lead will inspire us to be our best. and none of us, certainly not me, have been perfect or without mistakes. we all do it. but when you make a mistake, don t fall into a defensive crouch, don t try to shift the blame like he said to me, that i owed him an apology for his remarks. that is not what we need right now. part of being courageous is being vulnerable and letting people know you are not perfect. none of us are and risking putting yourself out there and try to be a light to bring people together and i m hoping that we don t fall into this no apology world that donald trump seems to say when you do nothing wrong and make no mistakes. the best leaders are the ones that step up and say, hey, i don t have a perfect record, i haven t done anything right but stayed in the saddle and continued to work and sacrifice for the greater good and i hope you ll join me in that march. senator cory booker, thank you so much. thank you for having me. president trump is not going to like th
nominee. whoever they are are going to have to be able to talk about this in an open and honest and vulnerable way. if they make mistakes, say something wrong as we all do, they can t fall into a defensive crouch and shift blame, they have to be able to help our country heal and reconcile. we need someone who can unite this nation and bring us together to common purpose again, and i think that all of us have to show we can be that kind of leader and i believe i am. is joe biden showing that with his answer about busing? look, i am telling you right now when yhe talked about not working across the i ll, we all have to do that. when you dredge up sort of words like, hey, they didn t call me boy, they called me son and not understand the history and the hurt that that kind of degrading
use. this now has become a different debate about whether joe biden was or was not on the right side of what many americans have come to see critical civil rights issues. i think that what i was bringing out before, first of all it s not about working with people who disagree. this is about power dynamics that have been used for decades and generations to create deep divisions, racial divisions in this country, and whether it s his rhetoric using the word boy saying that the segregationist didn t call him boy, he called him son. so let me just be clear. after this president with the way he overtly uses racism as a political currency, the next leader whoever is a leader of our party has to be up to the challenge of bringing r reconciliation and healing. they can t fall into a defensive crouch or try to shift blame as he said to me that i should
segregationist senators and you said you felt that required an apology. biden obviously is the front runner. senator, do you think your rivals on stanl tonight will directly take him on? or are they going to be leary of doing that. i just want to say that my biden comments were it was the way he used and evoked the word boy. how salesmen used that name to demean and degrade them. whoever the nominee for from our party is going to be, they re going to have to deal with issues of race. especially divisions that are open wounds. we all make mistakes and are imperfect. you don t fall into a defensive crouch and shift blame to someone else. so for me what i want in any leader, whether it s a senator or governor, somebody that can pull folks together and unify
suburban maryland tonight, followed by cory booker as interviewed on cnn. the point i m making is you don t have to agree, you don t have to like the people in terms of their views. but you just simply make the case and you beat them. are you going to apologize like cory booker has called for? for what? cory booker s called for it. cory should apologize. he knows better. there s ain racist bone in my body. i ve been involved in civil rights any whole career. period. period. period. what matters to me is that a guy running to be the head of our party, which is a significantly diverse and wondrous party, doesn t understand or can t even acknowledge that he made a mistake. whether the intention was there or not. that s what was stunning to me. and instead he s falling back into the defensive crouch that often people say, which is cory called me a racist or i m not a racist. which is not what i said.