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Cory Booker: If you had told me what has been going on the last 3, 4 months was going to happen 4 years ago, I would think you are…

On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
If you had told me what has been going on the last 3, 4 months was going to happen 4 years ago, I would think you are describing a fiction novel and not something that actually could be happening in our country right now.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker reflects on the unusual political climate over recent months.

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