and Michelle Obama and an appearance from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, while separately interviewing Senator Laphonza Butler about her decision to serve only a single term in the seat once held by Kamala Harris. Following Charlie Kirk's assassination, Pfeiffer and Favreau addressed the shooting directly on their show, situating it within a broader pattern of American political violence that includes the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords and the January 6th Capitol riot, and argued the moment demanded a shared national defense of democratic norms regardless of political affiliation, a notably different tone from the show's typically combative partisan commentary.