Presidential candidate Joe Biden has learned to give people their space, his wife, Dr. Jill Biden said Tuesday, but she does think it's a "good thing" that women can come forward and speak out when they feel that they have been targeted.
"I have been in a similar situation," Biden told "CBS This Morning." "It happened years and years ago, and at that time, I didn't say anything because women never used to say anything. Now they have the courage to come forward, and I think that's a good thing, I think that's a good change and Joe has heard that message."
On NBC's "Today," Biden told host Savannah Guthrie that her husband was "grateful" that Anita Hill took his call and heard his apology for how she was treated by the Senate Judiciary Committee when he chaired it during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
"The one good thing that has come out of this is that he made sure that there were now women senators on that committee," she said. "He has written the Violence Against Women Act. So you have to look at the good that came out of that."
Also on Tuesday, Biden, who made a similar appearance on CNN while promoting her new memoir, "Where the Light Enters," said her husband is a uniter who is needed to bring together a country that is "really divided."
"I think the White House that has said 'it's us and them' and Joe is a convener, he brings people together and that's who he is and I that that's what this country really desperately needs," she told CBS.
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