i think cory booker has a shot. i think pete buttigieg has a shot but it's hard to say. >> probably hillary, but she's not very well liked. >> probably kamala harris. she has a fair amount of support, a woman candidate as a front runner seems almost impossible to beat, especially because biden is old and withering away. >> probably the popularity of the california newsom. >> newsom, i don't think would be a problem because he's a little bit on the crazy side. >> i don't know of any candidates that i would be happy to support. i'm definitely democrat. >> oh, what a re-endorsement. naturally the biden administration claims joe is doing a bang up job. he deserves another term. what a good boy. >> is that counter productive for democrats to be openly talking about anyone other than joe biden running in 2024? >> yes, i think it is. the president is a great president and he's doing a great job and he's going to run and he's the man for the job so i think it's un-productive. >> she has so much energy. i'll have what she's

it was cory booker lying when he said the stacy elections election was stolen again. i think the context was missing. he explained why he was making this comment. it wasn't an outright statement without any of our nation and i think president was a stolen election. well, i think that's not a lie. see, this is my point one. okay, the press the press system judgment of some mostly republicans mostly conservatives certainly populists. and says things like that. and i won't do that. i'll be fair on both sides. you know my book begins with a cnn show don lemon hosting a show where he was bashing president trump, but this time it went beyond criticism of trump fair game criticized the president. but he started to mock and his two guests on the show mocked. trump supporters disdained for trump supporters laughing uproariously a trump supporters talking about how one of his guests put on a fake southern accent and was looking down his nose was showing to stain for trump voters as he expressed the way they talk in the way they act and the way they think and don lemon couldn't

senator cory booker said it best writing, in part, quote, the peaceful arrests of the highland park and buffalo shooters proof police can act with restraint, de-escalate, and safely detain the most dangerous people without resorting to deadly force. jalen walker was not afforded the same treatment when he was shot 60 times. and he is right. walker's shooting has yet again exposed the bitter double standard baked into this country's criminal justice system. the truth, is in america, there exists to justice systems. in one system, a white man suspected of mass murder can be arrested feet peacefully without a single bullet being fired. and in the other, an unarmed black man can be gunned down by police for a simple suspected traffic violation. we have a lot to break down here. let's bring in my panel for the, our child's blows, the columnist for the new york times and an msnbc political analyst, jessica post, the president of the democratic legislative campaign committee which helps democrats to legislative seats, and didn't put all, oh host of the dna puddle of show on sirius xm, he's an

. >> as you did when you were filibustering gun violence on the senate floor, with cory booker and your colleagues. >> i had enough of the ongoing slaughter of innocence. and i've had enough of inaction in this body. >> the reason why i was willing to stand up on the floor and filibuster for 15 hours is because i knew that my obstruction would be popular. i knew that people were with me. in 2013 when the republicans filibustered the background checks bill, because of how the rules are written, they didn't actually have to stand on the floor. all they had to do was just cast a vote against closing debate. if republicans actually had to stand on the floor, for 15 hours or 20 hours and explain why they don't think people should go through background checks to buy a gun, i don't think they would be willing to do it. >> final question. president biden is 79 years old. there's a new "new york times"/cnn poll this week, that his national approvaling is 33%. 64% of democrats say they would prefer a new candidate in 2024. is it a legitimate question for democrats to be considering whether presid

but now i'm about to complement cory booker. stop. stop. i know, it sounds like i'm losing my mind. remember corey. he's the guy who says this crazy stuff. >> the closest i will probably have to "i am spartacus." moment. sometimes my testosterone makes me feel like punching him. i hurt. when dick durbin called me i had tears of rage learning about that meeting. are you not to feel that hurt, your silence is complicity. i want to tell you when i look at you, this is why i get emotional. no one is going to steal that joy. you have earned this spot. you are worthy. >> greg: he could be a peloton instructor. he can be a tad melodramatic. like he's auditioning for a starring role in the high school version of "the music man." please not done. compared to the squad, the dude is einstein. that's because unlike them, his head is only three quarters of the way up his butt so he is getting some oxygen. i like for what he said on monday. >> here is that a confession. i've been running for almost seven months straight but my weight has been going up and down. you can't out run a bag of oreos. y

