From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

I spoke to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York twice last week

and what turned out to be quite a week for the Senate minority leader.

In our first conversation, we talked about a lot of things, the direction

of his party, how Democrats are communicating their opposition to President Trump, and also,

on a more personal note, his fears about the rise of anti-Semitism in America. Schumer's written

a new book on that topic. It's called anti-Semitism in America, a warning. It's part history,

part memoir, and in it he tracks the long record of prejudice against Jews in the world

and its recent surge here at home. That was Monday. When we spoke again on Saturday afternoon,

it was after an extraordinary few days in Congress

where Democrats had to decide whether or not to vote for a Republican federal spending bill

or allow a government shutdown. House Democrats had voted in near unanimity against the bill.

Schumer initially said that he would as well, but in a shocking about face on Friday, he joined Republicans and it passed.

The aftermath has been brutal and led to open warfare in the party and questions about Schumer's future as its leader.

So when I called him back, we had a lot to discuss.

Here are my two conversations with Senator Chuck Schumer.

Senator Schumer, in your book, you write that you rarely faced anti-Semitism when you were growing up in Brooklyn.

What was the moment that you felt that things changed in this country

that made you want to write the book now? So I was born in 1950, and for the first 50 years,

it was sort of what you might call the golden Medina, the golden age for Jewish people,

not only in America, but forever, because we had never seen such acceptance. We were accepted

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