Claire McCaskill: Booker Vocally Criticizing His Democrat Colleagues Was ‘Unusual,’ ‘Worrisome’

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>> Comply, allow him beg for scraps. No, I.
>> Demand justice. It’s time for Democrats to have a backbone.
>> It’s time for us to fight. It’s time for us to draw lines. And when.
>> It comes. To the.
>> Safety of my state being denied. These grants, that’s why.
>> I’m standing here.
>> Don’t question.
>> My integrity. Don’t question my motives.
>> I’m standing for jersey.
>> I am standing.
>> For my police officers. I’m standing.
>> For the Constitution, and I’m standing for what’s right. Let’s bring in MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle. Mike, what say you?
>> Well, it’s great theater that we.
>> Just.
>> Saw Cory Booker.
>> A good.
>> Guy, standing up and yelling.
>> And the floor.
>> Of the United States Senate.
>> What I don’t.
>> Understand is he’s yelling at two other Democrats. The Democrats.
>> Have enough problems. They have enough.
>> Problems in this country defining themselves to.
>> People, making.
>> Sure that.
>> People know.
>> Know they are alive. They are.
>> Interested in your life. They are interested in.
>> You solving your problems.
>> But. Claire McCaskill, what say you?
>> Yeah.
>> Well, here’s what’s going on. The Democratic base is starving for a fighter. They’re starving for a fight. They want people to fight Donald Trump because everyone is so frustrated and angry.
>> And.
He’s doing and how he’s doing it, and the cowardice of the Republicans across the aisle in the Senate who are knowingly doing terrible things. To casting votes that I would never dreamt they would have cast when I was serving with them in the Senate. So you got that on one side. On the other side, you have Cory Booker unfairly criticizing two strong Democrats that are doing everything they can in their power to fight Donald Trump. And you know, amy’s right. There’s a way to change a bill. And then there’s a way to get in the opening segment of Morning Joe and on the front page of The New York Times. And cory chose the latter rather than the former. He knew