we now have people in congress who are, cory booker and rand paul just today introduced a bill to makeso within five years, within five years, mushrooms and mbma will be drugs that doctors can prescribe. >> stephen: please come back in five years. >> i hope before that. >> stephen: with a doctor. michael, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> stephen: how to change your mind is now a series on netflix. and his book, this is your mind on plants is available now. michael pollan, everybody. we'll be right back. a new chevy is the smart way to hit the open road this summer. the smart way to road trip—. ♪♪ and seek new adventures. ♪♪ go a little farther this summer in a new chevy. find new get up and go. find new roads. enjoy the open road and make no monthly payments for the rest of summer on all 2022 equinox models. plus, get 0% financing when you finance with gm financial. ♪♪ find new roads at your local chevy dealer. when you need help it's great to be in sync with customer service. a team of reps who can anticipate the next step genesys technology is changing the way custo

on thursday, new jersey's cory booker and oregon's ron wyden introduced the cannabis administration andopportunity act. they were joined by senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> i am proud to be the first majority leader ever to say it is time to end federal prohibition on cannabis stop and if this bill provides the best framework for updating our cannabis laws and reversing decades of harm inflicted by the war on drugs. amy: the legislation would de-list cannabis as a prohibited drug, impose a federal tax on its sale, and would see the criminal records of many nonviolent offenders expunged. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack held a primetime hearing on thursday night focused on donald trump's refusal to take action asis supporters attacked the capitol on january 6. lawmakers focused on the three hour period after trump urged his supporters to march to the capitol and "fight like hell." knowing many of them were armed. for the next 187

more favorably than president biden in new hampshire along with elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, cory bookernd stacey abrams among others. >> do you want to see joe biden run for a second term? >> yeah, i know. >> that's an easy question that is not going to take long. do you want to answer that question. >> i don't want to answer that question. because we have not -- that's not -- yeah, i don't want to answer that question. >> questions for biden officials continue to be about the economy but answers have not historically panned out. >> the president's economic advisers were telling us last year that inflation was going to be temporary. that's not true. enough to the president's economic advisers are saying there is not going to be a recession. are you sure? >> well, let me just say this: we look at a range of data. >> and part of that data that officials around here are relying on comes from big banks, specifically citigroup, morgan stanley, and jp morgan and that might make it tough to get progressives on board with the messaging from the white house because a big part of that progressive

pressing on any one of those issues that we talked about, here's how secretary -- senator, excuse me, cory bookered his time during the confirmation hearing. watch. >> you can rest, because i just want to talk to you for a few minutes, i do not questions. i just want to tell you both how grateful i am that you're here, how grateful i am to the president for nominating you. i think we are privileged to have you before us, you are both competent jurists. you both have demonstrated yourself to be truly qualified. >> laura: mike, spartacus had a lot of questions there. there's no -- there's no concern at all for oversight qualifications -- but this is what got them in trouble with kamala harris. and now they are trying to put this other woman on the ninth circuit, and it's going to run into other problems. do you think someone like joe manchin would support this? >> what's surprising is these two arizona senators who are supporting this nominee in arizona, kyrsten sinema and mark kelly, supposed be moderate. >> laura: moderate! >> there are far from ultimate to moderate. when it comes to lifetime app

buttigieg, they'll have elizabeth warning, the amy klobuchar for the be a lot of people running, cory bookerre going to be a lot. but the problem for them is going to be some distance between themselves and a dismal economic record. i'm of a single condo so say by 2024 were going to be going and blowing just like ronald reagan was in 1984. the worst is yet to come in all likelihood. david: very quickly on the midterms, does what happened this week with regard to the economic policies the chips a bill and everything else, of course the reconciliation possibility of reconciliation, does that affect republican chances to take over the house and senate? >> the chips bill is a minor thing. don't be it causes the democrats to be able to say we've done a great thing for you by semi conductors are going to solve all our problems there. the "build back better" resurrection is going to be a problem rather than a success for them. once again reminds people the democrats of the party are spending lots, and lots, and lots of money at a time where we are suffering from inflation which the ordinary america

i don't think you can have complete justice until we pass cory booker's bill and police reform. i don't think we can have complete justice until we complete the pattern and crack the investigation of minneapolis police. you know, all, you've been to minnesota so much, how important that verdict was. and then second in a federal case was brought against the three other officers. they were all convicted by a federal jury, as you pointed out, as not eating in stopping the murder. not stepping in and saving george floyd's life. that's a big deal because those verdicts don't usually come around easily. i'm not an expert on what the sentence should be. i would most likely have gone with what the prosecution wanted to hear. but the point is the conviction itself, it's very, very important. e point i think the conviction s important, i would've liked to see more time, but i also thinking it's more time than we got in a long time. thank you senator amy klobuchar, let's talk more about the midterms right now. joining me right now is cedric richmond, the former director of the white house

