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LEMON: “I understood what, well, former senator, the vice president Joe Biden was trying to say. I understand it. He did it inartfully, and many times in conversations we do I did it the other night with you when we were talking about the whole, you know, who you give a platform to and when you look back in history, who do you want — I brought in hitler. I didn’t mean to compare hitler to the president, but it was inartful. I was trying to — trying to speak about people who give misinformation and propaganda. And you tried to help me out. You’re like, that’s an extreme that was inartful. I didn’t mean in it that way and I think we have to — sometimes people say things in a conversation and you get what I’m trying to say, but people turn it into something else. And I get what Joe Biden was trying to say in the same vein. And what he did was inartful by saying “Boy,” right? So if he didn’t say “Boy,” I think it would have landed differently. What he was saying was I can work with these people who were terrible. They were beyond racist, right? They were beyond what we have in the Senate and in the Congress right now, and if I can work with them then I can definitely work with the folks there. So I think, you know, as we said the other night, you and I, got to give people a little bit more leeway. We should be nicer. We should be Kinder and figure that out. And if you say something that was inartful and something comes out of your mouth that’s stupid that happens when you’re live. You know that happens all the time. Probably me more than you. You say that’s not what I meant.”