Recode Decode: Cory Booker, U.S. Senator

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker talks with Recode’s Tony Romm about the current state of politics under President Trump and how he thinks the U.S. government should respond to the tech sector. Booker says he’s eager to see Trump gone, but that Democrats can’t solely define themselves as the “resistance” and shouldn’t sink to his level of online vitriol. He argues that Congress should take a skeptical look at the consolidation of companies like Amazon and Whole Foods, and not accept at face value that tech’s role should be “to create a handful of billionaires”; instead, Booker says, protecting consumers and broadening America’s access to science and technology should be the top priorities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by Qualcomm, their part of the daily lives of billions of people
0:06.1	around the world.
0:07.4	They may not be the name you think of when you think of smartphones, but they invented
0:10.9	all the stuff smartphones rely on to be so smart.
0:14.1	Essentially Qualcomm is why you love your smartphone.
0:17.1	Learn more at Qualcomm.com slash WeInvent.
0:23.6	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:30.4	Hi I'm Karr Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:33.1	You may know me as the least corrupt person ever to come out of New Jersey, but in my spare
0:36.9	time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's
0:41.0	key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:44.4	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode anywhere you listen to podcasts.
0:48.3	We're on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Tune In, Stitcher, SoundCloud, and more, or
0:52.8	just visit recode.net slash podcasts for more.
0:56.4	Today we have a special episode for you.
0:58.9	Recode senior policy and politics editor Tony Rom spoke with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker
1:03.3	recently in Washington, D.C.
1:05.4	They talked about the future of the Democratic Party, how he's looking at the tech industry
1:09.1	and whether the U.S. Senate is broken beyond repair.
1:12.5	Take it away, Tony.
1:13.5	Alright, things Karr, I'm sitting here with Senator Cory Booker, Democratic Senator from
1:17.7	New Jersey.
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