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event of this third night of the republican national convention, the debut speech by donald trump's new running mate senator jd vance. this will be an early insignificant he asks the parties enthusiasm for vance once a trump critic. and now the top prospects will lead the maga movement into the future. welcome to cnn's convention coverage from inside the arena, where tonight's program is underway. i'm anderson cooper along with jake tapper and jake, you will have a ringside seat vance of speech at your position as the convention anderson, the 39-year-old, first-term senator from ohio, is promising to make a forceful case this evening. donald trump's reelection. he also plans to make his high profile convention speech and an introductory way introducing himself to the american people worked hold that senator vance will focus on his personal journey rising from nothing as he has put it to success. reaching this extraordinary moment in american ms grief where he accepts the republican vice presidential nomination. senator vance will be introduced by his wife, usha, a

trial attorney, daughter of indian immigrants the vances capping. tonight's program, which includes remarks by north dakota governor doug burgum of top vp contender who lost, asked advance as well. as a prime time speech by the former president's oldest son, donald trump, jr. at this moment of celebration for republicans we do have some breaking news who's on the democratic side, who setback for president biden a diagnosis of covid in the midst of increasing pressure from fellow down democrats for him to exit the 2024 race, the president abruptly calling off an event in nevada. his schedule now appearing uncertain at this intense moment of turmoil from his campaign. you see him on your screen there. it looks like he's having some difficulty getting up the stairs. let's get more on this breaking news from the democrats. jeff zeleny has that jeff, what are you picking up? what are you learning? >> well, jake, we know as

president biden is flying back to the east coast tonight after testing positive for covid, as you said, in cutting his trip to las vegas short, we know that he is facing a potentially a new moment in his campaign. he's been hearing for the last several days from democratic lawmakers officials, and others about their concerns about his path forward here and talking to a senior democratic adviser tonight who is telling me this. he said he believes the president is being quote, more receptive to these calls of concern. he goes on to say this, the private conversations with the hill are continuing. this adviser tells me he's being receptive, not as defiant as he is publicly goes on to saying talking about vice president kamala harris, who initially he wondered how she may fare in a campaign should it come to that? i'm told now he's asking questions saying, do you think camila can win again, this adviser offers

caution saying this, it is still unclear where he's going to land, but he seems to be listening to jake what we do know this is a due new moment for president biden. tomorrow marks three weeks since the debate in atlanta. as you well know, he's heard so much concern from across the democratic party time is running short. the democratic national committee was thinking about starting their nomination process next week that is now on hold. that will not get and until august 1st. so there's a bit of time for the president to make this decision. >> but hanging over all of this is the same thing as it's been for the last three weeks. >> if not him, who but tonight as the president flies back to the east coast from las vegas, it is certainly a new moment for him and his potential candidates, cj. >> all right. jeff zeleny. thanks so much. and i'm here ring side with dana bash and chris wallace, and it's something that was just in peter navarro's speech. peter navarro who just did some prison time for contempt of congress violation and was a top adviser to donald trump he

made this argument and i've heard it a few times and it's certainly not in keeping with the let's bring the temperature down idea that we've been hearing and that is this idea that they keep coming for donald trump and tying the veil, whether it's impeachment or prosecutions of trump, tying that they to the shooting on saturday. and again, we still do not know the motives for the shooter for his twisted and sick act. but the idea that somehow the house committee looking into january 6 or these prosecutions or whatever are in any way appropriately grouped with an assassination attempt is very dangerous language. >> it's very dangerous language, but also as we talk about that, and obviously we are at the republican convention. if i may, i just want to take a moment to digest what jeff just reported about

president biden because this is a shift. this is different. he is being told that the president is receptive so different from what you have been hearing, from what i've been hearing from what you've been hearing, which is he's dugin he doesn't want to listen. our reporting about the fact that he's been having very combative conversations with house democrats who are desperate for him to listen to their concerns and their fear that it's not just him who could lose, but the house and the senate as well. and this seems to be a potential, again, he was very cautious, but a potential turning point that there's even a remote possibility that the doors opened this much is something we have not heard up until right now but look at those situation. >> his political support is falling away there's a report from abc news that chuck

schumer, the senate democratic leader, came in au, sometime in the last couple of days and said, it would be better if you dropped out. we're told that the financial support is dropping away. the big donors across the country have basically said we're not putting any more money into the biden campaign with a situation that it is and then on top of everything else with all the concerns about his mental acuity, to now have covid and i must say it was you know, the metaphor wrote itself, the caption wrote itself as you saw him like very old weak man, struggling to get up the stairs of air force one if he isn't rethinking it, you'd have to say he's out of touch with reality, not saying he's going to drop out. we don't know that but there's an awful lot that is piling up one you know blow after another. that you would

think how have him and his inner circle rethinking the viability of this campaign in the governor of texas, greg abbott is speaking right now. let me throw it back to anderson. anderson, jake, thanks very much here with the team. david axelrod this report, jeff zeleny reporting do believe that this is some sort of a shift. >> does idea that the president has been asking do you, think harris could win? i think that i think that that is a question that he has asked. but at this point, it's a question really about him and whether he has any chance in this race and something has happened. anderson, in the last several weeks between the debate, the events of saturday in the assassination attempt in the way president former president trump reacted to it with the iconic photo. it's crystallized, something that has sent the numbers spiraling

to the degree they can in a very polarized country so look, there are three things that you look at. you know, one is polling and the polling is getting worse. the battleground, which is getting larger there were seven battleground may 6 or perhaps seven battleground states to start. >> now you have 11 or 12 and then money. >> do you have the resources to compete and that money has dried up and now donors are not talking about how do we shore up the present? isn't that they're talking about how do we shore up the house? how do we shore up the senate? and that's where they're shifting their resources. this is inexorable and i don't say this with any pleasure at all because i worked with joe biden. he's served his country well for how most of his life. and this is not the coda that he wants on his career. and i think that's what people are telling him that he can help

improve the chances of winning a race that he says is existential, but the way he has to do it is to exit and they will there will be a discussion about whether it's the vice president or not. she's certainly is the likely candidate, maybe not the certain candidate. but what is certain is he is not in a position to win this race. any law and he has not helped himself at all with these inner he's that he's done recently that's one thing that i'm getting the sense of from talking to people. >> his comments have reinforced the idea that he is not connected to what's happened i mean, in the, battlegrounds. not just at the presidential level, but as absolutely was talking about further down down-ballot, the people that i'm hearing from are still believed that the democrats could go into august with a contestant, an undecided converge. i don't want to use the word contested, but the question is will they go in with a clear nominee? many people that i'm speaking with believe at this moment that they likely will not. >> john from john king. what do

you hear david's point? >> the white house, the president in his interviews in the top biden aides in their conversations back to the democrats and say, please convince him to gather race has been stopped. the president's not going to do that. they were hoping that that will stop it if the president's public comments, it has not stopped some of the same senior democrats are calling back again and again and again to david's point the data is getting progressively worse and it's all being sent to the white house. we have zero indication. the president is ready to say, okay, let's talk about this. but people who are in touch with his inner circle say the conversations with them in the last 24 hours or so are a little bit different. that they're not as defined. they're not getting told shut up and not getting told go away and not getting told you're the problem by asking us now, does that mean the president is getting the message? we don't know that we do know. i mean, it's sad. the president i'd states has covid, but we now know he's off the road. he's going to be back in delaware. his wife has going there as well. so if there are going to be these conversations and people are going to try to break through with him in the places most comfortable home in delaware would be the place to do it.

