Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. And as Nicole said, our MSNBC coverage continues right now with this

history potentially being made on the Senate floor. This is live. This top Democrat that you see is leading a new

kind of opposition to the extremes and illegal actions, as found by some courts of the early days of

the second Trump term. You are looking at someone.

You probably know if you watch the news,

but I will remind everyone,

including those who might be getting the sound of my voice,

keeping track of the news without a video component.

We are watching the nationally prominent Democrat

and former presidential candidate, Senator Cory Booker.

And he is leading what has become

already one of the longest speeches ever on the Senate floor, a true marathon. What he is doing

is deploying the powers that he has in this role to grind the Republican-held Senate to a halt

for now. He's leading what he calls a new level of protest of this Trump agenda

that he says has plunged America into an unnecessary, dangerous, and self-inflicted crisis.

Senator Booker began just about 23 hours ago past 7 p.m. last night. If he makes it, in the next hour,

he breaks the all-time record.

My colleagues have mentioned that throughout the day.

We'll be watching this throughout the evening.

What we're all getting at here is not just that the Senate is interesting or that we're parliamentary nerds.

It gives you the weight of the history that this could be the longest speech ever in the

August history of the body of the United States Senate.

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