RNC Chair: Cory Booker Was ‘Disrespectful’ and Was ‘Mansplaining’ to DHS Secretary

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CUOMO: “Now, another sticking point in terms of the comedy, the working together of the two parties is what happened in that second meeting when Durbin and Graham presented this plan and the president got ugly about his preference for who we wants in this country. And part of the fallout wound up being the Senate panel interviewing the Homeland Secretary Nielsen and her saying she doesn’t recall. She got into it with Cory Booker. You accused Booker of mansplaining to Nielsen, Secretary Nielsen, who is, of course, a woman. Why? Why did you call it that?"
MCDANIEL: "Well, Chris, I just think it -- it would have been covered differently if it were a Republican senator yelling or lecturing a woman coming before the Senate, not giving her a chance to explain herself, grandstanding. I know he’s auditions for 2020 -- I understand that, but he was disrespectful and he did mansplain to her. And she's an intelligent woman, she's the secretary of Homeland Security and she deserved an opportunity to answer his rant.“
CUOMO: “Well she was there for a long time. She was answering, she just kept saying the same things. Here was Booker’s response. I want your response to his response.”
MCDANIEL: "Sure."
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BOOKER: "First of all, I’m glad they’re finally attacking me. They attack senators almost every single day. But it’s a little insulting to say I should be treating cabinet secretaries one way or another depending on their gender. ... I’m standing here as a United States Senator in my official capacity challenging a cabinet secretary who is lying before the Senate on an issue that affects my state as well as this nation, as well as us internationally, something as serious as her lying about overt bigotry coming out of the -- out of the White House."
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