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Harder than he should have been hit. >> who are he and she? the he vice president joe biden, the she senator kamala harris. the president speaking overnight in japan during a more than hour long news conference at the g20. there he was actually defending joe biden, former vice president, after senator harris confronted him over his work to stop school busing. >> yeah, now former vice president biden is holding steady apparently as the democratic front runner in the 2020 race. senator harris shows some strong fa favorability though. >> both candidates can attribute their momentum to black voter...

These are live pictures coming to us from the rainbow push coalition event in chicago this hour. and the former vice president joe biden is going to be speaking at this event shortly so we're keeping an eye on it. we're going to bring it to you live. he's there trying to shore up some support after attacks on his record on race in last night's debate. i want to get some perspective how biden's past and current positions are playing into the race. the national cochair of the biden campaign and former chairman of the congressional black caucus, congressman, just to recap for our viewers kamala h...

Issue of race. >> reporter: harris blasting biden for his recent comments on race by using her childhood as an example. >> i do not believe you are a racist. and i agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground. but i also believe and it was personal -- it was actually very -- it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. and it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose busing. and, you know, there was a little girl in cali...

For it with a more eloquent answer? >> absolutely. as we focus on -- also the failure of the vice president to perform last night. he appeared halting. he appeared grasping for answers that he had practiced. and i think he failed on a number of levels to respond adequately to what she was saying about his harkening back to an era where he could work with those who are segregationists to get things done in the name of bipartisanship. failing to champion states right, that's his opinion on busing in 2019. that it was left to her city council and that's how it should have been. when she made the ...

Opposition into busing comes into sharper focus. on march 25, 1977 biden wrote my bill strikes at the heart of injustice of court ordered busing. it prohibits federal courts from disrupting our education. biden sought and received support from mississippi senator eastland and a leading symbol of southern resistance to desegregation. he frequently smoke of blacks as a quote inferior race. >> there are a bunchests, james oeast of mississippi, thurman and so on. there were nine guys who were on the caucus that i ran against in the civil rights movement. >> reporter: but he did not say eastland an...