Corey Booker has always had a knack for getting attention. As a city councilman in Newark, New Jersey,

he staged a 10-day hunger strike at a housing project. As mayor of Newark, he personally

shoveled residence sidewalks and once literally ran into a burning building to save a neighbor.

My fire director came to me and told me it was a remarkably stupid thing and explained to me

that, yeah, you were able to get her out because she probably would have been consumed in the blaze.

But at the same time, he thought I put myself at risk. But my response to him is I think that everybody, you know, most people in America would just done the same thing.

That's what he told NPR in 2012. When Booker became a U.S. Senator and then a Democratic

presidential candidate, he says he made an effort to make friendships across the aisle.

I go to Bible study in Chairman Inhoff's office. He and I pass legislation together to

help homeless and foster kids. I went out to try to invite every one of my Republican

colleagues to dinner. That was from a CNN presidential primary debate in 2019.

These days, Booker is calling for urgent resistance.

I rise today in an unusual manner, and I want to be clear and explain that.

Like other Democrats, the New Jersey Senator feels that President Trump is pulling the country

in a dangerously authoritarian direction.

And he is also aware that Democrats don't actually control any levers of power in the federal government.

So last year, he took to the Senate floor and started criticizing Trump administration policies.

In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans'

safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy.

And he didn't stop until 25 hours later.

He'd broken the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech.

In addition to speaking often about President Trump and congressional Republicans, but also what he doesn't like in his

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