Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. April 30th marks 100 days of Donald Trump's second term. And in that short time, the administration has carried out an unprecedented series of attacks.

against legal immigrants, against civic institutions and universities, against the rule of law itself. The president's tariff policy in all its chaos has absolutely tanked the global economy. Many Americans who are anguished about the administration are looking for someone to lead the opposition. Because the Democratic Party has, with some exceptions, been very cautious, and congressional Republicans, in the words of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, are all afraid to stand up to Trump. So in the face of this anguish, on March 31, Corey Booker of New Jersey launched an epic protest.

on the floor of the Senate. Maybe you're an immigrant that's never broken the law, maybe you're a citizen. Even if you think the administration's immigration agenda doesn't apply to you, please know that the reckless behavior we're seeing erodes all of our rights. And the American mother and the American child right now, whose husband was unjustly and illegally deported and is right now in an El Salvadorian prison? Booker's

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