Sen. Cory Booker started and finished his record-breaking speech protesting the Trump administration's aggressive policy blitz by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. “He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He said he had to do something. He would not normalize a moment like this,” Booker said of Lewis' work as a young activist during the Civil Rights movement. #corybooker #news #senate Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his more than 25-hour Senate speech
Sen. Cory Booker started and finished his record-breaking speech protesting the Trump administration's aggressive policy blitz by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. “He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He said he had to do something. He would not normalize a moment like this,” Booker said of Lewis' work as a young activist during the Civil Rights movement. #corybooker #news #senate Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home