career, i ran because of civil rights and continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights. dana: that was a hot topic today and joe biden went to chicago at rainbow coalition and decided to address this issue again. watch this. i want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including bussing. i never, never, infer ever opposed voluntary bussing. it is constitutional question, to protect civil rights of every single american. that is always been my position. dana: jesse, leading up to the debate, biden is only one who has to defend 45-year record with what happened in the past, attitudes that have changed and he looked like the candidate of the past. jez they can get him on other material. he was fumbleing and bumbling,
well. he knows that when i say i got raised in the black church, he knows i m not kidding. before we organize, you would go and sit in the church, and sit there before he goes out, and try to change things when i was a kid in college and high school. but look. before i start i d like to say something about the debate we had last night. and i heard and i listened to, and i respect senator harris. we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange can t do justice to a lifetime commitment to civil rights. i want to be clear about my record and position. on racial justice, including bussing. i never never never ever opposed voluntary bussing. as a program, that senator harris participated in. and made a difference in the life. i supported federal action to
talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. and it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose bussing. and, you know, there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. and that little girl was me. and if you want a measure of the campaign s concern about was happened last night, take a look at how the candidate himself responded today. i want to be absolutely clear about my record of position on racial justice including bussing. i never, never, never ever opposed voluntary bussing. and as a program that senator harris participated in and it made a difference in her life. i did support federal action to address root causes of
much of one night? no. maybe some. look, i have been all over television saying i think she was clearly the winner of the two of days. she was the best performance of anybody in the measurable sense. i look at you walk in, you re trying to accomplish certain things, until you walk out the door. there s one goal, to be the democratic nominee. is she in a better position to be the nominee today than she was yesterday? she is manifestly. we will see what kind of bounce she gets or what kind of hit he takes. in either case she s done this thing, the mantra for the campaign, the frame for t. i m t it, i m the best proser who can prosecute the case against donald trump. she s on stage with sep gentleman narian white man. she wants to make people in the democratic party imagine what it would be like to see her on stage against donald trump. in that narrow since joe biden
city community where i live but bills to actually find relief, whether it s criminal justice reform, whether it s opportunity zones or even just in the senate being one of those champions to say we need to make sure that senate staffs are more diverse, more women, more people of color because we want to have more people in the room. what is the follow-up to the first step act law? i have already proposed the next step act. but i want to say one more thing. and this is something i wish i had more time to talk about on the debate stage. i want every presidential candidate to step up and do what i ve done, which is broad-based clemency for about the 17,000 people we know are unjustly incarcerated right now in america. what do i mean by that? well, we just had a senate bill i passed that said sentences were too high and they wouldn t make it retroactive. so that means somebody sentenced the day before that bill has a much longer sentence. so if 87 senates says it s