booker: immunity statute. when a witness uses it to testify or provide other information based on self-incrimination, the court can order the witness to testify. the witness must comply. if they were but, they received immunity, which means no testimony or any other information provided by the grandeur can be used against them in any criminal proceeding. you were compelled to testify as a witness in the mar-a-lago classified document case. did you participate in any criminal conduct involved in the case? mr. patel: the mar-a-lago classified documents case? sen. booker: yes. mr. patel: no, i testified via compulsion by court order. sen. booker: you received immunity over information that was self-incriminating. do you remember the name of the prosecutor who questioned you? mr. patel: there were multiple, senator, i do not. sen. booker: were any of them people who were fired this past week? mr. patel: i have no idea, senator britt sen. booker: are you certain? you are under oath. mr. patel: i'm aware i'm under o

senator booker. sen. booker: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm struggling with a bit of the flu. chair grassley: everybody's got flu. sen. booker: yeah, it's pretty rough, but i appreciate the time. mr. patel, if i can jump right in, 12 career prosecutors were involved in the investigation prosecuting cases against president trump and were recently fired. some of those that were involved were involved in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. do you know who brecht reynolds is? mr. patel: maybe, but it doesn't ring a bell at this point. sen. booker: you are under oath, you have no record action of who reynolds is? mr. patel: if you could provide me with more context i could possibly remember. sen. booker: are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way including termination fbi agent or personnel associated with trump investigations? mr. patel: senator, just to be clear, i did not participate -- sen. booker: that is a yes or no question, are you are aware of any plans to punish in any way including termination fbi agent or personnel associated with trump investi

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joining me now is democratic senator cory booker of new jersey. senator booker, welcome back to "meet the press." >> it's good to be he. good to be here in person. >> it is good to have you here in person. thank you so much. let's start out big picture, we are one month into president trump's second term. his approval rating stands at 45, 46% more popular now than he was at this point in his first term and as you well know, he was in striking distance in your blue state of new jersey about six points away from winning the state. do you believe you have a responsibility to the your constituents to try to find a way to work with president trump. >> first of all, new jersey is our main priority and doing anything they can, and what donald trump is doing right now is hurting our state. he's increased taxes on basically all of my state and what you should be reminded of is he didn't win the majority of the popular vote. he won the popular vote, but didn't get over 50%. historically, he's the least popular president of my life time except for in his fir

and booker t.ashington remarkable story up from slavery so impressive that teddy roosevelt republican vice president at the time eventual president i got to meet this guy they met in new york city. he they coulded up working together in segregated south and started tuskegee in segregated south. don't worry about the racism around you it was everywhere. we are going to become so valuable. learn skills. learn to study. become so valuable white people are going to be forced to look at us differently because they grew up in an era of segregation and being unequal and coming out of slavery and walking back of jim crow. booker t. washington should be front and center. >> lawrence: is he also a builder as well. he was an entrepreneur. he is one that talked about essentially you make good products they will be forced to buy our products as well. if there is anyone with the exception of frederick douglass who is my hero of course. >> brian: he was booker t. washington's hero. >> lawrence: if there is anyone

booker cruises down the lane. just too easy. booker 31 points moses moody 17 points in 24 minutes. balance there and one. warriors though could never get it down to single digits. kd three threes in a row to end the third quarter. finished with 19. steph curry was scoreless in the first quarter. tried to get it going late here with the left but only 14 points for steph and phoenix with 19 threes. tyus jones and this is a four point play as the suns win pretty easily 130 105. hey we got the lakers and knicks tomorrow night here on abc seven pregame at five. tipoff at 530 followed by after the game. cool and crisp for round two at the pebble beach national pro-am. and we have a new leader after round two. well, it was okay in the morning. i kind of got worse in the afternoon. who knows what the weekend will bring. rory mcilroy putting for eagle on 18. shot a two under 70 to hit the halfway mark at eight under. he's tied for 13th justin thomas. anything you can do i can do better. chipping in for eagle on 18. and down it goes. thomas at two under 70. he's eight under. first round lead

