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Deportations no, i was just the lowly vice president. nothing to do with that however, he also says this. so listen to this. >> by the way, barack and i and president and vice president we provided money for voluntary busing. >> he pulled out of thee paris climate accord, which barack and i helped put together. >> thats why barack and i fought so hard to continue to see your funding. >> barack and i agreed we were going to give him the chance. >> he is actively working to undo every bit of the p...

So when asked about mass deportations no, i was just the lowly vice president. nothing to do with that however, he also says this. so listen to this. >> by the way, barack and i and president and vice president we provided money for voluntary busing. >> he pulled out of the paris climate accord, which barack and i helped put together. >> thats why barack and i fought so hard to continue to see your funding. >> barack and i agreed we were going to give him the chance. >> he is actively working to...

A book that youre ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! welcome back to "state of the union." im jake tapper. in a major speech yesterday, former vice president joe biden attempted to defend his record saying hes changed since the 1970s and that he was vetted and selected by president obama. that defense comes after weeks of criticism from his democratic opponents who are suggesting the former vice president is out of touch on issues such as ...

Touch on issues such as race. the vice president spoke exclusively with my colleague chris cuomo and tried to explain his position on voluntary school busing in the 1970s. >> if busing didnt work then it made sense you werent for it back then. but why say you were for it? why not just be straight about it and move on? >> because there are three different pieces. i was -- i was for voluntary busing. number one. i was in support where the court showed that in fact a legislative body took an action...

Policy, mr. vice president. its about prescriptiinciple. when you look back at your record you were not in favor of busing. it was a different time, why not just own it and say i was against it but now ive changed. >> i in favor of busing that was dej dejure. if a court felt it was a county or somewhere, thats wrong. i even went in the middle of that busing that said id use helicopters to make the point. we really got in a town meeting that got very hot. but what the issue is now, for example, a...

Harris. the issue of busing is where we begin. >> was talking with you and jill. you said you were expecting to have a target on your back. but the intensity of some. did you see the questions about your past positions from the perspective of race being as relevant as they are? >> no. and i dont think theyre r relevant because theyre taken out of context. what i didnt see was people who know me. i mean they know me well. its not like somebody that came out of the blue and didnt know anything. it...

President and vice president, we provided money for voluntary busing if cities want to do it. >> im not questioning any of that. im saying when you look back in the 70s, you said i think busing doesnt work, its an asinine concept. you tried to pass bills that werent for it. >> busing did not work. you had overwhelming response from the african-american community in my state. my state is the eighth largest black population in the country as a percent of population. they did not support it. they d...

Record. >> i dont think bussing is about policy. >> no, it is not. >> it is about principle. >> when you look back, you were not in favor of busing. it was a different time and different applications and why not just own it and say i was in favor -- >> i was in favor of busing, if the court ruled there was a law passed through circumstance that a county or city or a state did that prevented black folks from being somewhere, then that is wrong. you should bus. he went so far in the middle of that...

Saying id use helicopters if that was necessary to make the point. what the issue is now and it is then, voluntary busing, we supported it. i supported it then. >> so chris cuomo very rightly said that this isnt necessarily just about the issue of busing. that is not why kamala harris brought this up. maybe that was an issue for her, but she was obviously going for a larger point here. and this is an issue that goes to his record, which he tried to say isnt as relevant. is that going to fly? >> ...

In circumstances that make it difficult. from the time they get to school they have heard three or four, five million words spoken. >> i totally accept that. >> but the idea right now, 65 out of 100 jobs in a study i did for the president point out you need something beyond a high school degree. >> thats true. >> so what are we doing? were sitting around here as if its an insoluble problem. >> i get it on the policy. i never have viewed the busing back and forth in that debate as about policy or...