>> there is something going on to anderson, nancy pelosi, the former house speaker, who is someone who has had a long relationship with joe biden. what adam shifted this morning where he came out and made this call is being widely interpreted by the president should adam schiff said that the president should step aside, and that's been widely interpreted it as a signal for where nancy pelosi and she is someone who has credibility with him at perhaps others don't. she is same age as he. he respects for her political instincts are second to none she is widely respected there and that call that president biden did with house democrat the crowds in people, the conversations that i'm having something of a turning point, particularly back-and-forth that the president had with congressman jason crow, who has been very outspoken on january sorry, sixth is a very well this matter. >> call shortly before the assassination attempt. >> i believe that it was right before, but he's got contentious and crow's not known as someone who would take

that kind of a position is very well respected in the house and for the president to kind of have that demeanor. i think central real message to house i'm john in all these conversations to kasie's point, adam schiff is significant senior democrat, california, probably the next senator from california so close to pelosi wouldn't do it without checking with her. what people are saying is they're just hoping the white house gets the message. if not everyone is talking about next week, there'll be polling a few days after this everyone expects will be even worse for the president wants them to private internal polling. everyone says, we hope the president makes its decision. otherwise, look for early next week to be a tipping point but there are a lot of people who want biden to stay in. >> i want to just keep pointing up, stole grassroots love for joe biden. everybody didn't agree but today is a terrible day. if you if you just if you pull back and look at this thing, strength versus weakness a bullet couldn't stop trump virus just stopped biden you've got the nominees of this party getting their butts, kissed.

biden's goodness, but kicked by his own party the democrats are coming apart. the republicans are coming together that's what's happened. and at some points, this party has to look at the reality of that let let me just say i'm pelosi nancy pelosi, first and foremost, no one understands or feels more strongly about the threat that trumpism represents than nancy pelosi she saw it, she faced it down as speaker and nancy pelosi is someone who first and foremost says, how do we win? >> how are we going to when so i think that's the message that she is is driving her and i'm sure it's the message that she brought to the president anderson i would just say last night i saw john at the wall, a number was 330 to trump that. if that number is 330, every one of those potential us, the electoral college every one of those potential us senators you saw

up there last night? we'll be us senators and so i think that is what the reality of the sig again, that the pathway that polling that came out, that showed those states getting bigger and bigger and no but their chances of holding the house and holding the senate are just slipping away rapidly. and it's like fall and down, a slippery slope, if you can't get a foothold quickly, you're off the cliff joe biden said the worst three weeks and presidential campaign history from the debate to today. and donald trump's probably had the best three weeks these two things coincide hiding are freaking out other way. >> it's in saying that the best three weeks includes an attempted assassination that mean it's the way this has all come down against joe biden. i mean, once again, today we're going on the air tonight saying we're praying for joe biden i mean, the best thing you can say about him right now, he's having good day. isn't bad days and there's more bad days and good why? you gotta go? i do not. i think we ought to recognize that donald trump is

unbeatable in this room. he is a colossus of stride. this arena outside in the real-world, he is still underwater in his polling. he's not a popular if there and if there is a change of candidates, this race changes. there's a reason the trump people haven't run any debate ads against them. tony fabrizio is pollster was at an event i moderated today and he acknowledged, yeah, we're not trying to push biden out of this race. and there's a reason for that. race changes. >> harris changes the race. >> i do not think a proposition scott, but i think people are looking for a change at the top of the ticket. can i think she would represent the conversation to david's point? >> like democrats, whether a terrorist or someone else's definitely lose with biden or take a chance, john, that they want to take the cash showed on that poll yesterday, right? the kamala harris was not in any of those, wasn't those four. but mark kelly, it was mark kelly know, josh shapiro. >> that's more that was a

comma the view of it is still she is still best position from a campaign finance position from democratic coalition position. look, it is a real thing. what will happen in the democratic party if it is not given serious consideration that the first black female vice president is the presumptive nominee. if biden steps aside, that is a real thing but but also, i can't they can't do camila harris is also the strongest person who is already established on the best issue for democrats in this cycle which is the issue of reproductive just ahead, more speeches from the convention here in milwaukee will hear from north dakota governor doug burgum, who was once a top contender to be donald trump's running mate tomorrow live from milwaukee, former president trump accepts his party's nomination for the nation's highest office. >> jake tapper and anderson cooper lead cnn special live coverage the republican national convention tomorrow at seven on cnn this summer,

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let's listen in the proud mayor of east palestine, ohio when the train derailed spewing flames and toxic chemicals to our town face the disaster. unlike we'd ever seen and the chaos we witnessed a clear contrast between leadership and in competence our first responders didn't hesitate. they raced to the scene. they battle the flames and evacuated our citizens and for that, i want to thank every one of them tonight unfortunately, the biden administration's federal response was much different. in constant alma, it consisted almost entirely of meetings and press events. they talked and talked but they delivered little help then there was the clear difference between former

president trump and president biden for the longest time the white house would silent we never heard a word from vice president harris i guess we weren't there type of folks know hollywood elites are wall street billionaires live in east palestine just hard-working americans but donald trump cared. >> first, he called dass permission to visit, not wanting to intrude. >> and then he asked how we can help when he arrived with fresh palace, have drinking water, he met with everyone from first responders to local officials and residents he toured the derailment site. he listened to us and he shared a meal with volunteers are local mcdonald's, his presence was genuine. his concern was real after a year of criticism, criticism, president biden finally did show up his appearance was brief, forced in

scripted he met with a select few and then left we needed so much. and he delivered so little i know a thing or two about train wrecks now and let me tell you, that's what the biden administration has been before president biden derails our entire nation. we need to act. we need a leader who values small town communities as much as big cities we need a president who loves all americans we need donald j. trump ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the governor of north dakota, doug burgum hello

milwaukee and hello north dakota feels good to be here the last time i was in milwaukee in this building standing behind a podium was for the debate and i stood on one leg for two hours guys might remember i blew my achilles the day before, but the kick things off, i have a question for you and i need your help answering so nice and so loud that everyone at home can hear you are you ready who will make america energy dominant again? who will make america energy dominant well that's that's pretty good, but it's, it's after 4:00

p.m. in dc. so how about one more time loud enough to wake up joe biden, who will make american energy dominant that's right. >> because when president of trump unleashing american energy, we unleash american prosperity and we ensure our national security serving as. a governor with president trump was like having a beautiful breeze at our back he cut taxes, any cut red tape? serving as a governor under joe biden has been like a gale force win in our face. biden's war on energy hurts every american because the cost of energy is in everything we use or touch every day biden's red tape has raised the price of the gas in your car the cost of food on your table the clothes on your back. and it's even raised your rent biden's green

agenda feels like it was written by china, russia, and iran let's look at biden's ev mandates where do nearly all the batteries and rare earth minerals come from china, you know and the day that biden halted permits for clean us natural gas export facilities just think about the party they must have thrown that night at the kremlin because biden's policies are making russia in iran filthy, rich and they're using that money to fund wars and terrorism against our allies. at hold biden is acting like a dictator. he's using mandates to shut down reliable baseload electricity that's why you're electric bills have soared upwards as our nation's electric grid reliability spiraled downward four more

years of joe will usher an era of biden brownouts and blackouts imagine no electricity for your fridge, your lights, or air conditioning president trump will ensure that there's power for you and importantly, that we have the power as the united states to beat china in the ai arms race unleashing american energy dominance is our path back to prosperity and peace through strength teddy roosevelt encouraged america to speak softly and carry a big stick energy dominance will be a big stick that president trump will carry yes, president

trump will make sure that america is selling energy to our allies versus buying it from our adversaries. innovation has always been the source of american greatness and president trump champions innovation over regulation last year over that whole year, my wife catherine and i traveled all across america as all of you know, it's rural america that feeds the world, that fuels the world and defends the world. small towns with a huge impact and rural america is trump country in north dakota, we know we know one thing for sure because we've seen him do it and that's it. the hardest working president in american

history is donald j. trump. president trump cares deeply about every american rig workers, truck drivers. rough next. >> and yes, america's great farmers and ranchers president trump cares deeply about you we know that he'll fight for us, you'll fight for our families. >> and we know one more thing. he'll let all of you keep driving your gas-powered cars when president trump unleashes energy dominance he will make america affordable again. he will make america strong again. and when president donald j. trump and jd vance together, they will make america great

