Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Spar Over Busing — Again - video Dailymotion

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The feud between Harris and Biden over his record on busing was the highlight of the first Democratic debate. Here's round two.

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00:00You have also been quite critical of Vice President Biden's policies on race, specifically

00:06on the issue of busing in the 1970s, having benefited from busing when you were a young

00:12child.

00:13Vice President Biden says that your current position on busing, you're opposed to federally

00:19mandated busing, that that position is the same as his position.

00:25Is he right?

00:26That is simply false.

00:28And let's be very clear about this.

00:30When Vice President Biden was in the United States Senate working with segregationists

00:35to oppose busing, which was the vehicle by which we would integrate America's public

00:41schools, had I been in the United States Senate at that time, I would have been completely

00:46on the other side of the aisle.

00:47And let's be clear about this.

00:49Had those segregationists their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate.

00:54Cory Booker would not be a member of the United States Senate.

00:56And Barack Obama would not have been in a position to nominate him to the title he

01:00now holds.

01:02And so on that issue, we could not be more apart, which is that the vice president has

01:09still failed to acknowledge that it was wrong to take the position that he took at that

01:14time.

01:15Now, I would like to also talk about this conversation about Eric Garner, because I

01:19too met with his mother.

01:21And one of the things that we've got to be clear about is that this president of the

01:24United States, Donald Trump, while he has been in office, has quietly been allowing

01:29the United States Department of Justice to shut down consent decrees to stop pattern

01:34and practice investigations on that case.

01:36We also know that the Civil Rights Division, this is important, the Civil Rights Division

01:41of the United States Department of Justice said charges should have been filed.

01:44But this United States Department of Justice was usurped.

01:48And I believe it is because that president did not want those charges to go forward.

01:52And they overrode a decision by the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department

01:56of Justice.

01:57Under my administration, the Civil Rights Division will reign and there will be independent

02:01investigations.

02:02Vice President Biden, I want to give you a chance to respond to what Senator Harris just

02:04said.

02:06When Senator Harris was the attorney general for eight years in the state of California,

02:11there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and

02:16in San Francisco.

02:18And she did not.

02:19I didn't see a single solitary time.

02:21She brought a case against them to desegregate them.

02:24Secondly, she also is in a situation where she had a police department when she was there

02:29that in fact was abusing people's rights.

02:32And the fact was that she in fact was told by her own people that her own staff that

02:37she should do something about and disclose to defense attorneys like me that you in fact

02:42have been the police officer did something that did not give you information would expropriate

02:47your your your client.

02:50She didn't do that.

02:51She never did it.

02:52And so what happened?

02:53Along came a federal judge and said, enough, enough.

02:56And he freed a thousand of these people.

02:58If you doubt me, Google a thousand prisoners freed Kamala Harris.

03:02Thank you, Vice President Biden and Senator Harris, your response.

03:06This is simply not true.

03:10And as attorney general of California, where I ran the second largest Department of Justice

03:14in the United States, second only to the United States Department of Justice, I am proud of

03:18the work we did, work that has received national recognition for what has been the important

03:22work of reforming a criminal justice system and cleaning up the consequences of the bills

03:27that you passed when you were in the United States Senate for decades.

03:32It was the work of creating the one of the first in the nation initiatives around reentering

03:37former offenders and getting them jobs and counseling.

03:39I did the work as attorney general of putting body cameras on special agents in the state

03:44of California.

03:45And I'm proud of that.

03:46I want to.

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Spar Over Busing — Again

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