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Cory Booker: “He's broken what Colin Powell would say, the Pottery Barn…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Cory Booker GOES OFF on Trump and Democrats' Tax Plan

Published | Video Starts at 08:41

And he's changed the story multiple times from unconditional surrender, all the things he wanted it as an off ramp, he continues to change them. Now he's in crisis. He's broken what Colin Powell would say, the Pottery Barn rule. If you break it, you buy it or you fix it. But yet now he's saying even the straight of Hormuz, which I was the but for clause. But for him doing this, we would not be in the worst global oil shock ever. (08:41–08:48)

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Asserts that Trump has violated the principle of responsibility for the consequences of his actions.

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