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was came from very humble circumstances in rural kentucky. the family moved to southwest ohio the father left his mother had gotten into a serious problem with drug addiction and didn't take very good care of women. and jd was eventually brought up by his mother's mother and father the grandfather and grandmother well, in any case, beverley akens, his mother, is going to be in the president's box. we're told tonight he's going to make a special call-out to where you might think, well, what's going on there since she had drug problems and ended up turning them over. she has been sober for ten years and he apparently and talking about an introducing themselves to america is going to pay tribute to his mother. and the fact that she has gotten straight and kept straight for a decade. and i think there's a feeling in the part of the trump campaign, this could be a very special moment in terms of

introducing to an awful lot of people who don't know him, who exactly donald trump's running mate is going to be. and kristen holmes when jd vance submitted the book that became hillbilly elegy. the only part that was autobiographical was the forward for the openings and the rest of it was about policy and the publisher said, no, no, no that first part is the interesting stuff. they would do that book. and that hillbilly elegy story, his humble beginnings, the chris just discussed. that's going to be a big part of his speech tonight. >> it is what i heard from allies is that they, we're really encouraging him to lean into hillbilly elegy. i mean, he was widely popular book. it resonated with so many people who read it and they believed he did his story is so inspiring that it will inspire so many that don't know anything about thing to keep in mind here, because this is his big introduction into the world 48 hours to prepare the most consequential speech of his entire life. well, they've told them to do is lean into

your backstory. your backstory is at most orton thing that made you who you are and that they want to teach me about him. >> and it's interesting and this does come obviously at a moment when drug overdoses are major problem in the united states, they went up under trump there continue to go up under president biden opioid addiction and overdoses and obviously fentanyl as well. this is gonna be something that, that has this is an issue that has touched so many americans lives. and jd vance, senator vance discussing it so openly could really be very much absolutely. >> that is a big part of his biography, his autobiography, as he's going to give it it's funny as you were talking about that i was thinking because of the tragic reality of addiction in this country. it is very much not just bipartisan, a non-partisan issue. thinking about hunter biden, who is now sober and it is something that president biden talks about a lot now, you have a personal

sorry, of somebody very close to the running mate of the former president who has similar situation in their family. obviously so a very different story but the other thing that i'm really going to be interested in is how he talks not just about how he grew up, his childhood, but his service and the fact that he joined the marines as what was he like? he was he was just a teenager, 18, i believe when he went he joined and how that changed his life. so there is so much i mean, look, when you kind of think about writing a character of who's a good person who has a good story, mean you could not write a better story in terms of his upbringing, his background, and where he took himself after that story, some of the most closely watched speeches of the night or still ahead, we are standing by to hear from donald trump junior and later of course, as we've been

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we are back live in milwaukee where republicans are getting ready to hear from their new vice presidential nominee and donald trump's potential air and the maga movement synergy the vance we're also following the democrats president biden just diagnosed with covid plus new reporting that the president is now receptive discussions about his political future sure. >> kasie on you're not caught know, and i will say that reporting from our jeff zeleny has really rippled out across the political universe and his generating a lot of reaction and discussion and as we're all sitting here doing this, but i actually was also talking to republican sources here on the ground in milwaukee, and one a source familiar at told me that they have been testing i as any smart campaign would do what a race between donald trump and a hypothetical kamala harris at the top of the ticket would look like and some of their preliminary findings are that it does actually potentially help them with the democratic base. it helped present the democrats with their base if it's kamala harris and not joe biden particularly among black women. but for former president

trump younger white men, especially seem to react better and move more aggressively in donald trump's direction if it's kamala harris at the top of the ticket as opposed to joe biden. but again, this is something that any responsible campaign would be doing given our environment. but it is also tell there's a lot of addition and subtraction that would happen, right? like it's not a clean i don't think for any of the straight up right. possible alternatives. it's a clean shift in any one direction kamala harris will add and we'll subtract a gretchen whitmer would add and subtract and that is one of the things that is causing so much consternation underneath the surface among democrats that's is that there's so many democrats maybe more than half, who want something else. but the alternative is still incredibly murky and most of them right now, even the ones who, who i'm talking to, who believed that joe biden it is not the best person for the top of the ticket. are still

unclear about what the alternative looks like. they are afraid of what the alternative looks like because of the uncertainties. >> and it's i can't you can't blame them, right? >> you cannot blame that. i agree with you by the way, they cannot skip over here because it would be a monumental admission that she wasn't qualified when they picked her in the first one, they have to go to harris, they head to go to here's my question but let me tell you what's your what you're going to the idea that you're going to something a little better. >> i mean, if it's a little it's by a smidge. i mean, her approval rating right now is about 38%, not much different than joe biden. and she would be tied to the worst and most unpopular parts of the biden agenda isn't it? >> isn't it simply rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic that you're going to hit the iceberg, the ship's sinking. does it matter who the captain is? let's do know that it's so what's so interesting to me and say here my friends desperately advice, try and advise the democratic party should not the desperate ones in this campaign, right i think

with joe biden the republican party clearly doesn't want a change. they want to keep biden in place if if, if if kamala harris is so such a vulnerable candidate and a wck would make no difference i think they wouldn't be as concerned about it. they clearly are. i'm not saying that she would necessarily be the best candidate. i'm not i don't know that that is the case. i do know this whatever you whatever you however you play it out on paper or in a projective polling, you have a younger, more aggressive candidates who can take the fight to trump, which is what you don't have now and trump's, you want to talk about vulnerabilities. talk about let's talk about a candidate who is underwater nationally, there is no great enthusiasm for donald trump. you look at most polling and people don't like the choice generally, which would be the argument for a whole new candidate, but so i mean, yeah

if biden were to get off the ticket, what he does design right now and calm au harris becomes president. would that be helpful that help your side it's just want to walk through a couple of things it's not about whether she's qualified but or nazis as qualified anybody who's ever served, she was an attorney general. >> and effective when she was a senator, she's the vice president. so she's qualified. the question is, who can win? that's the only question. and i think the kamala harris herself, if she could look, we're convinced that someone else, whatever better shot at winning, she doesn't want donald trump to take over this country either. so the question is, who can win its were just chatgpt if you were if you were unmarked you would look at this situation and you accompany at least one set of conclusions, which is this. democrats after win, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan we have a governor in michigan and a governor of pennsylvania. so chatgpt would say at least consider sure putting forward your to swing-state governor. >> so it's caused a cratering

of african-american enthused second, so, so then you would then have been recovered so then you have to walk in certain things is kamala harris so popular with black voters that it would cause a cratering. >> she's probably not that popular by itself called the a crater, but it would cause alarm and concern among party acids. could black party activist be convinced to say, look, let's do the right thing to do. discussion there. but it shouldn't be out of medicine second question would be, good. you have a woman like aggression. could you have a jewish person like shapiro wish he would walk through all of these things and you wouldn't be stampeded by people just saying if you even considerate, you're racist. if you have considered your sections, that wouldn't happen in a rational process. and an irrational process, you might come to conclusion that common harris is the most winnable and you would go for them. >> not enough time for a rational process part about problem, john. >> that's exactly right in the sense that think of where we are. we are gone month the democratic convention. this republican convention is a show

of unity and they are improving their position. and as of today, they would win and win convincingly. they would take the senate and they probably would keep the house because that's what democrats are looking at right now. so you have a month to the democratic convention, which is why democrats are telling the president make this decision and make it now. so what they can start that process next week? get it done before the convention because you don't want the convention to be a fight about what the convention to be a foreign aid does that even look like? i mean, just for folks out there, like logistically, what would that look like? >> you had it could have there's different ways to do it at the democratic national committee would have to come up with a process to party would the easiest way is actually to do it after the convention. because then just the committee picks the candidates, but that would be less party of democracy, ladies, and that would not a member of this body that would be less democratic let's they just get the national committee picks after the convention if the candidate steps aside, if you do it before the convention, talking about, you would have a series

the way the way you would do it to have a series of forums across the country you'd have to find some way to limit or qualified candidates to participate in that. >> and then the convention would decide this scott sitting there with the cat simpler just smile on that base. but the truth of the matter is the truth of the matter is that you could argue that that kind of contest could energize interest and energizer convention and the person who comes out and kamala harris because of the nature of the democratic party in the delegates and so on. might be the favorite in that process. but if she goes through a process you could argue that she would be a stronger candidate for having me deadline is a deadline the action we'll deadline august 7, though. it's not the actual conveyed or not that is not know that it's not they can do it at the convention that they're going around ai a ballot in ohio. >> know they're on the ballot. ai they're saying that they can't trust it's the

republicans, they can undo the fix. let me that's possible, but the thing is they are moving forward as of tomorrow to go forward with a virtual roll call. some of that is the democratic party. they're going to do the rules committee is meeting tomorrow yeah to to know how private call friday. friday on president biden and kamala harris. so they're moving forward with that. but part of that is to take this issue off the table, but they don't have to they do not have to. they can do this at the convention. >> as you guys have questioned, what about kamala harris is forays into presidential politics has convinced any of you that this would be anything other than a huge dumpster fire when she ran for president, it was the literal words are high watermark was i covered her in it was all for now, her vice presidency has been awful. >> what about this 20 i think that the way that democrats see it is that she has especially

