HARLOW: All right. Welcome back. Mayor Pete Buttigieg took on a risk last night on the debate stage. He just said, basically, I couldn't get it done, taking responsibility for the lack of minority police officers in his hometown of South Bend. This as the city deals with the fallout and the pain of a black man shot and killed by a police officer.</s>RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: The police force in South Bend is now 6 percent black in a city that is 26 percent black. Why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor?</s>MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG (D-IN): Because I couldn't get it done. My community is in anguish right now because of an officer-involved shooting. It's a mess and we're hurting. And I could walk you through all of the things that we have done as a community, all of the steps that we took from bias training to de-escalation, but it didn't save the life of Eric Logan.</s>HARLOW: Let's talk about this with two legends to my right and to my left. Bob Barnett has worked on preparing presidential candidates for debates from Mondale to Bill and Hillary Clinton, to President Obama, and David Gergen has advised Presidents Nixon, Ford, Regan and Clinton. Gentlemen, great to have you. And, Bob, let me just begin with you on this. It's just not often that you hear any president or presidential candidate with such contrition and say, I couldn't get it done. How effective was that?</s>BOB BARNETT, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: When you prepare for these Debates, and as you say, I've been doing it since.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) South Bend, Indiana: South Bend Police Force Isn't Diverse Because I Couldn't Get It Done.