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Cory Booker: “The [Department of Justice] is trashing the Constitution…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:30

Got him. It is. It is an agency that is doing such destructive things to our well being and our safety. What I mean by that The [Department of Justice] is trashing the Constitution, investigating the Fed chair, investigating senators and congresspeople. They're approving mergers. What they used to give a lot more substantive analysis. Now they're letting this mass corporate concentration, they've moved out FBI agents who are focused on our national security, our voting security, and more to do immigration enforcement. (01:30–04:01)

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Asserts that the Department of Justice is improperly investigating officials and trashing the Constitution.

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