Transcript for Sen. Cory Booker on how he can bridge the divide in America

We're back with Cory booker. Take it, Ana. I wanted to ask you, so, the last two years under president loco have seen a spike in hate crimes, homophobia, anti-immigrant crime. Anybody that is a person of color is a target. You know, his comments haven't helped. It creates culture wars, things like the anthem. How do we heal that? How do we move on from that? How do you propose to heal that? That's one of the calls that I feel to run right now. I feel like the strength of my economic ideas, environmental justice ideas are really strong. But look, I faced tough problems when I was managing a city in recession and we learned really early on political fights and the like I realized that what my city needed was healers, people that bring folks together. There's an old saying if you want to go fast, go alone but if you want to go far, go together. The biggest threat, the cancer in many ways in our country right now is a caustic type of politics that wants to pit us against each other and create the illusion of separateness. We need to put that indivisible back and address the injustices in our country and tell the truth to people. And look, I think when people make a mistake, they think to be tough you need to be cruel. They think to be strong you need to be mean. Some of the strongest people I've ever seen are those who risk a little bit of vulnerability, who stand with unarmed love in front of dogs and fire hoses and batons. We need to reignite a sense of civic grace in our country. We need to not be so quick to judge each other and we need to begin to see that we are in this together. No matter what, we're in this together. And so that's what I'm going to be talking about a lot in this campaign, not only the issues but the spirit of our country because I know I am here -- I'm here because of those folks who understood that we're in this together. I may not look like you or pray like you but my destiny is attached to your destiny and from stormy beaches in normandy to Alice Paul in front of the white house -- people forget Frederick Douglass' last meeting that he went to before he died was a suffragette meeting. That's what we've got to get back to in this country. Let me ask you about something I feel strongly about. In fact, it's keeping me up at night. First of all, we've just experienced the longest shutdown in history. Then I found out there are still kids separated from their families at the border. Some kids are 17 months old. This is making my nuts. What are the Democrats going to do about that, and why don't we hear about it every single minute of the day? I want to double down on what you're saying. We also found out from a recent report that there are thousands, many more children affected than was originally admitted. I know. And when we say the Democrats, the question is not what the Democrats but what we do. Every moment in our lives we have one choice to make over and over again, to accept things as they are or take responsibility for changing them. The problem today is not the vitriolic words of the bad people but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. What I'm calling folks to do is forget political labels. This is a moral vandalism on the ideals of our country. We swear an Earth every day when we put our hands on our hearts and pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all. The last thing I'll say is it's not just my mom who taught Sunday school said love thy neighbor. No exceptions. No people just have a vote. We don't have the power that the Democrats and the Republicans have. We don't have Nancy Pelosi's clout. We can protest which we do on a regular basis on this show. I'm asking you what is your party, your party and mine, what are you going to do about it? And I'm telling you the question is what is our country going to do about it. When you say the individual person doesn't have power -- Tell us what we should do. First of all, understand -- I've said this for years -- the power of the people is greater than the people in power. And know this, that the most common way people surrender their power is not recognizing they have it in the first place. The first thing to do is not to be silent. The second thing is when I went down to the border, I was blown away by the volunteers I saw showing up there, the people that were willing to go out, literally walk out onto the bridges where people are trying to do the legal thing and present themselves for asylum and protest that. If folks waited for Strom Thurman to come down to the senate floor one day and say, it's about time those Negro people have rights, no. Change doesn't come from Washington, it comes to Washington. They can call. They can call, they can protest, they can serve, they can volunteer, they can give resources. Look, I'm running a campaign. I'm not taking corporate money. I'm not taking pact money. I'm not taking lobbyist money. I'm trying to say if you believe like I do in this country that we need to reignite that spirit that brings our country together, then stand with me. Let's show that the power of the people is greater than the people in power by making small contributions, going to coreybooker.com, texting rise to 4023. This is to me what we need to do, understand that we are not powerless. We are stronger than we know. We are more powerful than we believe and when we stand together and come together, I'm telling you I know what the destiny of this nation is. It's not the pit we're in right now, the darkness we're in. We are going to be as Elijah called us, a light unto nations. We're going to rise, the

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