Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.
Colbert declared, “So, one of the nice aspects of it, now, you are up there, you weren’t talking about you. You were talking about our nation, the challenges it faces, not just these challenges, but the challenges we always face and the need to face them in some realistic and collaborative way. But along the way of talking about that, you managed to wipe out Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record. Which was shameful. Can you remind everybody what the previous record was held and trying to stop?
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