Senator Cory Booker
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But why do you position that as counter to integrity? Fuck you, politics, righteous rage. I can go from Malcolm X to Medgar Evers. I mean, the people I most, they got upset. You could feel their passion in their heart. And so, yeah, I agree with you. Soundbites. They are making you less safe. They're making your air travel less safe.
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They're making your vulnerability to the next pandemic more possible. They are literally doing things that are taking down the ATF's ability to investigate mass shooters and more. I can tell you they're making your schools less safe, your supermarkets less safe. They are the party that is making this country vulnerable to all different types of crises.
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Things like that, that actually hit people home. Wait a minute, my kids are more dangerous when I send them to school, to school shooters. Wait a minute, my healthcare is on the line. Wait a minute, my food prices are going up. I agree with you. It's one of the reasons why I spend so much time digitally creating content. I know what cuts through. That is not contrary.
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ultimately to the idea of virtue and integrity, because what our country needs is not for Dems to win, but for America to win. Exactly. And we have got to begin to call people to not higher ground, lower ground. We've got to call people to get it right about what America stands for and expose these people for what they are.
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They are folks who have authoritarian tendencies that want to tear down our democracy and replace it with strongman government, tear away our fundamental rights, the rights of the press, the rights of free speech, the rights of free assembly. These are the things that Donald Trump attacked in his last
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term didn't get it right and now he's coming after your basic freedoms from the ability to control your body to your ability to say what you want to and still know that they can't fire you indiscriminately for holding political views different than theirs.
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So we stop him in two fundamental ways. The first, you've said it, what they are doing is illegal. It is violating separation of powers. It is violating civil service laws. It is violating our constitution. And just like, again, I hate pulling from American history, which is black history, is the NAACP legal defense front.
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Before he became a Supreme Court justice, we knew that there were these incredible leaders that were fighting in every single way, Thurgood Marshall and others, to beat and win in the courts. That's how we got Brown versus Board of Education.
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But you're right, that can take months and sometimes even longer, although we're getting a lot of injunctive relief already from birth rate citizenship to Elon's ability to just indiscriminately go into people's private records. But the most powerful way we stop, I've started to see the signs of it happening.
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When a Republican congressperson goes to his districts and holds town hall, districts that Trump won by 20%, and you have a guy stand up and say, I am a veteran, lifelong Republican, and the way he is taking a chainsaw to my resources, my healthcare, my VA benefits is wrong, that's when we start winning. And so activism, I'm sorry, I know this. We've had to march for LGBTQ rights.
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We've had to march for women's rights. We've had to march for civil rights. We've had to march for voting rights. But that's the truth of this country. I remind people, we did not get the Civil Rights Act because one day Strom Thurmond came to the Senate floor and said, I've seen the lie. Let those Negro people have the right to vote. No, we got it because people demanded it.
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Change does not come from Washington. It comes to Washington. Look at every major victory we've had for the rights of this country. And so if you think this is going to be easy, history has shown nothing, no right, no privilege in this nation has ever come without sweat, tears, and sometimes, unfortunately, with the beatings we saw of protesters in the past with blood.
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And so this is going to be a movement politics. And a movement is what saved our health care in the last Trump administration. We didn't have the votes. Democrats didn't have the votes. But when people came out, the little lobbyists, folks in their wheelchairs, throwing themselves in the gears of government, suddenly we were able to get three votes to stop them from what they're doing.
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I promise you, I promise you the thin, narrow edge they have in the House of Representatives. that thin narrow edge with at least 10 to 12 House members that are Republicans that know their election is in a year, in 18 months from now, a little over 18 months, know that they have to win reelection, their loyalty, their loyalty is to themselves first.
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And they will start voting different if they see that their own constituency, including independents and Republicans, are coming after them. So we've all got to get into the movement mentality here, including us. And you said it. You put it on the line. You Dagnab Democrats.
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This is what I'm doing for my caucus now is trying to teach them or get more of them to be communicating in the kind of things that break through the noise. and can be seen, and I'm measuring this, this is maybe too much details, but my caucus and their content creation and their partnerships, you were here for us the morning after in the Senate.
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These partnerships we have with influencers like you has already tens of millions of more views on Democratic senators' content than I saw beforehand, because we're learning the modern tools of communication, activism, and organizing.
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So the only thing I want to say, because too much agreement kills a conversation, because everything you want to say, I want to snap over here.
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But I want to just challenge you on one thing that you said, which is that this is unprecedented. I listened to the stories of my mom and her activists, friends in the civil rights movement. Because remember, my mom went to college in the days that black HBCUs were leading the efforts. Their fears and terror, how they were being terrorized by the FBI,
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The stories about people like Fred Hampton, where he was arguably murdered in his bed by government agents, what they did to Martin Luther King. This isn't distant past. This is my parents telling me stories of how government agencies were used to suppress and undermine them.
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My family literally had to get a white couple to pose as them to buy the house I grew up in because the laws of this country were targeting individuals and oppressing their basic rights. So I hear this idea, but I don't forget that
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Use some fighting words. And I agree with you on the short fighting words. And I hear you. I got mad. My staff sees me sometimes walk off an interview and say, if I had one more person to ask me about, oh, the Democratic Party is losing Black men.
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And I just want to scream, if the rest of the country voted for Democrats the way that the rates of Black men did, Donald Trump would have lost by 20 points.
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totally and so i i get infuriated about how much historical amnesia we've had every right that we enjoy from labor rights uh uh to civil rights to women's rights and and again i feel like the the african-american leadership in that is often forgotten and what we had to endure but i just want to say that the simplest thing i can say right now begging everybody
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is to get out of this atomized thinking about what race or gender, what have you, and get back into just understanding how vicious, cruel people work. They first will always target the people that they perceive most vulnerable. They'll come after the trans kids. They'll come after the dreamers, immigrants that have been here all of their life.
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They'll come after their parents who they'll deport and continue to prey upon the ability they have to create an us versus them, an us versus them mentality. And what I'm begging everybody, as much as you and I are different genders, different races, is to get out of the thinking it is not us versus them. It's just us. And when they come after trans kids, stand up.
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When they come after gay people, stand up. When they come after immigrants who aren't violent, who the ones that aren't violent criminals that are being sent to Guantanamo, they have human rights.
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We all can say we share common values about the safety and security of our country, but watch who they target and watch who they go after and realize that as soon as they finish going after them, they're going to come after you. I'm talking to two women. I'm sorry.
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I don't have to remind you that men who think in this way of like, oh, I understand what you're going through because I have a daughter, I have a mother, I have a sister. Screw you. You have a body. If somebody told you, the government told you what you could do with your body, you would be ready to fight.
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You should be ready to fight now because when they're going after women, they're going after you. And so I understand that we segment this world into race and gender and geography. No, I'm trying to get us back to this understanding that this is one nation and we need to put more indivisible back into this one nation under God. And this is why
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We need to be appealing to and not demonizing Republicans or people that are triple Trumpers or that's not what you did, but demonizing people who are so desperate to have economic security, who are so feel such such betrayal of a country where they know that the American dream their grandparents had isn't working for them.
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Yeah, well, I want to I want to, first of all, highlight some of the things you left out. It's not just Fox News. It's the fact that they're trying to erase history in textbooks to not tell the Disney of our history in a way that that supports this idea that somehow there are wretched, hateful, vicious parts of our history that don't make us weaker by telling the truth about us.
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not only it makes us stronger and more aware that hate and racism and bigotry and sexism exists and we we have to do something about it that's why in germany they teach about the holocaust everywhere not just to say this is history happened but that we can't allow it to happen again the battlegrounds for seeing the truth is real and the second thing to say is again
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You don't have to tell me about the persistence of racism. It infects the lives of so many. I was with a very successful African-American woman who told me literally as she's trying to sell her house, her home, that she had to get all the pictures of black people out because of study after study has shown that the assessments will be lower
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if you have pictures of black people in your house because of the implicit biases that exist. This is something that every black person knows about these things and needs coping mechanisms with it. But here is the thing that I want you to understand. So I give no harbor to that as a person who's had horrible incidences with the police in my youth, as a person who has been
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I don't need to go through my own personal pain that so many African-Americans, if not every African-American, has stories about. But this is the most important thing, I think, just to now say to your point. Yes, call out the evil of hatred. Yes, give no space to people who act in ways that are bigoted. That is something we have an obligation to do.
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And the person that taught me this, the person that was my mentor in this was John Lewis, who told me in a long drive from Atlanta to Plains, Georgia, when you're going to listen to Jimmy Carter teach Sunday school, told me about the horrors and how many times people forget how many times this man was beaten viciously by overtly racist, violent people.
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And then he told me about the day in his congressional office that one of the people that beat him came to see him with his grandchild, begging him for his forgiveness. Forgive me. And hearing how vicious the beating was, I looked at John and I said, what did you do? Not knowing, honestly, what I would do in that circumstance.
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And John says, I forgave him because at the end of the day, I believe in the power of redemption and that everyone ultimately, if we're going to redeem the soul of this nation, then everyone should have that pathway. And so those two things are not counterintuitive to call out racism, to call out bigotry, and especially not to defend the people who are the targets of bigotry and hatred.
