host: we have a quote from cory booker talking about opportunity zones. sen.ooker: i worked with republicans and democrats to write and pass a law that is bringing billions ofa lot bring. there are so many places like that across america. it is not just cities like this one. communities and towns like us in newark have been given upon and talked down to, counted out, and, underestimated. susan: early on, their interest on both sides of the aisle was really essential moving forward. talk about these two freshman senators and why this concept really appealed to them? david: that's a good question. cory booker is right that he am tim scott do this together. it was a bipartisan effort. but, it was not put into law with anything that looks like our partisanship. -- bipartisanship. i think what happened is tim scott is a really interesting guy. as a black man running from south carolina, he has been very outspoken on matters of race. but a very conservative. -- he is economically very conservative. he was always interested in using the tax code to put -- push his ob

host: we have a clip of cory booker talking about opportunity zones.et's look at that. >> republicans and democrats to write and then passed a law that is bringing billions of dollars of investment to low income urban and rural communities that have for too long been left out and left behind. there are so many places like that across america. not just cities like this one. farm communities and factory towns that like us here in new york, have been given up on eight talked down to. counted out and underestimated. host: early on, the interest on both sides of that was really essential to moving onward. talk about these two freshman senators and why this concept really yield to them. guest: good question. cory booker is right, that he and tim scott did this together, bipartisan effort with bipartisan monitors, but it was not put into law and anything that looked like bipartisanship that wasn't a single democrat who voted for the tax cuts and jobs act. what happened here, so, tim scott is a really interesting guy. as a black man running from south carolina

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plus new jersey senator cory booker on prospects for police reform. he'll respond to our interview last week with senator tim scott. and although delta variant cases are starting to slow, west virginia is in crisis. we'll talk with jim justice, dr. a anthony fauci, and d dr. scott gottlieb. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪♪ >> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." these are interesting times here in washington. we're used to the political battles being back and forth between republicans and democrats, but today we find ourselves in an increasingly polarized debate between democrats. the factions in the party, the progressives and liberals, and the moderates. we do begin today with a key progressive, new york representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. congresswoman, it is great to have you here in studio. >> great to be here. thank you. >> brennan: so you have this standoff right now. how real is the risk that the democrats end up with nothing? >> you know, i know that -- you know, i believe that the entire party is committed in

scott gottlieb and new jersey represent cory booker.ant to continue our conversation with west virginia governor jim justice. let's pick up with where we left off, with how your state is faring with vaccinations and covid. your health official, dr. clay marsh at a press conference this week talked about how much your medical system is under strain right now, saying that the number of covid cases and hospitalizations is higher than it has been during the entire pandemic. and you, yourself, said you're right in the eye of this storm. so what's the problem? why aren't people protecting themselves? >> well

i thank cory booker for framing this appropriately. maybe one could justify this if one were convinced parents showing up to school board meetings to discuss as neighbors and local constituents concerns with how their children were being educated at public schools, if you can identify them as a domestic terrorist network, then yeah, that would be appropriate to get the department of justice involved and you can't because that is absurd and the entire exercise today was absurd. i've never seen anyone take so much time to explain something that should've been dismissed with we screwed up, we screwed up badly. i'm sorry. does that make it okay? it makes it that much more inexcusable that he would spend hours with us trying to defend the utterly indefensible. >> he said repeatedly there is no partisan basis for his determination, this was not partisan, he absolutely believe spirit exchange of ideas is covered, doesn't want to intimidate parents going to school board meetings, that is america. he did say that over and over again but you are

that's the whole point and i actually thank cory booker for framing this appropriately. maybe one could justify this if one were convinced that parents showing up to school board meetings to discuss as neighbors and local constituents were concerned with how their children were being educated in public schools. if you could identify them as a domestic terrorist network, then yes. that would perhaps be appropriate to get the department of justice involved. and of course you can't because that's absurd. the entire exercise today was absurd. i've never seen anyone take so much time in order to explain something that should have been dismissed with, we screwed up. we screwed up badly. i'm sorry. that would make it okay, but it makes it that much more inexcusable that he would come and spend hours with us trying to defend at utterly indefensible. >> laura: he said repeatedly that there is no partisan basis for his determination, that this was not partisan and he absolutely believed a spirited exchange of ideas as covered and had some want to intimidate parents from going to s

