The president has strayed from the party’s principles of free trade, and Republicans have been split on their response
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Trump bucks GOP orthodoxy on trade
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker , D-N.J., is coming out against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh , saying if you don’t oppose the judge, you are “complicit in evil.” What’s behind the heated rhetoric? As CBS2’s Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reports, Booker appears to be positioning himself to run for president in 2020 with a call to defeat Kavanaugh. “You are either complicit in the evil, you are either contributing to the wrong, or you are fighting against it,” he said, trying mightily to outdo progressive icons Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and others by invoking the Bible in passionate attempt to derail President Donald Trump’s pick for the court. “I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, there is no bystander,” he added. Speaking at the press conference with religious and political leaders, Booker insisted “this is not a political moment, this is not a partisan moment; this is a moral moment.” Hogwash, political experts say. “For him to say it’s not political, it’s moral is something that many people would suggest is absolutely not true,” said Jeanne Zaino, a professor of political science at Iona College. She called Booker’s comments “inflamed rhetoric” – words that will have little effect in convincing red state Democrats to vote against Kavanaugh. “In the end, Democrats can do very little on this nomination, which is why this is more about people like Cory Booker setting themselves up to appeal to the progressive left in advance of 2020, where he is… one of the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination.” “Doesn’t matter what Senator Booker said, this is pure politics. He’s found his #MeToo moment,” political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said. “Kavanaugh could be a stick figure in a field, as far as this is concerned. This is Cory Booker’s direct shot at Donald Trump to get in line to be president of the United States.” “He has shown us who he is,” Booker said. “In a moral moment, will we do nothing?” Sheinkopf said this is Booker’s attempt to elbow others out of the way, including U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand , D- N.Y. But she has one advantage: her Senate seat is up this year, so she’s free to run for anything in 2020. Booker’s seat, however, is up in 2020. Whether he decides to run for one race or both simultaneously remains to be seen.
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‘This Is A Moral Moment:’ Sen. Booker’s Crusade Against Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A police officer in New Jersey is being credited with saving a life after a man on railroad tracks who was unaware an oncoming train was about to hit him. Perth Amboy officer Kyle L. Savoia’s body camera recorded him racing to intercept a man in a red shirt laying face down on the tracks, unaware of a train barreling towards him last week. Savoia waved to stop the train while shouting at the dazed man, who got up and jumped out of the way at the last moment as the train rolled to an abrupt stop. “Where’d you come from?” the man says afterwards. “Thank you, oh my God, thank you so much.” The 22-year-old Savoia was dispatched for a welfare check at the Perth Amboy station Thursday around 8 a.m. The officer says when he got the call he knew there’d be a man on the tracks, but he didn’t realized there would be an oncoming train. Once he saw it bearing down, he knew he’d have to act fast. “In a split second I decided to start running,” he told CBS2. “In that situation, your training takes over.” It turns out he man was homeless, and after being taken to Raritan Bay Medical Center treatment he showed up at police headquarters to thank Savoia again. “He said I’m a true hero to him,” Savoia said. “That he had a two-year-old, that he had a family to go home to.” Savoia lost his own father, a longtime sergeant with the Perth Amboy Police Department, just two years ago. “What I thought of was his father, how proud his father would be in heaven looking down on his son,” Perth Amboy Chief Roman McKeon said. Ask Savoia, whose own career started only seven years ago, and he’ll tell you he was just doing his job.
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Heartstopping Video Shows Quick-Thinking Cop Warn Man In Path Of Oncoming Train
Victor Bolden Jr. says he unknowingly used a supplement that was on the league’s banned substance list, which has resulted in a four-game suspension for the 49ers wide receiver.
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49ers WR Bolden banned four games for PEDs
Powered by Stephen Curry’s breakout third-quarter performance, the Warriors captured a come-from-behind victory in Game 7 and clinch their fourth straight Finals appearance.
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Kerr on Curry’s golden 3Q: ‘Not surprising’