today we'll see senator cory booker campaigning with the front-runner, lieutenant governor mandela barns fundraising with elizabeth warren last month but this is a race that is tightening very quickly. thanks in part to alex lazery, the former milwaukee bucks executive who used a lot of his personal wealth to turn that into campaign ads and introducing himself to voters here in wisconsin as someone who gets things done. he's in a tie for thirst place for that senate nomination here in wisconsin. and there is sarah got lieuski and we'll see them on the debate stage in the first and likely only debate of this race. both of the candidates paint themselves as candidates that have done well in republican and red areas of the state and say they're the best candidates to take on ron johnson once we get through the nomination. but when you talk to voters here in the state of wisconsin, the conversation sound very similar to what we heard in 2020. where democratic voters say the priority is beating the republican incouple bept and then it was president trump and now it is ron johnson. listen to w

the senate subcommittee, cory booker's committee, is actually addressing it and using it as an opportunityen to the schumer bill. so overdone, so overreaching, and i don't think expectations should be for something to get done. there's been a number of different legislative pieces that i think are adding up to really where we get to. it's more that what's interesting is the cannabis sector, while all these all their multiple sectors happen have a rally, the cannabis has been too. what is driving what? when the announcement of this long-overdue schumer bill came out on thursday of last week, not a surprise that he's going to bring this bill forward. no one's expecting the bill as it's constructed to have any shot. i'm not here to try to perpetuate that. i'm here to tell you i do believe we have a dialogue going on in washington where i think there's an understanding, either get to banking and capital markets, or get away from that and go straight to criminal justice. you're not going to get them both in the same room. the fact that there is conversation on the senate floor is very good news

. >> new jersey democrat senator cory booker wants to make marijuana legal today. the federal government considers cannabis as the interests and medically useless as heroin. booker has introduced a bill that would change all that. the federal cannabis prohibition has failed, but arkansas republican senator tom cotton says that's just wrong. this bill would be an enormous gift to the car tales of the games. and in the midst of a nationwide violent crime surge, booker says the current federal marijuana policy divides the country in half wealthy white well connected. americans cannot only consume it. >> but greatly profit off it while the poor marginalized and people of color are arrested for possessing it, booker's bill would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and a race. federal cannabis conviction records. it combined critical aspects of restorative justice and economic justice. >> economic opportunity. cotton argues there are a small number of federal marijuana cases and the offenders are mostly white or latino caught trafficking near the southern border

have the senate foreign relations committee chairman bob menendez, as you know, as well as senator cory booker, who are consider 2 of the most pro, is really senators, and they're actually pressuring a joe biden saying this in a letter they're urging the president to raise misses miss barclays case at the highest levels and pressed for accountability during his visit. but so far we've not seen anything. anything about sort have we, we have not seen anything of that sort. in fact, what we continue to see is the same refrain from the u. s. president, we see him and his staff saying, we want transparency. we want accountability, but it's, it's, i want a $1000000.00. but what am i going to do about it? what is the president going to do about it? he is the leader sensibly of the free world. and he had a meeting with the caretaker, israeli prime minister. he have the ability to say, what are you doing there? are people in the united states powerful people in the u. s. congress were pressing for a criminal investigation. there are people calling for an investigation by the united states. the one be b

here's how secretary senator , , excuse cory booker used histh time during the confirmation hearing. >> watcheeing.. t, you b can rest because i just want to talk to you a fews, minutes. i do not have questions. i just want to tell you how grateful i am that you're here, how grateful i am to y the president for nominating youou. i think we are privileged to p have youri before us . you're both competent jurists. you bothri have demonstrated yourself to be truly qualified . spartacus had a lot of questions just there's no there's no concern at all for overside qualificationss. but this is what got them in t trouble with kamala harris. and now they're puttingut or this other woman on the 9th circuit and is going bl problems.other do you think someone like a joe manchin would support this? well, what's surprising is that these two arizona senators who are supporting this nominee is an arizona based kirsten sinema and mark kelly are supposed to be moderatete and they're they're far fromim moderates when it comes to throw away votes. they pretend they're moderates . but when it comes to l

nineties in the oval office, the other names unintentionally hilarious ,better o'rorke, my senator cory booker, spartacists, elizabeth warren. if the plan is let's run somebody who lost to joe biden in 2020, that dog don't hunt sean geraldo. that doesn't. all right. we're going to see very shortly. joe concha hiralal, thank you bothu. now as democrats continue tohe make one mistake after another ahead of the midterm elections, it's time for republicans now to focus on their agenda all across the country, put their promises in writing, sign a contract with you,co the american people, and move forward on the america first. f make america great again agenda and they need to do itge the second they get into office. that would also include launchinggto o very key investigations into biden's broader failures, aiding and abetting lawbreaking. the origins of covid. now china is getting preferential treatment from joe biden. the biden family, foreign dealings and syndicate the chaotic withdrawal from a afghanistan abandoning americans. s two hundred and thirty days ago, very few people areve keeping no

