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and welcome to the second forum of the congressional black caucus' emergency task force on black youth suicide and mental health. i need to start by saying thank you no my colleagues who have obviously changed their schedules in order to be present here today for this important event. we launch third caulk with two core missions to identify comprehensive legislation that will result in solutions that it will reverse the growing trend of black youth and broaderring you suicide and raise awareness and sound the alarm so that the parents, the educateogy are and other community members understands what is happening and what to look for in their own children. there's often no better way to raise awareness than to rely on the voices of well-known icons in our community and wore blessed to have one here with us today. i'm incredibly gravitiful to have award winning actress, taraji p. henson. in order to maximize our time i want to introduce her and move into our testimony so we have time for questions. i need you to know that she is an award-winning actress. she is very accomplished and very

i c-span3, the congressional black caucus will old an event on mental health and reducing youth suicide at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> we want to hear from you on phone lines, for those in the eastern or central time zones. (202) 748-8000. good morning. caller: good morning. what a beautiful ceremony this morning. . had an uncle i never got to know him. he was a medic in the 329th infantry regiment.

you're the former chair of the congressional black caucus.hat exchange with senator harris on busing, you called vice president biden a statesman. he was a statesman in the sense he was supporting states' rights in busing. he was against federal busing and supporting that it should be up to the states. is that something you -- i mean is that something he should still be supporting? >> let me just say this. i'm not sure that that is the entirety of his argument back then. but -- >> he said tonight the federal government should not be involved in busing. >> this is what i do know. this is what i do know, is that the eight years under president obama, that they put out guidance to end the prison to school pipeline for children, that he wants to triple title i funding, that he understands jagsz is the best way out of poverty for kids of color and for poor white people also. that's why he wants free two-year community college and access to hbcu. so the record that everybody is focusing on, which i think everybody's record -- the entire of the reco

. >> biden met with members of the congressional black caucus last night. a sitdown planned prior to his controversial remarks. caucus members had already publicly defended biden before the meeting, some wishing he had chosen better words but claiming his remarks overall did not offend them. >> not at all. i mean, honest truth is we have to work with people who we disagree with on moral grounds every day. and that's politics. >> you know that we have some members of congress right now that would be a 2019 version of what he experienced in the 1970s. the point he was trying to make is t is that you do have to work with people that have polar opposites. i certainly do wish he would not have used that exam a am. >> republicans weighing in on this divisive issue. senator lindsey graham was blunt. >> now i don't want joe biden to be president for a lot of reasons, but one of the things i like about joe biden, he's a decent man. there's in the a racist bone in his body. he's my friend. what he did back then and what he will do in the future is try to find common

. * * george washington members of the congressional black caucus discuss issues of mental health and suicide risk among teenagers. they hear from activists and actor taraji p. henson. access ton improving mental health. >> good morning. welcome to the second forum of the congressional black caucus's emergency task force on black youth suicide and mental health. i need to start by saying thank you to my colleagues who obviously changed their schedules in order to be present here today for this important event. we launched this caucus with two core missions, to identify comprehensive legislation that will result in solutions that will reverse the growing trend of black youth and broader youth suicide, and to raise the awareness and sound the alarms so that parents and educators understand what is happening and what to look for in their own children. there is often no better way than to raised awareness then to have the voices of well-known icons in the community. we are blessed to have one here today. i am incredibly grateful to have award-winning actress taraji henson as an ally on th

on c-span three the congressional black caucus old and event on mental health and preventing youth suicide. >> yesterday, president trump attended a ceremony in france marking the 75th anniversary of d-day. here are his remarks at the normandy cemetery. pres. trump: and members of the united states congress. two distinguished guests, veterans, and my fellow herecans, we are gathered on freedoms alter on the shores and on these bluffs and on this men75 years ago, 10,000 shed their blood and thousands sacrificed their lives for their brothers and for their countries libertythe survival of today we remember those who fell and we honor all who follow right here in normandy. they won back this ground for 100lization to other and seven veterans of the second world war who join us today. you are among the very greatest .merican who will ever live you are the pride of our nation. you are the worry of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. [applause] pres. trump: here with you are over 60 veterans who landed on d-day. our debt to you is everlasting. today we express our undyin