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But we also have to know as a country that when you define someone as a racist and don't give them space to evolve and grow, then we cut all of ourselves out from the benefit of a society that heals and evolves. That is the challenge we have right now, is we are still in a nation where we cannot have real conversations about our history.
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We can't have real conversations about the pain of the present. And it is a bar from us. moving forward to a day where this kind of darkness and this kind of sin and this kind of immorality is a thing of the past.
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No worries. Are you kidding me? No worries whatsoever. I'm just rushed back from the studio. I just did meet the press and am very excited to be here with you.
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So, and I know some people do like long form. So Jack Reed, who's a Senator from Rhode Island, was the chairman of the armed service committees. Now the ranking member for a powerful editorial, literally saying exactly what you said, which is when you change the military,
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and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from someone who gives independent advice to the president, unfettered advice about the national security and our military readiness. When you change the culture and make those people, people that are instead political sycophants, personal political attendants,
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You weaken America's safety and security and preparedness, and you assault the culture in our military that has been positive under presidents from both parties. So yes, this hurts our military, but more importantly for all of us who sleep well at night, it hurts the security of our country.
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When you have a president that puts it out, that if you do not agree with me politically, there will be retribution. That undermines the ability for professionals to do their job independent from political concerns.
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Well, you guys may have to rush. Can I just tell you the story about my most broken moment of my life? Yes. Without exaggeration, one of the times that I was so overwhelmed by the injustices of the world that I wanted to just give up and check out. And it actually happened when I had lost my first run for mayor and four years to the next election.
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And I saw bad things happening by the person in power. And something happened that just broke me. And it was basically I was walking in my neighborhood and gunshots rang out. And I ran through screaming children with an off duty cop behind me to find a teenager with bullet wounds in his chest. And I did everything I could to save his life.
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And it's so gruesome to watch somebody die of gun violence. And I just put my hands in his chest and tried to stop bleeding that seemed like it was coming everywhere until foamy blood started coming out of his mouth. And I'm reaching my hands, thinking if I could clear the passageway, maybe he could breathe again. But I knew that he was dying and ultimately when there was no pulse.
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But the paramedics came and shoved me out of the way when they finally got there, which seemed like an eternity. opened his chest up and tried to revive him, put him in an ambulance. And I'll never forget the police director who worked for the guy who beat me to this day tells me the story of how shaken I looked, traumatized I looked.
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I don't even have a memory of how I got back to my apartment, but I will never forget standing in my bathroom trying to scrub a dead teenager's blood from my hands and looking in the mirror and losing it. I gave up. I was so angry at this country. I felt rage like I had never felt before. Like, how dare we all pledge this oath?
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We literally put our hands on our heart and we swear this ideal of liberty and justice for all. Where the fuck was the liberty and justice for the children in my community would die with unflinching regularity and nobody seemed to care. It wouldn't even make a headline anymore as black boys were dying at stunning rates. And I just remember feeling such anger and that I was done.
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I'd never had this experience before when you jump in the shower to just try to wash it off. And you turn the water so hot that you just hope that the pain on the outside could somehow numb the pain that you're feeling on the inside. And I was living in these high rise projects at the time.
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And I remember this sleepless night and getting up really early in the morning and just trying to get out, just trying to get away, just trying to run. And I came down into the lobby of the projects. And when I walked through, I remember this tenant leader, this real hero in my life.
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She was a tenant president of these buildings, and her son was murdered in the lobby of the building I lived in back in the 1980s. And she didn't leave. This elderly woman kept staying in those projects, kept fighting for her community. And as soon as I walked out of the lobby, who was in the courtyard between the two project buildings, but this woman, Ms.
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Jones, only her and I early in the morning and her back was turned to me. And I felt like I was a hundred feet underwater screaming on the inside, but I didn't say anything, but almost as if she heard my silent screams, she turns around and she sees me. And this woman does exactly what I needed at that point.
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Feeling so lost, so hurt, so angry, so surrendering to all the magnitude of the hurt and pain that seemed like it wasn't going to stop because nobody gave a damn about us. And what she did was open her arms as an invitation to come to her. And I ran across that courtyard like a little boy. running to his mother.
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And I'm much bigger than he is, she is, but she wrapped her arms around me and I burst and cried tears of anger and rage and hurt and fear. I was so done with this country. I was so done with my even efforts to try to change things. I felt helpless. And this woman squeezed me and said two words over and over again.
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that became my mantra when I eventually would become mayor and had my toughest days, that sustained me, that I use even now in the Senate when I feel like I'm banging my head against implacable walls of resistance. And these two words have nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with how we got here over impossible odds and unimaginable opposition, how we survived
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how we made it over, how we overcame. This woman held me and simply said over and over again, stay faithful, stay faithful, stay faithful. So to all your listeners right now who feel like I felt broken, angry, hurt, scared, Do not give up. Do not surrender. We will face defeats, but we can never be defeated. We will be knocked down, but we can't stay there.
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Faith brought us this far, faith in each other, faith in our dreams and our ideals, faith in a nation. Don't surrender that to them. Don't let them win. Stay strong. Stay resolute. Stay perseverant. I promise you better days are ahead, especially if we keep standing up and speaking up and acting up. Stay faithful.
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No, let me thank you because the way you all are creating community and connection and helping people who just lean on your voices, I am grateful. And more than that, you are challenging people, me as a leader speaking truth to power, but also challenging parts of your community. I talked about redemption before.
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The last thing I'll say is that, you know, King talked about what we have to repent for. And he said, what we have to repent for in our day and age is not just the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people.
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You all with this podcast are just not being silent and you're good people who are acting and inspiring that within the community you've created. So thank you for that.
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Well, I don't mean to add to your sense of freak out, but there is a world order that was established after World War II that we've been enjoying the fruits of for a very long time. And sort of prescient people of both parties understood that the time of individual powers invading other nations just because they're bigger and stronger of the authoritarian style of leadership had to go.
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And what had to replace that world order is a collection of nations that share ideals that could stop us from ever tumbling back into the kind of fascist totalitarian world where we had these global conflicts. And we've enjoyed that for a long time. But yet what we see with Trump, excuse me, what we see with Putin, who has been talking a lot, not just about Ukraine.
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Remember, he invaded South Ossetia, he invaded Georgia, he invaded Crimea. There's been a number of nations that he's invaded. And the reason why Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania spend so much money on military defense is because he talks about those countries. We know this from Xi and what he's doing with Taiwan and threatening Taiwan.
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that there is an authoritarian world that wants to go back to might makes right. Now comes Donald Trump, who doesn't understand that in the post-World War II period, we were some of the greatest investors in Japan and Germany, the countries that attacked us, not for some transactional thing like, Germany, we want your critical minerals, Japan, we want a 10% stake in your auto industries. We knew
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that those countries recovering would help the global economy, which would open up markets for the United States of America, understanding the second and third order effects of peace and global world rules. Now comes Trump. who loves dictators, who loves strong men, who is creating a world that makes Xi and Putin very happy.
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So when Trump says things like, we want Canada to be the 51st state, we're gonna take Greenland, and a reporter asks them, well, would you pull off the table using economic or military force? And he says, no. He is now doing exactly what these other folks, these totalitarian or authoritarian dictators want. They want a world order where might makes right. And that's what Trump is doing.
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The awful things he's saying about Zelensky, stunningly shocking things that he started this war straight out of Putin's talking points. the reality that he is now someone that is saying, the only way we'll stay in this is not loyalty to our NATO countries or protection of the world order or protection of the global rules.
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But the only reason why we'll stay in this is if you give us in a transactional way, rights to your minerals, pay us back. It is a complete rejection of what we have seen since the 1940s through Democrat and Republican presidents and preserving a democratic world order. And now it's a guy who is catering towards dictators, not just in his loving of Putin and influence with Putin,
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but more even with his own style of governance, which says we are a big, strong America. We're going to make other countries bow to their knees for us. And we're going to threaten to take over the Panama Canal, threaten to take over Greenland, threaten even our most valuable trading partner, Canada, not understanding that we are allies and we do better when we stand together.
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Well, remember, he was impeached literally for trying to extort Vladimir, support Zelensky in that first contest between the two of them. I understand what you're saying. There is smoke there. We know he just hired Kash Patel as his FBI director. who literally has gotten paid by Russia linked organizations that the Judiciary Committee did not do its due diligence to expose.
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So there is a lot of problematic influence. And by the way, Russia knows they cannot beat America tank for tank or aircraft carrier for aircraft carrier. The way they go about doing what they do to undermine our democracy is subverting it, is literally finding ways through RT and others to pay people in our country, to put forth Russian propaganda. So everything you're saying is right.
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I wanna scratch at one thing that you're saying that I hear a lot. is this is what the Republicans would do. Why aren't we doing it? And I think it's really important to play this out. And this gives me an opportunity. I'm one of these believers that we fight.
