Cory Booker: “Strom Thurmond had the record in the Senate for the longest…”

“It is a real time for a real purpose, connected to a previous 1957 speech on the Senate floor made by a late, not so great United States Senator who had a different purpose. Yes. Strom Thurmond had the record in the Senate for the longest speech, and it was a filibuster, I would even say a racist rant against the Civil Rights act of that year. And it hurt me that he was the person that held that record, that there's 24 hours plus, 24 hours plus, and there's still memorials to him in, in the, in the Senate.” (06:07–06:21)

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