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>> there's not a racist bone in my body. i've been involved in civil rights my whole career, period, period, period. >> i said back in june, like it's a long time. >> when it's campaign season, it feels like it's 10 months ago. >> you had the debate between then and now when he ran into kamala harris talking about the girl in pig tails on the bus and the bussing issue. now she's kind of flip-flopping, coming to biden's position, gotten away with it. biden, though, didn't push back hard enough in the debate. now he's doing a little clean-up on aisle three, if you will, trying to fix all that. h...

For. some are bordering on the ridiculous. calling it toxic that he says to girls, don't let her dating anyone. the smelling of the women's hair. that was a huge story for two weeks. the voters didn't react to that much. then, you have complimenting east lanld, and helms, and giving a eulogy for strom thurmond. was he nice to segregationists? his point is, no matter how loathsome a person is, i try to work with them. and i think voters like that. and the bussing issue, a bad stance to have taken. and he's not apologizing for it. and that's sticking to your guns and maybe he should have said, i...

They defended his record on civil rights saying that it's unassailable and also explained the bussing issue with his deputy campaign manager saying that, look, back in that time, they were talking with local leaders. they did not believe some local leaders that bussing was the best way to integrate schools, giving it context and framing it but poppy, there's no question. the biden campaign now having to deal with talking about this when they really want to be talking about looking forward. they want to be talking about what joe biden is in 2019 and how he can be the best president. will he tal...

Why didn't he, quote, get the job done? and those, if he were to make it through the process and be nominee or the vice presidential nominee, those on the other side will come to the party and bring that criticism. so there's positives, there's negatives with these choices and he made a choice last night. >> he made a choice that was in stark contrast to a choice that former vice president joe biden made, instead of saying i've evolved on the bussing issue or maybe i was wrong if he believes that, i don't know, he said, kamala harris got it wrong and she was misrepresenting his stance. it's ve...

Appeared she decided to take on the vice president which i think he was a little bit rattled about. i don't think he had a great, concise answer. and i think she won that exchange. because she went at it twice, actually. she brought up his comments, not praising desegregation or segregation senators, but say how he worked with them and how he liked that. and then she went at him directly, what about the bussing issue that you supported 40 years ago? she personalized it saying i was one of those kids on the bus. i think it was a big moment for her. a big moment for her campaign. we will see if ...