booker cruises down the lane. just too easy. booker 31 points moses moody 17 points in 24 minutes. balance there and one. warriors though could never get it down to single digits. kd three threes in a row to end the third quarter. finished with 19. steph curry was scoreless in the first quarter. tried to get it going late here with the left but only 14 points for steph and phoenix with 19 threes. tyus jones and this is a four point play as the suns win pretty easily 130 105. hey we got the lakers and knicks tomorrow night here on abc seven pregame at five. tipoff at 530 followed by after the game. cool and crisp for round two at the pebble beach national pro-am. and we have a new leader after round two. well, it was okay in the morning. i kind of got worse in the afternoon. who knows what the weekend will bring. rory mcilroy putting for eagle on 18. shot a two under 70 to hit the halfway mark at eight under. he's tied for 13th justin thomas. anything you can do i can do better. chipping in for eagle on 18. and down it goes. thomas at two under 70. he's eight under. first round lead

and we can also talk about even at booker t washington where we worked with the chemo gap can japanese vocational school and save that school when our japanese neighbors were forcibly removed from their homes and businesses during world war two in a time of incarceration thanks was barbara we have a rich rich history of solidarity and actual work in action here in san francisco and so when we have you celebrations we cannot forget that history and many of you sitting in these seats and in this room were part of that history. raise your hand if you are part of that history. >> everyone should raise your hands. exactly. because you're here today. that's right. >> give your neighbor high five. >> that's right. >> and so what i want to say to everyone today if if san francisco is going to you know, san francisco is going to remain the home of the sucka free we're going to have to we're going to have to work together to dismantle these racist classes and sexist systems together. everyone say say with me together. >> that's right. these issues i want to acknowledge are painfully complex, mes

our next witness is brent booker.he general president of the international labor union of north america. he's a third-generation member of laborers local 795 in north albany, indiana and started his career in leona's mailroom. mr. booker served as a member of the construction department. i welcome you and recognize you for your opening statement. mr. booker: my name is brent booker, general president of the laborers international union in north america. my union was founded over 120 years go by workers seeking a better life and the american dream. today, we are a strong, proud and diverse union representing over 130 5000 workers across the united states and canada. my workers go to work everyday building and maintaining our infrastructure. on the highways, bridges and tunnels to city skyscrapers to our vast energy sector, our members jobs touch every day life. boom and energy production has provided an abundance of jobs. our union has promoted and all of the above approach to energy production, renewables, oil and nat

how i'm working with cory booker of new jersey to provide more access to wi-fi and internet platforms, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. these are important initiatives as well. they're not easy to put on a bumper sticker. they don't win a lot of elections for you. but the critical to the future of our country. so we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on. but i hope that we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time, because what we have before us is an extraordinary

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i of course i want to see booker t resource. to see other black led organizations resourced as well. it's not just us. we want to band together also with our folks in japantown to make sure that the cultural relevant needs are spread across the neighborhood and also in the tio as well. the safe way drew in a radius of almost a mile an hour and a half of folks emanating from that center. >> and so we need to make sure we're thinking about multiple folks who are funded through the city such as farming hope our folks in town to make sure that folks are being met like kombucha and whatnot. >> so it's going to it's not a silver bullet. it's a silver buckshot that's going to be necessary in order to meet the diverse needs. >> and then i also want to say we want to respect the purchasing power of our community. free food is great but also folks will buy food and so they need to do so with dignity and choice in an affordable and nutritious way. >> it sounds like there is a network of nonprofits organizations to exist to support today th

i of course i want to see booker t resource. i want to see other black led organizations resourced as well. it's not just us. we want to band together also with our folks in japantown to make sure that the cultural relevant needs are spread across the neighborhood and also in the tio as well. the safe way drew in a radius of almost a mile an hour and a half of folks emanating from that center. >> and so we need to make sure we're thinking about multiple folks who are funded through the city such as farming hope our folks in town to make sure that folks are being met like kombucha and whatnot. >> so it's going to it's not a silver bullet. it's a silver buckshot that's going to be necessary in order to meet the diverse needs. >> and then i also want to say we want to respect the purchasing power of our community. free food is great but also folks will buy food and so they need to do so with dignity and choice in an affordable and nutritious way. >> it sounds like there is a network of nonprofits organizations to exist to support t

devin booker with the jump shot. suns up by 20. they go on to cruise 130 to 105.orers with 31 points. the 49ers are still looking to remake their coaching staff. recently they brought back robert saleh to be defensive coordinator. now there's news. they may add a former pro bowl player to help with the defensive backfield. sources have told nbc bay nbc sports bay area that deangelo hall is scheduled for an interview with the team. hall played 14 seasons for a number of teams, including the falcons, raiders and washington for the past two seasons. hall was an assistant defensive back coach for the carolina edge, is that it? yeah. and it is wet because it's wet out there and a lot more on the way. let's get an update from jeff about how the weekend is going to go. and early tomorrow morning is going to be the heaviest. right. it is. you know, we're going to see some widespread heavy downpours from the north bay to the south bay. once we head into seven 8:00, it will stick around through the noon hour. we start to see it break up by the afternoon and then some scatte

