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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

Dissecting a moment: Booker piles on Biden

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Politics, Government

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Cory Booker, in search of his first bona fide “moment” as he tries to work his way up in the presidential race, came ready to lunge into his critique of Joe Biden’s new criminal justice proposal as too little, too late to fix the problem of mass incarceration, after Biden’s authorship of punitive crime legislation in the ‘90s. POLITICO national political reporter Chris Cadelago joins host Scott Bland to analyze an important moment from round two of the second Democratic debate on Tuesday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, NurdCasters. It's Scott Bland, your host, and this is another special debate show.

0:07.0

We had another Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday that was part two of round two, another ten candidates on the stage in Detroit. on he moment of the debate, we're going to play it for you, and then we are going to break it down with

0:24.8

Politico National Political Reporter Chris Catalago.

0:28.8

Chris, thanks for stepping off to the side of the newsroom to talk about Joe Biden and

0:33.8

Corey Booker. Any time for you Scott. All right let's get right into it. Here's the

0:38.8

moment we picked out. This is a confrontation that's been simmering for weeks and it finally erupted for about five minutes on Wednesday night.

0:47.0

Cori Booker and Joe Biden have been going back and forth about a number of things, about Biden's comments about working with segregationist senators.

0:54.7

Most recently though, about criminal justice reform.

0:58.1

And this was an issue on which Biden was very prominent in the 80s and 90s as a tough on crime senator and

1:04.1

author of crime legislation was quite punitive and which Democrats now

1:09.2

20 30 years later are looking back on in a harsh light,

1:13.2

including Booker.

1:14.5

And so Biden rolled out a new criminal justice reform

1:19.3

proposal last week.

1:20.9

Booker immediately jumped all over it, kind of setting the stage for what we saw tonight.

1:25.2

Let's roll the clip.

1:26.2

I actually led the bill that got passed into law that reverses the damage that your bills

1:31.6

that you are frankly to correct you Mr Vice President

1:34.0

you are bragging calling it the Biden crime bill up until 2000 and 15.

1:38.8

Vice President Biden. Number one the bill he talks about is a bill that in my our administration we passed

1:45.2

we passed that bill that you added on to that's the bill in fact you passed and

1:49.2

the fact of the matter is secondly that there was nothing done for the entire eight years he was

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