Cory Booker: “My office and most senators have staffs that are better than…”

“… are evil as opposed to saying there is misery and suffering in that region and perhaps we can find ways to work to end it during that crisis. You know, My office and most senators have staffs that are better than them. We were using the way we were trying to position ourselves as people that could have conversations with Palestinian leaders, conversations with Israeli leaders. because I said our moral urgency is to stop people dying. And we found ways that perhaps we would not have been able to, to get sick Gazan children out …” (25:26–25:39)

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