Cory Booker: We Have To Stop the Awful Violence and Killing of Unarmed People in Our Country

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SEN. BOOKER: Well, this is what I know. I know the heart of Tim Scott and senators like Senator Braun, who said to me he’s- qualified immunity is on the table. We- we are one body of the United States Senate. And- and people of good heart and good spirit, regardless of what the president does. He can veto a bill, but we should come forward in this moment in history, which will be judged. We should put our best face- best faith efforts forward to put a bill—

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.

SEN. BOOKER: —intact that will stop the kind of awful violence and- and killing of unarmed people that we see in our country. We can do that. We know what works.

MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.

SEN. BOOKER: And we know that half measures have not worked in the past from Ferguson to Minneapolis. We know what will work.