Playbook Deep Dive

Dissecting a moment: Booker piles on Biden

Cory Booker, in search of his first bona fide “moment” as he tries to
work his way up in the presidential race, came ready to lunge into his
critique of Joe Biden’s new criminal justice proposal as too little, too
late to fix the problem of mass incarceration, after Biden’s authorship
of punitive crime legislation in the ‘90s. POLITICO national political
reporter Chris Cadelago joins host Scott Bland to analyze an important
moment from round two of the second Democratic debate on Tuesday night.

Welcome to Playbook Deep Dive, the stories behind the power. From Congress and the White House to bar stools and back rooms, POLITICO Playbook’s Ryan Lizza brings you interviews with the most compelling and important figures who explain what’s really going on in Washington.