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I came up in politics, literally an Oscar nominated documentary about my first big election that then would go on to lose in the Oscars to a movie called March of the Damn Penguins. But I'm a vegetarian, a vegan, actually. But I make an exception now for penguin meat. Morgan Freeman. But that documentary that I was in was called Street Fight.
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And it covered the tough urban politics that I had to fight my way to beat a powerful machine and finally become mayor and be able to create transformative change. And so I always tell people we have to fight politics. we have to use every tactic available to us. But one of the things I said all the time when I was back in those days is, but we can never become that which we are against.
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And so I wanna say right now, this is a moment where Democrats need to do so much more than we're doing now, that there is a deficit of leadership, of courage, of creative protest. And I'm not just talking about elected Democrats.
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I'm saying all of us have a responsibility when our country is on the line, when our way of life is being challenged to step forward and do more, stand more, to hear this Black History Month Watch the incredible leaders, many whose names have faded a bit, like Ida B. Wells, in the middle of the worst imaginable government oppression, the fall of Reconstruction, lynching throughout the South.
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Governmental leaders were being pulled out of their offices, beat and lynched in the streets. and an oppressive totalitarian authoritarian regime was settling into the South. She was one of these truth tellers.
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She would be seen as a social media influencer today, but what she did is she used pamphlets back then to expose the hypocrisy, to expose the violence, to expose everything that was happening, so much so that they came after her, raided her offices, she had to flee to New York.
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If you look at the creative protesters of our past about how we got to where we are, they were relentless fighters, but they never allowed themselves to become that which they were against. So the Republicans to me, You're right. There are things that they would do through their propaganda platforms.
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Fox News is like a state-owned propaganda machine at times with people there that I can't believe the things, the lack of critical examination they have. While we go on MSNBC as Democrats, it's definitely an independent group that, like you guys do, that pokes at us rightfully. That's what the First Amendment was about, the press keeping us in line.
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I just don't want us to ever compromise our values. And the last example I'll give you of this, is I was running for a stage when I was running for president. I'm about to jump up at a town hall in Iowa. And there was a big guy at the bottom of the stage. I'm a big guy, former tight end for Stanford. And he's like cheering me on as I get closer to him.
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And then right when I see him, he yells at me. He goes, dude, I want you to punch Donald Trump in the face. And I look at him and I go, dude, that's a felony. And I laughed with him and I jumped up on the stage and I said, look, The most courageous, effective activists I've ever seen were the protesters in Alabama. Here we're coming up to the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus Bridge March.
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And I said, we beat people like Bull Connor, fascist-like, authoritarian, vicious, violent leader, not because we brought bigger fire hoses and bigger dogs that he had, but because we had artists of activism that woke up the conscience of a country and got millions of people who were sitting on the sidelines to get on the field.
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The reason why Birmingham segregation fell was because those bystanders, those people who were sitting back and doing nothing got involved. Thousands of people after their creative protests poured into Birmingham and the city that said segregation would never fell, fell within 12 days. The challenge we have right now in this movement
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And I'm already seeing it in Republican Congress people, town halls, people starting to come out. I'm already seeing it in the last two weeks, Donald Trump's approval ratings are falling now like a stone.
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I've already seen it in our ability to save healthcare and our ability even in the early days of this Trump administration to stop them from indiscriminately cutting federal funding for programs like veterans benefits and Medicaid. The biggest challenge we have on the left
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Polls show Americans aren't buying Trump team's ignorance ploy
It's great to be here, especially to have this discussion.
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So we made a decision in my office that we win this by dispelling the worst type of poverty, poverty of empathy. If more people Americans are good folks if more people know the stories of the people that are being affected. That's why 25 hours on the floor, we centered stories. Sitting with Hakeem Jeffries on the steps for 12 hours at the Capitol to protest, we told stories.
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And we have been inviting the whole time for people to send them in. And they're gut-wrenching.
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And when you read them and you hear about people who are barely holding on, the delicate lattice of their economic well-being, you pull a string of Medicaid out, funding, even if it's just a transportation program, things fall apart, families unravel, they can't get to work, they can't get their medication. And so those stories, I think, are what is we need to elevate now.
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Not the voices of politicians, the voices of the people that are being affected.
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So I would love to tell people that it was my eloquence that somehow convinced John McCain to vote against the repealing of the Affordable Care Act, but it was not. It was the American people. And a movement grew up. I actually saw an amazing graph of just the views America has had of the Affordable Care Act.
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Because all the protests and all the discussion started to educate people to understand what this was and what it meant to Americans. And you saw the public switch, and suddenly the empathy grew, the understanding grew, and the resistance grew.
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And so John McCain, who had protesters from his state, hospital administrators from his state, people that were in the medical profession from his state demanding that he not do this, finally overcame any kind of opposition that he had, and he voted no. And so right now, we are in this weird tension.
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And I always remind people of Jefferson's great quote, when the people fear their government, there's tyranny. When the government fears the people, there's liberty. Right now, there are a whole bunch of Republicans who are fearing Donald Trump. more than they're fearing their constituencies.
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They need to hear from the people in their constituencies because left or right, people support Medicaid, people support food stamps, people support all the things they're going after and cutting. We need to make them hear us and be more afraid of going against the people than they are right now afraid of going against Donald Trump.
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Around the clock.
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Yeah, three things have caused this crisis really quick. One is the administration come in and started firing everybody, fired key officials in the FAA, fired folks at a time that we were having staffing shortages. That was just plain dumb and hurt the operations. Number two is It was a shortage of air traffic controllers, which is part of that personnel story, that we have too tight of a flow.
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We need to get more people on the job, and that's been hurting it. But the main thing, number three, is we are dealing with archaic technology that needs to be replaced. And Newark was especially vulnerable because when they moved the air traffic controllers, they ran an old-school, almost like an extension cord, Down there, they created more of vulnerabilities.
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And without having redundancies in the kind of technology we need, like fiber optics dealing with these copper cables, all of that was set up for disaster. That needs to be fixed. And it's not a problem just of Newark, by the way. We're particularly vulnerable throughout the whole system.
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And so I've been doing everything to address all of those problems, from talking directly with the Secretary of Transportation to talking to air traffic controllers, getting their input about how do we solve this problem of the shortages. One of the key things, though, is you can't fix a problem unless you put the resources into it that are necessary to upgrade the systems.
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So we have an emergency appropriation, and I'm asking Republicans to step forward and understand this. Today might be in Newark, but tomorrow might be in a red state, and this is a crisis the United States of America should not have.
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I'm going to fly in the next week out of Newark. It's my home. I live a mile or two from the airport. That's how close I am. I have spent six years, longer than that, bringing hundreds of millions of dollars to improve that airport. Anybody who's gone through Terminal A, I hope you've seen some of the resources we've brought. This is a moment.
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It is a premier airport in the busiest, most congested air space in our nation. It is 20% of our nation's economy relies on the transportation structure there. We need to fix this and be a first-class country not having these kind of developing nation problems. It's unacceptable. And the buck stops with this administration.
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Stop making things worse with your senseless layoffs, with undermining public safety by getting rid of safety officials. Stop blaming it on DEI like we heard after that plane crash. This is about stepping up, taking responsibility, and fixing the problems. And I'm going to give you all the bipartisan support you need, but fix it.
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Yeah, leaders don't pass the buck. You know that as well as I do.
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Come on. Yes, they're passing the buck.
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I mean, utter outrage. I wasn't in his position. And so that institution, which is a private company, for-profit prison, occupied that after it had been vacant for 10 to 20 years without getting fire code approvals, without getting a certificate of occupancy, without health inspectors visiting.
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And they were in court with the city, and they still chose to belie the court processes and occupy that and put human beings in there with no inspections whatsoever. So Raz Baraka had been going time and time again. And then on a visit with protesters out there, he didn't bring the protesters. They started chanting, let him in. So they invited him in. He goes on the inside.
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Then they come out and said, you need to leave. You're trespassing. So he left. Then they come out after him on city property and arrest a sitting mayor in his own city. It's really outrageous.
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I mean, this is, first of all, it's outrageous. And by the way, this is in the context of arresting a federal judge, of violating a Supreme Court 9-0 order, attacks on due process, disappearing human beings. This is all part of this equation. Those Congress people, that's ridiculous. They showed up there. They were brought in. They were put into a room, told they were going to get a tour.
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They came out when they saw all these massive people running out to arrest the mayor. Then they were invited back in and given the tour. Mm-hmm. So again, this idea that somehow they bum-rushed this area or did something, that's outrageous.
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And then number two is, again, this weaponizing the justice system in a way to intimidate and try to silence leaders, be they judges who they're threatening arrest of or congresspeople. This is a trampling of the separation of powers. This is a president that does not want accountability, doesn't want checks and balances, doesn't want transparency. And to me, this is...
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an erosion of our constitutional, not just norms, but our sacred ideals. And we should all be saying enough is enough. Stop the intimidation of judges. attacking judges when they rule in a way that you don't want to, with such language that you now see judges getting an uptick in threats on their lives.
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These pizzas that are being sent to them in the name of another federal judge's murdered son, Esther Solis' family, that's outrageous. And again, you have an Article I branch of government, the legislature, you are doing things to intimidate them, threatening to have their arrest. So this is stuff that is outrageous.
