he goes out and says that on audiotape and video tape he likes working with jim eastland, herman talmage. the guy is totally clueless. he was for the hyde amendment before he was against it. he was against reparations before it was for it. he was against busing before he was far. he s a joke. you re right. tucker: you re right. that s about the crisp summation. what about beto o rourke? for a moment to really did seem like beto was the guy. he was our bobby kennedy. now he s a joke. while? well, i think, they always talk about the glass ceiling for women in politics. i think there s also a glass ceiling for s. there s only so far you can rise. john kerry married two heiresses but he could never reach the heights. he married the only child of a guy worth $500 million. i think he s very soon going to
tendency among our generation to lash out along lines of gender and race when somebody feels aggrieved. and how it always sort of comes back to these characteristics, when there is a disagreement. i think that really shows a growing tension, and the democratic party between the younger progressives on the older establishment, that could be problematic for them ie coming election. harris: i want to get back to the stats. i don t want people to think i put words in joe biden s mouth. he prefaced his apology which took in more than two weeks to make by saying the senate, he said, i apologize, so he is saying it twice. he apologized for saying it. you said he never said it. i just want to get it on the record. that s not the case. the jessica: but the explosion over it came from kamala harris and cory booker s issue with what he had said about jim eastland. and i forget the name of the second senator that he had mentioned in there. so i don t think it s something my point is i
the segregationist senators. he s more than a segregationist, he s an epitome of evil and hate that existed in this country in that era. and nobody embodied it more than jim eastland did. do you think that it s that his ideas are tired? is he dated by his time? joe biden thinks out loud. i ve known him for 40 years. yes, yes. and a lot of those thoughts are terrific. and some of those thoughts you want to say, keep them to yourself. i think that s what we ve been seeing. but i think we got to come back to this is a divided democratic party. the soul of the democratic party is up for grabs and we don t know where the hell it is going to go. but you keep having these head to heads. you got to factor the soul versus the head. you got to win and the democrat thread this together for me. all right.
and not cast it in terms of i get along with people because i got along with this horrible democrat jim eastland because i had to. didn t he say the same thing? i read it in his book. yeah, teddy kennedy said the same thing. it was a different era with teddy kennedy. look, it s now with younger african americans, and many younger white voters. that was tone deaf. and it fed the narrative, the dangerous narrative is that he is the i m saying it doesn t show up. but he s got prove tonight that he is future looking. you heard last night. the people who went after him last night without naming him in the spin room right here, elizabeth warren, this has to be about the future, not the past. when do you fold? when do you hold? he has to apologize for certain things. you get into bussing, the crime bill, there is so much history, there is anita hill. at one what point does he say i am who i am, i make mistakes? well, i think i think in a broad sense you can say that, but that s a
week in south carolina he was given a lot of opportunities to try to explain the analogy that he used and to my thinking having covered him for so many years, i know his record on civil rights, but you could think of other ways of describing working across the aisle, you could think of teddy kennedy and dan quayle, you don t have to talk about jim eastland which is an ancient reference of a virulent he go gags nist, a hater. and also somebody who happened to be chairman and colleague of his in the united states senate. if he was going to be able to work on different things in the judiciary committee he didn t have a lot of choice. technically doesn t that reinforce the concerns among perhaps some millennials, younger voters, that he is not of the moment, that he is the past? you know, i think when people hear joe biden tonight they are going to hear somebody who is relentlessly focused on what he thinks america s future can be and who is optimistic about what he believes that fut