recently in the last year, 18 months, grown into the role but i also think that most people around vice president harris believes that she has untapped political gifts she's not she didn't accidentally end up on the national stage. i mean, she was going all the way back to the beginning of her political career you know, brock obama thought she was a rising star in the party so a lot of people around her believed that she has the raw material to be able but she is not used it. i added the best way. i'm told us, john and you hear this from a democratic member of congress watching this conference let's just see what happens this week. i'm getting the feeling now, he may be listening wu jake, joe biden, jake, let's go back thank you so much. >> to anderson. we see in the audience there lauren boebert, the congresswoman from colorado, the speaker of the house. mr. johnson, and also nancy mace from south carolina obviously, it is an electric

experience here for the republican delegates excite, excited to hear from president trump's running mate jd he vance, you see there in trump's box, donald trump junior standing there talking with the governor. the governor of virginia, glenn youngkin senator marco rubio, one of the finalists to be vp senator from florida. we are expecting that president trump is going to come into the arena as soon to watch his running mate deliver the speech, he has come here. obviously every night and this is part of the pageantry. chris wallace of convention. you see the nominee but you don't hear from him until the final the final night no, that's right. >> and for all of the excitement, there there's been a good deal, particularly monday night when donald trump showed up here, barely 48 hours after he was taken down by an assassin the highlight the main

thrust of this entire convention will be his speech tomorrow night we will see what agenda he wants to set for doug. we obviously as a former president, he's got a record and also a platform. but we'll see the way he wants to contest this campaign. whoever it ends up being against, whether it's joe biden or somebody to be announced and i tend one of the things we're all going to be looking forward to is whether or not the near death experience that donald trump went through last saturday whether it has changed him. i don't mean that he's a different person, but whether it has had some emotional impact on him and has perhaps change the way that he wants to continue his relationship with the americans people, i think it's going to be fascinating hearing, watch how that light vow any crowd is. the crowd is

cheering right now because the nominee of the presidential nominee, who has yet to accept that nomination, that will happen tomorrow night donald trump is walking into the arena he has the patch on his ear from the attempted assassination on saturday. there are delegates here who have now put fake or not fake, but there have put bandages on their ears even though they don't have injuries in homage to their leader, president trump. but curious coming in to the sound of its, this is a man told, i believe it's james brown, right? who might be remembering your on your route here to here, right? >> i go with you know, you mentioned that soaking it in

you mentioned it is what tradition for the nominee to be at the earlier days at the convention? not always though ever remember there were times when the presidential candidate would sometimes be campaigning and beman, from wherever they are being here for a surprise visit. and this is a very specific kind of event for this vigil for this candidate. obviously, as we talked about, he wanted to make that hero's welcome entrance on monday. >> but also he loves the pageantry he wants to be here for every minute that he possibly can be because this is his party, this is his party. >> what i i mean the political party, but also his celebration and there is no strife that we see. and it is a unified

republican party that he is greeting i have to tell you, i've bumped into you can see a couple of people down from his right is his son, don junior, who on saturday night was fishing down in florida and got the awful word and apparently took them some period of time to get back in to talk to his dad and what he did and he knew that dad was a decent shape. >> his first words to his father were but dead. let's get to the important thing. how's the hair? and he said that that the president enjoyed that. and the fact that he had survived as near near-death experience. so let's listen into donald trump junior so fiance kim guilfoyle, a former fox personality and i know that god has put an armor of protection over a donald trump we are all

reminded that love for our nation and the beauty of life itself transcends all hatred and political divisions i stand before you tonight. more convinced than ever. this is the most important election in our lifetime. this election will decide the fate of our great nation and that is why we must elect president trump this is not just a choice between republicans and democrats this is a choice between safety or chaos well or poverty. national sovereignty, or open borders

this election is a choice between joe biden's vision for american weakness and donald trump's vision of american greatness donald trump will once again make our time country strong. say and prosperous he will make america fear by our adversaries and respected by our friends and most importantly, he on my racked up first after four years of joe biden's disastrous america last agenda our country is more dangerous vulnerable and impoverished than anyone had thought

possible president trump handed biden a booming economy and a strong nation all you had to do was leave it alone and take a nap my job just couldn't help themselves joe biden can not lead america. he cannot even lead himself off a stage now americans are drowning and inflation insanity spreads like a cancer in our schools we are closer to world war three than any time in my life. >> and we are facing an unprecedented invasion of millions of illegal aliens across ours southern border rioters and looters go three,

while biden and the democrats persecute american heroes like donald trump tens of. >> millions of americans are made to feel like enemies in our own country an enemy, or wanting to defend our border for not wanting our children indoctrinated in school for not wanting to erase our history for braying to our god. saying what we think. and fighting for what we believe it is. no wonder that the heroes who stormed the beaches of normandy and face down communism, sadly say, they don't recognize our country anymore. this is not an accident that powerful elites in the suaq, we'll say anything to crush and destroy the america first movement. but we never give up and neither.

well, donald j. trump i know. >> i speak for patriots everywhere when i say we are fed up, we are outraged about sex trafficking and drug trafficking across our southern border. we are fed up with the forever wars. we are done being told by the radical left to sit down, shut up, and obey that democratic vision for america is governed by fear, hatred, and political oppression vision is defined by a lot of our country love for our fellow citizens and our love in our

vision, we will secure the southern border and up the bilat criminal aliens once and for all oh in our vision, america will come back foreign aggressors and ensure our service members are protected not abandon as they carry out their dangerous missions abroad because we know we can all only have peace through strength we will restore an era of national pride where freedom of speech is respected and cancel culture is ended where high school girls can with other girls, not

by a lot we're struggling. cities never put criminal, illegal aliens are bob, our heroic veterans on brave law enforcement we're our streets are not ruled by gangs and rioters but governed by law and order where students are freed from failing schools and corrupt teachers unions through, universal school choice where our most sacred institutions are not weaponized against political opponents, but are and where we teach our

children to love our country learn our history and respect our american flag i believe in america believe and are freedom and liberty and believe in donald john trump and i want joe biden, camila harris and all of the radical democrats to know this we will not be bullied into obedience. we will not cower and silence we will fight for america because america i stand before you as a

working mother a former prosecutor and catholic latino i know personally what every american has now seen with their own eyes i know the measure of the man that stands before us donald trump will never stop fighting for you i'm joined me. >> for trump, our president again victory is in our sights.

america's future is in our hands americas destiny is in our control. and america's prosperity is in our hearts. and souls america, this is your moment will for president trump ladies and gentlemen lebron god, bless president trump got all right. kimberly guilfoyle, the fiance of donald trump, junior giving one of her

characteristically boisterous speeches we will hear from her fiance later in the evening, donald trump junior we'll speak years, congressman michael waltz speaking kaitlan collins. kaitlan collins. you are on the floor with another member of the trump family yeah. >> jake, i'm standing here with lara trump. she is a member of the trump family, but also the co-chair of the rnc, who closed out last night of the convention and laura great to have your ai know the rnc and working really closely with everyone on their speeches. what should we be expecting to hear from the vice president, presidential candidate that donald trump has selected tonight. >> well, i think this is an opportunity for america really and get to know senator jd vance is obviously a young senator. he's a young man. he's 39 39-years-old. and i think this is his opportunity to introduce himself to the american people. i'm sure we'll here part of his life's story. some people may have

read his book hillbilly elegy and know that he really is the american dream. he started out from very humble beginnings. he has dealt with a lot of issues that americans have a substance abuse and his family poverty and his family. and he is now a united states senator. so i think he's probably going to talk a lot about his story and it will be an introduction for america to him. >> i wonder, given you have to also think about down-ballot races, obviously, the rnc works at the top of the ticket, but for other republican races, does it concern you? is it going to make your job harder given he has past support for a national abortion ban, given how animating that issue has been for so many voters. >> well, i think donald trump's been very clear on his stance on that, and obviously he is the one running for president. he has said he will not pass a national abortion ban or will not sign one into law. and i think the most appropriate thing as donald trump himself has said, has happened at gone back to the states to decide. and obviously it's an issue that a lot of people care about. but as far as donald trump is concerned, it has been settled by the supreme court to go back to the states and its update state to

