♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY.
WE ARE BACK WITH SENATOR CORY BOOKER.
SENATOR, LET'S TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MAYBE A LITTLE BIT
HOPEFUL IN ALL OF THIS.
ONE OF THE MOMENTS I THOUGHT WAS BEST FOR VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN
TONIGHT IS WHEN HE LOOKED IN THE CAMERA, AND BASICALLY SAID,
"DON'T LISTEN TO THE HOPELESS MESSAGES YOU GET FROM THIS MAN.
YOU GET TO VOTE.
YOUR VOTE WILL BE COUNTED.
YOU DECIDE WHETHER YOU GET ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF CHAOS AND
LIES FROM THIS MAN.
NOT HIM."
>> YES.
>> Stephen: ISN'T THAT-- ISN'T THAT WHAT WE HAVE TO TAKE FROM
THIS?
>> YOU KNOW, WE DO.
I MEAN, THAT'S THE EXCITING THING ABOUT THIS GREAT AMERICAN
EXPERIMENT IS WE REALLY BROKE WITH THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS
AND CREATED THIS PROFOUND NATION WHERE THE PEOPLE GET A SAY.
AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ELECTIONS WHERE WE ALL HAVE TO
REALIZE THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO BE TRIUMPHANT IS FOR
GOOD PEOPLE TO DO NOTHING.
AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO ASK YOURSELF, "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO
DO RIGHT NOW?" YOU KNOW, KING SAID IT IT.
KING'S HARSHEST WORD, READ THE LETTERS FROM THE BIRMINGHAM
JAIL, WERE NOT TO THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS, THE K.K.P.
HE SAID I'M WRITING TO THE MODERATES NOT DOING NOTHING.
IT'S NOT THE VITRIOLIC WORDS OF BAD PEOPLE.
IT'S THE SILENCE AND INACTION OF GOOD PEOPLE.
THIS IS MOMENT.
IF YOU HAVEN'T DECIDED YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE, IF YOU HAVEN'T
MADE A PLAN, AS MICHELLE OBAMA SAID, TO WAIT IN LONG LINES,
PACK TWO LUNCHES, THIS IS THE MOMENT YOU GET TO DETERMINE THE
DISIN'S OF THIS NATION, NO DONALD TRUMP, NO MATTER WHAT HE
SAYS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE TRIES TO JANGLE THREATS, AND
MENACES.
THIS IS OUR DECISION TO MAKE COLLECTIVELY AS A COUNTRY.
IT'S NOT A REFERENDUM ON HIM.
IT'S A REFERENDUM ON US, ON WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO
DO.
>> Stephen: AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO VOTE, GO TO
BETTERKNOWABALLOT.COM.
WE HAVE HOW TO VOTE BY MAIL, HOW TO VOTE EARLY, AND ON THE DAY OF
FOR EVERY STATE.
GO CHECK IT OUT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT A SUBJECT THAT CAME UP TONIGHT, A COUPLE OF
TIMES ACTUALLY, AND IT WAS ABOUT THE NOMINATION OF AMY CONEY
BARRETT TO REPLACE THE SEAT OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
YOU'RE ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
HOW DO YOU IMAGINE THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS ARE GOING TO GO?
DO YOU KNOW AT THIS POINT WHEN THE HEARINGS START?
FORGIVE ME FOR NOT KNOWING THAT.
>> MID-OCTOBER.
LINDY GRAHAM, WHO SAID EXPLICITLY, MONTHS AGO, THAT IF
A ADVOCACY VACANCY COMES OUT, WE WILL NOT TRY TO FILL IT, "USE MY
WORD AGAINST ME."
HE IS BREAKING HIS WORD.
>> Stephen: I'M FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THERE IS ONE THING
THEY CARE ABOUT DOWN THERE AND THT IS HONOR.
AND T THAT IS A DISHONORABLE THG TO HAVE DONE.
>> I AM STUNNED.
THE VIDEO IS VERY CLEAR.
>> Stephen: THAT'S VERY SWEET THAT YOU'RE STUNNED BY LINDSEY
GRAHAM LYING.
>> THAT'S VERY NICE OF YOU.
I CALL IT NAIVETE.
BUT I-- TO ME, I STILL HAVE TO BE A PRISONER OF HOPE WHEN IT
COMES TO PEOPLE WHO LOOK YOU IN THE EYE AND SAY WHAT THEY'RE
GOING TO DO.
