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Cory Booker: So, we're in troubling times here, and I've been advocating in the Senate, along with Lindsey Graham, to try to do some…

On the recordJanuary 25, 2018
So, we're in troubling times here, and I've been advocating in the Senate, along with Lindsey Graham, to try to do some very basic, pragmatic, bipartisan things to provide more checks and balances to a president that has authoritarian tendencies.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Senator Booker discusses the need for bipartisan efforts to implement checks and balances on presidential power due to Trump's authoritarian behavior.

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