decide donald trump junior is your brother-in-law? he did an interview with axios yesterday where he said he believed the only way that former president donald trump could lose this election is if there is cheating. >> do you? >> through with that? >> as far as you can feel in this room right now, it certainly feels that way and i can tell you that we're doing everything in our power from the rnc to ensure indeed a free, fair, and transparent election looked, you can't have half of the electorate feeling like their vote doesn't count on their vote doesn't matter. and unfortunately, in coming out of 2020, there are millions of people who feel that way in our job at the rnc is that we want you no matter if you're voting republican, democrat, or third party party candidate, to feel confident in your vote when you cast a ballot, this obviously this election season, but all the way up to november 5. and so that's what we're working really hard to do. >> do you expect mail-in voting to be a big part of your push given, you know, it's a history that some republicans say they wish donald trump would be more supportive of. >> he's actually come out and he's put on truth, social social that anyway, whether it's voting on election day

early voting, or mailing in your vote is a great way to vote in this election. so he actually has changed his stance on that. and i think we did learn and some lessons from 20, 21 of them is that we as a party, should be embracing things like mail-in voting and early voting. if everyone waits to go vote on election day, life happens, right? i have kids, they get sick, you have a job. there's bad weather, things happen in lives. so our message from the republican party is, we want you to go vote. we want you to go vote early, and then we want you to take people to go vote. everybody, you know, encourage them to get out and vote and be part of the process lara trump. >> thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you so much. >> jake, back to you. >> thank you. kaitlan. and we are expecting a video about the gold star families who lost their loved ones during the withdrawal of american forces from afghanistan in august 2021. there are both policy and political reasons to bring up this. obviously, the policy reasons are have to do with america's role in the world.

and this evening is dedicated to make america strong again but in terms of the politics of it, all joe biden, president biden began the month of august 2021 with a 49% approval rating according to gallup, by the end of august, after the withdrawal from afghanistan, which went very, very poorly, obviously 13 service members killed in that attack at abbey gate at the hamid karzai international airport at the end of august, his approval rating was 43%. and that was a significant slide in just one month and a lot of people, dana think that was the beginning of the end when it came to joe biden's ability to be reelected. i mean, that's just a theory. it's not proven fact, but that was a bad month for him politically in a bad month for the united states and particularly for those 13 and it's how people inside the biden campaign see it politically. >> that it was that moment, that horrible, horrible chaotic withdrawal that was the point

of no return politically for joe biden until this point. >> maybe he kept in return, but that was he never came back from matt politically, but also just in terms of the policy which jake you've reported so much on it is it'd be interesting to hear the way that they talk about the withdrawal that was on joe biden's watch. but the recipe and leigh the deal well, that led to the withdrawal was done by donald trump he wanted to get at it back ghana's dan. >> i mean, he argues that he wanted to get out. >> you wouldn't have allowed that withdrawal to be as chaotic and deadly as it was when we when we talked to nikki haley about this during a town hall, about the withdrawal she's been obviously very critical of president biden's withdrawal she said that one of the reasons why donald trump never actually did the withdrawal even know do you know his administration negotiated the exit with the taliban is because it would

have required in order to withdraw american troops the correct way. it would have required a surge of more troops into afghanistan before the withdrawal and that was her answer as to why she thought, wow, that obviously she faulted trump to a degree as well. but but while ultimately was bidens biden's wrongdoing and poorly executed withdrawal. >> you know, it also struck when we look back three years, it's struck at the heart of a biden's selling point to the american people, which was the idea he was competent. he had long experience particularly in foreign policy. he'd been a vice president. he'd been the chair of the senate foreign relations committee and then to see this hash that was made a bet. and the image of the big transfer plane with the americans, with the afghans trying desperately to get out and some of them hanging onto the plane. one of them or two of them that ended up in the wheel. well and falling to

their deaths thousands of feet. and then of course, the tragic suicide bombing that killed 13 american soldiers. i quite agree with you. it was, it was a certainly a point right then where biden had been quite popular. it seemed like we were getting out from under covid. of course there was a resurgence saw that but it was a point at which people began to have serious doubts about biden's competence and whether or not he had had lived up to the selling points that he had made to the american people about his foreign policy expertise and believe it or not, the debate dana, that debate was only three weeks ago tomorrow at that debate, president biden has said inaccurately that no american service members have died under his watch. here's the video about the goal gold star families. let's take a look

sixth 2021 in kabul, afghanistan my name is abby sanchez and i am the voice for my brother corporal bracho-sanchez. >> my name is scorer personal and i am corporal humberto sanchez matter my name is steven nikoyi i'm here for my son, kareem nikki i'm here today to give my son a voice my

name is cheryl jewels i am sergeant nicole gee is aunt. she was a us marine that was killed in a curve ball afghanistan withdrawal my name is christy shamblin and i'm here for sergeant nicole gee, united states marine, who was killed in the afghanistan an exit my name is kelly barnett. i'm here to give a voice to my son. my best friend staff sergeant taylor hoover and my name is darin hoover. >> and i'm here to give voice as well for our son staff sergeant taylor hoover when we started hearing that the taliban was moving in, that there wasn't more military been deployed and that they had decided that the taliban was our security. >> that was when i became terrified. they were just kind of left there hung out to dry

for whether they're all significant casualties, including some americans and heard about it instantly that just chill go through me and i started sending messages. i'm talking to people on calling his girlfriend. i'm saying what have you heard from him calling sisters? have you heard from him? >> you know, we're texting where we're saying, please just send us a text. just whatever. just let us know that you're okay. >> and when all the explosions went off, message her and i said, hey, i know you can't say anything, but just an emoji just a, bubble and then 330 in the morning that night i got the. >> knock on the door. you know, there's no other reason to marines are standing on your door right away. >> they told you we have new servo. your son?

>> and he just has to weigh i just starts kissing me and i told myself from the floor i pull up the street and i see a white van once i saw them thank you it's surreal seeing all those flag-draped coffin and the backup, see 17 is something you'll never forget and really drives home that you know, these young men and women gave the ultimate sacrifice they had all the families within this large room the president showed up. been and that was it

wasn't what i was expecting this guy sitting across from me on that tarmac and he keeps looking at his watch. biden did not want to be there. >> i don't know what he wanted to do, but he did not want to be there. he looked at his watch multiple times. i saw it three times. >> he didn't say anything about riley. >> and to this day, he has yet to say those 13 kids names and makes me so upset because those kids were serving their country, those kids they were giving their life for this country. >> and i always said they were thinking that their commander in chief was going have their back because they were fighting for this country and that didn't happen. >> the administration, the white house, are president has never once mentioned their names, not one of them honestly, i i don't feel like joe biden cared. he just had no empathy for us at all. >> i do think in competence

played a huge factor in what happened bad decision, bad leadership, and it all starts at the top. >> you why didn't should not be in late in this country there was no point in making that hard deadline. august 31st, it was 100% a political stunt. >> he let my son down. he led the 13 down he let the 45 wounded down. he let those 174 civilians down. he led our country down. >> and then what it hurts the most, he says that they could be here we fully understand, we can't bring back our kids but there are thousands and thousands more out there that are going to come home. >> the same way, if something doesn't change we're the united states of america. we can do better by our men and women that are risking their lives for this country, we can do better for him than that to

this day joe biden and kamala harris had never mentioned these fallen soldiers names president trump will never forget them ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage. >> the gold-star families that fallen heroes ello america

i'm christy shamblin. >> my daughter-in-law sergeant nicole lianne gi the a united states marine, and she was killed at abbey gate in afghanistan alongside 12 of her brothers and sisters in arms while joe biden has refused to recognize their sacrifice, donald trump spent six hours in

bedminster with us he allowed us to grieve he allowed us to remember our heroes donald trump knew all of our children's names he knew their stories and he spoke to us in a way that made us feel understood like he knew our kids he carried donald trump, carried the weight for a few hours with me and for the first

time since nichols death, i felt i wasn't alone in my grief i had expected to meet an arrogant politician instead, i met a man who had empathy for us he was compassionate and he's spent time with us because he knew it would make us feel better thank you, president trump. >> i'm cheryl jewels nicole zant joe biden said the

