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You have to explain it to people that don't know you. when you're explaining you're losing. it seems like he's back on his heels over and over again. at the end of the day, i don't know whether or not he loses african-american support as a result of this in and of itself. but over time, all of these little not so little but all of these gaffes, all of these moments where he could turn the message around and say, you know what? this is where i was but this is where i am because this is where we are today as america, he hasn't been able to make that pivot. that's the challenge that his campaign ...

Are some things where you don't know exactly what happened 20, 30, 40 years ago. here, dna evidence. >> clearly. >> open and shut case. there are not two sides to this. >> not at all, and you know, these were babies. these are children. 14, 15, 16. and the fact that donald trump at the time, because at the time there was a discourse around super predators, around these kids that john delilio, talking about these crack babies who weren't able to submit themselves to social norms, they were monsters. >> this was 1989, we were talking about it before, in the middle of the crack epidemic, when cha...

That the social scientists who put forward the idea of super predators, came back a decade later and said they were completely wrong. what happened in this moment for donald trump, he basically said, right, that these kids should be murdered, they should be killed, and one of the interesting things about this, and particularly the netflix documentary, or film, not a documentary, it's a film, is that she views how broken these kids were, and how broken the men still are, and folks went on to live their lives, and they have to deal with being put away. one kid at 16 was put in rikers, and is gra...

Five young men caught at the center of this central park jogger rain. >> yes. >> initially accused and convicted of raping her and then someone else stepped forward to say he did it. i would say what's happening here is we're having these pieces of television based on real life that were made about something that happened when we felt one way about an issue and coming to television and asking hus to reconsider in the current light. so the central park five convicted when people in new york and across the country were really worried about rising crime, were paranoid about it in a way, overreact...

He would have this incoming given he's the front-runner but what do you think is the impact on his race? >> well, i think we have to always be mindful that there is a deep idealogical debate happening within the democratic party right now. we saw it in 2016 with regards to hillary clinton's candidacy and some believe that that debate, that fissure led to the election of donald trump. but we do know the rejection of clinton-ism is a part of that debate. and so biden in some ways represents that current. even with his association with president obama. so just as hillary clinton caught hell for h...