Sen. Cory Booker Has a Message for Pot Smokers

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🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has rolled out the kind of marijuana legalization bill progressives love to fawn over and libertarians love to ridicule. The plan would pressure states to legalize marijuana by withholding federal money. Booker cedes that the bill's passage doesn't seem imminent, but he likens marijuana legalization to gay marriage, another proposal that saw a rapid surge in popular support: "I'm believing in—I'm claiming a sea change coming in the future." In the Spiel, what is justice for Bowe Bergdahl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	["The Last Song of the Year"]
0:07.9	It's Friday, October 27, 2017, from Slate,
0:10.8	it's the Gistai, Mike Pesca.
0:12.9	We have yet another entry in the chronicles of Donald Trump,
0:16.9	man who has never been photographed with a suit jacket off,
0:20.9	yet still is a working-class hero.
0:23.7	Yesterday, and this quote is about John Kelly, not Trump,
0:27.7	but it was about Kelly's appeal to Trump.
0:31.1	This was some stuff that Trump likes about Kelly,
0:33.8	and what makes the former general so darn grounded,
0:36.3	it was said by Tom Cotton as quoted in the New York Times,
0:38.8	and it's this, I think he appreciates the struggles
0:41.5	of America's working-class.
0:43.7	The blue-collar workers, over the last 30, 40 years,
0:47.0	the kind of people who take a shower after they get off work,
0:50.7	not before they go to work.
0:52.8	Yeah, I can really see Trump, Kelly, and Trump
0:56.1	going for that idea, wanting a guy in the cabinet
0:59.3	who appeals to that kind of person.
1:02.0	That's Trump in a nutshell, isn't it?
1:04.1	I'm sure when he hired from the Wharton School of Business
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