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Traveled to iowa today and directly blamed president trump for the two recent mass shootings. >> this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. he's poured fuel onn the fire. we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced the political strategy of hate, racism, and division. >> laura: but uncle joe seems to be forgetting his own checkered past with racistis and divisiveac language. back in june biden came under fire for the use of the word "boy." i was in a caucus with james, biden said, referring to the notorious -- he never cal...

Working relationship with southern segregation of senators inside the delegation in the past which sparked words with other candidates, including corey. >> the way he said it caused hurt and harm by saying, hey, this racist called me son, didn't call me boy. well, it evoked a lack of understanding, an ignorance. >> i do understand the consequence of the word boy, but it wasn't said in any of that context at all. to the extent that anybody thought that i meant something different, that is not what i intended. >> biden has been doing far less press than most of his rivals. but he may be jumping ...

Let me ask you, you endorsed mr. biden. how do you respond to those of us who questioned him on his using the term, they did not call me boy, they called me son, which has a different connotation to many of us who have been called boys, our fathers have been called boys, and on and on. and about his talking about the civil behavior in the senate when people like eastland and other segregationists and how offensive it is to normalize people that were outright fighting for jim crow laws to remain law? how do you respond to that as a supporter of mr. biden? >> well, first, ref reverend, thank you...

Got it. >> wall street did not build america. you build america. >> we defeat trump by running a campaign of energy and enthusiasm that grows voter turn out. >> i know we have in this white house have a president that says he wants to make america great again. what does that mean? does he want to take us back to before schools were integrated or before roe v. wade was enacted. we are not going back. >> the first time joe biden addressing something he said at a fundraiser in new york saying, the senator never called me boy, he called me son. >> i do understand the consequence of the word boy --...

And if the democrats didn't want this to become an ugly racial debate, these issues deserve a dialogue, not a debate. i don't think it's helpful for the country to have senator booker and biden calling each other to apologize. they should sit down and talk about it because i have a lot of questions about how you handle things like reparations, police shootings and all these things that are going on in the democratic party. i think it would be much more helpful for the country to have these discussed in a rational way rather than debate it. >> one of the things that biden was answering question...