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Were back with you later. >> sandra: joe biden firing back as critics pounce on his comments about seg regraitionists who served with him in the senate in the 1970s. peter doocy is live with us. >> joe biden served with hundreds of senators from 1973 when he got to d.c. until 2009 when he became v.p. there are two that come to mind when he recalls a time that stuff got done in d.c. and they are both segregationists. he told donors about a man known as the voice of the white south. i was in a cau...

He may have good intentions, but i just wonder if these comments are a sign that he hasnt grown with the times. >> yeah, no, i think thats exactly right. i think with a lot of these candidates, particularly with the older ones, theyve got chapters in their past and bits of history that arent in sync with todays politics. and ive found, you know, when im out talking to voters, theyre willing to forgive, you know, mistakes from the past, but i think that when you see a candidate like biden making ...

He never called me boy. he always called me son. there was civility. we got things done. we didnt agree on much of anything. we dont things done. but today, you look at the other side and youre the enemy. not the opposition, the enemy. we dont talk to each other any more. yesterday, cory booker called on biden to apologize and he said you dont joke about calling black men boys. vice president bidens relationship with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make america a safer and mor...

"one of the meanest guys i ever knew. you go down the list of all these guys. well guess what? at least there was some civility. we got things done." and biden recalling the white supremacist senator james o. eastland of mississippi. "he never called me boy. he always called me son." several of bidens rivals in the campaign stunned by bidens comments, including senator kamala harris. >> to coddle the reputations of segregationists, of people who, if they had their way, i would literally not be s...

>> later lamenting the harsh start to the 2020 race saying at a fund-raiser late last night, its going to be pretty ugly. but heres the deal. im not going to participate. we have more. >> reporter: christine and dave, despite facing criticism from some of his 2020 democratic rivals, joe biden is defending his recent comments about working with segregationists in an era that held morrissey vi-- more civility than recent times. one of the 2020 rivals that went after biden and asked for an apology ...

Biden. during joe bidens tenure in washington lawmakers have come and gone. last night he looked back on his time with segregationalists. he said i was in a caucus with james. he never called me boy. he called me son. he was known as the voice of the white south. biden talked about a man who argued against mixed schools. one of the meanest guys i ever knew. at least there was civility but we got things done. today you look at the other side and you are the economy. not the opposition; the econom...

Criticism of this. he has a biracial family. he wrote on twitter, joe biden is longing for the good old days of civility, even though my multi-racial family should be illegal and whites were entitled to the pursuit of debt and he uses a terrible slur for african-americans. quoting mr. eastland. but then this afternoon, we have a pretty strong statement from cory booker, who is one of his competitors in this race. and he says, i have to tell vice president biden as somebody that i respect that he...

Is that a problem? >> im perplexed. vice president biden suggests because a segregationist referred to him as son as a white man, as opposed to referring to black men as boys, that this is a mark of civility between two senators. when in fact its one white senator recording a modicum of respect to another white senator. that is not the full measure of civility. civility would be for someone like that to work with people who -- he segregated -- that he discriminated against, that he spoke ill of,...

Roosevelt decades and decades ago, thats one thing. joe biden was talking about someone he served in the senate was. >> which was decades and decades ago, by the way. >> but its one thing if he said here are all the things ive done to break that. but unfortunately he was speaking about a civility and a way of doing things that somehow he was expressing virtue in. that civility gave us todays status quo that is still not working for so many millions of people. you cant separate from it. if you do...

Quote at least there was civility in the senate. the comments last night during the democratic fund raiser in new york and democratic rivals have been quick to respond. >> lets be very clear, that the- the senators that he is speaking of with such adooration are individuals if who built reputationen on gracious. the ku klux klan celebrated the election of one of them. so this is a very serious matter. >> im not here to criticize other democrats. but its never okay to celebrate segregationists. n...