Biden: I Used to ‘Go Down to the Senate Dining Room’ and Eat Together with Segregationist James Eastland

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BIDEN: “Look, I don’t agree with anything that Liz Cheney believes about the substantive issues, but I admire the hell out of her. She means what she says. She doesn’t support the notion of use of violence. She doesn’t support the notion — she insists that there are basic fundamental rules. And it used to be that way all through the Senate. I mean, hell, I served with Jim Eastland and Strom Thurmond. You know, I served with really conservative members in the United States Senate. But afterwards, after we’d argue like hell, we’d go down to the Senate dining room and everybody would eat together. There was still an understanding that the differences may be profound, but they don’t justify the kind of activities you’re seeing today.”