talk about biden's outreach to the congressional black caucus.t seems that is a focus for him and his campaign at this moment. . >> it is and always has been. biden has deep ties to the african-american lawmakers going back to his days in the senate. the congressman from louisiana is a national co-chairman for biden's campaign bridged the congressional black caucus. clyburn is a long-time biden ally as well. for biden to get through episodes like this, fair to assume we will talk about race and how we talk about race are crucial lines. joe biden has these relationships and he can go back to them again and again in times that are necessary to have powerful voices be valid airports for joe biden not just for policies but his heart. it will be invaluable as a white male candidate in this race. >> garrett, thank you. nancy, stick around. we will go to the supreme court for an update as we wait for key decisions later this term. justice correspondent pete williams is joining us for more. pete, there are several big outstanding decisions. it looks like

so as the former chairman of the congressional black caucus, you know how essential the black vote-sy to the democratic party. what does joe biden have to offer the black community in your estimation beyond his relationship with president obama and so on? >> well, then the real question is looking at his entire record. he has a record of accomplishing things and acting when others won't act. so let me just say that as a former chair of the congressional black caucus i consider both kamala and cory to be dear friends. i consider them to be competent, people of goodwill and very diligent and effective senators. but right now with the supreme court at stake, with the possibility of this president getting to appoint more supreme court justices, we're not fighting to make history here. we're fighting for our future. so we have to win this. i mean, everything's at stake in this election. and i think that one, that's important. two, we've seen what the vice president can do. and so i think that that's why he's doing so well with african-american voters, because of his body of work. and the

so let me just say that as a former chair of the congressional black caucus, i consider them to be dear eten people and diligent and effectfive senators. but right now with the supreme court at stake w the possibility of this president getting to appoint more supreme court justices, we're fighting for our future. and so we have to win this. i mean everything's at stake. in this election and i think one that's important, two, we've seen what the vice president can do. and so i think that's why he's doing so well with african-american voters because of his body of work and the fact that he gets it. and i think that's the biggest compliment you can give to an elect said official is he gets it. he understands what families are going through in terms of trying to take care of a sick loved one, trying to make sure their kids get a quality education. allf othose things -- because he's been there and his life experiences, i believe, make him the best candidate. >> thank you so much. as a co chair of the biden campaign now i know you're going to be joining us and speaking about him anducter issu

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tonight biden huddled with members of the congressional black caucus remaining defiant in the face of criticism of his marks refusing to apologize telling reporters, "there isn't a racist bone in my body," even as his rivals in the 2020 primary call him out. biden spoke on the phone with one of them, senator cory booker, whose campaign is calling for biden to take responsibility for his remarks. >>> the showdown in contra costa county tonight over a giant front yard swastika. this comes after neighbors resorted to negotiations and even a petition for the homeowner to remove it. they also brought community members lining the street holding up signs not only in defiance of a homeowner's front yard symbol, orof marginalized communities. >> he's really just espousing naziism and hate. >> i think people fetishize these symbols and don't realize the depth of this, what this means. >> we went back to the property today, found the swastika had been covered up with some blankets. this comes weeks after the homeowner told kpix5 it was not a swastika. >> it's a tibetan sign that's way back befor

his remarks about working well with segregationist senators and met with members of the congressional black caucus some of whom say they are not bothered by his comments and called senator cory booker after pushing back when booker asked him to apologize. the senator said he explained to biden why his language was problematic. >> i understood where his intentions were. i understood where his heart is. the fact it's not about me or him, he said things hurtful and harmful. i believe he should be apologizing to the american people and having this discussion. >> booker described the conversation as good and constructive and he said he felt better understood after the call. >>> sacramento police are remembering an officer killed after less than one year on the force. tara o'sullivan was shot while responding to a domestic violence call. she was honored last night during police academy graduation ceremonies. the 26-year-old was considered family at a local university. >> this morning when i was trying to explain to my daughters why i was so upset about my student, the only thing i could think of to expl

