Wee begin with the 2020 lead and Kamala Harris making a moment for herself in last nights democratic debate and going for former Vice President joe biden. The Harris Campaign said their fundraising has boomed postdebate and one democratic source close to biden is calling the debate performance not great. Now as cnns kyung lah reporting, hes defending his record after getting quite a bruising. Reporter the day after the debate, joe biden defending his record on civil rights. I respect Kamala Harris but a 60second exchange on debate cant do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights. And a civil rights organization. I never opposed volunteer busing. Reporter Kamala Harris challenged his past about desegregation of schools. There was a little girl in california part of the second class to integrate her Public Schools and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me. What is it that turned tonight and made you discuss that . I just think that on some of the issues, its that the American Public deserves to know how we come at our priorities. There are millions of people in our country who have perm experiences with this and that voice needs to be on the stage. A breakout moment fuelling a throwback tweet and making headlines. Fundraising jumps said the Harris Campaign to the third best day. America doesnt want to witness a food fight, they want to know how were going to put food on their table. Reporter supporters wished harris well. Good luck. Reporter back on the trail just hours after the debate. 2020 hopefuls with an army of media staged a visit to the homestead facility. They refused our entry and we asked for entry and they refused. Reporter they didnt follow known protocol attempting to visit the children to highlight the Trump Administration policy. We need a new president of the United States. Reporter but harris had a debate stumble of her own. Who here would abolish private Health Insurance in favor of a governmentrun plan . Reporter after the debate harris tried to explain her answer. So the question was, would you be willing to give your private insurance. That is not how it was asked. If that is what you heard, right . That is certainly what i heard. The kpl the medicare for a plan would eliminate private insurance with few exceptions such as elective surgery not covered by the federal plan and the topic has tripped her before. I dont know if your Insurance Company will approve this. Lets get rid of the bureaucracy. Not the insurance companies. No, that is not what i meant. I know it was interpreted that way. Reporter now the debate also challenged mayor Pete Buttigieg asked about the officerinvolved shooting in the town that he is mayor of, south bend. The question was why black representation of Police Officers has not improved while he has been mayor. And brianna, he said bluntly, because i couldnt get it done. Brianna. He was very blunt. Kyung lah, thank you for that report. Lets talk about this. So this is a moment well talk about the joe biden side of this. But Kamala Harris had this moment. Can she capitalize on this . I think she has. It was an important moment for her to sort of make her case about the importance of this issue particularly given shes had some criticism from the left on her record as a prosecutor and this is a very personal issue for her and i could say having gone to berkeley Public Schools years after her, it was still messed up. So for her to have such a personal experience with this issue, i think it was critical. And i think it likely gave her the bounce that shes going to need. The question will be how do they keep that momentum going into the next debate. He tried to turn the prosecutor defender thing back on her but it didnt take. So i wonder, there is a source from the close to biden who said hes bruised but far from out. Do you think, amanda, there is lasting damage here . He wasnt recovered well. Even today watching surrogates, they dont have the right answer. The reason that was such a powerful moment last night is because Kamala Harris was speaking from a place of truth. She was saying, this is my experience. This is how i felt. And bidens response was sort of to manexplain. And she could play into a broader theme that black women deserved to be listened to. And right now biden isnt showing that hes willing to listen and that is the problem. It is more than feelings. It is about facts. He said today and he said last night she mischaracterized my opinion and she was generous and saying youre not racist and if you look what he said in the 1970s, there was horrific claims. He said yesterday i didnt oppose busing. He did. He called busing bankrupt and asinine and tried to get rid of it and he didnt praise segregationist senators and last week he praised them for their civility and gave the eulogy at thurmans funeral and im amazed more democrats didnt go after him. Kamala harris has an amazing moment and a very powerful debate moment. But others didnt go after him. When iraq came up, Rachel Maddow brought it up, why didnt bernie jump in and say were the only people in congress and i got it right and you got it wrong and you didnt do it and that is a mistake because Kamala Harris dominated the headlines and the debate and rightly so. I think i have an answer. They dont have to. Because theyre watching him meltdown. I said last week joe biden will not be the democratic nominee and i believe that every single day. His High Water Mark was the day he got into the race. This is not a bug, this is a feature, and he is bidening in front of our eyes and when he gets challenged by somebody, this wasnt the major leagues, this is still the first debate. And he has not handling it well and his team is not handling it well. This will continue and so why would you let Kamala Harris take the first shot at him, watch him melt down. I meant for yourself. Were talking about her having been this amazing debater, im saying what about bernie there is no debate on cnn and there are a lot of debates to come, good luck joe biden. The nerve and the spirit to do that. People dont want to alien ate his voters. There was another swipe against biden and it was a generational one from eric swalwell. Lets listen. Joe biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to the new generation of americans 33 years ago and hes still right today f. Were going to solve the issues of automation, pass the torch. If were going to solve the issues of climate chaos, pass