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He didn't call me senator he called me son. he changed the story. i don't know why. and made it a lot worse. and now he's got to own it. here's my question, to what the president is saying. i asked senator sanders about this. he said that the vice president needs to apologize. that's his position. he didn't change it. but you'll be running against somebody in the general who doesn't give a damn about who calls who boy and whatever it is. they may have passed the first step act. any of this thought about sensitive language and playing to issues of generational trama. and how we deal with it goi...

In fact, we need to have a country that can work across our gaps and gulfs more. the way he said it caused a lot of hurt and harm in communities like the one i live in by saying, hey, this avowed racist called me son, didn't call me boy. the reason he called you son, the power dynamics here, is he sees you as a person that could be his child. the reason he calls black people boy is to degrade or dehumanize them, a grown man. that to me was something that showed -- he shouldn't need that lesson and he should understand that he's trampling on hurtful, harmful words in history. i said my piece, h...

How well he can work with people. people he disagrees with. and he was describing his relationship with former mississippi senator james o. eastland, who was not only a segregationist, but a major opponent of civil rights. saying this. i was in a caucus with james o. eastland. he never called me boy. he always called me son. well guess what? at least there was some civility. we got things done. we didn't agree on much of anything. we got things doesn't. won't talk to each other anymore. you don't joke about calling black men "boys." men like james o. eastland used word like that and the to str...

Didn't agree with them, but they still worked together. his democratic opponents pouncing tonight, and biden standing firm. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: tonight, one by one, the democratic presidential candidates are attacking joe biden, even as the former vice president defends himself. >> there's not a racist bone in my body. i've been involved in civil rights my whole career. period. period. period. >> reporter: it comes after biden talked about working with segregationist senators as an example of how he's able to do business with colleagues, even if they disagree. he mentioned ...

Mean? he's a very calm and serene kind of brother. he has a righteous indignation. it's rare to see him in this mode which means he was affected in a deep way. >> i wonder the fact you have jim clyburn, the highest african-american person in congress as well as several other prominent african-american members, they came out strongly in support of biden on this. should that carry weight or is that about politics? >> well, it's hard to say. i mean clyburn's a complex brother. we know on one hand it's about politics. they have a personal relationship therefore you get the friendship kicking in. i...