booker: yes. do you feel a sense of urgency like do i to focus on the bureau of prisons to deal with the staffing issues and help with the full implementation of the first step act? ms. bondi: yes. i spoke about that when were you in another committee hearing. i will. sen. booker: thank you for the latitude, mr. chairman. chair grassley: a question for both the nominee and you, senator booker, you talked about this one to one equation. if your implication to her was it could be done through her actions, then it seems we have been wasting our time trying to find a compromise between you and me on that subject for legislation. sen. booker: tkeupbts prepare for this hearing. i didn't know i would be asked questions. i look forward to working with you. i do believe that it should be done judicially as well with prosecutorial discretion. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general bondi, i concongratulate you -- congratulate you. sen. cruz: i the want to go back to the topic of the politization of t

chair grassley: senator booker. sen. booker: thank you.and i'm grateful to senator britt for bringing that up. it's probably one of the bipartisan commitments if we're going to fulfill our duties of the constitution to give oversight, it's really important that we get timely responses and i'm grateful for that. i want to jump back right in where we were talking in last, is just about the crack and powder cocaine disparities that we discussed in my office. it's something that this committee in a bipartisan way have done a lot on. we discussed about the 18 to one sentencing disparity, which came down from 100 to one. i've been working in good faith with people like senator grassley on trying to just get justice with that, move it as much towards one-to-one as possible. we know that actually in florida, your home state as well as 43 other states, it's -- ms. bondi: one-to-one. sen. booker: it's one-to-one, thank you for making my question quicker. will you commit to continuing the doj 2002 policy of just enforcing it as if it was one-to-one?

senators cornyn, lee, durbin, tillis, booker and i have introduced a bipartisan bill called the safer supervision act. federal probation officers have a massive caseload, often more than 100 folks they're supposed to be closely supervising and this bill would work on focusing supervised release resources on those who really need it, and creating positive incentives for those who are willing and able to be rehabilitated and leave prison much less likely to reoffense. what's your experience -- reoffend. what's your experience about the need to support people when they get out of prison and to provide them with positive incentives rather than just leaving them to their own free will and the very high likelihood they may reoffend and thus violate public safety concerns? ms. bondi: that's why re-entry, we call it, halfway houses, what you need are so important. because people -- many people deserve to go to prison. but many people are going to get out of prison and we don't want a revolving door. we want to do everything we can to make productive members of society. and when someone goes t

when we resume, senator booker will be recognized to ask his questions. the very federal authority that is primarily focused on forcing america's gun laws and keeping americans safe is hamstrung by federal leaders. the ats core responsibility assisting in local law enforcement. when i was a major id to local law enforcement to the atf. but i'm stunned at how they have been stripped of resources, of their budget and all of their capabilities to go after illegal gun running. when i was mayor of the city of new york we can find one gun crime done with a legally purchased gun. the atf leader told me in private, we don't have the resources, support or legal ability to go after these crimes. i am concerned about our ability to slay cut drive in america that their inns are law enforcement officers as those people in communities of red counties to blue cities. will you commit to doing everything you can to vacation or atf has its resources and the legal power to pursue a legal power to pursue illegal gun runners in our country. >> i will do everything in my power

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then senator cory booker on the first day of the second trump term. plus, which one of these executive orders helps bring down the price of groceries? and jon favreau and tim miller on what resistance 2.0 can learn from the first trump presidency. but all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes, the first full day of donald trump's second term is coming to a close. and until this moment, the president explicitly directing prosecutors and the justice department to drop active cases would be an administrating, administration consuming scandal for any president. and for good reason. that kind of interference, that was the core of the degradation of the rule of law embodied in the watergate scandal. the president united states attempting to wield the department of justice as a personal tool for corrupt and abusive ends. it ended richard nixon's presidency. it permanently tarnished his reputation. donald trump is starting his second term by doing just that, and he is not trying to hide it. according to a tally by reporter brad heat

