the ambassador, the woman, she wouldn t even put up she s an obama person, you know. i said why are you being so kind? well, sir, she s a woman. we have to be nice. we started to see his default mode. his default mode is always to judge against the president of the united states. that s problematic. there s no reason that anybody in our government across our administration should be actively working against the president. that was president trump and his fellow republicans, taking shots at some of the witnesses who testified so far during the impeachment inquiry. during the impeachment inquiry. secretary of state john kerry. mr. secretary, if you were a member of the united states senate, where you worked so long, would you vote to convict and remove this president from first of all, when i was a senator, i never dealt with
case of navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. we ll talk about that in a moment. and then there is this. are you afraid, mr. mayor, that you could be indicted? oh, wow. how long have you known me, ed? i ve known you several years. do you think i get afraid? i don t know. i did the right thing. i represented my client in a very, very effective way. you should have jumped all over this in 2015 when this awful conflict was mentioned. sure. and it was hidden and suppressed by the washington press. but you don t the reality is, i m embarrassing you, because you didn t do your job and i m also going to bring out a pay for play scheme in the obama administration that will be devastating to the democratic party. i expected, the moment i heard biden s name. sure. i told my colleagues, they re going to try to kill me, because they re going to try to kill the messenger. but the mafia couldn t kill me.
even when it was found unconstitutional, he angrily said that nothing would change. he just reversed course saying he apologizes for that. i think a lot of candidates will be, one, focusing on that tactic in particular. a democratic primary still runs right through african-american communities. the second thing, of course, is that no one has been able to touch joe biden when it comes to his support among african-americans. i ve talked to voters, especially in south carolina, who see joe biden as not just a good person because he was the vice president of barack obama, but as someone who really reflects the decision-making of barack obama. i had voters tell me, i don t want to overrule president obama by going with someone else because if he was good enough for obama, why should i turn on joe biden. that, to me, was something different that i hadn t heard when i wasn t talking to voters. put yourself in michael bloomberg s position for a second. he surveys the spectrum of the 2020 fie
who spoke with him directly. and in the senate, at least two gop committee chairs are going forward with investigations of their own, but their investigations are into the obama administration and joe biden. joining me now is democratic senator from new jersey and 2020 presidential candidate, cory booker. senator, great to have you with us. thank you very much for joining us this evening. thank you. it s really good to be on. have your democratic colleagues, do you think, made their case, or are there more pieces to put together on the impeachment front? well, clearly, there is. i mean, this is the problem with this whole investigation, is that you have a president that s refusing to submit himself to the checks and balances of congress, to the oversight of congress. he s refusing to allow key witnesses from mulvaney to giuliani, who could tell the full truth to us, could stand
senate trial they will go on the offense. 2016 white house meetings between the obama administration and the ukrainian government were requested just this week. senator johnson, as you very well know, chairman of the very same committee that you re on, sir, this does suggest that the republicans are starting their counter investigation. what do you make of this if, in fact, everything plays out as expected? it s hard to say. we haven t really heard any counter arguments. some very disturbing things have come out. they re pursuing their constitutional obligation to get to the facts. it s unfortunate that the administration is not providing documents that they should. congress is a co-equal branch of government. the american people need transparency in order to get to the facts, particularly when you re dealing with issues of national security. we have yet to see exactly what the counter arguments are, which leads me to believe that they