Kamala Harris: ‘I Obviously Disagree with the Vice President’ on Busing
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HARRIS: "I mean, I don’t know what he will do, but I think we are all — many of us are very clear that this — and for Democrats it has always been a very important issue because we have known, again, that we cannot always rely, and many times in history we did, and to our peril, rely on states to do the right thing and they just didn’t. And so we have always been an advocate for the need for the federal government, especially on issues that are about civil rights, to intervene and to act. And, you know, it’s just a fundamental premise and an ideal that is the basis and the foundation of our country, which is that we are all equal and should be treated that way, and these are the underlying principles that inform the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments and the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and those words we spoke in 1776. So I obviously disagree with the Vice President and that is that."