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Hi, everyone. It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to Work in Progress, friends. We certainly have a smarty joining us today.

On days when I just don't understand what's happening anymore, when it seems like there's rules

for some of us and no rules for the people who need them, I want to be able to phone a friend,

but phone a friend in government, you know?

And today we are joined by a good friend to progress, to women, to everyone who's not a cheating

elite, I suppose.

Today we're joined by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

He is sitting at the center of so many fights.

When military action is bypassing Congress, when media power is rapidly consolidating and monopolies are being formed,

when the guardrails of democracy feel increasingly fragile.

It gets hard to feel like we know which threats matter most, and yet we know we need to show up to the fight,

and we need leaders to fight for us. And that's what Cory Booker does through his work on the Senate

Judiciary Committee and its Antitrust Subcommittee. He is directly involved in questions about all of these

things. War powers, corporate consolidation, overseeing unfair immigration enforcement, the limits

of executive authority, issues that aren't theoretical but are unfolding in real time. And while he is

pushing back on the abuse of power, he is also trying to

create a better path forward. Perhaps because his career itself was shaped by the belief that

leadership should be grounded in moral conviction. Perhaps because he grew up a kid experiencing both the lack of civil rights and the way that civil rights can change the course of a family's life.

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