. >> reporter: more than half a dozen members of the congressional black caucus also coming to biden's defense including house minority chip jim clyburn, the highest ranking african-american in congress who said in an interview with politico, quote, i worked with strom thurmond all my life. you don't have to agree with people to work with them. and, of course, janai and kenneth, all of this coming ahead of next week's first democratic primary debate in miami. >> on the same day as juneteenth. >>> a syrian refugee is under arrest charged with plotting to attack a local church. prosecutors say the isis inspired plot included an explosive device strong enough likely to kill many people in the surrounding area. fbi agents searched the suspect's apartment yesterday. 21-year-old mustafa mousab alowemer came to the u.s. from syria in 2016. the pastor of the church is thanking law enforcement. >> i'm grateful that nothing did happen, and i'm grateful we're able to show that god covered us and protected us and that people are still alive and able to hug their children and loved ones. >> the per

were a majority of the congressional black caucus and they were disproportionately represented and finding so you can see that and that's one of the problem is that you have things that aren't necessarily created to be racist they are recessed in their function and there you know in the in what they are i believe see that a lot yeah and i think the thing that people have to remember is that we can't get like just because you use your i phone well that's q. you know you do facial recognition but i don't have to say i think it's the government really there's a danger with that at the end of the day. well. you know as to another other thing that's a problem as it's called the environmental context asport and though you may have heard it referred to as the adversity score it's being implemented into the s.a.t. test system this colossal assessment test or s.a.t.'s mounts that would use new data collection and application tools in order to identify students who have performed better and their neighborhood should have allowed them to how do you determine who isn't supposed to succeed well 1st cen

the congressional black caucus, which supposedly represents blacks, is anti-black. if you want to think about it as black conservatives versus black liberals, black liberals had barack obama in office and eight years of bliss, and nothing got accomplished for blacks. there's nothing you can point debt to say that blacks improved in any way, shape, or form. he wants the point fingers at donald trump in the republican party. described was a problem brought on by democrats. thejim crow laws, all problems keeping blacks from voting, from having businesses were done by democrats. look at any major city in america today. i would ask herbert to test me on this. call back in. look at any major city, they are run by democrats. there is not a republican insight. these cities concentrate blacks in disproportionate numbers. most cities are 60% or higher. baltimore, cleveland, cincinnati, atlanta. every problem that is faced in the black community, whether you look at the crime rate, the poverty rate, all of them are brought on by democrats. show me a white face, a republican in

had told me three hours ago that we would be sitting here trying to figure out how the congressional black caucuse biden, i would say what planet are you on it's a bad night for joe biden and a bad night for democrats. >> joe biden left himself in a deep canyon. he has been even goarlsd by john lewis, a civil rights legend. but he seems to keep falling over himself. liz: he made another weird mistake. he said he would jail understand executives over the opioid crisis when it's the doctors doing the prescribing. >> there isn't anything illegal here. you may think opioid have been overprescribed. but i don't think anybody has broken the law. liz: i think people are already feeling exhausted. bernie sanders trying to attack corporate america on things like abortion. people are saying this is breathtakingly tedious. >> it started election night. this started the day after the election. app and the campaigns never end. it used to be they would end than would be time to govern. but yes, it is exhausting. liz: coming up, why you should run for your lives from bernie sanders and the other democrats. they

and at 1:00 eastern, the congressional black caucus and actress taraji p. henson, boast kno best known for fox's tv drama "empire," discusses mental health and suicide risk among black teenagers. that's prime time tonight here on c-span3. >>> most of us when we think of winston churchill, we think of the older man, sending young men into war. but no one knew better and few knew as well the realities of war. the terror and the devastation. and he said to his mother after his second war, you know, the raw comes through. you can't guild it. he absolutely knew the disaster that war was. >> sunday night on "q & a," historian candace millard talks about the military career of winston churchill in her book "hero of the empire,:the making of winston churchill". >> he ends up going on the day it fell to the british, and he takes over the prison and he frees the men who have been his fellow prisoners. he puts in the prison his former jailers, and he watches as the boar flag is torn down and the union jack is hoisted in its place. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern, on c

