In a CNN election coverage interview, Cory Booker says friends across the aisle tell him in private what they won't say in public: the "stupid tariffs" are raising prices, the attacks on the Affordable Care Act were wrong, and "this war is wrong." He says Republicans must now choose between the Constitution and "the corruption of a president."
The receipt
- Who
- Cory Booker
- Where
- interview - CNN Election Day in America
- Original footage
- Cory Booker · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
Do you think that they're gonna be with you, that they're gonna join you and ignore what the president wants? Well they're gonna have a choice between courage or cowardice. I've had so many conversations because I have real friends on the other side of the aisle. That's how I get things done and many of them have said to me in private things are not willing to say in public like these stupid tariffs that he's put on declaring war on Canada driving up our prices. They know that attacks on the Affordable Care Act were wrong and that people in their state are really suffering for the lack of affordable health care. Heck, they know this war is wrong. One of the biggest follies a president has ever done. So the question now right now is about leadership, character and honor. Do you stand with the Constitution or the corruption of a president? Do you stand with the president or do you stand with the people? That's the question we need to force. Because if they fail in this moment, that party is done.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.