MSNBC to Cory Booker on Spike in Urban Violence over Weekend: How Do You Respond to Trump?

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MOHYELDIN: “Let me switch gears for a moment, if I can, senator. Another thing I understand you’re trying to get done is the next month or so is obviously police reform that’s become front and center in our national discourse. There was unfortunately a horrible wave of violence across the country over the weekend as you probably heard; five children shot to death, back-to-back shootings even in your hometown of Newark. How do you counter the messaging that is coming from the president and others who say that Democrats want to defund and abolish this police amid this kind of violence and being presented in this binary way that if you somehow push for police reform or defund the police you’re going to get the kind of violence that we saw over the weekend. How do you counter that messaging?”