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>> do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose bussing in america then? do you agree? >> i did not oppose bussing in america. what i opposed is bussing ordered by the department of education. that's what i opposed. >> well, there was a failure of states to integrate public schools in america. i was part of the second class to integrate berkeley, california, public schools almost two decades after brown v board of education. >> because your city council made that decision. >> then the federal government must step in. that's why we have the voting rights act and the civil rights act. >> dur...

To do to use the government to force integration. so there were places where joe biden was in agreement in policy with eastland. for instance on school bussing which we've heard a fair amount about already in this campaign. and that was not a small place of agreement. joe biden was not somebody who voted with eastland on bussing. he was somebody who led the anti-bussing noouchmovement. he talked about bussing being a bankrupt concept and didn't want the federal government to get so deep into forcing integration in schools as to be able to bus students from one district to another. and that was...

Biden was talking about and disagreement joe biden was talking about with regard to jim eastland is joe biden believes he didn't agree with jim eastland because joe biden was not an unreconstructed bigot which jim eastland was. joe biden came into the senate as part of a wave of moderate right democrats replacing older border state and southern segregationist democrats and in some cases some republicans who were pro civil rights, but also had a limit to what they wanted to do to use the government to force integration. so there were places where joe biden was in agreement in policy with eastla...

Too and today by my clock, she read for 15, 20 minutes very passionate in reading a large section of her dissent today. >> i don't think there's any question that there's a deep grievance here and it's one historical in nature, shannon. it has to do in this case given it's really not about affirmative action, per se, but about the right of voters to make a decision as justice kennedy who is now the key vote on all these racial issues said. it really is about allowing the voters to make a decision on a very difficult, complex issue and not doubting their majority or -- maturity or their intent....

Of the iranian regime's so-called diplomats frostbite involved in one such criminal activities. even if u.n. members end up agreeing with iran, it's doubtful that they can overrule the u.s. ban. all 193 nations can vote on the iranian ambassador. >> eric, thank you. wives, mothers and sisters of iranians reportedly detained and beaten by the government staged a protest today outside the tehran office of the president. we cannot authenticate these images but a social media activist said the women refused to back down when confronted by security forces. security forces and desperate parents ar...