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Policy. >> no, its not. i think its about principle. >> when you look back at your record on it, you were not in favor of busing. it was a different time, there were different applications. why not own it and say i was against it. >> if a court ruled there was a law passed or circumstance that a county, a city, a state did that prevented black folks from being somewhere, thats wrong. i even went so far in the middle of that busing controversy to say i used helicopters if that was necessary to ma...

Study i did for the president pointout you need something more than a high school degree. >> i get it on the policy. i never have viewed the busing back and forth in that debate as about policy or application of how to affect civil rights. its about consistency in proving to deal better in the white house which is people wont tell the truth. why say you were for it? why not just be straight about it and move on? >> because theres three different pieces. i was for voluntary busing. number one, i ...

Positions arent any different as were finding out. >> senator harris says she sees it as a tool, not a must in all circumstances. >> look at my record. >> i dont think busing is about policy, mr. vice president. >> no, its not. >> i think its about principle. when you look back at your record on it, you were not in favor of busing. it was a different time, there were different applications. why not just own it and say i was against it but now ive changed. >> no. i was in favor of busing if a cou...

Prevented plaq prevented black folks from being some there, that was wrong. i even went so far in the middle of the controversy to say i would use helicopters to make the point and it was in a town meeting that got very hot. but what the issue is now, for example, and it was then, voluntary busing, we supported it. we supported it then. and by the way, barack and i as president and vice president, we provided money for voluntary busing. >> im not questioning that. im saying when you look back in...

It didnt seem to be something at all consistent with anything i had been accused of before. but i think the end of the day, we need to be talking about the future. busing is something that 99% of the american people dont even know what were talking about here. but ive always supported voluntary busing, which she was part of. as a matter of fact, when we were president and vice president, we provided money for voluntary busing. >> reporter: now, biden also said that candidates need to start talki...

On the issue of busing, obviously that is personal to me. i remember getting on that yellow bus. you know? and so many of us do and interestingly enough since i talked about it people who i dont know have reached out. they also -- especially in the 70s all across our country people were bussed. people just like me. >> i heard and i listened to and i respect senator harris, but you know we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange cant do justice to a lifetime committed...

Jesse jackson was speaking in front of his group the rain poe push coalition and he said hes for voluntary busing, im for court-ordered busing. well, everyones for voluntary busing, jackson said. the federal government had to order the abolition of slavery, the right to vote. what do you think harris is up to here and when will we know if its actually working? >> jeff is right, the campaign is not going to turn on busing, but it does speak to this broader idea that biden on both his policies and...

Committed to civil rights. i want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including busing. i never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing. >> jeff, how worried is the biden campaign about this? this is a story that has been going on since the debate. whats your sense of how theyre seen and whether they are afraid of blowback, particularly from african-american voters? >> the biden campaign right now i think realizes that this presidential campaign is not goi...

And you can say does that raise questions directly about his electability how he can handle that situation in terms of the spotlight. but in terms of busing, where is she going to go with this? what do you make of what charlie was just saying? >> no, i think charlie makes good points, that there is a danger for someone like harris getting too far to the left, both on the idea of health care and the idea of getting rid of private insurance because thats not particularly popular among people who h...

Candidates got. that cnn poll that youve been citing also found that only 21% of adult americans favor national health insurance that abolishes private insurance. school-busing has historically not just unpopular, it is overwhelmingly unpopular. so even though kamala harris had a really break-out night, theres no question about it. the this issue of school-busing i think is a kind of a time bomb in this campaign. the last time gallup did a survey on this, 80% of americans were opposed to school ...