withdrawal from afghanistan was an extraordinary success. an extraordinary success. look at our faces look at our pain and our heartbreak and look at our rage that was not an extraordinary success the humiliation of our nation was not an extraordinary success. joe biden may have forgotten that are children aubritain died, but we have not forgotten. donald trump has not forgotten joe biden, owes the

men and women that served in afghanistan a debt of gratitude and an apology donald trump loves his country, will never forget the sacrifice, and bravery of our service members join us and putting him back in the white house i'm alicia lopez. >> and this is my husband, herman our son, corporal hunter

lopez who's named joe biden, has refused to say out loud, was killed on august 26, 2021 he died during joe biden's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan hunter was 22-years-old and plan to come home to california after his tour to follow in our footsteps herman and i work for the rosa county sheriff's office and our family has a tradition of service in law enforcement hunter was excited too hearing

did on instead in the nearly three years since hunter has been gone there has been silenced silence from that empty space at the dinner table where hunter would have joined his brothers and sister and us for family gatherings. there has been a deafening silence from the biden and harris administration despite our pleas for answers and accountability, they have pushed us away and try to silence us the biden administration has not owned up to the bad decisions. they have not been transparent about their failures and there are so called leaders work to protect themselves rather than our sons

and daughters who took the oath to defend our country thank you were not during the other service members bodies were returned to the u.s. in dover, delaware. joe biden met the plane but he made the occasion more about his son loss of. cancer than our sons and daughters lost on his watch worse than that because never said their names out loud and during during last month's debate he claimed no service members have died during his administration none not heard us all deeply so at least the an eye are here to say the names of all 13 service members who lost their lives all 13

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was on this stage, recognized the efforts of mr. trump. we know this firsthand. we've experienced it whenever we've met with him he has demonstrated compassion his joined us on our mission. for answers and he has given hope to are extended goldstar family now. >> we have another son serving in the army and. we do not dress joe biden with his life

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struggled to get there a very powerful and politically devastating tribute to fallen loved ones and endorsement of donald trump from those gold-star families we heard from the mother-in-law in the aunt of marine sergeant nicole gee and we heard from the parents of marine corps poll country lopez, two of those american service members killed in august 2021 during the withdrawal from afghanistan. >> our coverage will continue for milwaukee as we wait, tonight's headliner from the man who might be the next vice president of the united states. ohio republican senator jd vance. we'll be right back right now as the ones in unc let's, see tomorrow, live from milwaukee, former president trump accepts his party's nomination for the nation's highest office. >> jake tapper and anderson cooper lead cnn special live coverage the republican national convention tomorrow at

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vance, here with the panel david axelrod what we just saw previous to this was the gold-star families, 13 americans killed in afghanistan, credibly moving. >> it was to bleach powerful testimony here and to be in this automobile came from television to the bee in this all into have the same the names of each of the 13 and whose name we're grading from the lips of every yeah, there's no doubt about it and look, it underscores what was a real one? >> and of demarcation, i think that in the the biden years, i think the way the manner in which not the fact of the withdrawal, which i actually think was fairly popular, but the manner in which the us withdrew and the loss of those

13 was something that showed up immediately and his public support and he's never really bounced back from that so this was an opportunity i just it's just unforgivable. >> 100 i mean, hunter lopez, his father. andrew. i got choked up his father's reading those names. somebody who's went to west point-seven, the military, has been deployed overseas, fought in the war the fact that joe biden never met with those families back to joe biden got forgotten those kids died is just unforgivable. the fact that the white house has never bothered to cleanup or say we're sorry, just unforgivable. it's unforgiving. >> davidson, america david i've been a lot of conventions. i've never seen any things this politically devastating done at a convention. i mean, they have proven to the american people the commander in chief failed these families of i were joe biden and i saw that tonight i would resign my office, go outside big a whole get in it and not come out to hello,

giant issue for joe biden tonight is going to be that foreign policy is front and center and this actually i think is a broad weakness for him not just among republicans, but also even among some democrats. to are not happy, not just with how he's handled the gaza israel conflict, but also just the idea that the united states is engaged in these kinds of conflicts. and so this is a weak point for the president and republicans are kestan bomb a jewish student. >> let's listen my name is chavez kestan bound i a row first-generation american i am a proud orthodox jew and as a five months ago, i am the proud plaintiffs suing harvard university for its failure to

combat anti-semitism i came to harvard to study religion. the foundation of western civilization what i found was not theology, but a contempt for my problem with harvard is not it's liberalism but it's e, liberalism too often students at harvard are taught not how to think but what to think i found myself immersed in a culture that is anti-western, that is anti-american, and that is anti-symmetric after october 7, the world finally saw what i and so many jewish students across this country experienced

almost every day when i planted 1,200 israeli and american flags on campus, they were all vandalized within 24 hours i was harassed by my peers merely for being a jew and have received countless death threats online students and professors have openly called for new hamas style attacks against the united states and perhaps most standing when hamas terrorists butchered 40 american citizens on october 7, when they took 12 americans hostage harvard refused to immediately and unequivocally condemn this atrocity my fellow

americans the anti-semitic bigotry unfortunately extends far beyond the universities although i once voted for bernie sanders i now recognize that the far left has not only abandoned the jewish people but the american people the democratic party, the party i registered to vote for the day i turned 18, has become ideologically poisoned and it is this poison, it is this corruption that is infecting far too many young american students let's be clear. the far left anti-semitic extremism has no virtue and the radicalism on our campuses and on our streets has no moral legitimacy sadly sadly the far

left wing tide of anti-semitism it's. >> rising with tonight tonight, we fight back i am proud i am proud to support president trump's policies to expel foreign students who violate our laws, harassed our jewish classmates and desecrate our freedoms let's elect a president who will instill patriotism in our school once again let's elect a president who will confront terrorism. >> and its supporters once again, less elect a president

who recognizes that although harvard and the ivy leagues have long abandoned, united states of america, the jewish people never will because jewish values are american values and american values our jewish values god bless the united states god bless the land of israel god bless protect, and return. >> he american hostages in gaza ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the parents of an american hostage held in gaza orna and ronen neutra ur son,

omer is an american citizen for 285 long days and nights hamas terrorists have been holding omer in prison in tunnels underneath gaza omer, which is a biblical name, and knees in hebrew, the first crop is our firstborn he was born in new york city. >> one month after 911 9118 months pregnant. i walked across the queens-born bridge towards home that day and here we are, 23 years later. and

he's the victim of another vile terrorist attack let me tell you a little bit about my son he's a connector. he's an extremely social person. he loves sports in high school. he was captain of the soccer ball volleyball, and basketball teams he's a natural leader any cares deeply about others and about helping them grow? he turned 22 on october 14, 2023. and instead of celebrating with us and with his friends he spent his birthday as the hostage of hamas terrorists imagine over nine months not

knowing whether your son is alive waking up every morning praying that he too, is still waking up every morning. that he is strong and is surviving i recite some 23 in his merit every single day gum chirla brigade salma, loyola, here, tie him a d i walk through the shadow of the valley of the shadow of the death. ai will fear no evil for me by rod and i staff, they comfort me grant them home right them home? >> great right?

>> during the brutal october 7 attack on israel over 1,200 people were slaughtered of them, 45, where american citizens where is the outrage where's it this was not merely an attack on israel. this was and remains an attack on americans omer is one of eight american hostages and 120 hostages still left in gaza citizens of 24 countries. and five different religions still held by hamas, denied basic

human needs, their lives threatened every day president trump cooled us personally, right after that attack when omer was taken captive we know his stance with american hostages. we need our beautiful son back and we need your support we support these prices and bring all the hostages back home. oh great right? we will won't stop fighting for you.

