Cory Booker: “Yes. Absolutely, yes. I love that you gave that litany, Senator. I benefited from your leadership on the Intel…”

“Yes. Absolutely, yes. I love that you gave that litany, Senator. I benefited from your leadership on the Intel Committee. You are one of the people that--when things go down on planet Earth, you are one of the small handful of people with the highest security clearance here. You know before rank-and-file Senators do. We have had so many conversations about threat matrices and what our enemies are doing. You have sent me to the SCIF and said ``I can't talk to you about this; go down to the SCIF and ask for the information'' and helped me to fill out my understanding of national security. But I am stunned by this President. All that I have read in the SCIF about what Russia is doing to this country--I am stunned and angry at this President and what he is doing to us by cozying up to Putin and turning his back on our allies. But the sloppiness, the unqualified leaders that he has put in place--it has caused us to be more at risk. And Signalgate--you said it. If that had happened under any other President, Republican or Democrat, whoever controlled the Senate would have hearings. They would want to know: Was this pattern and practice? Did these Signal conversations happen before and we only know about this one because somehow you pulled in a journalist? Well, that is a violation of the law because their disappearing messages were destroying government documents that the executive branch has a legal obligation to keep.…”