. >>> you going to include the congressional black caucus. >> do you want to set up the meet something the white house's lies on a daily basis? >> is the president aware that the need is about police involved shootings? >> the president made his position crystal clear. >> or whenever sarah sanders bothers to show. >> i would be happy to answer if you stop talking. >> they are lying on a record breaking pace. she doesn't mind me crashing her self care project. this is so much easier than season one. you grew up in baltimore. what was your image as a kid. >> it was like a magical city to meism heard about chocolate city. i always wanted to come. i always wanted to be a part of it. this was the mecca. everything comes to the white house. i have seen that. for 21 years i stayed in the shadows and now i'm lit. i'm on fire now. i'm lit. >> you started in 1997. >> bill clinton was president. >> mr. period, general barry mccaffrey is in the middle of controversy over the needle exchange program. >> he understood there was a racial prejudice in this nation. back then, it was interesting to watc

she spent friday on capitol hill urging members of the congressional black caucus to join her in talkingpenly about mental health and getting people the help they need. this famous radio personality has been talking about it for a while. it is something we need to deal with in the black community, given the stress, given the strain, given just natural reasons, mental health is a problem that we have to deal with. yes, there are many that say don't talk about it. there are many of our members of our community that act as though this is something that will go away by itself. it will not. there's no shame in talking about it. the shame is when we don't talk about it, when we don't deal with it, when we don't help people get through their mental health situations and problems that we -- that are supposed to be a little better because we all have issues, but we that are better should understand that we can embrace them and healing them and helping them makes the community stronger and the nation stronger. so, let's rally with these stars that have put their celebrity on the line to bring out

. >> several members of the congressional black caucus, include its chair s.t need to say he's sorry. >> i wish he wouldn't have used that example. i think there's other examples, but i would like to see us move on from there. >> biden even getting help from a republican senator. >> i don't want joe biden to be president for a lot of reasons. he is my friend, and what he did back then and what he will do in the future is try to find common ground with people he disagrees with. if that can't be done, america's best days are behind us. >> nearly every candidates descends on south carolina tomorrow for the state democratic party's convention weekend, which includes a fish fry hosted by jim clyburn. >>> let me start with you, amanda. what do you make of this? the chairman defending joe biden, but we have heard cory booker and oats. >> i don't have any knock on senator booker. he has the right to feel how he wants to feel. if he feel he needs an apology. i know joe biden. i have spent time. job i don't believe he's a racist. i believe as democrats, if we continue t

last night biden huddled with members of the congressional black caucus while remaining defiant in the case of criticism for remarks. he refaces to apologize saying "there isn't a racest bone in my body even as some call him out. he spoke with cory booker whose campaign is calling for baden to take responsibility for his remarks. >>> happening today, nascar autongis anthis year it is celebrating a major milestone. kpix 5's jackie ward has more. >> reporter: this is first time here and i have been telling my photographer brian, i feel like i'm on a movie set for cars, the animated movie set. love that movie. diane brennan is a spokesperson for sanoma raceway. a lot of things happening for the 50th anniversary. what is different about the race this year? >> we changed the course these drivers will tackle this year. we took our oh reg thal 12 turn road horse. so anyone who has been a fan knows the shoot. it is a really famous turn prom turn 4 through 5, 6 and 7 and we're excited to have it back. >> a lot of these drivers probably haven't driven that course because it has been since 1997.

biden getting strong support today from a senior member of the congressional black caucus.> during the height of the civil rights movement, we worked with people and got to know people. there was members of the klan, people who beat us, rescued us, jailed us. we never gave up on our fellow human beings. >> julie: all right. kevin crabtree covers the capitol and joins me now. you say biden shouldn't apologize for working with fellow senators he deeply disagrees with, but his problem is that he didn't condemn them. explain. >> that's exactly right. he could be forced to go on an apology tour. this was an unforced error, as clyburn said. it's a serious problem for him. but what i think is the worst problem is he did not con testimony these segregationists remarks. he didn't say -- he didn't condemn their behavior. he went on to say they didn't call him boy, they called him son. that is so offensive and insensitive to so many black americans that have experienced that type of degradation. he shouldn't be going on an apology tour. they can make him apology for almost everything

