At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke about President Trump's cryptocurrency.
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00:00So first, allow me a point of personal privilege to say a word about my chairman, Dick Durbin.
00:06I came to the Senate about 13 years ago, and in Dick Durbin I found a mentor, a friend, and a true leader.
00:17There are a lot of bills that I lead in the Senate that are associated with me that actually were bills that Dick Durbin gave me to lead,
00:24and I will tell you this, the mark of a great leader, in my opinion, is not somebody who says, follow me,
00:30but that empowers other people to be leaders as well.
00:33He has 18 months left, but I wanted to take this opportunity to tell him again publicly how great he is in my eyes
00:40and how grateful I am for him shaping my career, so thank you very much.
00:44So, 100 days. I do not need to speak. Schumer does not need to speak.
00:49The truth of the matter is, the American public has already rendered their verdict.
00:53This is the most failing failure, fantastically, of any president in four generations.
01:00The American public has already made it clear, Donald Trump, you have failed us.
01:04He has the lowest approval rating of any president in 80 years.
01:10And why?
01:12Because he has consistently said one thing and done another.
01:15He has lied to the American people and betrayed those people who put their act of civic trust, their vote, for him.
01:22How so? Well, first and foremost, he said that he would manage the economy better.
01:26He said that he would lower people's costs on day one.
01:31Across the board, across the board, we see Americans' prices for home goods, for baby carriages, for groceries going up and up and up.
01:41And he has so tanked the economy that there are thousands of Americans right now who thought they would retire this year because their 401ks had enough resources for them to do that that are putting off their retirement.
01:54Number two is he said he would drain the swamp.
01:57Well, this is a staggering lie.
02:00This president has literally brought in the greatest corruption in the White House ever.
02:06Exhibit one, frankly, is this meme coin that he created.
02:11He has literally done something that is so unconscionable that he is selling attendance at the White House to people who buy his meme coin, which is a way for people just to deposit money.
02:22Number three, this president has already grifted millions and millions of dollars from his position while costs are going up.
02:29This president has eviscerated people like inspector generals who were put into place to call out corruption.
02:38Number three, this president has been a foreign policy failure.
02:43He again told the American public, I will bring an end to the Ukrainian war on day one, to the invasion of Ukraine.
02:53And what he has done instead is he has called a hero, a dictator and coddled up to the dictator in Putin.
03:02In addition to that, he has alienated our allies, said in the most demeaning and degrading way that he was going to make Canada a 51st state.
03:12And gave license to China to have influence across the globe as we, through our cuts in USAID, have retreated.
03:22We had sent a few people over after the disaster in Myanmar who got fired while they were doing the job,
03:28while the Chinese stepped up and brought millions and millions of dollars of resources to people.
03:32That used to be America.
03:36He lied. He said he was going to be a champion of free speech.
03:40And now he is attacking college campuses.
03:42Cutting resources that we need for scientific investment.
03:46Going after private businesses like law firms and making them heal in front of him,
03:51or he will unleash economic peril in a way that is unconstitutional and illegal.
03:58And finally, this president is trashing our Constitution.
04:02Again, don't listen to us here in Congress.
04:04Listen to the Supreme Court itself.
04:06When the chief justice of the Supreme Court does the rare thing to rebuke a president who called for the impeachment of a judge because he didn't like his decision.
04:20He is not respecting the separation of powers and the equal power of each branch.
04:28But more than that, the way he intimidates and trolls judges has seen threats on our judges go up as he has singled people out and targeted them online.
04:38This is the president that now has no respect for our Constitution or our constitutional traditions.
04:46And so again, the American people have spoken.
04:48He has set a record in my lifetime and beyond for fantastic failing in a way that truly has even Republicans standing now against him on his policies.
05:01We are in a crisis moment.
05:04This president is out of control.
05:08And the question is not what Democrats are going to do, but what the Republicans in Congress will do.
05:13They know it is wrong, this tariff war he has unleashed on the globe.
05:18They know it is wrong when the Secretary of Defense violates our national security with his use of a public act.
05:26The Republicans here know it is wrong.
05:28What he is doing in undermining bipartisan spending plans.
05:35They know it is wrong when he is impounding dollars that go to help local communities.
05:38The question is, what will, after 100 days, Congress people do as we now see a bill in this work period that is threatening to cut health care for millions and millions of Americans?
05:50Why?
05:50Why gut Medicaid, which he promised he wouldn't do?
05:53Why is he pushing to do that?
05:55Because he wants to give more tax cuts to the wealthiest in our country.
05:59It is time for more people to step up and say, this is not left or right.
06:03It is right or wrong.
06:06This is not about party.
06:08This is about patriotism.
06:09It's time for a call to conscience of all Americans, Republican or Democrat, to say, no, stop the lies.
06:15Stop the corruption and do not keep your hands off the Medicaid of millions and millions of Americans.