In an interview, the Pennsylvania senator said his Democratic Party needs to be part of the conversation, not get “freaked out.”

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, multiple sources said.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) was elected as a progressive, but after his strong pro-Israel stance in the wake of the October 7th Hamas attack, he's been taking a decidedly more moderate approach.

The Pennsylvania senator, a Democrat, said he would "meet with and have a conversation with anyone" to deliver for his state.

The Pennsylvania Democrat is the first senator in his party to announce a meeting with President-elect Donald J. Trump, a sign of the political times as the Republican trifecta is about to begin.

Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., will be the first sitting Democratic senator to visit President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Fetterman told CBS News that he planned to “have a conversation” with Trump at his Florida home, saying he didn’t see an issue with speaking to the soon-to-be president.

They may be on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but that is not stopping President-elect Donald Trump from having

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he plans to meet with President-elect Trump at his resort in Florida; he will likely be the first Democratic lawmaker in the upper chamber to meet with the incoming commander in chief since his general election victory in November last year.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman will become the chamber's first Democrat to meet with President-elect Donald Trump since the election, and plans to travel to Trump’s private resort in Florida.

The timing and location of their meeting are unclear, including whether it would take place before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. “It’s just about a conversation,” Fetterman said.

"President Trump invited me to meet, and I accepted. I’m the Senator for all Pennsylvanians— not just Democrats in Pennsylvania," Fetterman said in a statement. CBS first reported the planned meeting.