View 4 (left to right): Seven women have accused you of touching them without their permission. Are you sorry for what you did? Are you prepared to apologize to those women?
Biden: Look. Here’s the deal. I am so, like, for example, I actually thought in my head, when I walked out here. I mean, do I?
View 1: I know, it’s…
Biden: we’re friends,
View 1 : it’s tricky…
Biden: I hug? No, but, but I should be able to read better. But I have never in my life done anything in approaching a woman that has been, other than trying to bring solace, I’m used to, like, one of your staff was, I’m used to, I think it’s really important we listen, whether I sit down next to somebody and it’s not invited to be, to sit down, so, that’s my responsibility, I have to be more, more aware, and it’s totally legitimate. But I, but,
View ?: Okay
Biden: But, anyway, I think it’s legitimate, and I think it is, and to, to anyone, but I don’t think anyone’s ever said,
View 4: The [unintelligible] said, “We’d like an apology.”
Biden: Well, look, I, I, I’m really sorry that they…
View 1: Nancy Pelosi wants you to say “I’m sorry that I invaded your space.”
Biden: Sorry I invaded your space. I mean, and I am, I’m sorry this happened, but I’m not sorry in the sense that, look, I was, well anyway.
View 1: Here’s your opportunity right now to just say you apologize, you’re sorry, I think we can clean this up right now.
Biden: Well, by the way, I, I did, I understand the,
View: Uh huh, right.
Biden: It’s, we, we haven’t, there’s so much more work to do to figure out, how, listen, the one important thing I know, well, I, I tell you what the deal was, I did not, that um, what I didn’t want to do, and I, I didn’t want to quote invade her space, I didn’t want to get in a situation where this became..
View: Right.
Biden: And then I, when I heard all this about, the, and it was legitimate, expecting a call, what, every time the phone rang, why, we, and so, I, I spoke to some leading women advocates in this area, [unintelligible]
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