equal act a measure introduced this year under the leadership of my friend and colleague senator cory booker. once again we have been able to come together on a bipartisan basis only this time we agreed we need to finish the r job and the disparity. we have help on the republican side, how about that a bipartisann, approach centers portman, paul, tillis, grandpa they are joining us in this effort. our house collectson overwhelmingly agreed on a bipartisan basis themselves to change this once and for all to go back to one -- one in terms of sentence inc. of crack and powder cocaine. the legislature passed 361 -- 66 in the house. not bad and certainly in this divided political atmosphere it is amazing. bypassing can learn from our mistakes addiction we have come to learn encouraged to seek treatments instead of incarcerating them for seeking self-medication we could potentially save tens of thousands of lives everypl year. i'll be back in illinois ten or 15 years ago i said did you hear somebody downtown last night died of a drug overdose, 15 years ago you would've said that is a darn shame. i

something that cory booker, senator from new jersey, said, he tried to bring up domestic terrorism as they pointed out before, shot down by the attorney general, didn't think incidents amounted to domestic terrorism and senator booker tried to link school shootings to this process, including parkland shooting. unless i'm wrong, cruz was mentally ill and no connection to people being upset by the school board. the attorney general has said this is not domestic terrorism, your colleagues in the senate are trying to make it so, what does that say to parents across the nation? >> i just think in that particular case no honest person could have said those things and left that out there, we saw that in the hearing today. they're trying to demonize legitimate free speech. if somebody breaks a law, if someone threatens somebody else, they should be held accountable, just like in portland and seattle and across the country last year. have not heard from department of justice, they talk about investigation, i'm okay with, on the january 6 event. we're hearing nothing about thousands that burned

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michigan congressman don, new jersey senator cory booker or ohio senator sherrod brown?fer an audit on the last one for them on the panel, that was wrong, by the way. kennedy: you are right. stephen miller can't be beat tonight. he's got to. kevin, which of these donkeys went to space while in congress? virginia senator tim kaine, west virginia senator joe manchin or former florida senator -- me tell you something. >> for senator. kennedy: you are so right. you are so good at this. l.a., you have zero. who could get on the board with this. which of these donkeys settle a 150,000-dollar lawsuit against the house of representatives cafeteria for serving pay in all of who cracked his tooth? chuck schumer, dennis or marilyn congressman jeannie raskin? >> i'll go with dennis? >> b2 she's on the board with one 150,000 big one. stephen, were next question, which of these donkeys admits she never learned how to drive? massachusetts congresswoman iona presley, new york congresswoman aoc or california senator dianne feinstein? >> all women can't drive one, that's clichÉ. [laughter

cory booker does a similar thing when he would tell the story about a drug addict named t bone or somethinge that, that person never existed so this is not uncommon among politicians. the weirder thing about president biden telling this story, part of his more that goes back a long time, this common man, the working man touched it. settling into the amtrak onto the train when someone is driving them to work. with their coffee reading the newspaper and to the private office, that part of the story is strange, him taking amtrak, that is the store he's making up. >> he said he was going to visit his mom who was sick but she died in 2010. 30 seconds. why do you think with all these stories, this is just one, a minuscule story, he gets confused but why do people let him get away with it? >> i don't think anyone lets them get away with it. they hear the story and think he likes to tell strange stories, reminds me of the campaign when he talked about being a lifeguard, children stroking his leg hair, it is beside the point but when people look back on it, what were we thinking again when we took t

, if you think back, when you had the democrats encouraging the harassment of maxine waters and cory bookert up in their faces," and that's the way you resolve things, and you can only afford to lose two, and he held that up of two people, and he's vindictive about it, so that tells everybody on the left that is somatic kyrsten sinema and joe manchin that you are validated to go ahead and go after them. i don't necessarily think it helps him gets votes, and it's a huge just don't make mistakes, it's like a "deplorable" moment. 32% of independents are like "i don't like what's going on here." that kind of thing and saying it's just part of the process, they don't like it. >> jesse: greg, i remember when people used to love maverick senators from arizona. now, it's the other way around. >> greg: they love you when you use that. this is a microcosm of the democratic party. you have moderates and unstable idiots who command an outsized presence on social media, and i think what we are seen, what we don't like about joe biden is that he throws everybody over the side for the radicals, because he

cory booker has the bill on the senate side and i'm opening we can bring it to the president's desk.okay. thank you for that, and we may need you tonight so don't go far. i appreciate you joining us. thanks so much. >>> we have a lot of breaking news, as you know. we don't know what's going on with these evaluations happening on capitol hill that would make or break president biden's agenda. what is happening? we don't know. stay with us. >>> we're back now with breaking news. what about president biden's agenda hanging in the balance? we don't know what they're planning to do with these bills, the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill. a man about washington, you've been here before. good evening to you. you've been here before. >> good evening, don. >> offer some insight. we have waited all night. it's looking like a mess. no vote yet. how do you see it playing out, brian? >> if i had to predict, don, i think one of two things is going to happen. one, either nancy pelosi will bring to the floor -- >> brian, stand by. i'm getting some information. hang on one se

