New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Saturday refused to rule out meeting with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who is known for making anti-Semitic remarks.

“I have heard Minister Farrakhan’s speeches for a lot of my life,” Booker said at a political event in Columbia, S.C.

Asked whether he would be willing to meet with Farrakhan, the 2020 presidential hopeful replied: “I don’t feel like I need to do that, but I’m not one of these people who says I wouldn’t sit down with anybody to hear what they have to say.”

“I am very familiar with Minister Farrakhan and his beliefs,” Booker continued, noting that Nation of Islam literature is popular in Newark, where he used to serve as mayor.

The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the Nation of Islam a hate group because of its anti-Semitic rhetoric and black nationalist ideology.

Booker’s remarks come after a week in which he and other Democrats criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for touting his record of working with segregationist Democrats in the 1970s.

At a fundraiser on Tuesday, Biden praised former Mississippi Sen. James Eastland and former Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadge, both Democratic segregationists, for their “civility.”

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