of iowa and new hampshire and their candidacies come here and end. right. so this is a very important state. right. joe biden is polling very well at least in the polls that we ve seen, although i will say that some of the polls seem to undercount african-americans a little bit, they are like six and ten voters, they ve been four and five in some of the polls. i have to get your comments of what joe biden said what plea dated him coming here. on the day of the reparations hearing, this is a story that broke, i will read a little bit of his comments. he said at a fundraiser after the poor people s campaign forum in which i was there with him, he goes to a fundraiser and says the following, i was in a caucus with james o. eastland, the former vice president said he never called me boy, he always called me son. he also mentioned the segregationist narts, he said one of the meanest guys i ever knew. you go down the list of all these things.
i have an important guest. cory booker. i have to get to him. see you soon. great guest. this is cnn tonight i m don lemon. joe biden just came out with a really strong defense to the controversy over comments he made at a fundraiser. while touting his campaign theme about his long record of bringing opposites sides to the to get things doeb. he talked about working in the senate in the 1970s with mississippi sooner james oh east land and georgia senator. avid seg gre gagsists and civil rights. saying this. i was in a caucus with james eastland. he never called me boy. always son. guess what? at least there was some civility. we got things done. we didn t agree on much. we got things done. we got it finished. today you look at the other side
him themselves. the reason why they call black men boy, was an attempt to establish the other. to dehumanize and degrade. for him not to understand this and why people would take a deep offense to the way he used and dredged up this awful language, and this is the thing that we need leaders that can bring us to more healing and more understanding. we all say in politics things we regret or didn t come out right. the fact he s not apologizing. and correct him. in his remarks. part he says he didn t call him boy. a seen your adviser says thoeld the story countless types and usually phrases it he never called me senator. he called me son. would it matter if he told it differently? the guy running to be the head of the party. a significantly diverse and wonderous party. doesn t understand or
i think this neck thing has really done me dirty. thanks for bringing that up in the interest of kindness. i have an important guest. cory booker. i have to get to him. see you soon. great guest. this is cnn tonight i m don lemon. thank you everyone for joining us. joe biden just came out with a really strong defense to the controversy over comments he made at a fundraiser. while touting his campaign theme about his long record of bringing opposite sides together to get things done, biden talked about working in the senate in the 1970s with mississippi senator james o. eastland and georgia senator her man talmadge. both ardent opposers to civil rights. biden saying this. i was in a caucus with james eastland. he never called me boy. always son. guess what? at least there was some civility.
white man son, these segregationists, these racists could see in him themselves. the reason why they would call black men boys was an attempt to establish the other, to dehumanize, to degrade them, and for him not to understand this and why people would take a deep offense to the way he used and dredged up this awful language, and this is the thing that we need leaders that can bring us to more healing and more understanding. we all say in politics things that we regret or things that didn t come out right or as we intended it. the fact he s not apologizing you correct them as quickly as possible. can i just ask you about this? because in his remarks last night, the part where he says he didn t call him boy, a senior adviser says he has told the story countless times and usually phrases it, he never called me senator, he called me son. would it matter to you if he told that story differently? what matters to me is a guy running to be the head of our party, which is a significan