Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) had his feet held to the fire on a podcast hosted by two suburban moms from Oklahoma who were quick to call “bullshit” on his answers. Booker, an expectant candidate for president in 2028, appeared on the popular left-wing “I’ve Had It” podcast, and from the jump, co-host Jennifer Welch threw some hardball questions at him.“There are votes that you’ve made that were heartbreaking to me, like the vote for Kushner. That really pissed me off,” she said, referring to Booker being the only Democrat in May to vote in favor of confirming Charles Kushner, the father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, as the U.S. ambassador to France.“What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in, and where the Democratic Party is right now?” Welch asked.Booker responded by saying Democrats are too critical of each other.Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July.Tom Williams via Getty Images“One of the things I dislike about the Democrat Party is that we do a circular firing squad all the time. ...There’s a lot of disagreements in the Republican tent, and yet they don’t shoot at each other,” he said, saying Democrats force “purity tests” on one another.Welch cut him off: “That’s such bullshit,” she said, noting that Trump has “sent so many people out to pasture,” including former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney.“Come on!” an exasperated Booker responded.Later in the interview, Welch called out Booker for taking around $800,000 from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and posing for a photo op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July.“I was just like, ‘What in the actual fuck? Like, how can he do that?’ It was heartbreaking. I felt betrayed,” Welch said, saying she felt like it “diminished” his record-breaking, 25-hour speech on the Senate floor months earlier.Jennifer Welch speaks onstage in New York in June.Bryan Bedder via Getty ImagesBooker said it’s important to have conversations with people like Netanyahu, with whom he says he has “real problems” over the “outrageous things that he’s doing.”“I want to look him in the eye ... and talk to him about humanitarian aid. And if people want to criticize me for it, then go ahead,” Booker continued.The conversation got heated again when Welch asked Booker point-blank if he believed Netanyahu to be a war criminal. Booker sidestepped the question, saying questions like that are “loaded and hot” and meant to be a “litmus test” that ultimately “undermine” the urgency he’s trying to raise about conflict in the Middle East.Welch told Booker his answer was unsatisfactory to many people in his party.“What happens to Democratic politicians is they go through this like, prism, and then we can’t ever get the answer to yes-or-no conversations,” she said.You can watch the full interview here. Close