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It's more indicative of an authoritarian nation, not a free democracy where people have a right to have checks and balances, to have accountability for their president. And right now we have a Congress that is not only laying down, not holding any hearings for accountability,
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but also are complicit in the most corrupt administration that we've seen in generations with what this president's doing, as we see in the Middle East right now, with his meme coins and his crypto deals and now the offering of this outrageous plane that you alluded to earlier, which is nothing more than a blatant in public eye bribe, to a president and a question is asked.
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Who is this president accountable to? The people of the United States of America or those people who are giving him millions and millions of dollars of gifts and inducements?
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It has been over 110 days. As Trump walked in, he created this meme coin, which in and of itself, to me, is an impeachable offense to have a president that basically says, anybody anywhere can dump money into my pocket. That should have been a loan. But then he attacks all the people that could hold him accountable, inspector generals after inspector general.
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In fact, the very agencies that are investigating Elon Musk this most wealthy man in the world, unaccountable billionaire. He was now undermining their ability to investigate him. This administration from day one has been showing staggering levels of corruption.
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And in many ways, this has been fueled by a Supreme Court that says, hey, you cannot, anything you do while you're president, we cannot hold you criminally liable for. We are with a president that is being unchecked
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by the Supreme Court or by the Congress, and now it feels like he's unchecked whatsoever to fill his pockets and the pockets of his family out broad daylight at things that no senator, no senator would ever justify this unless they were being intimidated by a president into silence.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
is is transformative i was we created in newark when i was mayor a big turned an entire city block into an urban farm yeah um and i went back there with food ink too which you saw to film and while we were filming it african-american women were coming out and wanted to testify one woman said that her doctor said she had incurable gut problems that she had to be on this medication that cost seven hundred dollars she had a hundred dollar copay
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So she's paying a lot of money, $100 a month to her and $600 a month to us as taxpayers. And then she started sourcing all of her food and her doctor said, oh, it's a miracle. You're cured after eating all this food. Another woman came to me, 80-year-old octogenarian who had created an Instagram account called The Octogenarian Vegan.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Because she started eating all of her food and her diabetes, which she had for years and years and years, she suddenly was off. You know this as a doctor, a functional medicine doctor, that these are not incurable problems if we change our input. So the point I want to make to you, and I hope that you'll expound upon it, is you have been focusing a lot on... Individual behavior, yes.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
You've definitely helped me in my individual journey as a friend. But systemic change, you're saying, has got to be made in our system. And that's where we found alliances. Can you talk about what are the systemic changes that you're trying to make in our America?
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
to cover medically tailored meals and you've introduced a bill in in the senate and let's slow down let's take this pieces at a time let's go to food production in the united states yeah um our great great grandparents had a lot more plant and crop diversity right 100 yeah and and this was before seeds were uh patented for their biology to withstand this thing called roundup Yeah.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So what is happening to our soil and the foods that we're growing right now? This sort of what is this monocropping five crops that we're pouring sort of all over?
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So let me read your commentary and go into a few things he said, which to me should sober all of us. The first is American farmers are in a system that does not work. We are losing thousands and thousands of American farmers who are going out of business. Or killing themselves. Or their suicide rates are three times higher than ours.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I visited with some of these farmers in the Midwest from both parties and saw people that had their Homestead Act deed up, so five generations of farmers. The economics worked, and now it's to them, and the economics no longer work because you have this monopolization in the food system where now all of the input companies are consolidated. Monsanto, now Bayer.
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jacking up the prices of the inputs. Farmers used to harvest their own seeds and re-put them in. Now they've been patented. They're being sold. Roundup resistance, so you have to buy these chemicals. And this way of farming, which we are subsidizing, our Department of Agriculture was built around it, is unsustainable for the farmer's economics. One farmer said to me, all my costs have gone up.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I used to have five people competing for my goods. Now it's one or two companies, because you know... Big food is consolidated into a handful of companies, and they're being driven to their share of the consumer dollar has gone down something like 40% in the last few decades. And so they're shrinking abilities to make it. So the farmers are suffering and going out of business at tough numbers.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
our soil is a crisis in our country we are killing our soil yeah soil runoff is horrible as you said it's killing our ecology seeping into and poisoning groundwater with all these chemicals falling into our rivers and streams down the mississippi river into the biggest dead zone that's the size of two rhode islands why are you picking on new jersey i don't know i Two or not. One New Jersey.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Two Connecticut. So we are killing our ecology and climate change, which all of these people who are in the climate movement want to talk about oil and gas companies. Not enough people are talking about the food system and the way we're doing it.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And that's just for the commodity crops you're talking about, not to meant the perversion of how our grandparents used to raise cattle, used to raise pigs, used to raise chicken, which happened with these small handful of companies, Tyson's, J.B.,
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
You name it, they've started to do these massive factory farming operations, which are also creating incredibly horrible runoffs in these CAFOs, where you go to places like Duplin County, North Carolina, and see lagoons of pig feces. And the health consequences for the people that live around that are horrible, like asthma and respiratory diseases, and the kids are affected, etc.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I've sat with those families in crowded black churches. They're in low-income minority neighborhoods. So we could have our cheap bacon. I shouldn't even say that because places like Smithfield just ship it all to China.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But the horrific lives of the people that live in these low-income areas that deal with all this runoff, and especially when storms come through, they just pick up all that feces, polluting water. I was in Iowa when I was campaigning for president and the people were telling me I can't fish out of my creek anymore, can't drink the water out of my well.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And what most Americans don't realize is we are subsidizing that system as it is to produce those handful of commodity crops. Again, you may be surprised by this data point, But less than 10%, about 7% of our ag subsidies go to the foods that functional medicine doctors tell us the majority of what we should eat.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
soybean oil, corn oil, high fructose corn syrup. This is what we're making cheaper. And so you said from farm to fork, what that means for us in our communities is we could go to a DC corner grocery store and find a Twinkie product Because all of those things we just said are being subsidized in that scientifically engineered product to engineer for addiction. They know how our brains work.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
You're going to pay less for a Twinkie, more for an apple than you will for a Twinkie product. So now you're a consumer and you're not paying the true cost. We have decided as a society that we're going to drive down the costs of the foods that make us most sick and drive up the costs. for the foods that we need. So you can get a happy meal or whatever at McDonald's, these dollar meals.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
All of that is deeply subsidized. Then we pay for it again on the Medicaid, Medicare costs. And you go down the street and try to get a bucket of salad and it costs 15 bucks. Yeah. And so we have created a system where everyone is losing. The environment is losing. Our ecology is losing. Animals are losing in the horrific ways that they're being raised. Farmers are losing.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And consumers are losing. And you all are paying... The government's losing by having to pay a third of its... Tax revenue. A third of its tax revenue going to chronic disease. The consequences of our food system. Right. The only people are winning is these large multinational corporations that are consolidating and have near monopolistic power.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And then what do they do when we walk in for the consumer that has heard Dr. Hai? I was teasing him that I listened to so many of his podcasts. I've gone to bed with him, not in a literal way. I put him to sleep every night. I just lie him next to me and he soothes me off. It's very intimate, my friend. It's very intimate. Listen to his podcast. You have amazing guests that are extraordinary.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But the people that are really losing in this country right now are the people that want to make healthy choices. But then they walk into the store really charged up for looking at and they find packaging And things that literally are designed to confuse them or lie to them.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
First of all, the pictures of the beautiful cows or the beautiful pastoral views don't show what it's like really, CAFOs and all of that. You don't know what chemicals that are banned in Europe that are actually in that food. And the package labeling, as we were talking, maybe you can expand on that, is confusing as hell.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And what I love about you, and this is how I feel too, is I don't want to take away anybody's freedom. I know what it feels like to come home from a really hard day. You don't have any of those in an easy place to work like the U.S. Senate. Where everybody gets along.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So harmonious. I know what it's like to come home tired and stressed after banging your head against implacable walls of resistance. And all I want to do is get into this central embrace with my two best friends, Ben and Jerry. I want that freedom. I don't want somebody to take away that freedom from me. My friends are Hagen and Das. Your friends are Hagen and Das.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
You always like those international types. But I want that freedom. But I don't want the government to subsidize. Yeah. subsidize that, especially when they're not subsidizing fruits and vegetables. And I'll tell you this, how would we feel if we were subsidizing alcohol? Yeah. Or subsidizing marijuana? Subsidizing tobacco. Or subsidizing tobacco? We are. Yes. Still. Yes.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And so what my point is, is we believe in freedom, but there's two types of freedom. Freedom of choice. I never want to be the person taking the person's bacon cheeseburger and milkshake out of your hand. I don't want to be that guy. But I want freedom to know... as well. Freedom to know what's in your foods. And their system of food packaging right now is designed to confuse you.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
For example, I know consumers who look at the ingredients. I do. Let me look at the ingredients. And they're looking for sugar and it's way down. Well, it's not really way down on the list. regularly, routinely, what food companies do, which they don't do overseas. They don't allow it. They don't allow it.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
They decide, okay, well, we're going to put seven different types of sugar into this product or five or four different types of sugar in this product so it doesn't show up as the number one ingredient. So consumers will look at it and say, oh, well, the number one ingredient is wheat or what have you. That's not bad for you. They try to intentionally confuse the consumers.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And you and I have been saying that the FDA, which does so much – drug trials, studies. The FDA, the Federal Food and Drug Administration, does a lot on the D. But we believe they should put the F back in the FDA and start focusing on foods and what they're doing to us.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Because there are chemicals that we've put, dyes and more chemicals that are banned in other countries that we allow freely into our food system that are having untold. And I listen to your podcast a lot and read your books about how important we're realizing the microbiome is. And some of these things we're pouring into our guts.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
