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Disenfranchise african-americans. that is what is going to be coming at us in this election. i am so energized because we may be having a primary debate right now, but we know that we are going to close ranks behind the candidate. now, i plan on being that candidate. >> cory booker also saying democrats must rally around the democratic candidate and also he plans on being that candidate. joining us now is new jersey senator and democratic nominee cory booker. senator, thank you for being here. >> it's really good to be on, joy. thank you for having me. >> not a problem at all. let's talk a lit...

All of that is ahead tonight. but we begin tonight with the 2020 candidates who were back out on the trail today after a fiesty combative debate in detroit where the night two democratic contenders whacked each other over the heads over their differences on policy and over each other's records. vice president joe biden and senator kamala harris were teed up to battle right from cue 1 over their health care proposals. julian castro took aim at the obama/biden administration's record on deportation. tulsi gabbard attacked harris on her job as prosecutor in california. senator booker and biden go...

Critiquing president obama. so i guess my question is with black voters, is joe biden in a stronger position with the most reliable black voters, older voters, because he's defending obama and you're critiquing obama? >> well, i don't know how that spin resulted. anybody that watched the debate, i was talking about vice president biden's record, not obama's. heck, i had many conversations with president obama during his time as president about reforming the criminal justice system. it was joe biden who bragged that every crime bill since the 1970s major and minor had his name on it. that's his...

Do that. of course when you're the front-runner like joe biden, you're going to be the one as you indicated who has the "kick me" sign on your back. but there is a way to do this where you're not attacking every single policy monumental -- some of these policies were monumental like the passage of obamacare, that president obama, who still has a 97% approval rating, that you can go about attacking these policies, criticizing them without attacking the person who actually put them in office. i think some of the candidates on the stage last night, some folks, this is probably going to be their l...

Most of which were very popular. so it didn't make a lot of sense to me. i hope i see some improvements going into pt third debate. >> karine, you worked in the obama white house as well. i might have flashbacks about them trying to pass the affordable care act. it was excruciating. does it surprise you that so many candidates are pinning their election chances on a redo. a whole other very specific health care plan? >> like i said, joy, i think it's okay to talk about how to make health care better. >> of course. >> how to expand obamacare and say we're going to build on it, because we know t...