FOR THIS TO BE SUCH A SUDDEN FLIP IS JUST DISAPPOINTING.
WHEN PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO VOTE IN AMERICA.
AND WHEN THIS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, THEY'RE RUSHING THEM ON
THE COURT TO GET THERE BEFORE THE ORAL ARGUMENTS ON THE
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
DONALD TRUMP SAYS I'M GOING TO TEAR DOWN THE AFFORDABLE CARE
ACT, AND ALL THE PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH PREEXISTING
CONDITIONS, ALL THE PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE THAT MIGHT HAVE
EXCEEDED LIFETIME CAPS.
REMEMBER THOSE BEFORE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, SO WE CAN
TEAR DOWN YOUR HEALTH CARE.
>> Stephen: BUT ALL SO HE CAN HAVE NINE JUSTICES ON THERE, AND
HE WANTS PEOPLE HE'S APPOINTED IN CASE HE CAN DRIVE THIS
ELECTION ALL THE WAY TO THE COURTS.
THAT'S ANOTHER CHILLING MOMENT.
>> YEAH, HE WANTS IT TOIK IT OUT OF THE HANDS OF PEOPLE AND
BALLOTS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN MAILED IN BEFORE THE ELECTION
DAY BUT MAY ARRIVE AFTERWARDS, HE WANTS TO TRY TO CALL THAT
ILLEGITIMATE AND DRIVE IT TO THE SUPREME COURT AND LET HIS PICKS
DECIDE HIS FATE.
AND THAT MAKES ME CALL INTO QUESTION WHAT KIND OF
CONVERSATIONS.
HE ALREADY REQUESTED COMEY, WE KNOW HE WENT TO SOMEBODY AND
SAID, "HEY, ARE YOU GOING TO BE LOYAL?"
HE HAD LOYALTY TESTS FOR OTHER MEMBERS THAT HE'S BEEN ABLE TO
APPOINT.
THE QUESTION IS, IS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS SUPREME COURT
NOMINATION?
AND THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE SHE SHOULD RECUSE HERSELF.
SHE SHOULD SAY RIGHT NOW TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE I'M NOT GOING TO
POLITICAL SIZE AND DELEGITIMIZE THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND.
IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION,
LET THE NEXT PRESIDENT DECIDE, AT LEAST I'M GOING TO TRY TO
GIVE SOME LEVEL OF INTEGRITY TO THE COURTS AND SAY I WILL RECUSE
MYSELF FROM ANY MATTERS REVOLVING AROUND THIS ELECTION.
>> Stephen: SO FAR, WE KNOW THAT SCHUMER, HIRONO, AND
BLUMENTHAL PLAN ON BOYCOTTING MEETINGS WITH AMY CONEY BARRETT.
ARE YOU PLANNING ON MEETING WITH HER?
>> I'M GOING TO HAVE A HEARING WITH HER BEFORE THE HEARINGS
START.
I WANT TO HAVE A DIRECT CONVERSATION WITH HER, FOR THE
SAKE OF THE RUK, AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE COURT, SHE
SHOULD RECUSE HERSELF.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG DIDN'T KNOW THE OUTCOME OF THIS ELECTION ARE
BUT HER LAST PUBLIC STATEMENT WAS SHE REQUEST THEY WAIT.
AND SHE SAID THAT NOT BECAUSE SHE HAD INSIGHT INTO WHO WOULD
WIN, BUT SHE BELIEVED THE LEGITIMACY OF THE COURT IN THE
EYES OF AMERICA HAS TO BE SUSTAINED.
AND FOR THIS TO BE VIOLATED, I'M REALLY HOPING THIS NOMINEE
UNDERSTANDS HER PLACE IN HISTORY AND WILL RECUSE HERSELF.
>> Stephen: SENATOR, THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
GOOD LUCK WITH THOSE HEARINGS.
I HOPE THEY ARE-- I HOPE THEY ARE LESS EMBARRASSING IN THE END
THAN TONIGHT'S DEBATE WAS.
AND WE'LL SEE YOU SOON.
SENATOR CORY BOOKER, EVERYBODY.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK RIGHT BACK WITH "MEANWHILE."
STICK AROUND.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: THANK YOU, SIR.