but, tomorrow new jersey senator cory booker is actually going to be here in virginia campaigning foresident biden is expected to arrive here in arlington in just about an hour. bret? >> bret: alex, thank you. we will have full coverage here on fox news channel one week from tonight. up next, a professional basketball player takes on nike and nba's biggest star over chinese atrocities. >> shoes on your feet or t-shirt on your back. so many tears and so much oppression and so much blood behind it all. ♪ is someone trying to steal your butterfinger? call the bfi. ♪♪ no one lays a finger on your butterfinger. hi susan! honey? yeah? no one lays a finger i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad... try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love... plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? now get powerful relief with robitussin elderberry. ♪ (vo) subaru presents... the underdogs. they may have lost an eye, or their hearing, or their youthful good looks. but there's a lot of things the remarkable dogs haven't lost... like their ability to lick, wa

cory booker, in the book, of democrats who told people to take action. to hurt people. to surround them. if we want to go down the list of all of that, i've got a long list, it's all in the book, democrats who have said some nasty things about what to do to trump official hours, to have their shoises heard through means that i don't condone in any way. so if we want to start holding people accountable to that, let's bring it. we got a whole list on both sides that can be held accountable for that. to turn it all on one side, i don't think it's the right way to go right now. host: listen to liz cheney who had this warning for republicans in looking at the events of january 6. here's what she had to say. ms. cheney: almost every one of my colleagues knows in your hearts that what happened on january 6 was profoundly wrong. you all know that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud sufficient to have changed the results of the election. owe all know that the -- you all know that the dominion voting machines were not corrupted by a foreign power. you know these cla

and it includes people like chuck grassley, dick durbin, lindsey graham and cory booker and mark warnerhalf republicans, there's starting to be bipartisan work in this area and that's important to get this done. >> good luck. >> thank you. >> take care, senator. >>> one of the biggest tests of joe biden's presidency is coming. and it's not about washington infighting. are we headed into a new cold war with china? in fact, i would suggest, the better question, are we there already? let's bring in someone who helps us understand what biden is facing when he faces the world at the g20 coming up this week. what is the challenge? next. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com. i always protect my voice. it's how i make my living. and you and i make a country with our voices. your vote is your voice. but more than ever, our freedom to vote is under attack. so please: call congress. tell them to pass the freedom to vote act. to protect our ability to have our say on the issues that matter most. so, let's pa

most police unions agree with the compromise put forth by cory booker.at disagrees. we have the fraternal office of police and police chiefs agree with it. you have a couple who don't. republicans are siding with the couple that don't. that's why we have to be in their faces, protesting, showing up at town halls, wherever they go say, you have to move on this. >> okay. >> and president biden. he has to do more. >> i hope you get your luggage. i like the orange. people are going to notice you. >> i got it. >> good. roland, thank you. enjoy l.a. all good. . los angeles don't like the astros. >>> many 2016 trump voters switched to joe biden. a new survey is wondering if they would still make the same choice. you are going to want to hear the answer to this. stay right there. this stay rig ththere >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust safelite. ♪ upbeat, catchy music ♪ >> tech vo: this couple counts on their suv... as they travel for their small business. so when they got a chip in their windshield... they brought it to safelite... for a s

interestingly enough, new jersey senator cory booker is coming here to virginia to campaign for mcauliffebiden is expected here just before 8:00. >> neil: thanks. let's go to bob cusack, editor for the hill. we're focused on virginia. i live in new jersey. that race has turned tight within five points. governor murphy, who back in the summer was leading by 26 points. something is going on here. what is it? >> yeah, that's right, neil. great to see you back in the chair. >> neil: thank you. >> the republican governors have the momentum in both races that doesn't mean they'll win. i think new jersey is somewhat of a long shot. it's more of a real possibility than it was a couple weeks ago and a month ago. i live in virginia. you know, i see a fair amount of youngkin signs in northern virginia which trends to the democrats so in is a tight race. youngkin is talking up education. there's been some education controversies in the news. that is helping youngkin. the demographics clearly help democrats in both states. >> neil: i'm wondering, too, if for example if virginia were to go to the repub

