Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets repeatedly played by foreign leaders on the world stage. At home, he's turned JFK's "Ask not" upside down to 'Ask what you can do for Donald Trump.' But when will the cowardly law firms or CEOs groveling for a tariff exemption stand up for patriotism, our core constitutional values—and America's better vision of itself? Plus, Tim challenges an 11-year-old block from Twitter's golden era, and Booker shares diet & exercise tips. Sen. Cory Booker joins Tim Miller.
Chapter 1: What are the main global crises discussed in this episode?
And, and I just think it's important to say that. I mean, like you're in the Senate, like John Thune is the leader of the Senate. Where is John Thune on this? Well, we have just turned off the light of America, I guess would be my question.
This is where I, I've got to not disagree with you, but help you understand like the, My parents came up in a time where the laws of this nation, the laws of this nation denied them equal dignity and equal rights. I mean, literally, my parents were stopped from buying the house that I grew up in based upon this legacy of housing discrimination in this country.
And so understand this, like my parents, my grandparents believed in this nation. believed in it and the values that Donald Trump is trashing, even when this country didn't believe in them, they love this nation, even when this nation didn't love them back. And that's the tradition that we have to call upon right now.
The tradition that made LGBTQ Americans fight to make America live up to its promise and its hope or women or immigrants, Catholics back in the time that there was an entire political party called the know nothings. This is a time where, That I can't surrender to cynicism about America.
I can't allow the demagoguery that echoes the past from Father Conklin to McCarthyism to the Japanese internment to turning away of the St. I think it was St. Louis that brought Holocaust survivors and then they were sent back. All of these things are wretched, dark corners of our history. But people didn't give up in believing in who we are.
As the great poet Langston Hughes said, America never was America to me. but I swear this oath, America will be. And so this is that kind of conviction that's needed. And I refuse to stop believing in us.
And just because we have a demagogic leader who is such an affront to the values I think this country most adheres to, this is the time that we should be speaking and affirming with even greater conviction of who we are and fighting against the forces that have been there since our beginning. that seem to want to undermine the highest ideals and values of our nation.
And even our founders, these imperfect geniuses, these guys who called Native Americans savages and blacks fractions of human beings and didn't even refer to women, the humility that they had in understanding what it would make to make an imperfect, more perfect union, and their appeal to the highest virtues of mankind. Read
George Washington's farewell address, who almost said that history is going to judge him harshly. And he understood that his imperfections and mistakes of humility that Donald Trump has an inability to show, but always they were ascribing to the higher angels of our nature.
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Chapter 2: How has Donald Trump influenced U.S. foreign policy?
And I loved those days. Maybe I love them now in retrospect because we won. But I was overwhelmed by the American people.
What about pressure, though? I hear redemption. What about pressure? Are there not 67 votes in the Senate for Ukraine aid? I think there are. There are not 67 votes in the Senate for blocking us from sending people to El Salvador. Maybe there aren't. I don't know. But none of these guys have to answer for it.
Yeah, but how do we get those votes? And I would love to tell you right now that it was my eloquence and persuasive power that I marched into John McCain's office, slammed the door behind me, got up to him with all of my former 6'3", solid 260 pound muscle and got in John McCain's face and intimidated him.
I'd love to tell you some glorious story about how I persuaded John McCain, but it was not me. It wasn't one of the Democrats in the Senate that persuaded John McCain. You know who persuaded John McCain? It was thousands of people from his state coming here and telling their stories.
It was little lobbyists, these children with disabilities, beautiful children rolling up in their wheelchairs with such moral clarity and telling him what would happen if he dared to take away their health care. It was the power of the people overcoming the people in power. And so we are in that moment. And as King said, what we will have to repent for, especially if we lose this fight coming up,
in this work period where they're going to try to tear away $880 billion from Medicaid. What we will have to repent for, as King said in his time, is not the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, simply, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. you're wondering why they're not changing their mind.
I'm not wondering why they're not changing their mind. I know why they're not changing their mind. They're cowards. But I'm wondering why it feels, and I'm kind of on your side of this, it feels like people want us to do something, you know? And that's why I think your filibuster spoke to people. But there's this pressure, like, why aren't Democrats figuring out more? Why aren't they doing more?
Why is Trump doing this? Why isn't the media doing this? It's like, those guys down the hall from you are the problem. John Thune and John Cornyn is the problem. And nobody talks about it. I mean, like, they're not feeling the heat. I guess that's my point. Maybe they'll never crack, but I'd like them to at least feel the heat.
I'd like them to look at the dead Ukrainian kids and the gay guy that we've got in a basement. I'd like them to have to look in the face of their family members and say, no, you know what? I'm scared of Donald Trump, so I'm not going to do anything.
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Chapter 3: What moral crisis is America facing today?
Chapter 4: How are Republicans responding to Trump's leadership?
Okay. Last thing. Last thing. Do you have your phone on you right now? Your phone?
Somewhere around here. Yeah. I have my phone right in front of me.
Yeah. Can you pull that up? Do you have Twitter on there? You got Twitter on there?
I do have Twitter on there. Okay. I want you to open it up. It goes right to a tweet by Elon Musk.
I'm also ticked off about that, but I'm ticked off about that, but I'm also ticked off about my guest. I want you to pull up your Twitter right now. I want you to look at Tim ODC. Now, remember, I used to be a Republican rapid response guy back when you were running for Senate. You know, I had some thoughts about some of the things you were doing. I think you got upset at me. Did I really?
You blocked me. You blocked me on Twitter 11 years ago. 11 years ago. I've been trying to get unblocked for 11 years. I messaged your staff. Nothing.
Are you serious?
I tweeted at you. I tweeted, Cory Booker, please unblock me. I'm an undecided voter. I could not make it happen. But we are now live. And I want to get it live on YouTube.
I am live. I'm on my Twitter. What am I searching for?
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