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One last candidate on the debate stage for debate three, how did he do in debate one and two, it is senator cory booker. senator cory booker of new jersey. long been seen as a rising store in the democratic party. basically ever since he first stood for office. the democratic voters have heard of senator booker, they know something about him, but in this campaign, particularly in the first debate, i think a lot of people are learning for the first time that cory booker still lives in inner city newark. when he talks about his community, he's talking about a community where other national polit...

Senator booker and know something about him. in this campaign, if the first debate, i think a lot of people heard for the first time that cory booker lives in inner city newa newark. he's talking about a community where other national political candidates don't set foot. here he was on the first debate. >> i hear gunshots in my neighborhood. i hope i am the only one on this panel here had seven people shot in their neighborhood. someone i knew was killed at the top of my block last year. for millions of americans, this is not a policy issue. this is an urgency. for those who had not been direc...

Here he was on the first debate. >> if i hear gunshots in my neighborho neighborhood, i had seven people shot in their neighborhood just last week. someone i knew was killed with an assault rifle at the top of my block last year. for millions of americans, this is not a policy issue. this is an urgency. for those who have not been directly affected, they are tired of living in a country where their kids learn about reading, writing, arithmetic and how to deal with an active shooter in their school. this is something that i'm tired of. and i'm tired of people, all they have to offer is thoughts...

Amounts of harm. >> because there are so many out there already, i'm thinking about it tonight in philly. we don't know what kind of arsenal this gunman has, but he's been able to hold off a police department five hours and shoot cops. >> i don't think people understand what that means. >> yeah. >> and that there are people right now -- and we see this now. we see the horrible results like we saw in el paso. we also hear stories since el paso of people intervening to stop people plotting these kind of attacks. this is why we've released and i hope people will go to cory booker.com, a far more ...

Are all running right now sort of fighting amongst yourselves as to who has the best and most progressive policies. are those fine points going to make the difference? >> well, i love what your question is because i try to remind them on the last debate stage, hey, we have common cause here. >> yeah. >> differences don't matter as much. for me, i want to be very blunt. i've lived this nightmare. i have -- young kid, shahad smith, we should keep saying people's names, watched him grow up, shot with an assault rifle. killed on the top of my block. i've seen shrines in my neighborhood to kids who...