booker: fantastic. meatpackers, most americans do not know they work in horrifically dangerous conditions, one of the most dangerous jobs in america. they are being forced to make repetitive motions every day. the usda showed that 81% of chicken processing plant workers are at an elevated risk, significantly so, of developing debilitating upper body disorders and things like carpal tunnel syndrome. workers also face a risk of serious injuries. on average, to worker imitations -- two worker amputations per week occur on solder lines in the u.s. -- on slaughter lines in the u.s. and there are child labor violations. the usda is currently one of the largest buyers from these big meatpackers. i have a bill with senator hawley, a bipartisan bill to stop federal contracting for countries with child labor violations. as secretary, yes or no, will you commit to using the agency's purchasing powers to end these abusive and bad treatments of workers? ms. rollins: senator booker, i look forward to working with you

booker: thank you. you affirmed a lot of this in our private talks, i just want to make a public emphasis here that the disinformation in africa, and i mentioned this writ large, but for example the washington post published an article in october detailing how russian propaganda targeted u.s. anti-malaria programs, and in march 2020 four highlighting how russia and china are leading sponsors of disinformation campaigns in africa showing incredible success because we are not doing a coordinated campaign to counter their misinformation. i'm looking forward to working with you and i hope that you will prioritize this for the sake of america's future. you could be the secretary of state that says that we have a vision for africa and are backing it up, not only from the secretary of state's office, but all the way down to making sure that key resources are invested in and countering disinformation as well as making sure that we have personnel there. it is not a popular post for many state department people.

. >> cory booker on the first day. >> of the. >> second trump term. >> plus. which one of these. >> executive orders. >> helps bring. >> down the price. >> of groceries? >> and jon favreau. >> and tim miller on what. >> resistance 2.0. >> can learn from. >> the first trump. presidency when all in starts right now. good evening. >> from new york. >> i'm chris. >> hayes, the first. full day of donald trump's second. >> term is coming to a close. and until. >> this moment, the president explicitly directing prosecutors. >> and the justice. >> department to drop. >> active cases would. >> be an. >> administrating. >> administration consuming scandal. >> for any president. >> and for good reason. >> that kind of interference, that was the core of. >> the degradation. >> of the. >> rule of law. >> embodied in the. watergate scandal. the president. >> united states attempting to. >> wield the department. >> of. >> justice as a. >> personal tool for. >> corrupt and abusive ends. it ended richard nixon's presidency. >> it permanently tarnished his reputation. >> donald

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boozman: senator booker? sen. booker: thank you very much. i'm excited to be here and excited to have a few moments with you. thank you for coming by my office yesterday. i know i was the favorite office you visited, much more. mrs. rollins: you were the favorite. there were three favorites, and you were one of the three. sen. booker: i'm glad to that. i know you liked my visit better than tommy tuberville. i'm going to jump on the moving mom bandwagon here when you told me about the work she did, the work on pfas. i hope it foreshadows some of the work we can do together. it's a real problem for american farmers, it's something that's really important to me. i mentioned to you when you were with me that one of the biggest problems we have in america is that the biggest producers in our country have done well. that's not a problem. i love and celebrate american success. but we're having a problem with the big, big producers, often controlled by multinational corporations who are doing great, but most of our small farmers in america really con

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and we should be talking about that. >> senator cory booker, thank you for your time tonight. anderson, back to you. >> kaitlan. with me now is elizabeth warren. let me ask you about what you think of these pardons and commutations of the january 6th? >> it attacks the very foundation of our democracy, because it tries to whitewash what was clearly an insurrection. people died from that. property was destroyed. people were injured. police officers trying to defend the democratic process died. and the idea that now donald trump and his republican friends are just coming in and trying to whitewash the whole thing and pretend not only did it never happen, it was nothing but a picnic. and that's just not going to work. >> he seems to have a lot of new friends who appeared today. >> yes. >> i'm wondering what you think the message president trump was trying to send by having, you know, tim cook, jeff bezos, obviously elon musk all the others, zuckerberg front and center in the rotunda right next to across the aisle from former presidents, and what message it actually sends to you.

