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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.511.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Senator Cory Booker is back! In this special live episode of The Ezra Klein Show — taped at Vox Conversations — Booker and I dig into America’s crisis of trust. Faith in both political figures and political institutions has plummeted in recent decades, and the product is, among other things, Trump’s presidency. So what does Booker think can be done about it?We also talk about: Whether Democrats need to be angry to fight Trump The $400,000 President Barack Obama recently accepted for a speech to a bond firm The lecture Booker’s mother gave him when he was sworn into the SenateBooker’s fight with the left over drug reimportation, and how he and Bernie Sanders came to agreementWhat Booker thinks of a universal basic income, single payer health care, political correctness on campus, artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity, and more.Speaking of which, when I asked Booker about a UBI — which he says his staff is aggressively exploring — he responded with an expansive, surprising riff that sure sounded a nascent presidential platform. So don’t miss that! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a special episode of The S or Client Show.

0:14.8

I am S or Client and this is a podcast on the Box Media Podcast Network, our new podcast

0:19.8

network.

0:20.8

It's awesome, it's exciting.

0:21.9

This particular podcast was recorded at the Box Conversation.

0:26.5

The conference I told you about a couple weeks ago on the show.

0:29.6

It was a really fun time.

0:31.7

This was the first live interview podcast I've done, which was a total blast.

0:35.4

I had on a return guest, Senator Cory Bucker, the Senator from New Jersey, one of my favorite

0:40.5

guests from before.

0:41.5

We had a great conversation about rebuilding trust in American life, about what politicians

0:47.3

have done, maybe to give that trust up to make people cynical, what this era in politics

0:52.0

means and how to navigate it in a way that allows people to be alive to its dangers without

0:56.8

losing their soul.

0:58.2

At the end, we talked about a lot of policies that are out of the mainstream.

1:00.7

We talked about a universal shout allowance.

1:02.2

We talked about a universal basic income.

1:03.9

We talked about single payer, all kinds of things, political correctness on campus.

1:08.6

That is a very fun lightning round, one of the most fun I've done.

1:11.9

Unexpectedly, when I asked him about universal basic income, Bucker came up with something,

1:16.8

a response that sure sounded to me like a man who is thinking about a holistic platform

1:22.4

for the 2020 election, given that he is an oft rumored Democrat for that campaign and

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