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A boy‚ who disappears in a California State Park‚ is later found in good shape after being missing for 2 weeks. The boy says he was taken by the 'Fuzzy Man‚' but was later released.The following account was forwarded to me 3 years ago‚ and I did post it. But I now believe that it could have been a 'Glimmer Man':"My friend‚ who has been with the search &; rescue service in northern California for many years‚ has had a life full of strange encounters and occurrences. I mentioned to her that I was interested in hearing about any experiences she had with people completely disappearing. Her eyes light up‚ and she leans in close to me and says‚ 'Wanna hear a real doozy?'She tells me about how‚ when she first started‚ there was a case that got a lot of attention in the media. A family had been out berry picking in an area of the forest very close to the entrance of the park. They had two little boys‚ both under the age of five‚ and at some point‚ during the day‚ one of them vanished. There's a massive search‚ and they find nothing. It's another of those cases where it's like the kid was never there in the first place. The dogs just sit down and don't pick up on anything‚ no trace of the kid is found.The search goes on for about two months but is eventually called off. Fast forward to six months later. The family comes back to place flowers at a memorial that's been set up there for the kid. They bring their other son. While they're placing the flowers‚ they lose sight of the kid for about three seconds‚ and in that period he vanishes into thin air. Now obviously‚ the parents are beyond devastated. It's awful enough to lose one child‚ but to lose two is beyond imagining.The search is huge‚ one of the largest in state history. About three hundred volunteers are combing every inch of this park‚ looking for the kid. But again‚ there's no trace of him. The search goes on for about a week‚ with people looking miles from the part of the park he vanished from.And then‚ almost two weeks later‚ a volunteer almost fifteen miles from the designated search area radios in that he's found the kid. They assumed that the kid was dead‚ but the volunteer says he's not only alive‚ he's in good shape.My friend's team went out to recover the kid‚ and when they got there‚ she couldn’t believe that this was the kid that's been missing. His clothes are clean‚ there's no dirt on him anywhere‚ and he doesn't appear traumatized. The volunteer says he found the kid sitting on a log‚ playing with a little twig bundle that's bound together with some old rope. She asks him where he's been‚ and who he was with for those two weeks‚ and the kid tells her that he's been with 'the fuzzy man.'Now my friend firmly believes in Bigfoot‚ so she gets all excited and asks what he means by fuzzy. Was he hairy? But the kid says no‚ he wasn't hairy. He was a 'fuzzy man‚' and he describes a blurry man‚ as 'like when you close your eyes but not all the way closed.' He says the man came out of the trees and took the kid with him deep into the woods. The kid says he slept in a hollow tree‚ and the fuzzy man gave him berries to eat. My friend asked if the man was mean‚ if he scared the kid‚ and the kid said 'No‚ he wasn't scary. but I didn't like how he didn't have eyes.'My friend says they get the kid back to headquarters‚ and a cop takes him into town to talk to him more about what happened. She's friends with the cop who talked to him‚ and she said the kid described being kept in this tree by the fuzzy man and given berries whenever he was hungry. He was allowed to wander around a very specific clearing‚ but when he tried to go further‚ the fuzzy man would 'get mad and yell real loud even though he didn't have a mouth'. When the kid got scared at night‚ the fuzzy man 'made it get brighter' and gave him the twig bundle.He said the fuzzy man was going to keep him‚ but he had to let him go because the kid wasn't 'the right kind.' He either can't or won't elaborate more on that. The cops are just sort of left scratching their heads‚ and the search for his brother is renewed with no results. The kid has no idea where his brother might be‚ and they never find him." SRHAVE A COMMENT? GO TO OUR SUBREDDIT AND POST YOUR THOUGHTSJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming&; FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTSUBSCRIBE TO THE PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS TELEGRAM GROUPHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonAccess Phantoms &; Monsters Posts on Twitter 'X'-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! 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Please click the banner above. Thanks.Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonContact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Also available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs‚CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.The Dark Arts of MISTER SAM SHEARON - Original Prints &; MerchandiseThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms &; Monsters - All Rights Reserved