. >> melissa: in the meantime, the biden campaign cochair of the congressional black caucus, saying "is is really media issue. it's an issue that is going around on social media, the people are not talking about this, whether it's a black caucus, working with president trump last year to get civil rights done, or working with some very unsavory folks back in the day. the goal is to get things done. tonight, they will be in south carolina as the annual fish fry goes on." one can that be question mike i would like to be at that fish fry. >> brian: i think they are wrong. democrats are talking about it. although contenders who are going to be on stage next week want to take a shot at the top guy. >> melissa: is that what it's about? it's an opportunity to take down the guy who is out front? >> brian: do you think anybody is -- >> harris: no one is calling joe biden are racist. cory booker is not doing that, which is why i don't understand why he thought he should apologize. he is taking specific underage with the word "boy." he is looking at this from his own perspective as a black man.

year-old children are contemplating life and death the special hearing was called by the congressional black caucus on black youth mental help after study shows suicide rates among black children 5 to 12 on the rise while suicide for white children dropped. >>when a child commits suicide is nobody in this there's no place to live within the mirai hinton says the problem and solution starts at school either awareness in4schools and we therapist there too. the guide them before acting hinson taught special education where she says she saw the problem firsthand. >>often times black students wound up in her class. instead of getting help we're expecting these children to come from traumatic experiences at home. we're expecting them to go to school and learn, and it's just not fair concern recently lots a nonprofit to tackle black mental health at the hearing caucus members thanked her and promised support he's conversation that we're having today. >>are very important as we as appropriators are looking at the money. >>lawmakers say they're working to secure federal funding to invest in schools and help

year-old children are contemplating life and death the special hearing was called by the congressional black caucusorce a black youth mental help after study shows suicide rates among black children 5 to 12 on the rise while suicide for white children dropped. >>when a child commits suicide is nobody in this there's no place to live within the mirai hinton says the problem and solution starts at school either awareness in schools and we therapist there too. the guide him before acting hinson taught special education where she says she saw the problem firsthand. >>often times black students wound up in her class. instead of getting help we're expecting these children to come from traumatic experiences at home. we're expecting them to go to school and learn, and it's just not fair concern recently lots a nonprofit to tackle black mental health at the hearing caucus members thanked her and promised support he's conversation that we're having today. >>are very important as we as appropriators are looking at the money lawmakers say they're working to secure federal funding to invest in schools and help

if you notice many of the lawmakers coming to his defense, many of the congressional black caucus, they're from sort of earlier generations. they were the leaders of the civil rights movement. clyburn, john lewis and many of the voters in the south may also be of that generation. and they may have a reaction that it's not quite as shocking to them to see joe biden who came up through the 70s. this is sort of the era that they were all a part of. now, to younger voters perhaps this is something that is less familiar to them. and they did not grow up with it. there may be a bit of a calculation. is the democratic electorate going to look more like this older generation of voters or are there younger voters that respond to this as maybe as questioning what's in joe biden's heart necessarily but looking at him as sort of a product of an older era? that has always been one of the big concerns for the biden camp. when he gets on the stage with some of these younger candidates, is he going to look out of touch? this is -- this seems to be another sort of brick in that wall. but he may not be wron

, because politics is a process of evolution and these people who were in congress, the congressional black caucus split on the crime bill in the 1990s but that's also reflection of the fact that people actually were against it at the time. it's not revolutionary to stand up and be against the idea of mass incarceration in the 1990s. >> yeah. thank you, both. i appreciate it. good seeing you. >> you, too. >> always good seeing you but you're always here in new york. she's not always here. thank you, both. >>> a valedictorian says she was silenced in the middle of her graduation speech because she mentioned the names trayvon martin and tamir rice. she's going to tell me what happened next. many people living with diabetes monitor their blood glucose every day. which means they have to stop. and stick their fingers. repeatedly. today, life-changing technology from abbott makes it possible to track glucose levels. without drawing a drop of blood, again and again. the most personal technology, is technology with the power to change your life. life. to the fullest. >>> it is graduation season, and vale

