Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest Senate speech in US history [SOUND]

# New Jersey Democratic Senator, Cory Booker, has broken the record for the longest speech ever delivered in the US Senate. He spoke for 25-hours-and-four-minutes, surpassing the late Senator Strom Thurmond’s speech against the Civil Rights Act, which lasted 24-hours-and-18-minutes in 1957. Booker intended the effort as a protest and spent his time criticising president Donald Trump’s administration. He called it a grave and urgent moment in American history: