'Should I become president, I'll evaluate one of those emergencies, if they come up,' he told DailyMail.com at a house party in Manchester. 'Unless we can do — which I think we can — a massive change in Congress, new Congress people, which we're already starting to see happening. I'm not taking PAC money, corporate PAC money, I'm not taking federal lobbyists' money, I'm not taking PhRMA exec money,' he pledged. 'I think you declare a national emergency when there is a national emergency. Pressed to say whether gun violence in America is a national emergency, Booker said, 'Again, what we have right now in our country is an urgency to do something about gun violence.

Source: Daily Mail February 17, 2019 23:27 UTC