This is a moral moment in America, what are we going to do?

(UPDATE:Booker broke the recordduring the 7 pm ET hour.)

We have to excite people again.

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Unsurprisingly, Fox News has not cut to Booker that often.

Theyre hard, theyre scary, theyre hurting, but we can overcome this.

I dont want a Disneyfication of our history.

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I dont want to whitewash history.

I dont want to homogenize history.

Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.

comment in a question to him from Hawaiis Sen. Mazie Hirono on Tuesday.

The threatened record is held by the openly racist former Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond.

Booker should beat that in the next hour or so.