Every living human being is the result of a conspiracy of love, a vast conspiracy of love

that goes back to generations before they were born, someone nice, doing something for somebody

that enabled someone to move forward.

Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.

It is such an honor to welcome U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey today.

He was also a two-term mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

Senator Booker has a new book out called Stand that charts a hopeful path forward for our country, especially in dark times. Wherever you land on the political spectrum,

I am excited to introduce a public servant with a vision to bring people together and bridge

our divides. Here he is, Senator Cory Booker. I'm a little giddy because I have so much

respect for you, and I just want to talk about your book, because it's a great way to talk about

you anyway through your anecdotes and everything you talk about through this format of talking about virtues.

Can I flip the script for a second on you?

As long as you're going to acknowledge me, yes, in some way, because it relaxes me.

No, I think that there is a tradition in this country that we don't talk about enough

that at the center of every great social movement for change is the arts.

There would be no progress in America if it wasn't for artists who often in the most wretched

of times not only help soothe and sustain people, but also help them to see human possibility.

And my dad told me from the time I was a kid, forcing me to sit down and watch

Star Trek because he said, this is the bold, optimistic view. He's who have a bridge where you

have this incredible African-American woman there as an equal. And my dad... One of the first.

Yes. Yes. And the first interracial kiss on TV between her and Captain Kirk.

But his favorite story was sitting in a movie theater, segregated balcony, and we grew up in the south, watching this story.

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