Joe Biden: I wasn't prepared for Kamala Harris to come after me the way she did

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden said he wasn’t prepared for Sen. Kamala D. Harris to confront him on his past positions on busing to desegregate schools in the way she did at last week’s Democratic presidential debate.

“I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn’t prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at [me],” Mr. Biden said in an interview that aired Friday on CNN. “She knew Beau. She knows me.”

Asked why he didn’t push back more strongly during the...