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Year in a row. theyre less concerned about an exchange of apologies and acknowledgements of a rhetorical mistake than they are about the racial wealth gap, about the fact that the average african-american home is undervalued by $48,000, to the tune of a multi-billion dollar loss of wealth to the community. theyre very concerned about this president taking us to the brink of war. its about focusing on the future, but in focusing on the future and the present, one must speak in ways that resonate ...

Got -- i hes got to get through a tough primary. senator mcconnell is going to throw a ton of money at this race. he made it clear hes going to throw as much money that will rival the defense budget we have coming up in the next year. its going to be a tough race and a divisive, expensive race. it will be interesting to watch. ultimately, i think what we saw in the last election was ultimately the president put his party before dignity and civility and respect. and so ill probably expect him to ...

At least there were some civility. when i read those comments, congressman, what struck me is that he wasnt talking about the opposition, he was talking about democrats. this was not a talk about bipartisanship. had he talked about strom thurman who switched to become a republican in the late 1960s that would have been a comment on bipartisanship. what do you make of the vice president who was barack obamas vice president making thighs comments sort of saying i worked with segregationist democra...

I think a good point of what youre discussing was what happened this week with joe biden. joe biden is being asked to apologize because of a point that he made about civility. was it made in an awkward manner? yeah, it was, but its a story that hes been telling. his ability to deal can talmage or jesse helms or eastland. its a story joe biden has been telling for years but in the view of 2019 going into 2020 lens all of a sudden it seems out of touch. i think theres nothing wrong with saying civ...

Humanitarian, civility does not mean justice, it just means people are not yelling at each other. joe biden has to understand that the credibility he grew with barack obama was temporary. he cant put on an obama mask for the next eight months and hope he can put that coalition together with the same amount of passion. he has to build his own name, just like hillary clinton had to build her own name, and when she failed to do that, she also lost. >> what are the politics of this? can this signifi...

Rivals are descending on south carolina this weekend, coming face-to-face after clashing from afar over one of the most divisive eras in the nations history. leading the way in the 2020 race, the former vice president is unfazed by his comments that touched off a firestorm this week as he held up his work with segregationist senators as an example of of a forgotten civility in politics. >> theres not a racist bone in my body. ive been involved in civil rights my whole career period. >> reporter:...

Large block. you are all individuals who thought all this stuff, so we can sit in the generation now and say, you know what? we dont have to put up with it anymore. >> there are certain things i find puzzling about it, because joe biden was barack obamas vice president, and this is not ancient history like back in the old days. in the eight years in which joe biden was in the white houseworking alongsihousework ing -- house, working alongside barack obama, he took a lot of shots. >> thats right,...

Him to apologize for? >> i dont know that i fully understand his statement, to somehow explain the impasse weve seen or the gross discrimination that many americans have experienced thats resulted in the largest prison population on the face of the planet, one that is disproportionately compromised of people of color. thats not a function of lack of civility or bipartisanship. thats racism thats still systemat systemic today in 2019. obviously the vice president doesnt understand that or has to ...

Who were segregationists. because he was a member of congress and part of his job was to work together to get things accomplished. i think the problem for me is that he seemed to romanticize this era of quote-unquote civility. as though its something to aspire to. forgetting or ignoring the real history and the context of that civility. which is that it was only made possible by a longstanding pact between northern and southern democrats and some republicans in the country, and white politicians...

Party before dignity and civility and respect. and so ill probably expect him to do that again. the difference will be i wouldnt expect donald trump to be in alabama very much in the last 30, 60 days of the campaign. if hes in alabama, hes in trouble nationwide. >> lets listen to this roy moore said about why hes decided to run for senate once again. >> your reputation went through a lot. in 2017, why subject you and your family to that again? >> well, thats part of what i believe about god. i p...