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Some sort of black on white conflict every day. interestingly, it was the white teachers that had the wildly different responses. there were a couple of white teachers who before had only taught white students. a couple of them were great mentors and teachers to me and a couple just could not get their mind around the integration. and they were just as nasty as can be. >> but you outsmarted them anyway. >> i benefitted so much from integration. i went to college the first day, meeting kids, my h...

Coming. >> interesting about that, that moment i didnt actually think -- i fell in love with her before that moment. i want to take that moment a little bit differently, jean. its interesting. i grew up as one of the kids involved in bussing. in the early 70s my sister was a year ahead of me got bussed into a very, very tough african-american school, bad experience for her. they sent her to private school. i kicked and screamed. didnt want to go to private school. went to public school, 4,000 ki...

Thats not the right answer? im struggling. >> i would never call you an ignorant white man, donny, however -- >> im one of the few people who is willing to talk about that. >> i have a somewhat different memory of that time. i grew up in a small town south carolina during jim crow. towards the end of jim crow there were no buses in our town, but there had been a black high school, dilapitated, and a white school that had all the facilities and this and that. you know, a couple years, year before...

However -- >> im one of the few people thats willing -- >> i have a somewhat different memory of that time. i grew up in a small town south carolina during jim crow. towards the end be of jim crow there were no buses in our town, but there had been a black high school, dill lap apitated, and e school, a couple years, year before i went to high school the schools -- there was integration. so i went to the former white high school. they were less than 10% of the population. i had -- you know, so y...

I want to take that moment a little bit differently, jean. its interesting. i grew up as one of the kids involved in bussing. in the early 70s my sister was a year ahead of me got bussed into a very, very tough african-american school, bad experience for her. i kicked and screamed. didnt want to go to private school. went to public school, 4,000 kids, fully integrated. the african-american kids were here, caucasian kids were here. do you automatically give somebody who is not integrating, bussin...

For the folks at home. >> so just to be clear, then, the vice president had not changed his stance on this issue since the comments he made in the 1970s. >> to be clear -- >> correct? >> -- just as the vice president said at the rainbow push coalition, that he believes today we have to deal with -- we have to deal with the issues and the issues that confront young people today which means good neighborhood schools, which means injecting money into title 1 funds. >> okay. >> which means universal...

>> 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 government does need to be involved...

But, you know, we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange cant do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights. i never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing. >> now there are several instances in the past from decades ago where joe biden was on the record criticizing and laying out his opposition to federally mandated busing. also today in his speech he was trying to clean up a little bit of what he may have said about states app rights yesterday and today...

As well. but i also am concerned, you have to remember im coming from a conservative republican viewpoint on policies and things, im casting a lot of my differences with these candidates aside, i think the number one priority is to get donald trump out of office. and my concern is that joe biden is allowing this race issue to get out ahead of him and hes not taking -- hes not ending it the way he should. this has been going on now, plaguing him for two weeks. and it shouldnt have. and its leavin...

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 because she introduced into the conversation a very, very personal narrative talking about...