Cory Booker: “Thank you, Senator Hirono. I think I need somebody to say what WTF? To come from you is pretty giving and precious, and…”

“Thank you, Senator Hirono. I think I need somebody to say what WTF? To come from you is pretty giving and precious, and I am grateful. This rule of law is really important. It is part of this whole moment in American history that I keep calling the more moment--something beyond the normal, where we shouldn't respond in a normal fashion. This is a moment where judges rule in his favor, and he praises them. If you don't rule for him, he drags them and threatens them, so much so that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has to tell him to back up. If elected officials speak up, many of them fear as to what the consequences would be for them or their reelections if they speak against him. Lawyers decline, possibly, to represent people because they are worried that this President has already shown that if you represent the wrong people or represent, God forbid, people against him, he is going to try to shut down your law firm in ways that are against the rule of law that this country believes in. If journalists and media organizations don't report in a way that he likes or confirm his arbitrary name changes for the Gulf of Mexico, there is a punishment that he tries to dish out to try to make them come to submission. State and local governments literally can get extorted for their funding if they don't carry out his demands.…”