when we resume, senator booker will be recognized to ask his questions. sure. it's all revolved around the senator from vermont. i'm going to ask him to start the questioning so we don't waste any time. mr. chairman. thank you very much for this hearing. ms. bondi thank you so much for the visit to my office. a couple of things. first of all, i congratulations on the nomination and number two, a couple of vermont things that we talked about. we're going to have a new u.s. attorney in the state of vermont. and in the last trump administration in the justice department, in the trump administration, worked closely with senator leahy, democrat in with governor scott, republican, and came up with a consensus choice. and i seek your assistance in helping make sure that we are successful in getting a very competent u.s. attorney in vermont. and hopefully, with the cooperation of governor scott, our republican, as i mentioned in senator sanders and me. and senator, as i discussed with you in our meeting, i look forward to working with you and cooperating with you and l

booker: ok.the idea of refugee assistance in the area and some of the specifics we talked about, some of the specific u.n. agencies, they really are the lead in providing that. and it is concerning to me. i heard senator coons point this out, the idea of pausing some of this aid at this time, for three months, could have sort of a cataclysmic impact, not just on the humantiarian crisis but also in the stability of our allies on that region, specifically for the chad-sudan border, to egypt as well. some of the lifesaving work done by unhcr, the world food program, and more. i'm wondering if you can share with the committee some of your thoughts about how to navigate the importance of some of these agencies and ongoing work. rep. stefanik: i think, again, the world food program is a very successful program. it is focused, its significant voluntary funding piece is a testament to that, has bipartisan support, and is important to america from an national and agricultural perspective, from a business

well, dianne feinstein, sheldon whitehouse, amy klobuchar, chris loomis, richard blumenthal, cory booker, alexi padilla, jon ossoff, senator butler and senator welch. they deserve a round of applause. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not note the amazing staff that brought us here as well on my side. extraordinary group of people starting with and swanson, philip rest. [applause] sarah bauer. [applause] stephanie angel, just clay, leak simmons. [applause] the high point of the last four years was when you kept your word and we were able to confirm justice ketanji brown jackson. [applause] if you are to be the first, you have to be the best, and she is, certainly the best by every measure. you kept your word and nominated her and we have done a great favor to the nation by following through. in closing, we are proud of the fact these nominees have bipartisan support, more than 80% of them received bipartisan support. i want to thank my friend and colleague of many years, chuck schumer. i nagged him and beat up on him and twisted his arm and did everything i could to get our nominees

. >> there are two individuals have been working on this, myself and cory booker. we have legislation called to investigate opportunity act which seeks to do for the capital gains tax up to seven years if folks are willing to reinvest those capital gains into distress committees using the new market tax credit designation, i'd like for you to look at the legislation come back with how we might have some success in impacting long-term poverty and unemployment in those distressed communities. >> thank you. if confirmed i would look forward to working with you on it. >> final question since have according to the folks who as question before, two minutes and 38 seconds left in this conversation, i thought that was funny. the question i have is on the notion of the workforce participation rate as you just described impact of long-term unemployment makes it difficult to return to the workforce center workforce participation rate has been declining for the last eight or nine years. i think about the economy to,, gig economy or shared economy, technology economy. it seems

it used to be you mentioned in the book, booker t. washington and various things, whether it was a curriculum promoting civics, is that lost? can that be challenged a little bit? so that these schools are not relying on us to do it but are supporting our efforts or we are supporting the efforts of the schools? do you see what i'm getting at? it seems like should that be happening? >> schools could do this work but we have structural constraints. one of the jokes we heard was we know who teaches government, his name is coach, that is because you can't put together a full-time career as a social studies teacher if you only have three and coach wrestling or track or football. when kamala harris picked hi walz, the joke we heard, schools could do this. school boards say here's how we do this. the what is the best way to teach civics? not the manner we do now? a lot of times we teach students, government happening 5000 years ago, people got together and we are spectators of the thing we are creating now. 's recent history. the most effecti

booker: senator kaine, will you yield for a question? mr.y colleagues from new jersey. mr. booker: that was the stunning thing, who are you working for? are you for working americans, american families or the wealthy of the wealthy. i watch this slow-motion dafrlt for our country economically when i was lobbied by corporations, they were saying we're not globally competitive. so everybody here, all 100 of us, want american businesses to win. so, yes, i think we should have, my opinion was, yeah, let's make our tax rate globally competitive and get rid of these crazy corporate tax loopholes people use so many companies pay zero taxes. so we could have a bipartisan conversation that could have reflected our values, lowered the overall corporate tax rate and find way at that get rid of loopholes where the average police officer is paying higher taxes than some of the biggest corporations. and i watched you during that time. this is eight years ago, and you began to say, let's make sure that this tax plan benefits working americans because when