how i'm working with cory booker of new jersey to provide more access to wi-fi and internet platforms, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. these are important initiatives as well. they're not easy to put on a bumper sticker. they don't win a lot of elections for you. but the critical to the future of our country. so we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on. but i hope that we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time, because what we have before us is an extraordinary opportunity, and that is to usher in the most prosperous era in all of our history. and that's saying a lot for a country with a history like ours and the full program is available to watch online attha. thanks for having this morning. now your bk

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booker cruising down the lane, that is just too easy. booker goes for 31 points.points in 24 minutes. off balance there. but the warriors could never get the game down to single digits. kevin durant hit three threes in a row to end the third quarter and he finished with 19 points. steph curry scoreless in the first period. tried to get going late but only 14 for steph. phoenix hit 19 threes in this game. tyus jones and that's a four point play as the suns win rather easily 130 to 105. we got the lakers and knicks tonight. pregame at 5:00. tip off at 530. followed by after the game here on abc seven. cool and crisp for round two of the pebble beach national pro-am. and we have a new leader after round two. well, it was okay in the morning and got worse in the afternoon. we'll see what the weekend brings. rory mcilroy putting for eagle on 18. shot a two under 70. hit the halfway mark at eight under, tied for 13th. justin thomas says anything you can do, i can do better. i can do it from the sand. chipping in for eagle on 18. thomas a two under 70 is eight under. you

booker cruising down the lane, that is just too easy.31 points moses moody had 17 points in 24 minutes off balance there. but the warriors could never get the game down to single digits. kevin durant hit three threes in a row to end the third quarter, and he finished with 19 points. steph curry scoreless in the first period, tried to get going late, but only 14 for steph. phoenix hit 19 threes in this game. tyus jones. and that's a four point play as the suns win rather easily 130 to 105. we got the lakers and knicks tonight. pregame at 5:00. tip off at 530. followed by after the game here on abc seven. cool and crisp for round two of the pebble beach national pro-am. and we have a new leader after round two. whether it was okay in the morning and got worse in the afternoon, we'll see what the weekend brings. rory mcilroy putting for eagle on 18. shot a two under 70. hit the halfway mark at eight under. tied for 13th. justin thomas says anything you can do, i can do better. i can do it from the sand. chipping in for eagle on 18. thomas a

and joining me now is democratic senator cory booker of new jersey.ere is so much i want to get to with you, but i just want to start. i've been reflecting on the last couple of weeks, as i know you have been, and you've been very busy. i think trump's approach so far this term seems aspects of it seem kind of predictable. but to me, what elon musk is doing right now isn't entirely what i anticipated. has anything surprised you about his actions? >> i mean, i think what has surprised me is the complicity of my republican colleagues, who often have been champions of these ideas of privacy. this is elon musk, who is one of our biggest government contractors, one of our big military contractors, who now has unfettered access to the most personal information from fema, information about people's homes, houses to medical information, information on the medicines people take, tax information, social security information and get this. we are in a time of ai. people are saying, oh, it's just read only he can still scrape data, get pattern recognition, get pre

devin booker taps it, downcourt off the bounce, hello, grayson allen, throws it down.uns led by 11 at the half. late third durant only had ten points and hadn't made a shot since the first quarter and he caught fire burying three three's in 90 seconds. k.d. finished with 19. he gets the last word with gary payton. steph curry never got hot from deep. he had 14, but he went 1 of 6 from beyond the arc, misses from the corner midway through the fourth and on the other end devin booker hits the three leading all scorers with 31. you guessed it. phoenix cruised 130-105 and dropped the warriors record. >>> second round from pebble beach, this dog having a better day than a lot of the players. not having as much fun was world number one scottie scheffler. he got too close to the water on 18, so you go to the rocks, but look at that shot, knocks it back onto the fairway and, of course, he pars the hole. i would have quit golf. sepp straka chips in just off the green for birdie. he won two weeks ago in palm springs, tied for the low score of the day, 7 under 65. he's going to t

