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What he already had said a week or so later. honestly, joe biden put his foot in his mouth a week or so ago when he brought up the whole section about segregationist. she shoved his foot down his throat. >> laura: she didnt meanings that they were both democrats. the democrat senators in the south is a convenient fact a lot of democrats today want to sweep under the rug. joe biden tried to clean up what he said last night at a rainbow push event today. lets watch. >> i heard and listened to and ...

How does he stay in the polls after this? how does kamla harris run with this and keep that fire? >> im going to run with harris. right now, what she does is more obvious than what biden does. she goes out and keeps telling her story and keeps doing the miniversion. we saw how she could say in one or two sentences, what shes about, and her plans. showing humor and personality, on it. because shes new, the optics are, shes an interesting person to hear from. what she just does is get out and abou...

>> biden was a vocal opponent of federally mandated opponent. he added bussing programs were bad for local communities. he did say he would allow it under certain situations. we should note biden speaks today at the jesse jackson rainbow push conference in chicago. that will clearly be an issue he will have to further clarify. >> lets bring in cnn politics digital director. that moment we just showed you was what put joe biden and kamala harris on top of the speaking times leader board. joe bide...

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...

Operate as a company. >> so theyre saying this is the first step. do you believe it? >> thats believable. i wont doubt that. i wont question that. but, again, one of the things we do, even in the wall street project with reverend jackson, one of our other organizations, rainbow push, we do a report card. we ask that question, what is the leadership? is there diverse ownership within this group? are there diverse branches, retailees, licensees? and whenever you find an organization that isnt fort...

Its hard for a guy who began his campaign, even before he was running as a birth, and he could say that people are watching to make marching with white supremacist and charlottesville. this latest comment, its kind of hard. i think you are making the case that there are a lot of good things happening, the president doesnt pay attention. on the race stuff, i think its a little bit hard for you. >> laura: and corey? youve known trump for a while now. ive known him for about 14 or 15 years. if this...

His campaign, even before he was running as a birth, and he could say that people are watching to make marching with white supremacist and charlottesville. this latest comment, its kind of hard. i think you are making the case that there are a lot of good things happening, the president doesnt pay attention. on the race stuff, i think its a little bit hard for you. >> laura: and corey? youve known trump for a while now. ive known him for about 14 or 15 years. if this guy was some secret racist, ...

>> well, we have, as i mentioned, strong elected officials and members of rain w rainbow/push that are continuing to negotiate on our behalf so we will hammer out the details so that the community is satisfied and that this school meets the needs of our children. but i think theres also a very key battle in chicago and around the country. we stand in unity with those parents in new orleans who lost all their public schools. we stand in unity with those parents and young people in philadelphia wh...

Then jackson urged a&e to keep robertson on hiatus. and he urged them to meet with the rainbow push group within 72 hours. the network hasnt returned our calls either. cracker barrel which pulled the merchandise from the stores and put it back up. they didnt know about jacksons comments until we emailed those comments. we are supposed to get a statement from them shortly. the reverend jackson trying to push it. twitter has unblocked any posts

Jackson, you know, the whole thing. >> bill: he was with king. >> that whole association exists. all of sawedden once you start and i started covering. i covered jacksons campaign and you start to see whats going on here and you start to see its much more of a crusade. its not really about lifting up people, its about, you know, in his case, the rainbow push coalition or in the case of sharpton, the national whatever. >> bill: action network. >> and these guys have these contracts and deals with...