The women of “The View” pressed former Vice President Joe Biden to apologize to the women who said they felt uncomfortable by his unwanted touching.
“Are you sorry for what you did?” Sunny Hostin asked the former vice president and 2020 presidential hopeful on Friday. “Are you prepared to apologize to those women?”
Biden acknowledged he needed to be more aware of people’s personal space but said he has never approached a woman with the intent to harass her.
“But they’ve also said, ‘We’d like an apology,” Hostin said.
“Well, look. I’m really sorry if they — what I did in talking to them, trying to console — that in fact they took it a different way. It’s my responsibility to make sure I bend over backwards to try to understand how not to do that,” he said.
Joy Behar then told Biden that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, wanted Biden to apologize for invading the personal space of the women accusing him of inappropriate touching.
“Sorry I invaded your space,” Biden said. “I’m sorry this happened. But I’m not sorry in the sense that I think I did anything that was intentionally designed to do anything wrong or be inappropriate. It was inappropriate that I didn’t understand — that I assumed.”
Ana Navarro defended Biden and said other people have appreciated his affection when they needed consultation or encouragement.
[Read: Biden addresses accusers publicly but doesn’t apologize: ‘Social norms are changing’]