off, the moses moody, ms devin booker ahead for allen, who that's a little slam off the bounce. that was nice. and they would only extend their lead 3rd quarter. all around the arc here until it finds bradley beal that puts the knicks up by 22 warriors trying to make a little run to close the 3rd good defense. dennis schroder the chase down block on field dubs will take it back the other way. moses moody. the fade away and the foul. he had 17 points off the bench, but it would get out of hand in the 4th quarter. highest jones, the four-point play sons run away with this one. one, 30 to 105. hear from dubs head coach steve kerr coach, whether, you know, i thought we actually played a decent 1st quarter. our defense wasn't great, but we moved the ball and we had some really good possessions and >> we're right there. and then the 2nd quarter game kind of got away from us a little bit. i thought i thought we you know, shoulders sagged a little bit you know that this league the way people play with the 3 point line with the pace games can get away from you in a hurry. and so you know

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then on the other end, booker for the three, booker led all scores.pping the warriors record to 24-24. >>> let's go to some golf. second round from pebble beach. this doggo having a better day. sheffler tied for 20th. chips in from just off the green for a birdie. he won two weeks ago in palm springs. tied for the low score of the day 7 under 65. he takes a three shot lead, going into the weekend. >>> back on tuesday, notre dame defeated georgia tech 71-68. but not every fighting irish fan was happy. especially one who texted the coach. >> whoever sent this appreciate this. thank you for being cool. wtf am i watching? do you have any plays written up because holy s your team is unorganized as hell. what are they paying you for? i'm glad it it didn't have a name attached to it but that is a lesson in humility. as good as you feel. some people think you stink. >> even after the win. just brutal. that's going to do it for sports. have a great day. >> coming up, a small medical plane crashes into a neighborhood in philadelphia. killing everybody on board.

devin booker hits the three. booker led all scores with 21. absolutely cruised 130-105 dropping the warriors record to 24-24. >> lets go to some golf, second round having a much better day than players that aced the other day. scottie sheffler he got close to the water. his second shot off the rocky peak. very impressive. ended up parring the hole. sheffler tied for 20 after shooting a 270. chips in from just off the green for a birdie. he won two weeks ago in palm springs. tied for the low score of the day 7 under 65. he takes a three shot lead going into the weekend. >> back on tuesday, notre dame defeated georgia tech 71-68. but not every fighting irish fan was happy especially the random fan who texted head coach micah during the game to give the coaches thoughts. >> whoever sent this i appreciate you. thank you for being cool. wtf am i watching? do you have any plays written up because holy s, your team is unorganized as hell. what are they paying you for? i'm glad it didn't have a name attached to it. but that right there fellows is a le

booker.e is a third-generation member of 795 in north albany indiana and started his career he had mr. booker also served as director of the union's construction department and north american building trade unions. i welcome you and i now recognize you for your opening statement. >> general president of the laborers international union in north america. over 120 years ago by immigrant workers fleeing their country to seek a better life in the american dream. today we are strong diverse union representing workers across the united states and canada. members go to work every day building and maintaining their nations infrastructure. highways, bridges and tunnels. skyscrapers treatment centers in our vast energy sector. our job is to touch every americans day-to-day life. it is provided an abundance of jobs. our union has always promoted in all the above approach. hydro and nuclear because we build it all. we take pride in our work did the safest and most productive. we get jobs done right on ti

senator booker, it's really nice of you to step out to talk to us tonight.re. >> it's so great to be with you, rachel. thank you. >> first of all, can you tell us what's going on in the senate right now and what you see as potential outcomes, both of tonight's kinetic activity, but also ultimately this bill. >> it is essential that we use every procedural lever. we have. the republicans in the senate are trying to put forth their budget bill to extend the trump tax cuts and, frankly, extend trillions of dollars of tax cuts for the wealthiest americans and corporations. and so, one of the procedural tools we have is that we can bring up unlimited amounts of amendments. so we are going to be here until tomorrow morning, really pulling an all nighter and into the morning to push forward amendments that are just common sense that the majority of not just democrats agree with us, but independents and republicans. we're going to put things forward about housing, about health care, about no tax cuts for billionaires. we're going to be putting a lot of things forwar