you've been not a supporter of civil rights but leader of it as chair of the congressional black caucus and others. how do you deal with questions about joe biden, your candidate, not willing to apologize for the boy-son statement i tried to get him to deal with last weekend in south carolina and his response to kamala hair rays in effect said he -- kamala harris that said he does not want to see the federal government to interfere against local statements and those who need the federal government to protect from the state and county governments that may have been doing things that are discriminatory. >> thank you for that question. it gives me a chance to clean it up a little bit. first of all, the vice president's record is very clear he's always supported the federal government stepping in when states or municipalities and school boards acted in a manner that justified and enacted segregation. he was for busing in those instances. the bigger question, i think what everybody alluded to was the old states rights argument. he has never been for states rights. whether it was the voting a

so let me just get your fellow member of congress senator harris who also served on the congressional black caucus with her. that was the moment, right, her line that little girl was me dominated last night. what was your reaction to that exchange >> it did dominate. it made things resonate when i first looked at it. i thought of mohamed ali to be quite honest with you. and i thought about his career. and he wasn't the same at the beginning of his career and the end. clearhy the first round has gone to kamala harris. and there's going to be a second round. so is it that he can come back or not? >> the second round is on cnn, by the way. it's our debate in about a month in detroit. let's talk about, though, even though you have a second round you can't change the past. you can evolve for sure. humans evolve, but let me remind our viewers of the past. he called kamala harris' characterization of busing and whattee did a mischaracterization. but here's what we have. in 1977 he wrote this. my bill strikes at the heart of injustice of court ordered busing. i believe there's a growing sentiment in congr

biden met with the congressional black caucus as well last night as i understand it. other meeting today with black leaders there in south carolina. have you been providing counsel to joe biden in terms of preventing morech these of the unforced errors? and as if so, what are you telling him? >> i'm not talking to senator biden at all. i did talk to cedric richmond and expressed to him that maybe he ought to spend a little more time with the senator or at least with his staffers. because i suspect a lot of his staffers may not have the same experience that cedric richmond has had. and they could learn from cedric. they ought not get in these rooms and insulate themselves in such a way that they don't do their candidates well. i have two former staffers working for cory booker, and so i am sure that they are advising cory booker how to navigate himself through south carolina. i have former staffers working with other candidates as well. so these candidate handlers should learn that they can really gain from the experiences people have. because those two people who are w

was able to go and get hastings, get green, and now they're close this endorsements from congressional black caucusnow from years past that those endorsements are actually a leading indicator, and i think they're a leading indicator for harris as well, and what's so important is there are a lot of voters who are out there, if you look at her favorable and unfavorable ratings, what you see is she actually holds a pretty high favorable rating even though a lot of voters weren't necessarily going to her side. that to me is so key. she has laid the base work. she has the base, and now the question is can she build from that base, get that support, and i think that a debate performance like she had on thursday night is exactly what she needed. >> her next shot the cnn debates coming up near the end of july in detroit, so we'll see how senator harris does. >> i am so looking -- i'm like a boy in a candy shop when it comes to these debates. when that moment happened on thursday night, it was so savage, so beautiful in terms of watching debate moments. i love it. i'm going to be in detroit and it's going t

he's a member of the congressional black caucus.nd has endorsed biden for the democratic nomination. thank you, congressman, for being on. let me ask you, you endorsed mr. biden. how do you respond to those of us who questioned him on his using the term, they did not call me boy, they called me son, which has a different connotation to many of us who have been called boys, our fathers have been called boys, and on and on. and about his talking about the civil behavior in the senate when people like eastland and other segregationists and how offensive it is to normalize people that were outright fighting for jim crow laws to remain law? how do you respond to that as a supporter of mr. biden? >> well, first, ref reverend, thank you for allowing me to be on your show. what i say to those who have questions about what the vice president said, it was really simple. it was just the mere fact that when those of us in public service are obliged sometimes to have to face and work with folks that we vehemently disagree with, as far as his use