and cory booker has the bill on the senate side, and i'm hoping we can bring it to the president's desk for that and we may need you tonight so don't go far. we appreciate you joining us. thank you very much. so we've got a lot of breaking news as you know. we don't know what's going to happen with these negotiations happening on capitol hill ongoing over bills that make-or-break president biden's agenda. what's going to happen? we don't know. - that moment you walk in the office and people are wearing the same gear, you feel a sense of connectedness and belonging right away. and our shirts from custom ink help bring us together. - [narrator] custom ink has hundreds of products to help you feel connected. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com >>> we're back now with our breaking news. so what happens with president biden's agenda hanging in the balance? is there going to be a vote? we still don't know what exactly democrats plan to do about these two massive bills. joining me now the press secretary for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and a man about

year and a half ago with 45 -- he and i and 45 others of my bill with michael bennet and later cory booker and raphael warnock on expanding the child tax credit, making it refundable. he's supported this in the past, and we've got to make sure this package comes together. you mention housing. my friend said, we've got to make sure that housing is front and center. brown's chair of the senate banking, then you changed it to banking, housing, and urban affairs. now it's about housing and housing thanks to maxine waters being in the vineyards for so many years raising the issue of housing and what we're doing together again is going to be transformational, not as much as investment as we want, but it's going to matter first time home buyers, first-generation home buyers that they're going to get help. we're going to get help with vouchers and public housing. we're going to get help with the housing tax credit, low-income housing tax credit. we're going to see more housing available increasing the supply, and more affordable for the millions of americans. the whole point here is we've seen pro

that was a bipartisan effort that the white house was supporting between senator cory booker, a democrat, and senator tim scott of south carolina, a republican. that collapsed after a scaled back proposal from the democratic side was rejected by senator scott leaving in the wake not a whole lot of optimism that there's going to be an ability to solve some of these problems that president biden was alluding to in his speech today about fallen service officers. >> yeah, that's the national perspective i'm going to share with our viewers. we're going to take them to minneapolis and speak with an official there about what they are trying to do. they are implementing public safety officials and kind of changing the definition of what a police department is there in minneapolis. we're going to have that conversation coming up. josh, thank you so much my friend. >>> let's go to breaking news in houston in the vein of what we've been talking. a gunman ambushed three harris county deputies, killing one, wounding the others. the deputies were trying to apprehend a robbery suspect outside a nightcl

you have marco rubio and land paul who has got cory booker you could take him out of kentucky.nnsylvania, alabama. i wonder as our democratic strategists, should democrats take mansion up on the offer and say okay, man, you want to be independent? we're about to join you in real democrats. should democrats be stopped to think about get appeasing mansion and start thinking about really going after some of these seats and winning? >> joy, i assure you the democratic senate campaign committee is seriously considering more seats to take because if anything, mansion is just made everybody mad in the party but holding up the biden agenda to this point. let's think about it. he's obstructed the filler buster and logly gagged and dragged his feet and everybody else is like how can we cushion our majority in a substantial way to take away and neutralize power because david thinks mansion isn't going to follow through on this, i would not put it out of the realm of possibility that he comes back and says okay, you forced my hand by forcing me to accept the clean energy program. he's not

ainsley: schumer, elizabeth warren, joe manchin, klobuchar, cortez and cory booker.at is some of what is going on in washington. meanwhile, let's go out west and discover that elon musk is announcing a major move that's going to cost california. guess where he's moving the h.q.? ainsley: plus a standing ovation for a mom fed up for what's going on in our nation's schools. >> they want to silence us and shut us down. the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system. that's it. [cheers and applause] ainsley: the growing backlash against the doj directive on school boards next. ♪ ♪ we can make a difference ♪ make the world a better place ♪ ♪ oh! are you using liberty mutual's coverage customizer tool? so you only pay for what you need. sorry? limu, you're an animal! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine ♪ ♪ my only sunshine... ♪ rybelsus® is a pill that lowers blood sugar in three ways. increa

it's all about turnout and getting people to go out and vote and why obama has been there, cory booker is going there today. on and on. youngkin hasn't brought in any big players for his campaign. >> he is doing it himself. wall street board said if mccauliffe wins november 2 democrats will run against mr. trump. if he loses or wins by a whisker it will be a warning to democrats will say their left leaning ways. everybody is paying a lot of attention. >> bill: if it turns out to be a close election or youngkin wins it will change the balance of political power in america and the way we look at it for the next year. >> dana: more of this coming up later this hour with the republican candidate for virginia governor glenn youngkin. >> bill: a school board meeting in loudon county virginia turning heated last night and saying officials ignored a string of sexual assaults. >> the girl's dad is using profanity. this board and this school system put children last. the bar can't be any lower. >> how dare you. our out rage is very real. >> prompting students to stage a mass walk-out after a jud