A reader relates her experience with the death of her pet where she believes the event opened a portal through a mirror into the other side. She still has lots of questions.I received the following account from a reader:"I’ve decided to do a spiritual cleansing and then paint a life-size angel on the mirror. Our last border collie‚ Bobby‚ is dying. Until just a couple of days ago‚ cancer hardly seemed to slow him down at all but now it’s become clear that time is running out. Once discovered‚ the vet informed us that there were no options and thankfully there was no pain. My husband and I have that discussion. The one where you decide that tomorrow’s the day you’ll take your loyal friend for one last vet visit. It’s a hard day for us. Especially hard because we lost Bobby’s “sister‚” Deirdre just a couple of months earlier. What started as confining himself to his bed had become a comatose state by early evening. He is breathing regularly but is now unresponsive.As the night continues‚ we know we’ve made the right decision. In my heart‚ I’m hoping that he will pass quietly in this state without the trauma of the vet’s office. I rise from my sleepless bed throughout the night to check on him but his condition remains the same.Around four in the morning‚ I decide to make one last check and to my amazement‚ I find his bed empty. Looking across the stretch of the living room for him‚ I find him in a very strange posture. He’s sitting at attention on one of the sofas. A place he’s never sat before – ever. With a look of rapt attention on his face‚ he is staring wide-eyed across the room at an overly large mirror propped against the wall. I feel as though I’ve intruded on a sacred moment and I wonder if Deirdre has come to get him. He looks fine – better than fine. He looks better than he has for days.I stand here for a full minute or so and he never looks in my direction. I feel like I shouldn’t be seeing this and I decide not to disturb him. Confused and wondering what tomorrow will bring‚ I return to my bed where I finally fall into a deep sleep.In the morning‚ we discover that he has indeed passed over. The trouble begins almost immediately. One of our two small rescues‚ Daisy‚ is suddenly acting out in ways she never has before. Suddenly her head is on a swivel and she has begun to see things in the house that no one else is seeing. It’s as if something unseen is going out of its way to make her crazy. Once she sees this something – she reacts by barking and growling as she follows it across the room and even up and down the walls with her eyes.This is happening multiple times every day and no amount of reassurance will calm her down. Sometimes she will walk toward the mirror‚ slunk down‚ and just stare. It begins to get very unnerving. I begin to notice changes in the house too. I begin to feel a heaviness that hadn’t been there before and I tell myself I’m just creeping myself out. I tell myself that the occasional thumps and bangs I hear coming from upstairs are just the cat but I can’t lose the sense of presence.I find that I don’t like walking past that mirror. I keep remembering how transfixed Bobby was by it. The mirror is over six feet tall and over four feet wide. It’s too heavy to hang so keep it propped against the wall at the bottom of the staircase that ascends to the rooms upstairs. We bought it new from a furniture store so it has no history other than in this house unless you count the thousands of furniture shoppers who probably passed by it in the store. I am trying to understand why my own dogs if in fact they’re somehow “visiting” from the other side would make me feel so awful – why they would bring this heaviness. Not knowing what to do about it‚ I tried to put it out of my mind and carry on – until the night that changed everything.My friend Chris and her dog Max often spend the weekend and have done so for years. Max knows every smell‚ every nook and cranny‚ and every sound this house makes just like it’s his own. He’s also one of those Zen dogs who rarely barks or makes a fuss. This night‚ however‚ is different.Suddenly‚ in the middle of the night‚ Max explodes into hysterical barking at the staircase that the mirror reflects. He is ballistic and inconsolable. Chris is terrified. She’d never seen him do anything like this before. She says he was staring at the staircase‚ all the hair on his hackles raised and barking and growing. Needless to say‚ there is not a whole lot more sleeping this night. Now I know I have to do something. Now I know that my own dog and my own instincts are correct and I have to take action. I can’t move this mirror. That’s out of the question. Cover it? That would make it even cheaper. I wonder how many years of bad luck might result from shattering approximately twenty-four square feet of mirror. I wonder if painting it would work as well as covering it in some enormous black cloth. I wonder a lot of things and feel crazier with each thought.I contact a few spiritual healers online to learn how to do a “do-it-yourself” housecleaning. Most of them don’t want to give me the time of day. Finally‚ I got a gracious and detailed email from a well-known figure in the spiritual/paranormal world. I’ve decided to do a spiritual cleansing and then paint a life-size angel on the mirror. I want to paint an image of peace and protection but I’ve decided that if entities are using