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Cory Booker: “I can tell you, the last person in the world I would want to offend would be someone like that, and it has--it is…”

On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
I can tell you, the last person in the world I would want to offend would be someone like that, and it has--it is something that I deeply regret.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker expresses regret over the impact of Friedman's comments on a Holocaust survivor.

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