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Washington for the back story. >> reporter: were seeing a rare apology from joe biden. it was three weeks ago when he made those comments about working with segregationist senators decades ago during an era of civility he said. and biden at the time had been defensive. but over the weekend, he did apologize for those comments. if they caused anyone pain, he made those remarks down in south carolina. and yesterday i had the chance to ask biden why it took nearly three weeks for him to make that a...

Aside. >> joe biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch. >> a lot has changed since the end of june. back then, joe biden was rejecting cory bookers call to say sorry for explaining the value of civility with segregationist senators. >> cory booker has called for. >> of course he should apologize. >> this weekend the former vp changed his tune. is. >> now buying and selling and was skeptical of his civil stomach record not to take his word for it, take barack obama, the guy who ...

Civility with segregationist senators, but he said the voters here for the most likely to have been offended so i came on back and he had a totally different perspective, at least publicly then right before the last time he came for the gym clyburn fish fry and cory booker was telling him to say sorry. >> are you going to apologize? >> apologize for what? >> apologize for what? he knows better. there is not a racist bone in my body. ive been involved in a civil rights my whole career. period, pe...

>> kamala harris a call to my surprise joe biden was caught flat-footed. courting his comment about civility with segregationists filled front pages for days. >> and his team are not prepared for the topic, i dont know what to say about that. reporter: harris is just targeting biting her primary arrival she started to single out president trump. >> i will tell you, we have a president living in the white house. reporter: while pete buttigieg is trying to take the opposite approach. >> the less w...

Its actually kind of a secondary endorsement, as crazy as it sounds, of jim crow. because jim crow was the basis on which that piece was in fact constructed. >> you dont think joe biden -- >> thats not the point. thats not the point. you can -- and thats why i said secondary endorsement, right? what he is endorsing is the peace. but the peace is actually built on something quite horrible. and without that horrible thing, there never would have been that civility in the first place. >> its a stor...

Had deeply, deeply deplorable views. the problem is those very polite relationships were premised on the fact that those peoples deeply deplorable views actually disenfranchised an entire sector of the electorate. there is a reason why those polite relationships went away. and part of the reason they went away was because black people now are a voting force in the south. much to the chagrin of some other people. i feel there is a lack over acknowledgment. >> right. the price of that cold piece. ...

At me the way she came at me. >> kamala harris a call to my surprise joe biden was caught flat-footed. courting his comment about civility with segregationists filled front pages for days. >> and his team are not prepared for the topic, i dont know what to say about that. reporter: harris is just targeting biting her primary arrival she started to single out president trump. >> i will tell you, we have a president living in the white house. reporter: while pete buttigieg is trying to take the op...

Referencing a time of civility while working with segregationists in the 1970s, but what caught my ear is what he told me before he made the apology. take a listen. >> was i wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that i was praising those men who i successfully opposed time and again? yes. i was. i regret it. im sorry for any of the pain or misconception they may have caused anybody. and to the extent that anybody thought that i meant something different, that is not what...

At me the way she came at me. >> kamala harris a call to my surprise joe biden was caught flat-footed. courting his comment about civility with segregationists filled front pages for days. >> and his team are not prepared for the topic, i dont know what to say about that. reporter: harris is just targeting biting her primary arrival she started to single out president trump. >> i will tell you, we have a president living in the white house. reporter: while pete buttigieg is trying to take the op...

Need to hear from him. its always going to be a knock on him that people think that his message is too aspirational, and its not grounded in reality enough. i think hes starting to tie that aspiration into tangible ideas and hes going to continue see movement in the polls. >> you mentioned the second night vice president biden. lets go now to the vice president joe biden after weeks of saying he would not apologize for his remarks that he made referencing a time of, quote, civility and then whil...