the mirror to pass in and out of‚ I don’t want to trap any of them on this side until after the cleansing is complete. I want them to be able to at least squeeze back into the mirror.Ignoring the fact that this whole thing sounds totally insane‚ even to me‚ I apply a coat of gesso to the entire mirror‚ leaving a small “open” space dead center for the possible spirits to pass through. After completing the cleansing I gesso over this spot too and spend the rest of the day painting my protection angel.She has kept her post for a couple of years now and things have been quiet. The house immediately felt lighter and more joyful after the cleansing so whether she was even necessary is up for debate but she’s grown on me.On rare occasions‚ Daisy‚ who is now completely blind‚ still reacts to something as if she’s seeing it but it’s nothing like it used to be. I used to think that the old-fashioned notion of covering the mirrors in a house where someone has died was a lot of folklore and superstition. I no longer think that.Did Bobby open some kind of portal when he died? Did that portal allow other‚ darker energies into my home? Does death open a portal to the other side? Once again‚ I am left with questions." Silver RavenwolfHAVE A COMMENT? GO TO OUR SUBREDDIT AND POST YOUR THOUGHTSJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming&; FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTSUBSCRIBE TO THE PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS TELEGRAM GROUPHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonAccess Phantoms &; Monsters Posts on Twitter 'X'-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! 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Please click the banner above. Thanks.Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonContact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Also available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs‚CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.The Dark Arts of MISTER SAM SHEARON - Original Prints &; MerchandiseThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms &; Monsters - All Rights Reserved

A young girl is in the car with her mother and uncle when a 9-foot-tall reddish-brown Bigfoot walks onto the highway and stops in front of the car‚ giving everyone a good look.A reader forwarded the following account:"I saw Bigfoot up close when I was little. I was 4 years old. My mom was taking my uncle to work in Durkee‚ Oregon. We were driving on old Highway 30 between Baker City and Durkee‚ Oregon.It was 4:30 in the morning when we were passing a 100+-year-old orchard and my mom asked my uncle‚ "What is that‚ Tom?" My Uncle Tom said that he didn't know what that thing was. It was big and covered with fur from its head to its toes‚ except for on its face and its hands. The fur was reddish-brown. It was the biggest thing I've ever seen in my young life.It stepped over a barbed wire fence that surrounded the orchard. It leaped across the ditch and walked in front of our car. It stops midstep not more than 5 feet in front of our car. It stood at least 9 feet tall and it just stood there staring at us for what seemed like an eternity.Then suddenly it turned and took off running across the median between the old highway and the new Highway 84. It crossed Highway 84‚ across the median‚ and up a hill. It stopped at the top of the hill‚ turned around‚ took one last look at us‚ and then disappeared over the top of the hill." ACHAVE A COMMENT? GO TO OUR SUBREDDIT AND POST YOUR THOUGHTSJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming&; FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTSUBSCRIBE TO THE PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS TELEGRAM GROUPHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonAccess Phantoms &; Monsters Posts on Twitter 'X'-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----ORDER THE AUDIOBOOK VERSIONORDER THE AUDIOBOOK VERSIONProject Threshold: Finale-----TODAY'S TOP LINKSAlaska Airlines Flight 1282 passengers receive FBI letter identifying them as the victims of a possible crimeDying SpaceX rocket creates glowing‚ galaxy-like spiral in the middle of the Northern LightsSelf-Described Witch Arrested for Allegedly Starting Fire on Stranger's PorchOdd UFO Mystifies Couple in EnglandABDUCTIONS! ALIEN‚ BIGFOOT‚ &; OTHERS | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Questions &; Answers #AbductionsPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS RADIO on SPOTIFY: ABDUCTIONS! ALIEN‚ BIGFOOT‚ &; OTHERS | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Questions &; Answers #AbductionsLISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS REPORTS &; CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE‚ LIKE &; SHAREPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist**********Your financial support of Phantoms &; Monsters and our other pursuits is much appreciated. Please click the banner above. Thanks.Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonContact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Also available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs‚CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.The Dark Arts of MISTER SAM SHEARON - Original Prints &; MerchandiseThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms &; Monsters - All Rights Reserved