the national cochair of the biden campaign and former chairman of the congressional black caucus, congressmanst to recap for our viewers kamala harris took on joe biden on his support or opposition in the '70s to busing. why did he say he did not oppose busing when he did oppose busing? >> well, he did not oppose busing for voluntary busing, and he was for busing in the cases where states acted to segregate the schools. so whether it was state action or voluntary, he supported busing. and in fact in 1974 he was the deciding vote on an amendment in the senate that would have ended busing once and for all. and he was the deciding vote to stop that. so i think that where the vice president got very nuanced was on whether the federal courts and the federal governments should go in where there was not a policy in place for segregation but that it was segregation because of the community and school district was just one particular race. so i think the vice president heard senator harris, and i think that when you saw his silence i think that one thing about him that really attracted me to his leade

kamala harris, presidential candidate, has a key endorsement from the fourth member of the congressional black caucuscandidate he is getting behind. he thinks she's the one who can beat president trump. he was an early supporter of president obama's presidential campaign. the endorsement comes as harris prepares for that first debate of course this week in miami. it will give her another chance why her background as a prosecutor sets her apart from other competitors. kyung lah reports. >> reporter: drumming up support in south carolina ahead of this week's democratic debate. kamala harris used the words of the courtroom to tout her record as a prosecutor. >> so let's read that rap sheet shall we? he asked black americans, he said what do you have to lose? well, we know civil rights investigations are down and hate crimes are up. we have a lot to lose. >> reporter: her argument on why she is best positioned to make the case against the president. >> let's talk about looking apthat rap sheet where he's embraced dictators like kim jong-un and putin and taken their word over the word of the american inte

supported by many members of the congressional black caucus, big city black mayors and clergy leaderscrime rates. so what did the crime bill do? formerly known as the violent crime control and law enforcement act, the bill was a sweeping $30 billion package. which put 100,000 new police officers on the streets, created the violence against women act and an assault weapons ban. the bill also expanded the federal death penalty and created dramatically harsher sentencing laws, including three strikes. mandatory life terms for people with at least three federal violent crimes or drug convictions. one of the most controversial aspects, granting states billions to build prisons if they pass their own tough sentencing laws with mandatory minimums. but those state laws incentivized by the federal government are what critics say helped contribute to an era of mass incarceration. four years ago as hillary clinton faced blistering criticism for the bill, president clinton apologized. >> because i signed a bill that made the problem worse. and i want to admit it. >> that is far more than biden ha

even the head of the congressional black caucus, karen bass, said yesterday joe biden has nothing to this is the best example of working with people with whom you disagree? no, maybe you can find another example. so i don't know if joe biden will continue to tell this story the way he has over the past many years in his career. >> what's interesting is this early in the campaign cycle you had unnamed sources inside his own campaign telling jeff zeleny that, well, he should not have gone there. >> right. which is never a good moment for your campaign when you have unnamed advisers saying their advice publicly. again, you saw joe biden get pretty defiant about this. he doesn't believe he has something to apologize for here. cory booker says biden needs not to apologize to him but to explain why he, you know, used this word that is so harmful for many people. >> those were his words on cnn last night, apologize to the american people, not him personally. elizabeth warren is out with a plan to ban private prison facilities including in relation to the border facilities, which are very mu

we're hearing from members of the congressional black caucus.ing from the white house majority w.h.i.p. who is about to host a whole lot of democrats in south carolina. >> yeah, jim clyburn who you're referring to in south carolina said he spent a big chunk of his career working with strom thurmond to get things done. and you don't have to agree with people to work with them. you're right, playing host to all of the democratic nominat n nominations this week as they fight specifically for the african-american vote. and that is welcome news to the biden camp, there is no doubt about that. i don't think that's going to stop as we see elizabeth warren or kamala harris, or bernie sanders who thought they saw political opening here and could brushback joe biden a bit. >> mj, you pointed out things are different in 2019, in terms of how you talk about issues. race being one of them. race is not going anywhere because it's something that needs to be discussed. how much are voters, as you're out on the trail talking to voters at different events, where