. >> i think cory booker has a shot.llary, she's not very well liked. >> i don't know of any candidate i would be happy to support and i'm democrat. >> sandra: people feel the administration is out of touch with the reality so many americans are living right now. >> ronald reagan, bill clinton and barack obama were the same point in their cycle two years in having the voters expressing doubts and won by a landslide. >> support joe biden in 2024? >> joe biden thinks he could beat donald trump. >> full support for you for joe biden 2024? >> if joe biden is in i'm all in. and no democrat talking about challenging -- >> sandra: so you want him to be all in. >> i think joe biden has a fantastic record to run on and i think again when he's pitted against a maga candidate. he will win -- >> i'm still not getting an answer. >> richard can't defend policy, he's trying to, or could -- and joe biden -- well, here is the truth. if joe biden gets out, i think democrats do better, but if he stays in, richard is trying to defend him an

the communities were hardest hit by the war on drugs, cory booker will not protect the safe banking act. does there need to be a government regulation to make sure the minority businesses can compete against walmart and amazon? >> i don't know if there needs to be a protection, the best thing to do for it, whether it is a small businesses or minority business is to make the barriers to entry into growth as low as possible. whenever you increase the regulatory state -- stakes, the more complex it gets, the harder it is for small businesses to afforded, to understand it and to do it. the more capital it takes to get into the market. that is one of the reasons flex abilities open. that does not mean there is not a role for the waita structured to make sure that -- for the way it is structured to make sure that these social equity programs are optimized. i think the most important thing is making sure the federal government and state governments are not adding in an advantage for other types of businesses. >> i will just add to that. in addition to the federal government having a role to pl

inspired by bills like the marijuana justice act which was introduced by barbara lee in the house and cory bookere senate several years ago. that included expungement provisions so bills like the more act as you mentioned as the word expungement in it. the e is for expungement and that's building upon the work of past legislators to address collateral consequences . an organizations that helped to draft that bill. have a very diversemembership . they include drug legacy drug policy organizations, the drug policy alliance and norml. they include incarcerated people or groups. they include veterans groups and represent the interest of patients to. and i think that having that diversity of viewpoints in the lobbying process and drafting process has helped to make sure that collateral consequences is in the consequences that result from criminalizing, over criminalizing marijuana are addressed in federal legislation and state legislation. >> one thing people might be surprised to learn is how bipartisan support for both legalization, decriminalization and also some justice provisions have become. can

2020 candidates who joe biden beat quite easily, pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, cory bookero doesn't about it, ashley. ashley: i think thin is being kind. next one for you, joe, vice president kamala harris losing another two more top aides, more departures from her office t comes after a series of word salad statements from the vp. listen to this. >> yeah. >> you need to get to go and need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home. when we talk about the children of the community they are the children of the community. as we continue to work, work together on. there is grit significance to the passage of time there is such great significance to the passage of time when they think about a day in the life of our children. ashley: uh-huh. have no idea what she just said. latest poll just 39% of voters approve of the vice president's job performance. i'm surprised its that high. it doesn't look good for the vp, does it, joe? >> ashley i would love to meet those 39% who approve of the job kamala harris is doing as vice president. you know the old bill pa

senators have come together and that includes dick durbin, lindsey graham, richard blumenthal, cory booker,cynthia lummis, mayscy hirono, steve daines, sheldon whitehouse, several more that are supporting the bill, and said enough is enough. our bill creates rules of the road for the platforms. that means first of all that they can't abuse their gatekeeper power by favoring their own prosecuted -- products or services and disadvantaging rivals. in other words, as the examples i've used, amazon won't be able to misuse small-business data in order to be aable to copy their products and compete against them. apple won't be able to block other services from inter-operating with their platform. and google won't be able to bias their results. that's when our bill does. amazon should rate products based on price and quality, not based on their own profit margins. the world's largest and most powerful platform shouldn't be allowed to copy a small business' private data. i use the example of luggage carrier. there are many, many more. another challenge to cracking down on antitrust violations is ho