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Turned and confronted former vice president joe biden on his having worked with segregationist senators and his opposition to school busing in the 1970s. the former vice president took heat from many of his rivals. >> but it was that exchange with harris, some people calling it the biggest moment of the campaign so far. it does have implications on all kinds of levels. race was a big factor also for another leading candidate pete buttigieg. we will show you that moment. and breaking news from just moments ago. side-by-side with the russian leader vladimir putin how did president trump handle t...

And last night he listened to senator harris, and then when it was his turn to talk i think part of it was the make sure that people understood his record, that he did not oppose busing in that instance. >> i have to ask you he did oppose busing. he called, busing, quote a bankrupt concept you mentioned in 1974. but from mississippi, kwoe quote, i want you to know i very much appreciate your help in this week's committee meeting helping to bring my anti-busing legislation to a vote. and on the civil rights issue he said what i opposed was busing on the board of education but left up to states ...

Where states acted to segregate the schools. so whether it was state action or voluntary, he supported busing. and in fact in 1974 he was the deciding vote on an amendment in the senate that would have ended busing once and for all. and he was the deciding vote to stop that. so i think that where the vice president got very nuanced was on whether the federal courts and the federal governments should go in where there was not a policy in place for segregation but that it was segregation because of the community and school district was just one particular race. so i think the vice president hear...

The massive amounts of inequity that exists but the racial inequity that exists. >> after kamala harris gave that personal explanation of school busing -- >> i am not going to speculate on that. all i know is we are running hard. i think we're looking good in iowa and new hampshire. i think we stand the next chance of winning the democratic nomination, and if we do that i'm absolutely confident we're going to defeat donald trump. how are you? >> what was your experience at the detention center? >> look, when you meet or be in a facility where people have literally walked -- children and mother...

Senator harris and joe biden. one of the parts we did not play, she talked about busing. she said she was part of the second class of students in oakland that was bussed. senator biden was against federally mandating school busing in the 1970s. were you satisfied with his defense of his record on that in. >> i think joe biden is going to have to talk a lot about his record during this election, and i think it's only right he talk about everything of his support for the 1994 crime bill which was sort of the jet fuel to mass incarceration all the way to his stance on busing. and even more than t...