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Cory Booker: “We had to pass bipartisan legislation forcing [the…”

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

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Senator Booker: Delaney Hall is an Affront to our Common Decency

Published | Video Starts at 00:33

We know that this administration claimed that they wanted to be transparent and open, but yet, during the entire time, not only were they not transparent, not open, We had to pass bipartisan legislation forcing [the administration's] hands [to be transparent]. And even then, we didn't get all the documents. But what we did get, unfortunately, is a retraumatizing of many of the victims. (00:33–00:47)

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Asserts that bipartisan legislation was necessary to force the administration to be transparent.

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