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Number one. number two, if we want to have this campaign litigated on who supports civil rights and whether i did or not, im happy to do that. i was a public defender. i didnt become a prosecutor. i came out and i left a good law firm to become a public defender. in terms of bussing, the bussing -- i never. you would have been able to go to school the exact same way because it was a local decision made by your city council. thats fine. thats one of the things i argued for, is that we should not ...

Republicans an advantage. dave and christine? >> thank you for that. president trump is not happy with the courts census decision. he says hes seeking to delay the census. by the way, its mandated by congress. he said he wants to delay it to give officials time to come up with a better time line to come up with a decision. the trump administration is insisting the printing deadline is monday. friends of author e. jean carroll is speaking out helping to discredit a theory that her sexual assa...

Supported civil rights or did not, im happy to do that. i was a public defender. i wasnt a prosecutor. i left a good law firm to become a public defender. in terms of bussing, you would have been able to go to school the same exact way because it was a local decision made by your city council. thats fine. thats one of the things i argued for, that we should not be -- we should be breaking down these lines. so the bottom line here is, look, everything i have done in my career -- i ran because of ...

Districts. the court also ruling the trump administration can not add a citizen question to the 2020 census. at least not yet. cnns jessica snyder has more from washington. >> reporter: dave and christine, two major supreme court decisions dropping on the last day of the term and they are sure to impact who is representing all of us in congress. first, partisan gerrymandering. the conservative justices led by chief justice john roberts ruling that courts cannot decide when politicians have drawn...

This is an issue that states and maybe commissions should decide, not judges. and this ruling really currently benefits republicans who control more of the state legislatures and therefore can draw more of the lines, but while the chief justice did side with conservatives in that case, he did line up partly with liberals on the question of whether a citizenship question can be added to the 2020 census. the court ruling that it cannot be added right now, but they sent the case back down to a new ...

Border funding bill. that decision happening after major pressure from moderates in the democratic caucus. >> the children come first. at the end of the day, we have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available. >> the house passed the bill last night with 95 democrats against. progressives wanted more guarantees the $4.6 billion would be used to raise standards of care for migrant kids. the congressional hispanic caucus issued a blistering statement after the bil...

Schools in america. i was part of the second class to integrate berkeley, california public schools almost two decades after brown v. board of education. >> because your city council made that decision. it was a local decision. >> so thats where the federal government must step in. thats why we have the voting rights act and the civil rights act. >> a fact check. biden was a vocal opponent of federally mandated bussing. he argue at the time bussing programs were bad for local communities. he did...

Education. thats what i opposed. >> well, there was a failure of states to integrate public schools in america. i was part of the second class to integrate berkeley, california public schools almost two decades after brown v. board of education. >> because your city council made that decision. it was a local decision. >> so thats where the federal government must step in. thats why we have the voting rights act and the civil rights act. >> quite a moment. fact check, biden was a vocal opponent o...

The question on the census form is foreclosed. secondly, the supreme court today id have to say as expected declined to say that congressional districts or state legislative districts can be truck down on the basis of excessive partying gerrymandering. the courts opinion basically said how do you decide when politics, the process becomes excessive? whats the constitutional line? we dont know. theres no good test. thats not for the courts to decide. tom goldstein is with me whos argued many cases...

So i think when we, you know, get into the meat of this census decision, we will have to see whether the court is stepping back and saying, you know, were taking our heads out of the sand or if theyre going to say, were going to keep taking your word on these things, that if you look at real life, you know, you have to admit that there are, the evidence, again, so strong that the motivation for this question here was not to enforce the voting rights act. it was to try to exclude particularly his...