2 possible Men in Black were seen in a small Pennsylvania town previous to UFO sightings and reports of missing people. Were these incidents related?I received the following account:“I had a bizarre occurrence happen to me when I was a teen. It was some time I think in the summer of 2002 when my brother and his friend had gotten home one night and they were staying up late‚ so I wanted to hang out with them. We ended up downstairs in my living room with sleeping bags lying in front of the window which is pretty big and you can see all of the downtown area. Mind you‚ I live in a small town outside of Harrisburg‚ Pennsylvania and it's usually dead around 10 pm so I can't really recall the time this happened‚ but I know it was dark and quiet.I remember laying there in the sleeping bag in front of our window and I could see all of the downtown area. I looked at my brother and his friend who had just woken up and there was something bizarre happening. A white car and a black car‚ both identical to each other‚ were making the rounds around the block in front of my house when we all saw the black one come up to the stop light (there were no other cars) and the light turned green but the car just stayed at the light for some time.Then these two almost identical men‚ dressed in black with fedora hats‚ got out from the back of the car and started walking in front of the car at the light. That's when it got really confusing and unnerving. My best way of describing to someone what I saw was if you were to look at the front of a car with its lights on from about a block away. Then the lights looked like they popped off the front of the car and began to walk. They followed the two men off into the distance before turning out of sight.Since then I’ve seen things happen that are just too out of the ordinary and I think it's because of that moment in my life. There were several UFO sightings in the area in the following weeks. There were also reports of at least 3 missing people in the local news during the next month. I don't believe that any of them were ever seen. It had opened my eyes a little more to what was possibly out there. I really don't know what happened that night and I would have liked to have snuck out and followed them‚ but I think we were all terrified and baffled to have witnessed something of that kind."The Real Men In Black: Evidence‚ Famous Cases‚ and True Stories of These Mysterious Men and their Connection to UFO PhenomenaMen In Black: Personal Stories and Eerie AdventuresMen in Black: The Secret Terror Among UsWomen In Black: The Creepy Companions of the Mysterious M.I.B.HAVE A COMMENT? GO TO OUR SUBREDDIT AND POST YOUR THOUGHTSJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming&; FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTSUBSCRIBE TO THE PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS TELEGRAM GROUPHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonAccess Phantoms &; Monsters Posts on Twitter 'X'-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----ORDER THE AUDIOBOOK VERSIONORDER THE AUDIOBOOK VERSIONProject Threshold: Finale-----TODAY'S TOP LINKSAlaska Airlines Flight 1282 passengers receive FBI letter identifying them as the victims of a possible crimeDying SpaceX rocket creates glowing‚ galaxy-like spiral in the middle of the Northern LightsSelf-Described Witch Arrested for Allegedly Starting Fire on Stranger's PorchOdd UFO Mystifies Couple in EnglandABDUCTIONS! ALIEN‚ BIGFOOT‚ &; OTHERS | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Questions &; Answers #AbductionsPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS RADIO on SPOTIFY: ABDUCTIONS! ALIEN‚ BIGFOOT‚ &; OTHERS | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Questions &; Answers #AbductionsLISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS REPORTS &; CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE‚ LIKE &; SHAREPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist**********Your financial support of Phantoms &; Monsters and our other pursuits is much appreciated. Please click the banner above. Thanks.Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonContact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Also available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs‚CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.The Dark Arts of MISTER SAM SHEARON - Original Prints &; MerchandiseThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms &; Monsters - All Rights Reserved

