Rumored 2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Cory Booker delivered a mixed message when asked about Maxine Water’s comments to give Trump aides no quarter, by citing the practices of Ghandi, while also saying they should be confronted with “radical love.”

Appearing on MSNBC, Booker gave a rambling answer that didn’t really seem to admonish Waters.

“I subscribe to an ideal of radical love,” Booker said.

“Yes, you should protest. Yes, you should confront evil and injustice. But do it in the ways that Martin Luther King did, and Fred Shuttlesworth did and other great leaders who always did it by recognizing the dignity of even those you oppose, even those who are trying to destroy you, those who hate you,” he said.

“And so I worry in our country right now that were descending into a hatred of American hating American that is not going to solve our problems.”

He said he doesn’t want Americans to be “bystanders” to the “injustices going on in the immigration system.”

Booker said “tactics” some are advocating for don’t reflect a “spirit” of coming together.

Yet, he said, “Yes, if I saw and administrator out and about, there’s nothing wrong with confronting that person, but not to lead with love and do it in a way that is more reflective of the values we are trying to reject in our country is unacceptable to me.”

Booker was responding to Maxine Waters’ demand that protesters confront Trump administration officials anywhere they find them.

“Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants,” Waters said in LA on Saturday, as the crowd erupted, “who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, ‘No peace, no sleep. No peace, no sleep,'” she continued.

“And guess what,” she predicted, “we’re going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff Sessions and others, you really don’t know the Bible.

“God is on OUR side!” she declared, as the crowd went wild. “On the side of the children. On the side of what’s right. On the side of what’s honorable.”

“And so, let’s stay the course. Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she yelled.

Waters remarks were then marred by a screeching microphone.

“Mr. President, we will see you every day, every hour of the day, everywhere that we are to let you know you cannot get away with this!” she yelled.