They really have an effect on our mental health, our physical health, as well as our longevity.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
The people that are really losing in this country right now are the people that want to make healthy choices, but then they walk into the store really charged up for looking at, and they find packaging and things that literally are designed to confuse them or lie to them.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And if we took the blood of anybody in here, Were there anybody that would not have glyphosate in their urine? No.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And I'm glad you said that because it's the end before I want to get really quickly and give the good news because I think we're telling the dark story right now. But again, we in Congress, I always say after perhaps the defense industrial complex, the next most powerful lobby Because it's bigger. The food lobby is bigger than the defense lobby. Okay, well, you said it.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And it gives to both sides of the political aisle, protecting a system that is bankrupt because it's hurting all of the people that we went through from the farmers themselves to the end users.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
The taxpayers are subsidizing the things that make us sick. and then paying for the incredible medical costs. And many Americans feel lost because they live in communities where just finding access to healthy, fresh food.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And the very farm system that farmers want, when we were able to make some changes and get climate-smart farm practices through Joe Biden and Congress's Inflation Reduction Act, billions of dollars, farmers flocking to that money because they want to raise organic. They want to do cover crops. They want to do no-till farming.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
They want to take on practices because at the end of the day, farmers are good stewards of the land. But if they feel like they're in the system where that's the only thing they know and the incentives are to do these practices, they're going to continue to do those practices.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And the good news, which I want to shift to before we open this up for some questions and other discussion, the good news is we believe, That the more, number one, we can educate the public about this, the more pressure we're going to create. Because change doesn't come from Washington.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
It comes to Washington by an informed public that demands suffrage, that demands civil rights, that demands Medicare, that demands organizing rights. All of these things, the changes that we've been able to make, even the EPA and the laws for clean water and clean air happened because of public awareness being raised and demands.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And so you believe, and I share this belief, that there are shifts that we could be making in our systems to make them more benefit farmers, to break up these big monopolies that are dominating it by actually enforcing antitrust law, but starting to put the incentives in the right places to produce the outcome so there's more of a flourish and abundance.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
of healthy foods and more informed consumers about the foods that aren't healthy for us. You're okay to choose them, but you should see clearly on labels, should not have deceptivity, should have a transparency as well. Yeah.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And that education of consumers and that... So you're telling me that GMO, frosted, glyphosate-full wheat... covered in sugar is just not, it's not a healthy, no.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And as we have the military come into us and tell us that 70% of American youth right now can't qualify for military service. 70% of American youth can't qualify for military.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And so we're spreading out. You and I are supporting a lot of things. which I just want to make people aware, those women that came to me at that incredible urban farm, they were benefiting from the Gus Nip program, which means that if you have taken what used to be called food stamps to a, your stamp benefits to a farmer's market, you can get twice the, everything doubles.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And I was blown away what $5 could buy at this farmer's market. We're supporting the climate smart farming practices and more working in tension with,
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
farmers like the farmers union and others trying to transform american farmers bringing it back to our heritage we're doing a lot to try to uh force front of lab label packaging create targets to lower sugars and and um and salt in our in industry there's just a lot of very good medically tailored meals and medically tailored education for doctors and changes in medicare reimbursement yes because you know
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Well, I just want the true cost. All these people who believe in the free market, stop the government subsidies and let's let the free market decide with the market itself. Again, if you believe in Adam Smith, it's about having market information. It's about knowing.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
If we had that, then companies would be rushing to give consumers what they really want because the demand for healthy, fresh foods, every parent wants what's best. You were just stuck in Vegas. It's like a movie. You were stuck there for a while, and then he made the best of it by going to see The Grateful Dead this year. But he had a conference in Vegas, and I'm going to use this as an example.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I talked to a head of a major casino operation, a really great guy named Jim Murren. And I was complaining to him as mayor because it was a recession and I was cutting the size of my government, finding great ways to create new efficiencies. But the two costs I couldn't cover were pension costs and health care costs. And so I was complaining to him. He goes, Corey.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I figured out my healthcare costs. And I thought, I don't know. Did you get a new plan? Did you manage this? This is like us during the presidential debate when I ran for president. All these people on the debate stage arguing over how are we going to provide healthcare in America? Medicare for all. Oh, we should do this. We should do... Nobody. Everybody was talking about how to mop up the floor.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Nobody was talking about how to turn off the sink, which is a real conversation we should be having in our presidential debates and more. But what was amazing about this corporate leader...
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
was that he he said corey i couldn't figure out this problem that i went into my cafeteria that fed thousands of my employees and i see deep fryers and big sugary buns and all of this stuff and i was kind of horrified and he ripped it all out and he said this union and we're like ready to like strike on him because they took away all this great food but he hired the best chefs come in and cook healthy nutritious food and recipes for my cookbooks
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Yeah, I looked at some of this stuff, and I think that he would love this. And it was amazing. Suddenly, his employees shifted from ready to protest him to just loving it even more and then asking him, well, this single mother who works two shifts at the blackjack table... goes home like every pressure that mothers did, like my family did, and runs through the drive-thru on the way home.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So he said, well, maybe I could take some of this food home. So he let them, and he said, my cost curve started to bend. That's right. He got the double bottom line. He got to save money for his company, but his employees were healthier, had better focus, concentration, all of these health benefits that made them happier and better and more effective employees.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
um at their workforce not to mention at their family well we're america inc right now and we're supplying all cheap foods that are making us sick and the costs are going up we should figure out ways to shift and so the reason why i enjoyed reading your cookbook is two things one is you tell a beautiful story and you let us as consumers know that these recipes are so easy even a senator can make them
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But what's more importantly is it's part to me, if I put your books up here, of your incredible passion, which I love and you've helped my life, is that you believe that Americans are not born to suffer. That we're born to be healthy and vibrant and thriving.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
You've seen this from your examinations of you can take guys at major prisons and jails, give them access to fresh and healthy food, and instances of violence go down, and their success rates go up, all the way to our children who give fresh, healthy foods, their scores go up. But more importantly, at a time that we're suffering a crisis, not just in physical health, but the anxiety,
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Oh, right. They'll never invite me back to 6th and I if I don't get the question. And so there's two microphones here. While you all, whoever questions, maybe you can come up here and ask the question. And what I'm going to do though is first is we have a virtual audience watching as well. And I'm going to answer some of these questions
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And I think that this first one from Susan B. in Virginia, it doesn't say it here, but I imagine Susan B. in Virginia wishes she lived in New Jersey. Newark specifically. Yeah, very specific. I can tell. I can sense it. It's the Garden State. That must be Dr. Hyman's favorite state. I used to live in New Jersey. We grow great things in our Garden State.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
The fourth largest producer of eggplant in America. Top that. Do you recommend a chewable probiotic to strengthen your oral microbiome? I didn't know there was an oral microbiome. I did not know that. If so, what should I look for when choosing a product?
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But it's one of the most basic primers for anybody that cares about your family, your food, and your country. And you don't pull punches in it by talking about the corruption that has created the American food system. And I love how you talk about—in fact, you changed some of the things with me, with civil rights organizations—
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So when I go into the store in five years, they're going to be like, choose Wrigley's, the oral probiotic. Probably, with a lot of sugar. Yeah, a lot of sugar.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
We're going to get to her one note. Well, finally, she was way first. We're going to get to her, but I'm going to ask before we go to you, one more of the, I want to make sure the virtual people know that we read their comments and their questions. This was a tough one. I face it every day as one of the few on the black sheep of the family, the vegan amongst us.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
What advice do you have to navigate differences, food and diet choices within a family? And when some family members see choices as being picky or fancy rather than health driven?
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And a lot of these studies that come out that says sugar is the new whatever or... are paid for by the food industry.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Because when people were coming to me and saying, here's our agenda for black America.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So thank you, New Jersey. You're the one person that has ever fallen for me.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Thank you very much.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And I would say, how can you have an agenda for black America without talking about the number one killer of African Americans? If black lives matter, we have to talk about food and food systems that people are trapped in. And you laid it out so plain and then give instructions for people if you really want to fight racism.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
to change the system, not just your own individual choices, but how do you create a system in this country, a food system, that promotes health, wellness, longevity? Here are steps to take. So it's a great primer. And then I bought the book for members of the ad committee. Oh, really? Yeah, I bought the book for members of the ad committee.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I'm going to go to the gentleman behind here. I know they came up early. Now I'm going to go to you, if you don't mind. Sir.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And what surprised me is a lot of people didn't know some of the basic principles things I know we'll talk about momentarily, but really scary things that are being subsidized with our tax dollars that are creating a system that's creating some of the greatest levels of chronic illness in the planet.
