Cory Booker: “Giving pardons to people that savagely beat police officers…”

“In fact, my Republican colleagues sometimes have said the exact opposite. And then he goes and does it and then the run to defend him, like, you know, Giving pardons to people that savagely beat police officers who were trying to protect this verythat very chamber. So we are beyond the point at which people have to ask, is this right? It is not right. This is dead wrong. And Congress should do something.” (04:25–04:33)

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