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easy. get started today, accustoming.com. >> i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn welcome back. >> you're watching cnn special live coverage of the republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin on this the third night hi, the focus is on donald trump's running mate, senator jd vance, who will soon introduce himself to the american people. excerpts from center vinci speed each were just released. phil mattingly has said that he joins us now, phil, what should we expect phil, if you can hear

me, what, what should we expect sorry, a little from center. >> in the first excerpts of jd vance's speech, a very high-stakes moment very high high-stakes speech. and it is a speech that as we've been reporting, is very heavy on biography, biography. many of us know, but certainly will be introduced to the country tonight about his upbringing, about this time in the marines, his law school degree from yale, his relationship with his wife, but i think what's most interesting, at least the experts i've seen so far is how he threads together some of the connect cultural and historical moments of his life with where joe biden was the president during that time, he was in fourth grade when nafta was supported by president biden i didn't know he was in high school when pnt are the china trade agreement was reached and biden supported him. he was in college when president biden supported the invasion of iraq they're threading together. biden's political career with his youth and what happened in those moments, making very clear that those moments which have really been kind of the

driving, accelerating force of what brought donald trump to the height of american politics are central to jd vance, a speech also references, of course, the assassination attempt over the weekend. what he saw behind then the scenes and what it meant to him as he accepted the selection to be vice president. it is a lengthy speech, very heavy on biography and very heavy on attacks on the current president mattingly, thanks very much. >> would be anticipating that he's going to be introduced by his wife, usha this is going to be an important moment for jd fancy. >> if you read his book is known to a lot of people, but i would actually argue that kind of connoisseurs of hillbilly elegy are actually the kind of elite class a lot of democrats. read hillbilly elegy in the years after hillary clinton lost the 2016 election. so for a lot of regular people, this is going to be largely new to them. the other part about the excerpts that we've seen that i thought was really fascinating. jd vance plans to use joe

biden's 50 years in politics, 50 years in government against him tying him at all these different junctures to what he says, our policies that hurt the forgotten americans, the people that he grew up around in rural appalachia. so it's not going to be just the kind of red meat that we're used to hearing about joe biden and his political field policies. but it's using the biography to make that connection between the policies his own life experience, and this platform. he's giving us a view. i think of why perhaps they view this as the maga future because he's articulating maga policies. but in a way that is more digestible to the average person who doesn't come with donald trump's baggage. >> i can tell you, republican senators will be watching to see part of what he says about foreign policy. because obviously he is someone who has said they don't want to send any more aid ryan, he's going

against that let's listen into surgery from william tech road 99-year-old world war ii veteran awarded two bronze star and a silver star thank you very much my name is bill park, roll. let me proud. wisconsin night well i'm a proud husband of 76-years-old, and my wife, rosemary i'm, i'm a father of 11 children sick arose i boys

au our family across five generations and a brawl were war two veterans i'm 90, 98-years-old i'm paula. >> the greatest generation that's an honor considering america is the greatest nation in the history of the world i will never. forget and witnessed the horror of war camps in a battle of the bulge

my friends and i want to stop the nazis last major portion of of western front if you want just later hitler was hitler was dead not the nazis were evaded and we gave thanks to all almighty god from evil but not many of us i still miss a lot of my friends on that beach

and we're there were many of us left. there aren't many of those lift today but we're us those who were above us who are here that america is still worth fighting for it, hurts my heart to see what are current president and vice president have done to the country. i love so well do you meletus and f's and again? we pushed

around and china jurors run wild in the middle east and david let our own southern border get overrun america. >> people say people is knight america is an idea but i believe america is much more than dad america america is our home you know, and i was quite

in europe nike back, home like kissing her on thank god that i'm back home now. >> for my country and where i come from when somebody goes for me or my whole dig in, you're boats in the ground and never looked back? >> that's to save the free world and here's the goal and president trump back in the commander in chief i would go back to re-enlist today i storm

whatever beach you want. >> my country one nice to meet you got real issue i bless your home and the united states of america coming up trump junior

is going to be the next don continuous going to be the next speaker out. obviously a rising figure in 40 year politics. kaitlan collins joining us from the floor do you make of what we've heard tonight? >> will donald trump junior obviously he's going to come out and he is going to pump up the person that he helps make the running mate to his father, donald trump. he was one of the most vociferous voice urging his dad to pick jd vance as his running mate. he went to him late last night, last week they were at a dinner and i was told donald trump, you're kind of stormed into his you need to pick jd vance because he knows that his father is often influenced by the last person who speaks with and he really made this case elon musk and others were also making the case that this wasn't just an effort by donald trump junior alone, but i do think when

people saw the schedule about a week ago that donald trump junior was in introducing whoever the vp candidate was. people were thinking very strongly that it was going to be likely jd vance now to what he thought his dads shouldn't pick, i will just say what jd vance is speech to look for it there's a lot of republican senators who don't like where he is on foreign policy. senator lindsey graham has broken with him a lot. he urged of former presidents either marco rubio or doug burgum. it'll be interesting to see what he says about foreign policy in this speech because it will give us a roadmap essentially, what that could look like if they are elected. >> i think the core of the speech is going to just focus on vance's narrative. and obviously, there sort of waving a flag about how they intend to use him at the end of the speech, he says, i promise you, i will never forget the forgotten communities of michigan, wisconsin, ohio, pennsylvania yeah of our nation's so they are laying out that they are going to sit jd vance to the wall with a

jackhammer and see what he can say i talked some of the folks of that campaign this morning about this and i anticipate campaigning. with senator vance in western pennsylvania a few weeks good evening, america before i begin my remarks, i'm gonna do something a little uncharacteristic a trump is going to give up the microphone doesn't happen, often. >> you may never see it again but i got a call on monday morning from a young lady who said, dad i want to speak at the rnc i want to speak at the

rnc because i want america to know what my grandpa is actually like so for the first time ever on a stage, first time ever giving a speech, i want to bring out my eldest daughter and the eldest granddaughter of the president of the united states, your favorite president? chi madison trump hi everyone. >> my name is kai manchin trump i am the granddaughter of donald trump. i'm speaking today to share the side of my grandpa that people don't often

see to me. he's just a normal grandpa. he gives us candy and soda when our parents are looking he always wants to know how we're doing in school when i made the high honor roll, he printed it out so his friends, how proud he was on me he calls me during the middle of the school day to how my golf game is going and tells me all about his but then i had to remind him that i'm in school and i have to call him back later when we play golf together. if i'm on his team, he'll try to get inside of my head and he's always surprised, but i don't let him get to me but i have to remind him on with trump too.

>> even when he's going through all these court cases, he always asked me how i'm doing he always encouraged me to push myself to be the most successful person i can be obviously, he sets the bar pretty high, but who knows? maybe one a al catch him on, saturday, i was shocked when i heard that he has been shot and i just wanted to know if he was okay it was heartbreaking that someone would do that to another person a lot of people are pulled my grandpa through hell and he's still standing

graham both. you are such an inspiration and i love you the media mix, my grandpa seem like a different person, but i know him for who he is he's very caring and loving. he truly wants the best for this country and he will fight every single day to make america great again thank you very much lot of

proud moments this week for my family thank you again, guys, really appreciate that. >> that's not easy. that's the first time. i mean, this is what we call a large crowd verse speech. so incredible work chi now back to business thank you, sir tonight, we gather here in milwaukee at one of the most crucial moments in american history. just days ago, something once seemed unimaginable became a terrifying reality my father came under literal fire as an incredible patriotic rally turned into a tragedy on a field in butler, pennsylvania, a brave firefighters died others were injured. and as those bullets rain down we came millimeters away from one of

the darkest moments in our nation's history. but we did lose an american hero that day we wish that he were with us tonight, but his memory will live on forever in the hearts of his family. his community, and the nation that he loved. so i would like to take just a moment tonight it to express our gratitude for the life and service of american hero corey comperatore they'd say, you

can't truly know how you'll respond in a moment of danger until you're actually confronted with it. so what was my father's instinct as his life was on the line not to cower not to surrender, but to show for all the world to see that the next american president has the heart of a lion that the next american president has the courage to put the american people first. once again and in that moment my father didn't just show his character. he showed america's character when he stood up with

blood on his face and the flag at his back. the world saw a spirit that could never be broken and that is the true spirit. of america america knows what it's like to be down we know what it's like to be confused and to be afraid long before the attempt on my father's life, every american i've met was filled with fear and anxiety they were afraid our country was being torn apart. they were anxious about the massive and chaotic invasion of illegal aliens across our border they were deeply concerned about partisan lawfare, education, indoctrination and attacks on freedom of speech most terrifying of all, they saw that our leaders didn't care.