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Yeah, I am wondering that, too. Thank you for the question. Must be from New Jersey. What about the new drugs?
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Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Yeah. Well, this is a cookbook. Yes. And I think what's inspiring, I told you last night, I've never really read a cookbook. So whenever I interview friends and their books, I want to read them. And I'm not the greatest cook in the world. You've never invited yourself over for one of my meals. But the beginning of it really sets the stage for why you wrote this cookbook.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
I think this is going to be, that was our last question because I think that's what you're announcing.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Okay. Why don't we get them all out, and then we'll answer them all at the end. Oh, I'm not sure my memory's that good. I have Alzheimer's. I have a pen, and I will take notes as people put them. One, two, three.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
The gentleman here, sir.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
You're asking me or Dr. He's asking me. Oh, him. Me. Okay. Okay. Good. Okay. Hold on. As a vegan, I'm dying to hear his answer. Go ahead.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Yeah. I'm going to start with the first question, how to become a functional medicine. I remember the questions, actually. Oh, you do? Let's see how I do. Okay. I wish you would ask that question for a guy who couldn't pass organic chemistry.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And something that you've been this great evangelist of. And maybe you can start talking about what you learned or why you were inspired by the Blue Zones and what they are.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And then one thing I would add to that, just on activism, I've learned that one really important definition of leadership is not how many people you can get to follow you, but how many people you can get to see that they are leaders themselves. So ignite other people. There are a lot of goodwill people that just don't know yet.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
This is why I gave your book, Food Fix, to other people I knew, because I knew they were innately activists, but once they had the information, they would be out there being truth-tellers as well. So share the information. Get other people to join this movement as leaders as well.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And I, let's use me as an example. He's a good friend. I don't mind putting myself back on his table. Um, first of all, he took my blood. I don't know why he had to stab me so hard to get it. Yeah. But, um, But you took my blood and you said, Corey, you're a junk food vegan. Yeah. And you're lacking in B12, I think you told me.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
B12, iron, omega-3s, vitamin D. You don't have to put it all out there, man.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But yes, B12, iron, omega-3s, which are things that I think vegans have to be sure about. But not that everybody doesn't need to be smart about their nutrients because I'm sure most Americans are low in things. But as a guy who's very health conscious and tries to eat well, there are certain things that you said to me, hey, Corey, you've got to figure out how to source this.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And even just right now, you were telling me that I'm old. and that I needed to get more protein.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Right, so I think that choices are fine. The diversities in diets are fine. even though you keep pushing eggs on me if they're blessed by Buddhist monks, or can't you eat them and whatever. Trying. But the reality is you can make choices, but you should make smart choices. And the truth is, and because I was, as you said, I was in that documentary that you talked about,
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
The more we're returning to the centuries-old agricultural practices that human beings thrived on, where there were soil being regenerative soil practices that often involved animals.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But we're losing that soil now because of our current practices at a very alarming rate. Yeah. And so it's actually animals are essential for the ecosystem to thrive. Okay. So before I give my sort of closing- Was there one more question? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got to get this last question about they're asking specifics. Three- Three things for every American to do.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
If you could get every American to do three things this week, what would you get them to do?
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
That's amazing. Okay, before I go, I try to be the only big black boy that could give a Jewish man Jewish guilt. So my favorite Parsha is... Parsha is a part of a Torah reading for those non-Jews in there. Yes, my favorite Parsha, my favorite. Like I said, he knows more Hebrew than I do.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Is this extraordinary story about the father of three of our great human faiths, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, Abraham. And Abraham was said to be favored by God. because he kept his tent open on all four sides and people were welcome. And one day after Abraham had joined the covenant, he had done something you don't recommend, but circumcised himself. We will move quickly past that.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
He was sitting in pain by his tent. And the Torah says that strangers that were different than him, I've talked to some rabbinical scholars that were different race, very different strangers, were approaching his tent and he stands up and he runs to them. He doesn't just greet them, hey, come over, my tent's open. No, he runs with them with joy in his heart. to welcome the stranger.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And then what you'll love about this story is he brings them into the tent and he gives them his best food. His best food. And this idea in cultures going back a millennium, all across the globe, this idea of food being a place that brings us together, that creates what you said at the very beginning in your blue zone, you talked about community.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Hold on, 93%? No, actually it's 93.2%.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And this idea of the American family sitting around a dinner table, which is becoming less and less the reality, especially the reality without a TV screen on, the fact that you're re-celebrating the power and the magic of food, I think gets us back to the Abrahamic ideals.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And the fact that you're trying to create community in this country around activism to reclaim our health, it is a celebration of the song sung during the high holidays, Ki be ti, be te filo, ho ho mi, may my house be a house of prayer for all nations.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Thank you, Dr. Hyman, for being someone who is seeking again to bring us all together around one tent, around one metaphorical table, to have great food for everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Borey.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Well, I don't want to lose the great stories at the beginning of this because... eating cheese with worms.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
4% of the population, 16% of the cases and deaths. So I want to pull back because there's something we're not trying to do that you're not trying to do, which is This isn't about shaming people for their food choices. This isn't about shitting all over people. You should do this. You should do that.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Because I think when people read books, they start to feel bad about themselves and the decisions they're trying to make. What I love about you and why you've been such a great ally and inspiration is you understand that if we grew up in indigenous cultures, you know, the African-American health versus
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Black people in Africa, depending on, it can be very dramatically different if they're still eating indigenous diets. The China study showed that the Chinese were living incredibly healthy until they started shifting towards the Western diet.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
So what we're really trying to say is, let's take a step back and look at the broken American food system, or what they call the standard American diet, the sad system that has created so much illness. Because we're not morally more lacking because we're sick and unhealthy, more different than our great-grandparents who were incredibly healthy. Yeah. I was watching, as one does, Soul Train.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
We're going to do a little Soul Train live. Thanks. Somebody in here knows what I'm talking about. That was a long time ago, Corey. And what stunned me when I watched Soul Train from the 1960s and 70s was how thin Soul Train was. and fit everybody was. I mean, in the 60s, black Americans were healthier than white Americans. Yes.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And because of the food systems in which black Americans were stuck in. And so suddenly we've now shifted to this system. And what you're talking about it is not a moral failing to be obese in America now. You are in a system that is so toxic, that is so designed for your own health.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And what you are trying to do now, leading a leader in America in, is to tell the truth about this broken system and say that we collectively as a country not only can change it, There is a health emergency going on that we must change it.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And just some data that you and I were throwing back, I'm not sure if everybody here knows that one out of every three of your tax dollars that go to us, the federal government, is spent on health care.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
And one out of every $5 in our entire economy... is going on health care, the overwhelming majority of that money is going to chronic diseases, the majority of which are preventable... And are food-related. And are food-related. And so now think about this. With the rates of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and what you call type 3 diabetes... Alzheimer's.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
Which is Alzheimer's, if you are tracing these expenditures on those, they're going up and up and up. And the pharma industry... is designing really expensive drugs. We don't have to change the food system. We don't have to change the inputs. Just pop this pill. Or take this shot.
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: America’s Fight for Food Justice | Senator Cory Booker
But they're designing drugs We don't know what the side effects of these are. In fact, we know some of the side effects of the Alzheimer drugs that are really expensive, that people are flocking to, not to stop Alzheimer's or slow, just to try and slow Alzheimer's. When we know that access to fresh, healthy foods
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
The American people are scared to death that you're really going after Social Security. Not only did my constituent not get his payment in February... They went to his bank account and tried to claw back previous payments from January and December. And then what did he do?
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
He had to go down to the building in Seattle, the federal building that you're trying to close, and stand in line for hours and hours and hours to try to say he wasn't dead and to stop taking his money.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Atlanta, this is not a drill. Atlanta, this is not a bad dream. As citizens, this is the test of our lifetime. So tell me, Atlanta, are you ready to fight?
