Cory Booker: “Senator Murphy, I am grateful for your yielding for a question. I think I want to drill deeper down on that point…”

“Senator Murphy, I am grateful for your yielding for a question. I think I want to drill deeper down on that point because I am not sure if Americans understand that there is a lot of bipartisanship when it comes to CVE, countering violent extremism. I am very proud to serve on the Homeland Security Committee. I have worked with members on the other side of the aisle to do a lot of commonsense things to try to counter violent extremism here at home. Those involve efforts of coordination, as Senator Murphy was talking about, investing resources in trying to counter violent extremist efforts here at home. There is a tremendous bipartisan effort that has gone on in this country since 9/11 in trying to take down silos of information-- sharing, cooperating, coordinating, and investing resources in many ways to keep us safer as a nation. We should all be very proud of that. But it is clear--especially from what should be stunning to people who don't know this and from the information you read--that the very enemies we are talking about--terrorist organizations that now have become common knowledge in this country, because people know Al Qaeda, they know ISIS, and folks are focused on that--the very enemies we are fighting against are aware of the big loophole that exists in this Nation--that someone who is a suspected terrorist, who has a terrorist intent, who is even known by the FBI, can come to our Nation or can be a citizen of our Nation and go to a gun show and buy weapons.…”