of position, however, would south carolina representative clyburn and particularly other congressional black caucusembers be in with these discussions within their ranks about biden's track record on civil rights-related issues and legislation versus the recent handling, you know, of past segregationist conversations and who should apologize, whether it be cory or biden? how much is this clouding the view of democrats? >> well, i think it's really early in the whole race right now. like it was just said a moment ago that we have just nine months to go before we even start to have a contest where we have people voting. we haven't had our first debate yet, which won't happen until next week. this is the point where candidates are going to make mistakes and be tested. we saw back in 2008 that barack obama had the whole controversy about the issue of his pastor, jeremiah wright and he had to sort of overcome that. joe biden has been tested with the questions about james eastling. he'll get questions about the crime bill and anita hill. he'll get all those questions in the debate and going forward. the

but you've also had some prominent members of the congressional black caucus today coming to biden'sr this including congressman james clyburn with congressman bennie thompson. he said if he was able to work with eastland, he's a great person. wolf. >> arlette saenz reporting. thank you very much. >>> there is more breaking news. the house judiciary committee chairman vowing to destroy the white house immunity claim over hope hicks. well let's stand up in court. plus more on the controversy involving joe biden remarks about segregationist senators, is he struggling to stay in touch with where the democratic party is today? welcome to fowler, indiana. one of the windiest places in america. and home to three bp wind farms. in the off-chance the wind ever stops blowing here... the lights can keep on shining. thanks to our natural gas. a smart partner to renewable energy. it's always ready when needed. or... not. at bp, we see possibilities everywhere. to help the world keep advancing. dear lexus, it is with a very gratesful heart that i write you about your amazing employees. eric volun

. >> what happens when john lewis, clyburn and the head of the cbc, congressional black caucus, theyys, we know him, we trust him, we believe in him. you have younger african americans who are running have a different disposition. how does that reconcile itself? >> sedgwick richmond, he was a guest on the team soon after the debate. he was supporting biden before and he was still defending him -- >> he's a surrogate for him. he's a coe chair on the election. >> maybe he's so entrenched he can't turn around. he's a different generation of african-american voters. maybe he's not like everyone else, but he's not john lewis. >> i don't think they're different. kamala harris and cory booker have an incentive to latch upon this vulnerability of joe biden whereas somebody looking to support him, the sedgwick richmonds of the world, they have no reason to try and use that to not support him. >> fair point. senator harris didn't seem to like this question when it was asked her of, i think chris matthews after the debate. he said to her as a suggestion, well, you did exactly what donald trump

louisiana who has great stature and credibility in the black community, former chair of the congressional black caucus that many of us have a lot of respect for, if he's in his ear, i think that he will have a good influence for him. and i think you have a millennial, if there was one, symone sanders, he's not even 30 years old and there's nobody that is more woke than symone sanders. so i think we'll see where his team will be able to bring him. again, though, i think he's got to deal with the -- >> -- to the speakers before him, cory booker, beto o'rourke, he indeed going through a laurpd list, vice president was, in his message, clearly a different energy level than the speakers before. any word in terms of why the approach was the way it was today? >> it's interesting. we've seen the vice president in the past week or so as he's attended a number of event where there are time limits. he really sounds like a man in a hurry. he was trying to cram a lot into that seven-minute speech. there was some news in that speech that was lost now in the interview that the rev did afterwards. the vice president

several members of the congressional black caucus including its chair say biden doesn't need to say heouldn't have used that example. i think there are other examples where he has worked in a bipartisan fashion. but i would like to see us move from there. i don't know the good apology serves. >> and biden getting help from a republican senator. >> i don't want joe biden to be president for a lot of reasons. he is my friend. what he did back then and what he will do in the future is try to find common ground with people he disagree was if that can't be done america's best days are behind us. >> biden and booker will both be in south carolina tomorrow for a weekend of events we'll see if any cross paths wolf. >> arlette saenz reporting for us. thank you very much. much more news right after this. and not... farther. ...he's new. order at jimmyjohns.com. because sandwich. hi, do you have a travel card? we do! the discover it® miles card. earn unlimited 1.5 miles on every purchase, plus we'll match your miles at the end of your first year. you'll match my miles? yeah! mile for mile! and no