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
So, Director Ratcliffe, you were a member of the Houthi PC small group signal chain, correct? I was. The discussion included the vice president's private opinion on the wisdom of proposed U.S. strikes in Yemen, correct? I don't recall. It included the private opinions of the Secretary of Defense on the timing of strikes in Yemen, correct? I don't recall.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Director Radcliffe, surely you prepared for this hearing today. You were part of a group of principals, senior echelons of the U.S. government, in now a widely publicized breach of sensitive information. You don't recall whether the Vice President opined on the wisdom of the strikes. That's your testimony today under oath? In that setting, I don't recall.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Director Radcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct? No. A national political... Hold on.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
I asked you a yes or no question, and now you'll hold on. A national political reporter... You can characterize it how you want. ...was made privy to sensitive information about imminent military operations against a foreign terrorist organization. And that wasn't a huge mistake? That wasn't a huge mistake? They characterized it as a mistake. This is an embarrassment.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Thank you, Rachel. Great to see you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
unacceptable and unconvincing. And the key point here is that this kind of disclosure and the use of unclassified devices and systems to discuss the timing of imminent US airstrikes puts American flight crews at risk. Because it risks the disclosure. And in this case, there was the improper disclosure of information about when U.S. forces would be entering hostile airspace.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
And that kind of information in the possession of an enemy provides them with an opportunity to better target our air crews. This was reckless. It was amateurish. And it put American lives at risk.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
The National Security Advisor and the Secretary of Defense, based upon Mr. Goldberg's reporting of his inclusion in this chat of specific information related to Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Thank you. Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Chuck Schumer is the only time in my life I can tell you no.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Thank you. Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
It's enough for me. 12 hours now I'm standing and I'm still going strong because this president is wrong. And he's violating principles that we hold dear and principles in this document that are so clear and plain. The powers of the Article I branch are spelled out and he is violating them.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
The Congress that is being too complicit to an executive that is overstepping his authority and violating the Constitution and hurting people. who rely on healthcare and social security. When is it going to be enough? My voice is inadequate. My efforts today are inadequate. to stop what they're trying to do. But we, the people, are powerful. We are strong. God bless America. We need you now.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
God bless America. If you love her, if you love your neighbor, if you love this country, show your love. Stop them from doing what they're trying to doing for almost 20 hours. We have laid out what they're trying to do 20 hours. I want to stand more, and I will, but I'm begging people, don't let this be another normal day in America.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Please, God, please, God, don't let them take Medicaid away from 10, 20, 30, or 40 million Americans who desperately need it. Don't let them do it. This is our moral moment. This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested, where the Constitution and the question is being called, where does the Constitution live? On paper or in our hearts?
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
It is time to heed the words of the man. I began this whole thing with John Lewis. I beg folks to take his example of his early days where he made himself determined to show his love for his country at a time the country didn't love him. to love this country so much, to be such a patriot that he endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
He said he had to do something. We need that now from all Americans. This is a moral moment. It's not left or right. It's right or wrong. It's getting good trouble. My friend, Madam President, I yield the floor.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
I'm... Definitely hurting a little bit, but I'm feeling strong in spirit and grateful to so many people who allowed me to tell their stories on the Senate floor and who were there for me from the parliamentary staff to my colleagues. It was a long 25 hours, but I'm feeling a lot of gratitude.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
You know, I was grateful to Chris. You know, I talked about it before, and at the end tonight, I said, our balance sheet's not equal. I now owe you 10 more hours. I stood with him and I really wanted to see if I could stand for as long as he and I were going to go. And he was successful that day in getting concessions from Mitch McConnell to have votes on the Senate floor around gun safety.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Unfortunately, even common sense gun safety then failed. But for me, it was an experience that stuck in my mind. I could do 15 hours without going to the bathroom, even though my legs really hurt over those 15 hours. Both of us talked about how our feet hurt. And so when my team and I decided to do this, we just said, let's take some risks. Let's go out there and see how long we could last.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
And to be candid, Strom Thurmond's record always kind of just just really irked me that he would be the longest speech, that the longest speech on our great Senate floor was someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that was something I didn't know if we could do, but it was something that was really
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
As we got closer, it became more and more important to me.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
No, I do really credit constituents who were impatient, who were demanding, who were scared, who were angry, and very understandably taking that anger out on Democrats who have to take some responsibility for being where we are in American history right now.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
And so the more I thought about it with my team, especially after the decisions we made revolving around the continuing resolution, I've been working so hard with my colleagues trying to get them to engage in social media, put more of their heart and spirit out there. They're doing an amazing job. They've almost quadrupled their numbers of engagement online.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
I've got colleagues opening up TikTok accounts. But I suddenly realized that I've just got to do something myself. I've got to...
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
you know, try to prove worthy for my constituents that I'm willing to step out and step up in some way and hopefully be able to share their stories that were so hurtful and to read from my staff, people rendering their most personal stories about their fears or what's happening to their families. And so my staff and I said, let's try to bring those voices to the Senate floor.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Let's see how long you can last. They're demanding something different. This will certainly be different. And I think that a lot of that energy from the folks that I've been seeing in Jersey and across this country really helped carry me through.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Well, I hope that we're all served to be ignition points for each other. My constituents, the letters, the calls, the demands were definitely an action point for me, but we've got to continue to ignite this movement.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
The only thing that stopped Donald Trump from tearing away the Affordable Care Act was the engagement of tens of thousands of Americans who didn't think they would become little lobbyists or activists or come down to the Capitol or protest in their communities. Rachel, you and I have known each other a long time, and I've been listening to your show more regularly.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
I'm so grateful that you're doing this first 100 days. And I love how you start every show by showing what other Americans are doing. They're not waiting for us in Congress to lead. They've decided to take matters into their own hands and do something different. Those people were demanding to me to catch up, to try to do like they're doing.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
This is really about folks leading from their hearts and deciding I'm not going to just let business as usual go on in my life. And so I'm hoping that this is one part of a larger effort that tries to stop them from doing what they're about to do later this week or next week. I have not sort of stepped out. I checked out for this 24 hours, but...
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Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
They're going to try to push through a bill that's going to gut $880 billion from Medicaid. They're going to try to put forward to a bill that's going to give tax cuts to the wealthiest in our country, disproportionately trillions of dollars and all that. And they're going to still blow one of the biggest single president deficits into our national economy, into our national debt. It's outrageous.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
And we have got to try to stop them in the same way that the people of this country were able to get good, conscious Republicans, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, to change their votes and stop him from doing it. Well, we need to move three members in the House, I think, and four members in the Senate, and all of us have to be a part of that. We can't sit back and do nothing.
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Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
I do. My staff was telling me we had to look at what it says. So I opened it up and it gave me nothing on a sleep score because my heart rate was pretty damn high after about four or five hours, a little bit high that's concerning. So there are definitely some physical things. I'm feeling it now. And this is the first time I ever did an interview with you where I got to sit down.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
And there's a man here I've known for years and I almost kissed him when he gave me this the seat to sit down. So I'm grateful.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
Thank you so much, my friend. Thank you. Thank you, sir.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
Well, Rachel, you didn't even give the full story on this latest revelation. It was not only his wife, but his brother, who's been put in a cushy job at the Pentagon, his personal lawyer who's been put in. This is a reflection of the kind of nepotism that spreads online. all across this Trump administration. We've had two reports now.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
Anybody who follows the Intelligence Committee or the Defense Committee would know if a normal military officer or CIA officer had let this information out while our jets were flying to hit the hooties, they would be fired immediately. And what I'd like Pete Exef to do is I want him to go down to Naval Station Norfolk, which is the home port of the aircraft carrier Truman.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
The Truman is the aircraft carrier in the Eastern Med where these jets were launched from. And I want them to talk to the men and women who know people on the Truman, explain that this was not classified, that if this information had gotten out, they know their loved ones would have been potentially taken down by the Houthis defense. The arrogance of this crowd and the incompetence
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
is breathtaking, and it is costing not only morale in the DoD, morale in the intelligence community, and making all our friends and allies across the world say, man, we can't trust this crowd with any kind of classified information.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
I think some of the folks were probably actually competent. But this guy is so far beyond his skis, so far beyond the ability to manage, frankly, what's the biggest operation in our whole government. And we all who opposed him knew this was coming. We shouldn't be surprised. But when you put somebody of this incompetence at this level, and then his careless treatment of classified information.
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
And again, going back to this most recent exposure on the Signal Chat, the fact that he's got not just his wife, but a brother and his personal lawyer, that is not the way the Defense Department operates. This is beyond the pale. And what I worry about is how many other good people that serve to keep our nation safe are gonna say, we can't follow this guy.
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
So I do hope that he would, I don't expect the honorable thing, he would quit. And I'm not sure that Mr. Trump will ever hold anybody accountable. But what's remarkable as well, Rachel, is we don't know, have any of these folks who are on this chat, have any of them had their phones checked for malware put on?
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
The bad guys, if they follow one of these conversations, can put malware on your phone without holding your phone. This is basic cybersecurity and Intel 101. And these folks have got no notion or any kind of understanding of how important this information is.
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
Rachel, you got it. I mean, we've always felt the Intelligence Committee, the Armed Services Committee, we've always been prided ourselves on being bipartisan. Will any of my Republican friends find their voice and say, this is a bridge too far? When we are...
