JUST IN: Joe Biden tells GMA he takes responsibility for Anita Hill’s treatment during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing. 'As the committee chairman, I take responsibility that she did not get treated well. I take responsibility for that.”
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden said he takes “responsibility” for Anita Hill’s treatment when she testified before the Senate Judiciary committee during Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing.
The full interview with former Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will air on"Good Morning America" Tuesday morning. "If you go back and look what I said and didn't say, I don't think I treated her badly. I took on her opposition,” Biden told the co-hosts.
“I said privately what I've said publicly. I am sorry she was treated the way she was treated,” Biden said on Friday. “I wish we could have figured out a better way to get this thing done. I did everything in my power to do what I thought was within the rules to be able to stop things.”
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