the torch, if were going to pass student loan debt, pass the torch. Im Still Holding on to that torch. Well done. It is a good line about passing the torch but no one seriously thinks it will be passed to eric swalwell. And i think Pete Buttigieg was younger. And bernie called it ageist or not, i think there is a thing about politics and Democratic Politics which is generational. The last two democrats were in their 40s, bill clinton and barack obama and jfk and that is an issue for biden, he didnt look like he was in control of anything. But in fairness, i feel like biden and bernie seemed out of place. The whole and the point about passing the torch, if you looked at the whole stage, he could pass the torch to just about any of the others on the stage. Marianne williams. I said just about. That is a whole other thing. Point being there are a number of very qualified people in this race who have wonderful ideas, support progressive politics and support the ideas of the Democratic Party that you could pass the torch to. To be fair to bernie, his ideas. Not all of them. A lot of them. Not many of them. The Democratic Party sees the public option as a centrist position. But back in the 90s for barack obama. But the point i want to get to is the other thing about both bernie and biden is they sounded old. When bernie was talking about the assault weapons ban and ran for congress in 1988, and some of the language that biden was using, you dont have to talk about 1988. Kids just got shot a week ago. So some of it sounded and felt very old. And so in addition to looking old. Definitely there was a generational theme. And coming up, a president ial candidate already seen a surge of support since the first debate. Senator cory booker is going to join us live. Wireless Network Claims are so confusing. 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Com and it is helping us to execute our strategy and build a Great Organization in the early states and continue the momentum. Seven months plus before a vote in iowa alone is a long time here. Were going to focus on getting our message out and building our organization and hoping more people will get involved with me and my mission. If you see a poll bounce what, is the takeaway . If you dont, whats the takeaway . You know, again, and you know this history, people we have not had a nominee since before carter that was leading in the polls this far out that went on to the white house. Usually it is people like bill clinton or barack obama who are underestimated, polling behind that win in places like iowa and New Hampshire which are often ways to show that you have the ability to win elections in the grassroots. So the polling is important. Were polling high enough to be in the top six or seven, to be on the debate stages. Im hoping we could continue to get momentum because the debate stage for sent is set so much higher with 10,000 unique contributor and were trying to push people toward corybooker. Com and im focusing on getting my heart and my vision and plans and passion before voters and more people who get a chance to discover who i am, the better were going to do. I want to ask you about the former Vice President. He defended his record on civil rights today. After being grilled about it during last nights debate. Lets listen to the former Vice President s comments. I never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing and as a program that senator harris participated in and it made a difference in her life. I did support federal action to accuse root problem in the community and including changing the way neighborhoods were segregated. We should note he never opposed voluntary busing and he said he never opposed busing period. What is your reaction . Well, first of all, the record speaks differently from the quotes from the time and i read them, again it is decades ago, problematic and he needs to talk to the record, from the 1994 crime bill, i was a law student and who was being followed or singled out by police that led to the explosion of mass incarceration something that now im working in the senate have been drawing back on mandatory minimums and in that crime bill. He has to speak to his record. And the way he speaks about it is important. Ive been talking about this for the last two weeks about him invoking language that white segregationists call him son and not boy. Without the understanding why that word boy was used by white segregationist against folks like my father and others that meant to degrade and demean and make them feel less than. The next nominee, whoever they are, has to be up to the challenge to addressing the Power Dynamics of race and racism and to call our country together to Common Ground and common purpose. Remind us that we have more in common than separates us and we need to Work Together on issues of justice. You have to be up to that challenge. That is one of the reasons im running. Because of my history and record for bringing americans together to get things done. Was he sufficient today in his explanation . Again, i listened to some of the language that he was using that still kind of worries me that this is a lesson on some of the issues that a nominee at this point shouldnt have to learn and voters have to make their own decision that our diverse party, what keend of lead will inspire us to be our best. And none of us, certainly not me, have been perfect or without mistakes. We all do it. But when you make a mistake, dont fall into a defensive crouch, dont try to shift the blame like he said to me, that i owed him an apology for his remarks. That is not what we need right now. Part of being courageous is being vulnerable and letting people know you are not perfect. None of us are and risking putting yourself out there and try to be a light to bring people together and im hoping that we dont fall into this no apology world that donald trump seems to say when you do nothing wrong and make no mistakes. The best leaders are the ones that step up and say, hey, i dont have a perfect record, i havent done anything right but stayed in the saddle and continued to work and sacrifice for the greater good and i hope youll join me in that march. Senator cory booker, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. President trump is not going to like this one. A certain former president just said he is not trump is not a legitimate commanderinchief. 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