It is thursday, june 20. Im Yasmin Vossoughian along White House Correspondent jeff bennett. We begin with Vice President joe biden rejecting criticism from his rivals after he evoked his work with powerful segregationists early in his career. Channelling a southern drawl he said 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 civilitiy. We got things done. Today, you look at the other side youre the opposition, not the enemy. You dont joke about calling black men boys. Vice President Bidens relations with proud segregationists are not the way we work. Biden reacted and called on booker to apologize. I could not disagree with eastland more. He was a segregationists. I ran because i disagreed with that at the time. What i was talking about is the Voting Rights act. We voted against them and beat them in the Voting Rights act. The point im making it, you dont have to agree or like the people in ter