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Country's overly enamored about or cares that much about at this point in the summer, but it is a lesson in politics for joe to recognize how they're going to come at him and how they're going to make for him account for time and place that no one else -- i mean, does barack obama now take back his eulogy of senator bird when he said that, you know -- >> robert bird. >> over the arc of his 92 years bent towards justice. really? the former, you know, grand poobah of the ku klux klan. this is the slope that democrats are finding themselves on and it's dangerous. >> some in biden's orbit have war...

Into effect, really there was a raging debate about what kind of exceptions there should be and one of the things that's in my report is joe biden was so conservative on the issue of abortion that he actually opposed having any exceptions for rape and incest. he only supported exceptions for life of the mother. you flash forward 40 years later where the ground underneath joe biden in terms of the democrat party has really shifted. back then, there were still a lot of democrats who took the same position as joe biden. i went through the congressional record. there were conservative democrats li...

Helms, with conservatives like robert bird of west virginia, with some of the more liberal eastern catholics like ted kennedy, like pat moynihan did support those exceptions. the second thing we discovered exclusively, willie, is in the current context of the 2020 debate, biden does stand alone in continuing to support that hyde amendment which bans federal funding for abortion with some rare exceptions, including the life of the mother, including rape and incest now. so that sets him apart from all of his competitors. the female competitors, for example, who are all senators are co-sponsoring...

Something that happened in 1985. the governor apparently has a long and rich history of being very involved with and sensitive to issues with african-americans and other minorities since that time. it doesn't make what he did right. i'm just, you know, i'm still struggling with whether or not he can still govern with that kind of thing. neil: and your view, congressman, you don't accept the sins of racism in someone's distant past much like robert bird, a former ku klux klansman did a lot of landmark legislation and lyndon johnson the same, it's what they do since those times that matter, righ...

Former congressman, longest-serving member in the history of congress died in michigan, he was 92. tonight we remember and honor the legacy of the man. >> grateful nation honors john dingell junior for his lifetime of service. >> when he received the presidential medal of freedom and marked combination of the history making political career. >> change takes time, it takes courage and persistence. >> you never know, you hope people will kick you around. >> congressman john dingell served 59 years in congress, longer than anyone in history, exceeding the record set by late senator robert bird of...