Sen. Cory Booker: This Is a Grave Situation, This Is a Time for Courage

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Pressure than stand tall for policies and principles.
>> Well, on that point, we have seen, for example, senator Roger Wicker speak pointedly about Vladimir Putin and speak pointedly in defense of Ukraine. We saw him meet this morning with with Vladimir Zelenskyy and post a tweet of him shaking his hand and talking about how much he supports him, saying how much he was there to support him. He just quietly took that down. After what happened today in the Oval Office, we saw Lindsey Graham go from meeting with Zelenskyy this morning and praising him and talking about his support for him to demanding his resignation as soon as Vance and Trump put on that display. Today, we saw Marco Rubio, who is until recently, was until recently a considered to be sort of a real politic Republican on foreign policy issues in the United States Senate. He sat there inert in the Oval Office today saying nothing, looking green, and then put out a boilerplate North Korea style tweet of praise for Donald Trump as soon as it was done. What what do you make about hope for Republicans showing any sort of resistance here? Is there any?
>> You know, again, this is a shift in our politics that the Senate used to be a place where, right or wrong, people would criticize a president when they stepped out of line, even one of their own party. And here is a situation that is so grave. And my colleagues know this because we meet with these leaders. I was in communication today with an estonian leader. This has struck and struck fear in their country because Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, moldova, these countries know the threat of Russia and worry because Putin is using the same rhetoric with them. He used about the Ukrainian people. This has grand implications beyond just Ukraine and we know our history, but yet our failing to learn from it. If there’s ever a time for political courage, even if it means undermining one’s ability to get reelected, this is a time for courage. And we know from our history when good men do nothing. That is the ingredient that is necessary for evil to be triumphant.
>> New Jersey U.S. senator Cory Booker, senator, I really