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Refusing to apologize for remarks that he made about his ability to work with segregationist senators during his time in congress. here is exactly what the former vp said during a fund-raising event on tuesday night. quote, i was in a caucus with james o. eastland. he never called me boy, he always called me son. guess what, at least there was some civility. we got things done. we didnt agree on much of anything. we got things done. we got it finished. today you look at the other side and you ar...

Other party whose positions are repugnant to all of us as democrats. cory booker, who has worked with jeff sessions on many things, elizabeth warren talks about how shes worked with chuck grassley who led the fight for brett kavanaugh and wouldnt even meet with mark garland. >> harris: i was seeing lots of raised eyebrows there. cochair of issue one reformers caucus, iona politics professor of political science. >> jean: i have several reactions to this, to me it sounds like she is getting joe b...

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But even before the hearing began, mitch mcconnell weighing in, and sparking controversy. >> i dont think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea. weve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation, we elected an african-american president. >> reporter: that touched a nerve. writer ta-nehisi coates firing back. >> for a century after the civil w...

What people are feeling today? >> james easement is the late senator from mississippi, at a fundraiser last night joe biden said, quote, i was in a caucus, he always calls me son. biden called the late georgia senator one of the meanest guys i ever knew. at least there was some civility. we got things done. heres how biden tried to clean up those comments. >> the point i am making is you dont have to agree. you dont have to like the people in terms of their views but you make the case and you be...

Sexism when they see it. and joe biden didnt do that today. and that is why so many people from within his own party have expressed concern. >> shannon, a couple of points here. number one, i urge people to look up senators heflin and eastland and their records, especially given the time they lived in and the times were in now. number one, why bring up these two guys? they were separatists. and number two, shannon, was the correct answer that i was one in 100, we had to get work done, so it mean...

And able to reach compromise. i want to hear how youre going to fight for my community. against an administration that has a leader that denies the humanity of exonerated men who did not do the crime and still cant apologize for calling for their execution. so thats what moment were in. its somebody to stand up and fight. >> charlie, if you want to respond and then i have a question for mike. >> i understand that. but also understand that civility, the little gaffes that joe biden is going to ha...

My instance its a history, i would say that that is just not -- even in the spirit of civility, probably not the most apt comparisons. and certainly i think the point about being called "son" versus "boy" or two distinctive comparisons as you would relate that to african-americans. im sure senator eastland called many african-american men "boys" in his lifetime. so words matter. i dont think it infringes on his very strong record, but i certainly would hope that we would all work together for wh...

I think thats certainly what they are trying to cast them as, but the crux of the statement was that these segregationist senators were still coming from a place of civility and that civility has been lost now. and so i think that that is not the point -- thats not the kind of framing that he put on it. certainly joe biden has an interest in talking about himself as a unifying candidate and leaning on that experience. i think what people want to see him do, what his critics want to see him do is...

What shocks me is that this is an opportunity for republicans. they can say that they did something that would lift up the discussion and raise a constructive approach to this question of racism in this country. >> i want to ask you about someone that youve known for a long time, and that is the former vice president joe biden. pointed to two segregationist senators as examples of colleagues that he could work with during an era when at least there was some civility, thats a quote from him, in t...