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Comprised. >> you were able to make a number of points directly to the camera, directly to voters. it's always interesting how things on a stage feel when you're standing next to it and among it. there was an extraordinary exchange between senator harris and vice president biden in which vice president biden essentially was backing states' rights in, you know, the history of busing by the department of education. i'm wondering how that looked from your vantage point where you were. >> certainly senator harris was right to challenge vice president biden on his record in the same way that i chal...

Busing or hadn't gotten involved in the civil rights movement, you know, jim crow would still be around. >> well, i think you see his plan today, and he understands the importance of education in the african-american community. >> why not just say, i was wrong? >> look, education is what allowed me to go tomore house, go to tulane, go to harvard and get elected to the united states congress. and that was paved by the voting rights act and all those other things. if we really want to have a debate about joe biden's record on civil rights, we can do that, and i think it will show he has bj a fir...

>> it's a mischaracterization of my position across the board. i did not praise racists. that is not true, number one. number two, if we want to have this campaign litigated on who supports civil rights and whether i did or not, i'm happy to do that. i was a public defender. i didn't become a prosecutor. i came out, and i left a did law firm to become a public defender when, in fact -- when, in fact, my city was in flames because of the assassination of dr. king, number one. now, number two, as u.s. -- excuse me -- as the vice president of the united states, i worked with a man who, in fact, w...

I think this is a little bit of overreaction but not shocking from the democrats. >> you know the president has been pointing out the former vice president has issues that some want to discuss with him about race, on busing, reparations, affirmative action, he says he is the most progressive person running but he has this discussion about the 1994 crime bill which many in the minority community felt was devastating and resulted in mass incarceration and was not a fair piece of legislation. the washington post says the president trying to highlight these things, if trump believes biden would lo...