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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Recode Decode: Cory Booker, U.S. Senator
Description: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker talks with Recodeās Tony Romm about the current state of politics under President Trump and how he thinks the U.S. government should respond to the tech sector. Booker says heās eager to see Trump gone, but that Democrats canāt solely define themselves as the āresistanceā and shouldnāt sink to his level of online vitriol. He argues that Congress should take a skeptical look at the consolidation of companies like Amazon and Whole Foods, and not accept at face value that techās role should be āto create a handful of billionairesā...