Former Vice President Joe Biden now acknowledges that he wasn't arrested in South Africa during a visit to the country in the 1970s despite recently claiming that he had been.
"I wasn't arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go," told CNN's John Berman on"New Day."Biden had recently claimed multiple times on the campaign trail that he was arrested on the trip to South Africa during apartheid. He's used the story as part of his larger efforts to connect with African American voters ahead of the South Carolina primary, where a big showing is critical if he is to remain viable in the race.
On CNN Friday, Biden said he was visiting South Africa with a delegation from members of the Congressional Black Caucus when he was separated from the group at the airport. "They had me get off a plane -- the Afrikaners got on in the short pants and their guns. Lead me off first and moved me in a direction totally different. I turned around and everybody, the entire black delegation, was going another way. I said, 'I'm not going to go in that door that says white only.
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