booker: i am grateful for the poetic effort. i'm grateful for our promotetory champions who will -- for our poetry champions who will forever live in the annals of poetry. i will proceed to demonstrate in a these page writings are good but now i will show them by reciting my own original poem. before i do, let me make at these pages an angry poke. dear god, you've all been here for five months and you couldn't tell me one good joke? come on. you are the worst joke tellers, heaven knows. but pip he'll done. i -- but i'm done. i got my poem to read. so here goes. pages, with your suits so navy, understanding what you signed up, some people might think you're crazy. you clearly are the opposite of lazy. up at 5:00 a.m., your teenage brains must be hazy. taking a full load of classes -- history, calculus with its parabulus so wavy. but that ain't the end of your days. you work full-time with your job on the flurox serving republican senators like rich and democrats like mazie. you man phones and open doors. you tirelessly do the sen

booker: thank you. you affirmed a lot of this in our private talks, i just want to make a public emphasis here that the disinformation in africa, and i mentioned this writ large, but for example the washington post published an article in october detailing how russian propaganda targeted u.s. anti-malaria programs, and in march 2020 four highlighting how russia and china are leading sponsors of disinformation campaigns in africa showing incredible success because we are not doing a coordinated campaign to counter their misinformation. i'm looking forward to working with you and i hope that you will prioritize this for the sake of america's future. you could be the secretary of state that says that we have a vision for africa and are backing it up, not only from the secretary of state's office, but all the way down to making sure that key resources are invested in and countering disinformation as well as making sure that we have personnel there. it is not a popular post for many state department people.

i used to chair the metro economies council, and that group did some incredible work with senator booker from new jersey and senator scott, who will be joining us as well this week and on opportunities seen during the last trump administration. i think there's great opportunities for us to work together. we think housing, based on what we have heard out of the hud secretary designee during his confirmation, is very promising. vice president holt, do you want to speak to? mayor holt: i have known scott turner for two decades. i know his passion and that his heart is in the right place. lived in san diego, served in the state in texas, so i'm pretty excited. he came and met with us and our leadership during the first trump administration, so he knows our organization. obviously, he cannot do it all alone. he will need a white house and congress, but i would also add that in his previous service, he was the white house liaison on opportunity zones, some initiative from the first trump administration that we were very supportive of, and we would love to see if there are ways to revisit that

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i want to get reaction tonight from new jersey democratic senator cory booker, who if you were watching trump's augural address was sitting in the front row. i was keeping an eye on your reaction to some of the lines to trump's speech. can you first give a reaction to what he had to say today? >> you know, again, it's a moment of where we have the peaceful transfer of power. and i thought there was a lot of dignity and respect on that stage, seeing former presidents, the supreme court, it should be normally a joyous moment. i could not help but be under that great dome and not think about four years earlier where there were these horrific violent acts taking place. and that he was not there for joe biden's inauguration. and so, again, i'm looking forward to getting to work given what we have. but, his first actions as president haven't done what he promised voters he would do, hasn't lowered the prices of groceries, hasn't made housing more accessible, hasn't created more jobs, hasn't made people's lives easier. when it comes to the financial burdens he said he would address. what i hav

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alan hollinghurst won the booker prize two decades ago for the line of beauty. his latest novel, our evenings, has had rave reviews. over four decades of writing, how has his imaginative landscape changed 7 alan hollinghurst, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you've been at this novel—writing business for, as ijust said, four decades and more. with age and experience, does it get easier? it gets much harder, for me, i think partly because of a reluctance to repeat myself, partly because of something i hadn't quite anticipated. i think i thought when i was younger that one might run out of ideas. but in fact, as i get older, and perhaps because i am a writer who tends to write books which cover large time spans, i find that there's more and more material to write about. in fact, it's deciding on what to write about, selecting the material, and at the same time deciding what to leave out in writing a novel which covers perhaps 50 or 60 years. indeed, i get that cos, i mean, our evenings — the latest novel — does cover a long period of time from the sort of late �*60