among other things, booker even doubled down on his comments, but he was never benched.'s going to the super bowl tomorrow. we don't know how karla sofÍa gascÓn oscars fate will end. if she weren't trans, and this were just a case of somebody being penalized or canceled for controversial speech. she could probably count on conservatives rushing to her defense, maybe even a seat in the administration, but they're silent, just like the progressives who once celebrated her nomination. and that leaves only me unwilling to defend her views, but willing to say they should not impact the judgment of her acting performance. joining me now to talk about it, sharon waxman, founder and editor in chief of the wrap. sharon, thank you for being here. listen, i know more about political campaigns than oscar campaigns, but this seems to have the hallmarks of a negative ad or negative campaigning having been used against her. how did it all come to light and why now? >> well. >> you know, it depends on what you believe, but the official narrative is that a lone freelance journalists just

senator schiff, senator booker and myself asked questions about what transpired in the grand jury that kash patel testified in. he was unwilling to disclose any of that even though rule 6a very plainly allows for a witness to come out of a grand jury and described to the entire world what it is they told the grand jury. he then said, when confronted with that legal fact, that he thought there was a seal order of some kind that he was under that would prevent him from doing the customary witness disclosure that is commonplace right under 6e. in that regard, we looked wherever we can, we asked him where the order is. there is no sign of a seal order that would bear any relationship to his testimony. there is the very real prospect he is being untruthful about there being a seal order. the further aspect of this is he asserted his fifth amendment privilege not to incriminate himself during the course of these proceedings. that as a matter of law requires he had a substantial and real risk of criminal prosecution when he made that assertion. is an incoming fbi director has faced a time whe

to a new precedent that this committee seems to be setting during the hearings senators schiff and booker and myself asked questions about what transpired in the grand jury that kash patel testified in. he was unwilling to disclose any of that even though rules 6-e very plainly allows for a witness to come out of a grand jury and describe to the entire world what it is that they told the grand jury. he then said when confronted with that legal fact that he thought that there was a seal order of some kind that he was under that would prevent him from doing the customary witness disclosure that is commonplace right under 6-e. in that regard we looked wherever we can, we asked him where this order is, there is no sign of a seal order. that would bear any relationship to his testimony. there's the very real prospect that he's simply being untruthful about there being a seal order. the further aspect of this is that he asserted his fifth amendment privilege not to incriminate himself during the course of these proceedings. that as a matter of law requires that he have had a substantial and rea

democrat senator cory booker was asked point-blank if democrats talking points are contraindication foral l effective. watch this. effective, watch this. >> democrats lost an election largely with the closing arguments of accusing trump of being a threat to the democracy. is that the most effective messages right now? >> i think the most effective messages is talking about the crisis happening to american. >> not constitutional crisis? >> no, but what's happening to americans. everywhere in america red states to blue states we're seeing real crises that elon musk was a billionaire and never has to think about where his next meal is coming from, where his medical treatment and how that'll be paid for, americans are feeling a crisis right now, and they're feeling pain. stuart: kennedy, he's saying that this threat to democracy strategy is a loser. >> yes. stuart: go for it. >> it was and it is because they didn't have ideas. they were really only running on trump is a fascist and trump is hitler and that's why they lost the senate and republicans have both houses of congress and presidenc

>> senator cory booker is ahead. plus, court.lash elon musk tries to nix entire government agencies. >> i'll tell him to go here. go there. >> as judges start to hit the pause button. >> but is the sweeping musk. >> overhaul permanently changing the united states? our panel. >> of political. experts will. >> weigh in. hello, i'm. dana bash. in washington, where the state of our union is everything everywhere, all at once. we are three weeks into donald trump's second term, if you can believe it. and the president, along with elon musk, are keeping up their relentless. >> push to. >> reshape the country, including late last night directing employees at the consumer financial protection bureau to stop work, even as the judicial branch pauses, some of their actions. we're going to dive into all of that in a bit. and the response from democrats. but i want to begin with, perhaps the president's top priority, and that is deportations. you are looking at some of the first pictures of what's going on right now at guantanamo bay in cuba.

colleagues like chris -- in connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. many of our policy proposals really aren't partizan at all, particularly when it comes to higher education. you'll read about how i'm working with mark warner to make higher education more affordable. how i'm working with cory booker of new jersey to provide more access to wi-fi and internet platforms, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. these are important initiatives as well. they're not easy to put on a bumper sticker. they don't win a lot of elections for you. but the critical to the future of our country. so we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on. but i hope that we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time, because what we have before us is an extraordinary opportunity, and that is to usher in the most prosperous era in all of our history. and that's saying a lot for a country with a history like ours and the full program is available to watch online atall. hi, everyone. it's so great to see so many new faces