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5 Wacky Moments From Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Senate Filibuster

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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said a lot during his record-breaking filibuster of 25 hours and 4 minutes Monday and Tuesday on the Senate floor, touching on everything from “the arc of the moral universe” to how his fellow Democrat, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, is a “prince of a man.”

Here are the five top moments from Booker’s all-day talkathon on the Senate floor in protest of the Trump administration, which broke the nearly 68-year-old record of then-Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C.

Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes on Aug. 28 and 29 of that year.

The New Jersey lawmaker used his platform to call on those watching, including on C-SPAN2, to bend the arc of the moral universe.

“We have changed history. We have bent the arc of the moral universe and now is that moral moment again,” he proclaimed.

“It’s the moral moment again. God bless America, we need you now!” he said, looking up at the ceiling, as if........

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