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
deteriorating, putting our armed forces in harm's way potentially, when we're pissing off all our allies, when we're undermining the confidence of the men and women who serve in our armed forces or in the intelligence community, what will be finally the breaking point? I hope and pray this is it, because we are making our country less safe every day this guy stays in that office.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
I hope to meet with some high-level government officials from El Salvador. As I've said before, the goal of my visit is to talk to people here about the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I told his wife and his family I would do everything possible to bring him home, and we're going to keep working at this until we're successful.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
I also hope to have the chance to meet with him, but we'll have a better idea if that works out a little later on.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
It has, Rachel. But as you said in the intro, I promised Kilmar's family that I would do everything I could to bring him home because, as you said, a court in the United States has determined that he was illegally abducted from the United States and landed in the most notorious prison in El Salvador. So that's why I raised these issues directly with the vice president of El Salvador.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
The president is not in the country now. So I met with the vice president to talk about these issues and ask for the opportunity to go visit Gilmour.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
Well, my goal is to keep a spotlight on this issue until justice is done, until the nine to nothing opinion by the Supreme Court is implemented by the Trump administration, which is ignoring entirely that order that they need to facilitate his return. I asked the folks at the embassy whether they'd been ordered by the administration to do anything to facilitate his return. The answer was no.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
So they're clearly... not in compliance. And I said to the vice president of El Salvador, look, you've got somebody in your worst prison, the prison for terrorists, who the United States court has said has committed no crime. And so I asked him if he had any evidence that Kilmar was a member of MS-13 or had committed any crimes. And he said, no. No.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
So I asked him why he was keeping Kilmar in prison here. And his answer was that essentially the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador taxpayer money to keep this person here despite the court orders. So my goal, Rachel, is to make sure that we keep the spotlight on this issue, because I think it's unsustainable.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
It's unsustainable to continue to keep a person who has not been convicted of a crime in the worst prison in El Salvador when the Trump administration admitted itself to a judge that this was a mistake. But instead of fixing the mistake, they fired the Justice Department lawyer who admitted it was a mistake.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
Well, that's exactly right. And it is pretty clear that the Trump administration has not lifted a finger to implement that court order. And so I think it's important that the courts know that and they will know that. And again, denying his family an opportunity to even have a phone call. with Kilmar is just a gross violation of basic human rights and human decency.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
And, you know, I asked the vice president if I came back next week whether or not I could go visit Kilmar. And the answer was no, I couldn't guarantee that. I said, look, I may be the first member of Congress here, the first senator, but I can assure you more will be coming. And you cannot continue to keep this man locked up
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
in this worst prison in El Salvador and one of the worst in the hemisphere when he hasn't committed a crime. And so we're going to keep at this. And I asked the vice president just to let him out the gate, because you may remember at the White House, the president of El Salvador said, well, you know, we can't smuggle Kilmar back into the United States.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
He said, you don't have to smuggle him back to the United States. We know you can't do that. Just open the prison door. And Attorney General Pam Bondi said the United States would send a plane down here. And if she doesn't, at least he would be free for now in El Salvador as we work to find a way to get him back into the court system in due process in the United States. Again, nothing.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
No, I think this is, of course, about the family and making sure the family gets justice. But it's also, as you say, about the Trump administration trying to deprive individuals in the United States of their liberty without any due process. Right. This is like taking away people's freedom. That does not sound like a conservative idea to me.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
That is something that, of course, authoritarian governments engage in. And it's a very fast road to tyranny if we don't all stand up against it.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
Well, you're right. That's clearly what's happening. I mean, you have the government of El Salvador, the president of El Salvador, make this deal with the Trump administration. I think it's $15 million that the Trump administration is going to be paying El Salvador to essentially take these – folks from the United States who have been denied due process in the case of Kilmar.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
And again, Republicans seem to be happy to take photo ops at this site and celebrate the fact that the president of the United States is ignoring court orders and that the government of El Salvador is keeping this guy locked up who's committed no crime at all. So I do think, though, as we continue to put the spotlight on this injustice, that they ultimately will have to let him go.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
I just I believe that will be the case because I believe people will keep pressing for justice.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
Will do. Thank you, Rachel.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Have you been briefed about the soldiers in Lithuania who are missing?
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Well, thank you for having me on, Rachel.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Yeah, I think you do not want to get between Donald Trump and a golf tournament or the first tee. He puts that at a very high premium on his schedule. I think, you know, what he said in the Oval Office about these missing soldiers just showed a total lack of empathy. And you're right, he's consistent.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
And this is a guy who, during his first term, called lost dead Marines who died at Belleau Woods suckers and losers. So we shouldn't be surprised.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Well, first of all, we shouldn't have an internet troll be in the White House's HR department, right? I mean, here's a person that clearly does not have the background and the knowledge and the information to make hiring and firing decisions in the White House, especially these kinds of decisions. I knew General Hawk, the head of the NSA and Cyber Command, really, really well.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
He was doing an excellent job. He did not deserve to be fired. I mean, he's the kind of guy you want to keep in a position like this. And when you consider what has happened with the sharing of classified and sensitive information from the Secretary of Defense, the person the president should have fired was Pete Hegseth, who is totally unqualified for this job. So here's another example.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
of where he keeps somebody in a position they shouldn't have, and that's putting us at risk. And then he fires the guy we really need in the job. And when you consider the role of the NSA and Cyber Command, it is... I almost can't think of a position that's more important. And on...
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
The function of those two organizations, I've noticed that it doesn't seem the White House places a lot of value in this. There, the president has said previously that he wants to take away some authorities that the NSA has to collect information on our foreign adversaries.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
So on this topic of NSA cyber command and personnel within our intelligence and defense communities, the president has it wrong.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Well, the price of living and the price of things is clearly going to go up. What I hope happens is my Republican colleagues in the Senate, but also in the House, get off the sidelines and call this for what it is. This is a really bad idea. Rachel, I mean, as you pointed out, I mean, this is not surprising, right?
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say that he stands out as single-handedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else that has ever lived on this planet. I can't think of another person. In a couple of days, he has eliminated trillions of dollars. These are in people's 401ks.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
And this results in folks will lose their jobs because of this. Companies will have to restructure. People will be out of work. They're not going to be able to put food on the table. They're going to lose their homes. All because Donald Trump, as you pointed out, is listening to an economist that doesn't even exist, that Peter Navarro actually made up. I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
I've been looking for a real economist that says this is a good idea. I can't find one. The only people that say this is a good idea work directly for Donald Trump.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Or you could actually cure childhood cancer, which is a thing he said he wanted to do. But instead, he cut money to NIH, the organization that would do that.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Thank you, Rachel.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
The commissioner says not having access to critical funds is causing economic hardship for Maine farmers.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
It's so great to be with you, Rachel. Thank you.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
It is essential that we use every procedural lever we have. The Republicans in the Senate are trying to put forth their budget bill to extend the Trump tax cuts and, frankly, extend trillions of dollars of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations. And so one of the procedural tools we have is that we can bring up unlimited amounts of amendments.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
So we are going to be here until tomorrow morning, really pulling an all-nighter and into the morning to push forward – amendments that are just common sense to the majority of not just Democrats agree with us, but independents and Republicans. We're going to put things forward about housing, about health care, about no tax cuts for billionaires.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
We're going to be putting a lot of things forward that just make them squirm and have to show us who they are. We've already seen something that usually doesn't happen in these, which is at least one Republican, Susan Collins, breaking to say this is such an abjectly obvious thing that we should do that I'm going to stand with the Democrats on this.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
So tonight is a night for us to expose what this is really about. This is Doge, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. trying to cut money away from vital services for our health care, for our veterans, for our 9-11 responders, for others, whether it's our national parks or other things you've shown.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
This is them trying to cut those things so that they can feed tax cuts to the wealthiest in our nation who do not need our help and the wealthiest corporations who have been making record profits in the last years.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
Well, for me, it is them finally saying or showing what they're all about. Donald Trump repeated over and over again, I'm not going to touch Medicaid. I'm not going to touch Medicare. I'm not going to touch Social Security. But now he is endorsing the legislation that will do just that. They are running to try to do everything they can to distract with misinformation and lies.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
And we've seen Elon Musk put up data after data after data that is just... just completely wrong, misleading, or, frankly, just misinformation about the cuts that they're making. The truth of the matter is, in a little over a month, they have cut some of the most precious things that Americans know and value, from our air safety to our protection from global infectious diseases.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
They're cutting the most valuable staffs that even have letters going out from Republicans, not public, saying, do not do this. This is wrong. And so we are now at this, I think, a turning point in America where more Americans are beginning to see what this is really about. We saw it in his first time in office where the first thing out of the blocks, he tried to take away our health care.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
He tried to take away valued things like, hey, if I have a pre-existing conditions, insurance companies can't stop me from getting health care. And here he is again. doing what made him wildly unpopular, doing what made him one of the most unpopular presidents of the modern era, why he lost the 2020 election, and now we see him doing just the same thing again.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
This is a massive grift and grab of the resources of Americans in order to go to special deals, benefits, and wealth creation for people like the very conflicted Elon Musk, This is the president, before he even got in office, is publishing new meme coins so he can make millions and millions, excuse me, tens of millions of dollars of grift. And so I just find this a moment of truth.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
where we as Americans have to begin to tell folks who are not listening, who don't understand what's happening before it's too late, before they get a massive budget bill passed. And because their margins are so thin, especially in the House, we have the power. We stopped him when he tried to take away health care. We have to stop them on this bill because
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
Even though they don't want it necessarily, even though they have authoritarian tendencies, the reality is we are still a democracy. And in a democracy, the power of the people is greater than the people in power if we use our power. And the most common way people surrender their power is not realizing they have it in the first place.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
Folks need to now, right now, use their voice to condemn what is going on.
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From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
Appreciate you. Thank you so much.