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Nominee. whoever they are are going to have to be able to talk about this in an open and honest and vulnerable way. if they make mistakes, say something wrong as we all do, they cant fall into a defensive crouch and shift blame, they have to be able to help our country heal and reconcile. we need someone who can unite this nation and bring us together to common purpose again, and i think that all of us have to show we can be that kind of leader and i believe i am. >> is joe biden showing that wi...

Ground with segregationist senators and on his past record on school busing. arlette signs is at the rainbow push convention in chicago, and hes in a weaker position today coming out of this debate. >> reporter: yeah, thats certainly right. and last night you saw this rocky debate purchase from joe biden. and one democratic ally who works closely with bidens team tells our colleague jeff zeleny that the former vice president knows he needs to do better. its the one thing people are going to be w...

Rights. if you look from the voting rights act all it way to ferguson when he wrote legislation in 94 that authorized the department of justice to sue police departments if they find a pattern and practice of discrimination that led to unconstitutional violations so hes always known theres a role for the federal government to prevent violations of civil rights in contrast to the constitution. so i just want to be clear about the state rights portion of that. >> he did oppose a states right -- or...

Next weekend. and they say he needs to be energized by his supporters. what he needs to do is prove hes the front-runner. >> youve written a lot about the record, in fact back in april about his views about busing back in the 70s and how he opposed efforts to mandate busing. this is according to something you obtained. this is what joe biden wrote in 1977. he said my bill strikes at the heart of the injustice of court ordered busing. it prohibits from disrupting the educational system in the nam...

Eliminate private insurance because eliminating private insurance, one, takes away what people like, who have it and like it. and two, it raises taxes not just on the wealthy but the middle class. and i thought making all of those points last night he did a very good job. >> i want to preface my next question by saying that when you look at joe bidens records -- joe bidens record, there are many data points where hes been on the right side of history when the comes to civil rights. but i know we...

Dramatic exchange in the first democratic debate thursday night in miami. >> there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. and she was bused to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> the fact is that in terms of busing, the busing i -- you would have been able to go to school the same way because it was a local decision made by your city council. thats fine. thats one of the things i argued for. we should be breaking down these...

Group of black voters and activists. and it all comes as hes really overshadowed by that exchange last night relating to school busing that came from senator kamala harris. and our colleague kate baldwin tried to press bidens campaign manager a short while ago whether hell address that here in his speech. she simply said to stay tuned but argued school busing is a complicated issue and biden will not be dictated how he talks about issues based on other candidates. earlier today jessie jackson wa...

Busing. he didnt support busing at that time when it was audited by the department of ed and there was no state or local policy in place for segregating schools. >> i dont understand something so i want to be clear. youre saying if c california was anti-busing but berkeley or the area around there was for busing she would have been okay. i dont see how in reality that would happen. >> okay, if it was state sponsored or it was a federal government action that caused this segregation, then he supp...

Where we dont have the level of income inequality that we have right now and where people feel as though this is a nation that is united not divided the way it is under donald trump who of course has spent his administration picking groups to pit against each other. i think what joe biden has always been about in his career, his career as a civil -- you know, as you said, throughout his career, someone who has been dedicated to civil rights, someone who came out early for gay marriage, someone w...

See him out there quite as much as the other candidates so theres not as much opportunity for him to say thanks that the press can pounce on and it seems like when he does go out there what he is going to talk about and brag about his relationship with segregationist, i understand that support history to make about getting things done but if you can use what your parents is to talk about that is seems quite stupid. the good thing about being a front runner is obviously your front runner but you ...