Vice President Joe Biden was one of the first people to point out that Donald Trump's crude boasting about forcing himself on women wasn't "locker room talk" but "the language of sexual assault," Seth Meyers said on Wednesday's Late Night. He asked Biden, as "someone who wrote the Violence Against Women Act, what did you find more stunning: the use of the language or the fact that there are still people who are defending it?"
"First of all, what I found astounding is that he would so publicly — even though he was in a [Access Hollywood bus], no matter who he was talking to — that he would acknowledge that he engaged in the textbook definition of sexual assault," Biden said. "I mean, this is absolutely outrageous behavior," he added, noting also accusations that Trump stood and watched Miss Teen USA contestants change clothes. "I've spent most of my career trying to figure out how to begin to change the culture in this country so that we treat women with respect and with dignity."
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