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But also president trump. i mean, look, there was a lot of stuff that went down this week from the president's twitter feed that is frankly unacceptable. he lied, racest attacks. >> i'm with you. i want to ask you, how does he deftly take an attack from cory booker about how he stood on a crime bill back in '94, 26 years ago and turn it into 2020? how does he go from '94, the history to the future? how do you do that in one quick response? >> in 60 seconds or 30 seconds. i'll say this. vice president biden is proud of his record. well can talk about records. we also want to talk about the futu...

What the vice president has been saying. several members of the cbc did support the crime bill back in 1994. >> that's right. >> black pastors were writing to members of congress asking for help and were trying to in many ways sell stronger legislation as it relates to crime. let's talk about someone who did make the trip to new orleans. you spoke with her yesterday, interviewed her i should say. 2020 candidate, senator from california kamala harris said at essence festival. she spoke about closing the wealth gap between blacks and whites and one way through $100 billion homeownership plan clo...

Wanted to make a deaf intive break with the policies they helped create. bobby scott of virginia co-chaired the over criminalization task force in the last congressman, and congressman scott, you voted against the crime bill back in 1994, is that correct? >> i did. >> you were not -- you were not in the minority i think of the democratic party, but there were a lot of democrats who voted for it. the president pushed it very hard. why did you vote against it? >> well, i made the wrong choices. the choice that was made was to codify slogans and soupd bytes, but it just loaded up the prisons. if ...

And more money for prisons. joining me is democratic congressman bobby scott of virginia. congressman scott, you voted against the crime bill back in 1994; is that correct. >> i did. >> you were not in the minority of the democratic party but there were a lot of democrats who voted for it. the president pushed it very hard. why did you vote against it? >> they made the wrong choices. the choices made were to codify very popular sound bites. all it did was load up the prison. if we made a choice to follow the evidence and research, we'd have made different choices. to the point now where there ...

And center in the wake of what's happened in baltimore is the reform of the criminal justice issue. that's an issue on which the democratic party frankly has a lot to answer for. both hillary clinton and martin o'malley, who is expected to enter the race, are pushing for criminal justice reforms but critics point out their records don't square with the rhetoric. o'malley implemented a no-tolerance policy that ended up with the aclu suing. and hillary clinton as touted the crime bill of her husband which brought tougher sentences and more money for prisons. joining me is democratic congressman ...