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Unimpeachable. he wrote what he wrote and did what he did. its what prosecutors do. she was saying i can bring the case against donald trump. indirectly she was making that case. and by the way it wasnt just on the issue of race. it was also on the communities program where she talked about how she was defying the obama/biden administration over some of their deportation policies. she is ready to really go after him in such a way that we saw last night he shut himself up. he didnt have much of a...

That biden was for dealing with the underlying issues of integration over bussing. im trying to represent that, however, i will say the proponents or historians look back and say, bussing helped with getting integration going in practice, not just in theory, as the supreme court had determined two decades before. is cedric richmond wrong? >> no, the facts are there, and the history is well recorded. it did help in terms of the integration of our public schools. >> what is he saying? >> i think t...

Again having to explain his past positions for more than 30 years in the senate. this includes this stance he had as a junior senator against compulsory busing of black students into white schools and desegregate schools in practice rather just in theory as the supreme court had done effectively two decades before. jeff zeleny has this report. >> i do not believe you are a racist. and i agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground. >> with those words, senat...

Time talking. so it is time to narrow this field. i think we could get it down to five or six right now and have some really good debates, really strong candidates, and this party could decide who is the right one to take this mess in the oval office out. >> contributors have a funny way of narrowing the field. lawrence odonald? >> this was the front runners debate, it was joe biden. the debate where you had the really, really strong front-runner. so the question became who can beat this front-r...

Have you with us. we need a whole segment on whats on michaels nighttime book list. >> i feel like hes launching a book club on our program. watch "smerconish" tomorrow and every saturday at 9:00 a.m. on cnn. kamala harris confronting former vice president joe biden on his record on race. so were going to take a closer look at his past record on mandatory school busing and the truth. thats next. and put it in holographic displays, we could dissect around the tumor so we can safely remove it. w...

Context. he was never for -- >> which part taken out of context? >> the states right. hes never been for states right. when he re-authorizized the voiting oigts acts it gave them the power to sue states and school districts. >> but he opposed federal -- you said he wasnt for states rights but he was opposed to federal imposition of busing by the department of education. and he said last night to kamala harris you would have been able to go to the school the same exact way because it was a local ...

Are nostalgic. >> josh, you dont think this is as devastating but you also dont think joe bidens in a good place. >> is it as much of a cataclysmic disaster as some of the other campaigns are saying right now? no, i think this is better it happened early. hes got to get better on this question of race, in particular on busing. its just not a winner. he got it wrong. its okay okay to say hes wrong. but he took his lumps, hung in there. quite frankly theres still a lot of black folks in south caro...

Agreed no one thought donald trump won. >> and she won the popular vote by 3 million people. i feel like we have to acknowledge that. >> he does have to win votes, and even debate aside, if hes going to get to the point you said which is, hey, im the one who can win on the job training doesnt he have to dispense with this by explaining himself because hes not explaining himself. >> his position on busing is a nonstarter. and thats okay. >> explain why. if you were the faith and race advisor to p...

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 argued for, we should be breaking down these lines. >> vice president biden do you agree today -- do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in america? do you agree? >> i do not oppose busing in america. what i opposed is busing ordered by the department of education. >> reporter: that moment shining new light on a long ago chapter of bidens li...

Policies really created a lot of these inequalities we see today. >> his defense of his stance from the 1970s was that he wasnt against busing, he was against federally mandated busing. he wanted it to be locally controlled what some people are calling a states rights argument. why should that resonate today? >> i think anybody who knows our painful history knows that on voting rights, on civil rights, on the protections from hate crimes, african-americans in this country and many other groups h...