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Dramatic exchange in the first democratic debate thursday night in miami. >> there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. and she was bused to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> the fact is that in terms of busing, the busing i -- you would have been able to go to school the same way because it was a local decision made by your city council. that's fine. that's one of the things i argued for. we should be breaking down these lines. >> vice president biden, do you agree today -- do you agree today that you were wrong to o...

Group of black voters and activists. and it all comes as he's really overshadowed by that exchange last night relating to school busing that came from senator kamala harris. and our colleague kate baldwin tried to press biden's campaign manager a short while ago whether he'll address that here in his speech. she simply said to stay tuned but argued school busing is a complicated issue and biden will not be dictated how he talks about issues based on other candidates. earlier today jessie jackson was actually on cnn and he said he does want to hear more of an explanation about joe biden when it...

Busing. he didn't support busing at that time when it was audited by the department of ed and there was no state or local policy in place for segregating schools. >> i don't understand something so i want to be clear. you're saying if c california was anti-busing but berkeley or the area around there was for busing she would have been okay. i don't see how in reality that would happen. >> okay, if it was state sponsored or it was a federal government action that caused this segregation, then he supported busing as a remedy for that. but if it was not state sponsored or government approved he t...

Where we don't have the level of income inequality that we have right now and where people feel as though this is a nation that is united not divided the way it is under donald trump who of course has spent his administration picking groups to pit against each other. i think what joe biden has always been about in his career, his career as a civil -- you know, as you said, throughout his career, someone who has been dedicated to civil rights, someone who came out early for gay marriage, someone who believes in humanity and in what we can accomplish when we work together. >> was against school ...

See him out there quite as much as the other candidates so there's not as much opportunity for him to say thanks that the press can pounce on and it seems like when he does go out there what he is going to talk about and brag about his relationship with segregationist, i understand that support history to make about getting things done but if you can use what your parents is to talk about that is seems quite stupid. the good thing about being a front runner is obviously your front runner but you get the most media coverage which includes scrutiny. howard: the letters which includes the young t...