President Biden nominated Adeel Mangi for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit -- the level just below the Supreme Court. But Senators Joe Manchin and Catherine Cortez Masto have announced they will not support him‚ and in a 51-49 Senate‚ it looks bad.  On Saturday morning's The Weekend show on MSNBC‚ they came rushing to Mangi's defense. They ran a clip of Sen. Cory Booker ranting "No matter what happens to his nomination‚ this is [voice breaks] a great American who should be proud of his work!" Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend decried "politics is fueling a lot of the vitriol and misinformation against this nominee." MSNBC.com writer Hayes Brown said it's just "racism against a Muslim candidate."   HAYES BROWN: I mean‚ absolutely. Well‚ quickly‚ I just want to say that I love when Cory Booker gets on the pulpit. I love when he is on a mission to try to convince his colleagues about what right is. He does it amazingly. But yeah‚ this is a matter of politics. The fact that there any Democrats that are unwilling to support this nominee is about being afraid‚ really. Afraid of the sort of backlash that‚ oh‚ you supported this candidate for xyz when none of the rumors and vitriol that are being spread are actually true.  It's really just a matter of racism against a Muslim candidate that we are seeing. And that is something Senator Booker is standing up against. And I think all Democrats in the Senate should be willing to stand up against. Neither Brown‚ nor Sanders-Townsend cited any facts in an attempt to refute the allegations against Mangi. Fortunately‚ Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) has laid out‚ chapter and verse‚ the case against Biden's nominee. The full record is here‚ but among the lowlights -- Mangi is on the advisory board of the Alliance of Families for Justice. "One of the Alliance’s founders was convicted of murdering police officers in cold blood. . . . Now the Alliance [of] Families for Justice—on whose board Mr. Mangi [sat]—advocates for the release of people who kill cops.” -- Mangi also served on the advisory board of the Center for Security‚ Race and Rights. On the 20th anniversary of 9/11‚ the group held an event entitled: "Whose narrative? 20 years since 9/11." The purpose of the event was to blame America for 9/1 The director of the Center says she's "in awe" of the Palestinian's struggle against Israel and "Israeli settler colonialism." Could Mangi have been honestly unaware of the director's views? After all‚ she personally recruited him to serve on the advisory board. -- And when Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR] asked Mangi whether Israeli Jews are "colonial settlers‚" Mangi made the lamest dodge‚ claiming he "didn't feel qualified to opine on that because it's not a region whose history I've studied‚ or where I'm from."   Riight.  Q. Mr. Mangi‚ is it raining?  A. Hey‚ who do you think I am—Jim Cantore? So Democrats are afraid for their careers‚ of the "backlash"? Cortez Masto is on the ballot this fall. But is Brown aware that‚ four months ago‚ Joe Manchin‚ the other Democrat opposed‚ announced that he wouldn't be running for re-election? If there's one thing Manchin doesn't have to worry about‚ it's backlash! Brown and Sanders-Townsend claimed that "politics" were behind the rejection of Mangi. Of course‚ politics had nothing to do with the Democrats' shameful attacks on Brett Kavanaugh.  And going back to 1991‚ there was a certain Democrat chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who angrily confronted Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. No politics there! Note: MSNBC describes Brown's job as "help[ing] frame the news of the day for readers." Now you've got us afraid! Here's the transcript. MSNBC The Weekend 3/23/34 8:23 am EDT SYMONE SANDERS-TOWNSEND: Hayes‚ I want to play Senator Cory Booker last night or this morning‚ however you'd like to parse it.  The Biden administration has confirmed a record number of judges with diverse backgrounds and a number of firsts. And one of the firsts‚ Adeel Mangi‚ who would have been the first Muslim American on a federal appeals‚ on this particular federal appeals court‚ his nomination was imperilled because of a number of attacks. And this is Sen. Booker in defense of him‚ but I would also argue‚ celebration. CORY BOOKER: No matter what happens to his nomination‚ this is [voice breaks] a great American who should be proud of his work. We should celebrate him whether we vote for him or not. We should cherish a moment like this that makes history. SANDERS-TOWNSEND: Hayes‚ I have to wonder if the nomination of this particular nominee would be in danger if it were not an election year‚ and if were not so many things happening across the pond‚ if you will‚ particularly in the Middle East when it comes to the war between Israel and Hamas. And if politics is fueling a lot of the vitriol and misinformation against this nominee. HAYES BROWN: I mean‚ absolutely. Well‚ quickly‚ I just want to say that I love when Cory Booker gets on the pulpit. I love when he is on a mission to try to convince his colleagues about what right is. He does it amazingly. But yeah‚ this is a matter of politics. The fact that there any Democrats that are unwilling to support this nominee is about being afraid‚ really. Afraid of the sort of backlash that‚ oh‚ you supported this candidate for xyz when none of the rumors and vitriol that are being spread are actually true.  It's really just a matter of racism against a Muslim candidate that we are seeing. And that is something Senator Booker is standing up against. And I think all Democrats in the Senate should be willing to stand up against. SANDERS-TOWNSEND: I should have noted‚ it is two Democrats‚ Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and‚ uh‚ West Virginia's senator who have noted they are not supporting the nomination.