Cory Booker: “[Strom Thurmond's speech] was a shadow, I felt, and that was…”

“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. And it [Strom Thurmond's speech] was a shadow, I felt, and that was one of the ambitions I had of standing on the floor at a time that many of us were being shaken in the first months of the Trump administration. And that all that he was doing, the attacks on healthcare, on USAID, and America's real presence globally, stopping pandemics and standing in the breach during some of the worst …” (06:34–06:46)

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