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About my record and position on racial justice including busing. i never, never, any, ever opposed voluntary busing. >> reporter: but the issue wasnt voluntary busing. it is the federal government stepping in to desegregate schools which biden repeatedly opposed. >> the one way to push civil rights in america further back is to promote busing because its a bankrupt policy. >> reporter: in 2019, the policy isnt really about busing but a conversation about democrats and whether biden fits the mome...

Public school. so they sent me to a catholic school. so kamala harris is not alone in this. so many people who have a story. but lets get to the issue of joe biden with this. that is a 70s mindset and even before the 70s. 2019, he has to do something to fix it. hes getting into the weeds as to if it is about the federal government, or if it is about the city council or the state, at issue is joe biden said he has a great record and got into politics trying to work with civil rights, civil rights...

License to continue to do what hes been doing. and we can count on it for the election in 2020. >> so based on what you know, why is the president seemingly in your word so cavalier about this issue when he meets with putin? >> that is of course a question of the hour. and has been for some time. the presidents ambivalence about the russian interference, his deference to putin among other autocrats is something of a mystery. hes yet to call him out for the profound broad gauged and deep interfer...

I did not oppose busing in america. what i opposed is busing ordered by the department of education. >> reporter: it was a performance even many admirers charitably describe as rusty with one ally telling kcnn he knows has to do better and now biden is trying to seize command over his long record which he struggled to do on the debate stage. >> i want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including busing. i never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary busy. >> re...

Moment as the party shifts to the lift. the post debate spotlight would have shined brighter for harris if she wasnt trying to clean up a political mess alone about whether she supports abolishing private insurance. >> who here would abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan. >> reporter: she now said she misunderstood the question insisting she was only talking about her personal plan, not those for millions of americans. it is an issue shes struggled to make clear sinc...