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Referenced the fact that there were people on both sides of the argument around bussing. if the vice president was standing up and sort of making those arguments today that led him to the conclusion that he reached from a public policy standpoint, that would be one thing but thats not what hes doing. hes actually speaking in conflict to what is published and demonstrated record is on this issue. to senator kamala harris, i thought she was extremely effective particularly at this line of attack b...

Integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> reporter: and it brought a quick rebuttal so what do the facts say? harris was truthful about her childhood growing up on this street. she was part of the bussing in the late 1960s. as she would write, i only learned later that we were part of a national experiment in desegregation and while she a young black girl was attending a mostly white school, joe biden was becoming a u.s. senator. >> arou...

Should point out biden has a long history of supporting civil rights measures including the voting rights act. we spent the day following the former president and biden is clearly trying to do damage control today. what is he even saying? >> reporter: well, anderson, its very clear joe biden knows he needed to clean up some of his statements from last nights debate. i was here earlier today when he gave that speech in front of a crowd that was mostly made up of black activists and black voters a...

Versa, protests often violent broke out coast-to-coast and biden indeed began pushing back. listen to what he said on this date in 1977. >> i happen to think that the one way to ensure that you set the civil rights movement in america further back is to continue to push bussing. because its a bankrupt policy. >> reporter: and now? >> i did not oppose bussing in america. what i opposed is bussing ordered by the department of education. >> reporter: that split hair likely wont satisfy per phone in...

Opposed voluntarily bussing. >> reporter: but as you noted, anderson, there were moments, several instances decades ago biden was there defending or trying to express his opposition to school bussing. i asked the campaign how they can reconcile his statements today with what he had said in the past and havent gotten a full explanation. you also today heard biden trying to do a little cleanup when it came to comments relating to states rights. biden today saying he does believe the federal govern...