when he was -- cory booker. when he was the mayor of newark, he was known as being tough on crime.'s happening -- by the way, are you, do you feel yourself drifting more to the left? >> well, you know, i try to stay anchored with the bad news that -- the values that i think are important to my district, to my state and to my country. you know, i started serving some years ago as a state representative in the state of texas and now as a u.s. congressman, and i think hi values have -- my values have stayed the same. but i understand. i've seen that in both parties. the tea party folks were pushing some of the republicans to go right, and of course now we've got some very progressive folks that are trying to push some other democrats to go to the left. but i think what we're seeing if people want to govern, it has to be the people in the middle, and that includes most democrats and republicans that understand the importance of governing. david: well, and the 41% in the middle, 41% of voters call themselves independents. 29% democrat, 29% republican. joe biden's losing a lot of that in

you worked hard for most of the year with your democratic counterpart senator cory booker, police reform watch this. >> we made tremendous progress over nine months on the bill that wasn't quite the george floyd bill but would have made transformative change in policing in america. i thought it was the beginning of the end in the negotiations but turned out that my republican negotiating partner was not willing to embrace so much of the change that we had agreed upon. >> dana: that true? >> well two things are true. i am still at the table two years in a row they walked away. more importantly, what they wanted to do were two fundamental things i completely disagree with. number one is to nationalize all local police. that is not the american way. number two, there were 11 sections that either reduced funding, made departments ineligible for funding, and that to me means defunding the police by a little thousand cuts. those two things i won't agree with. we did make progress on the choke hold and no knock warrants and police cameras. but in the end change requires resources. we cannot ask

dave matthews, cory booker is going there this week. he has had the president clearly.d the white house talks to the mcauliffe campaign every day because they know that the future of terry mcauliffe and joe biden are tied together because if terry mcauliffe loses, that is a very bad sign for joe biden and the democrats in the midterms. meanwhile, glenn outcome kin was on with brian kilmeade last night out of this studio, studio m and talked a little bit about haw all the enthusiasm seems to be on the republican side. >> there is no enthusiasm for terry mcauliffe. no one is showing up to vote. it just translates in the fact that he has invited anybody who has ever held office anywhere in america campaign with him. what we are see something big enthusiasm on our side. and this is what is hang across virginia. this is no longer republicans against democrats. it's virginians coming together to make a statement that they are ready to elect a different kind of governor. a governor who can get things done as opposed to one who is full of empty promises and by the way a tired 4

she is there with phil murphy the autocrat as well as senator cory booker.g there is so significant. it's not just a random day. you had a contingent of u.s. officials. antony blinken secretary of state. homeland security secretary. you had the attorney general in mexico meeting with mexican officials trying to create a new security pact. by the way, how many years and days did the trump administration spend down there creating policies that actually worked that they then scrapped? now they are back in mexico city attempting to create a coherent policy when you know mexico has got to be looking at you saying you invite us in. more caravans behind. she could have been in that middle seat in that thing taking control. i'm going to take control of it. instead picking out cupcakes. rachel: think how much money you spent on stupid meetings. so easy. all you go to do is remain in mexico. bring it back. you know, catch and release. let's not do that anymore. i mean, we could solve it right here on the couch. we don't need one of these meetings. mexico is begging am

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable cory a. bookersenator from the state of new jersey, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, october 18. the committee will come to order. the committee will come to order. if objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. the committee is holding this hearing to address the serious growing crisis posed by natural disasters and extreme weather events driven by climate change. between august 29 and september september 1 hurricane ida devastated the u.s. from louisiana coast to new jersey and my hom

act, a measure i introduced this year under the leadership of my friend and colleague, senator cory bookernce again, we've been able to come together on a bipartisan basis only this time we agree we need to finish the job and end this disparity. we have help on the republican side. how about that? a bipartisan approach, senators portman, paul, tillis and graham are joining us, our house colleagues overwhelmingly agreed on a bipartisan basis as well to change this as well to go back to one to one. the legislation passed 361-66 in the house. not bad, certainly in this divided political atmosphere, it's amazing. by passing the equal act, this senate can prove we can learn from our mistakes. addiction is not a moral failing it is a disease, a treatable disease. if our nation's laws encourage people to seek treatment instead of incarcerating them for seeking self-medication, we could potentially save tens of thousands of lives every year. i said to the people back in illinois if -- if i -- ten or 15 years ago, i said did you hear somebody downtown last night died from a drug overdose, 15 years