has pushed him into the top tier and now he has to do things like this to sustain himself up there and prove that he belongs there. >> he shot to the top so quickly, but there's no way that he can actually win the white house without having the support of black voters. >> or the nomination. >> correct. but i mean he started -- this is like a real test in that he started by first apologizing. he used the debate to actually acknowledge that i haven't done enough as mayor for seven years to recruit black cops who could really help in terms of making sure that black citizens don't feel like white cops are in any way coming after them. and he's following that up with a detailed plan. so i mean this is what he's got to do if he's going to be sincere about that apology. >> interesting test. we shall see. up next, more fallout after the labor secretary alex acosta explains the way he handled the jeffrey epstein case as a prosecutor more than a decade ago.