or worse, that they'd joyfully aided and abetted the erosion of our rights and belies. >> oh, yeah, the lies we won't ever forget the lies. >> from left wing politicians, from their allies in the media. when you hear them in a row, you fully understand the extent they have gone to divide this great nation they lied about russia collusion. they lied about hunter's laptop they lied about joe biden's fitness for office they lied about the border being secure they lied about inflation being transitory they lied about how they would safely withdraw from afghanistan they lied about biden being a quote moderate

and they told one nonstop lie after another about my father but they could only run away from reality for so long all hell has broken loose in america, and it's impossible to hide anymore. remember, build back better instead, we got broke, bumbling, biden nothing is built nothing is back and nothing is better bridges are collapsing our credibility is crumbling, and our money is worth less and less every single day it was just one giant bait and switch. and normal americans are the ones left holding the bag housing costs gasoline prices,

grocery bills, just keep going up wave after wave of illegal aliens, deadly drugs keep pouring across our border meanwhile, pro crime district attorneys have turned our cities into giant crimes zones they've turned criminals into victims prosecutors, into criminal defense attorneys, and police into public enemies left-wing activists are pretending to be educators, teaching our kids that there are 57 genders but they can't even define what a woman is on one hand. they think three speech protects their right to expose your children too explicit drag shows on the other hand they want to put you in jail for making a meme it's like the entire world has been turned upside down does any of this sound like a country

that's going in the right direction and honestly, who is actually running the country anyway? >> it's obviously not joe biden who are they asking us to elect seriously? who's running things? >> does anyone really know is it jill is a hunter barack obama maybe it's the ghost of corn whoever is running the show the only thing that they are effective ad is persecuting my father they twisted contorted and corrupted the criminal code to turn bookkeeping errors and defendant lee's they concocted

new legal theories out of thin air they imposed gag orders on my father because the last thing a defendant should be able to do is defend himself right they punish him for barely speaking the truth they say they hate vladimir putin, but it sure seems like they've spent a lot of time copying his playbook in this country. we don't criminalize political differences we debate them we vote on them but we don't make you choose between picking a party or picking a jail cell there was a time, when the democrats really wanted what was best for america even if they had a different way of getting there? >> it was the party of franklin roosevelt, john f. kennedy, martin luther king junior you may have disagreed with that

party, but at least you could respect it. but this new extreme democrat party, they want us to somehow believe that the only way forward is going backwards we are hiring decisions are based solely on race, where justices only for those with the right opinions where streets are a luxury only for the elite where economic opportunity exists only when you know, the right people right now. the america we all grew up with, the america that we love feels like an old photograph where you sit down with your children and tell them what life used to be like. you look back at that america and remember a country that was confident and proud an america that knew who it was and what it stood for. and it could all feel like a distant memory somewhere along the way, we

stumbled somewhere along the way, we lost ourselves but we can't live on estabaja yes, america was great, but our greatest days are yet to come because no matter how far off that old photo may feel, it's not the end of our story we're like that man who stood on that platform and felt the bullet pierced his flesh just days ago in pennsylvania he may have moved to the ground, but he stood back up and when he did

my father raised his fist into the air. he looked out at the crowd. and what he said and we will fight we will find we will fight with our voices we will fight with ira ideas. and a november 5 we will fight with our votes i've always been proud of him but i've never been prouder of my father. than i was in that moment that's

when the world found out that there is tough and then there's trump tough and the good news is america is trump tough in 1912, more than a century ago another legendary republican president came right here till milwaukee at a political rally less than one mile from where we stand tonight teddy roosevelt was

struck by a would-be assassins bullet but he didn't quit either. he finished his speech and he kept fighting my friends i don't believe in coincidences, but i do believe in god's plan today teddy roosevelt's man in the arena has a name and it's donald j trump remember my father didn't have to run for reelection this year he does indeed the money, the fame, the

power, frankly, he doesn't need the witch hunts, the phony investigations are the political prosecutions either but he knew he had to run if there was any chance at saving america he's not doing it for himself. >> he's doing it for everyone here tonight for everyone watching at home no matter who you are, you can be a part of this movement to make america great again, look at me and my friend jd vance a kid from appalachia and a kid from trump tower in manhattan we grew up worlds apart. >> yet now, were both fighting side-by-side to save the

country. >> we love and by the way jd vance is going to make one hell of a vice president for those of you who have tuned out politics were, have never even voted. i want you to know if you're looking for a better life a more prosperous future, a safer, more wholesome and patriotic place to call home. there's room for you in this party and in this movement in fact, you're the ones who

matter. most of all my father has always said that the people he gets along with best are the people who really work for a living it's because of his background as a builder in construction in construction, it doesn't matter how smart your architect is. if you don't have the best guys laying the bricks people with grit people who get their hands dirty that's a big problem with washington, dc most of the bureaucrat who rule over us have never built anything in their lives it's time to build something real something tangible something that will last and leave this country better off for our children that's my father's mission

this november. we have a choice. it's a choice between one team that wants to build this country up and another that wants to tear this country down it's a choice between people who are a proud of america and people who are ashamed of america and ultimately, it's a choice between america last and america first so if you love this country from the bottom of your heart if you want to bring back common sense do you want to save the american dream if you want to stand up and fight for the future of our nation, you must reelect my father, donald j. trump together, we

will make america great once again thank, you thank you. wisconsin and there you have donald trump juniors speaking shortly we'll be seeing a video about the vice presidential nominee jd vance, his wife shirt is going to be introducing him their remarks obviously live van. >> what did you make of the granddaughter came out and opened up our hearts in the sun just hit us upside to hit with a baseball bat so i'm not quite sure which way they're going but that young lady was

she did her job of been warming them up humanizing him making people feel that they could actually liked this guy. the sun came out it was the opposite effect very effective for the base frightening for democrats and by the way, crime is going down. unemployment, going down at production is going up, stock market going up the sub he said wasn't true. but you can see this tension within the trump but coalition. >> how do you give that raw meat to the base? >> scare the crap, by democrats, but also bring people in and that's what you saw being balanced in that the people who are planning to democratic convention are taking notes because they got to go to rewrite. these guys are putting on a good show. >> they get a fan to pass, right? fight against, trump junior appeals to the base, but it's a show of competence. >> everybody there pointing up there? it says they're competent. some other people there putting up there quite controversial. some of the people that they're saying things that you could cut little ads about our use on social media, but they know that they're confident this is a very professional donald trump team putting this program together as to what the other thing i'll say is it's we're

about to hear from jd vance how different this party is. this is making america strong night. >> no one has said, stand with ukraine not one speaker is dense day when ukraine and jd vance is going to criticize joe biden for supporting nafta. >> i covered bill clinton when he got nafta for the congress democrats didn't like it. unions did like a bill clinton got that passed the support of the republican party yesterday's republican party i wonder jd vance we saw the excerpts of this speech. >> she's sort of making a lot of the same a lot of the same case. but it's making it a little bit more elegantly wrapped in his own story identifying with other people, the fact is this was grievance speed, and some of the grievance was the trump family grievance. >> you know, the president's been how he's been persecuted and embracing putin the tactics and so on that may play in this room, but the country is a lot bigger than this room. >> i'm not sure that that plays out. >> most of these things are how many convinced kitchens that we all lie in anyone here,

remember anything? >> this was incredibly memorable from the gold-star families to tie trump to the world war ii veteran this was a completely well staying in 98 is hard for me to imagine a democratic convention being able to generate one yes of the integral will say about her i'm not even arguing about the stage craft. >> i've said throughout this week that i think they've done a very good job on. i'm just raising a point about this. one. particular speech because there are elements of that speech that i think will remind people what makes them uncomfortable about trump i kind. of agree with axe on this a little bit, right? so high trump sarah sanders did last night? yes. yes, it's often the sharp trump edges humanize donald. trump mate, donald trump likable. if you look at a pickup suburban montgomery county, suburbs, delaware county, bucks county voters what you what sarah sanders, what that message out there,

donald trump junior the weird yet we have those culture, we have those votes more been trying to actually kind of sidestep the culture war for the last three days. >> they didn't sidestep it with donald trump junior. he is the ultimate a of that for the maga movement right now. that is the role that plays. and that is actually the stuff that i'm not sure works for trump in the areas where he's the most watched this or 90 states senator or our next vice president. >> what gary is born into poverty his family torn apart by drug addiction no money, no prospects no future jd joined the marine corps, used the gi bill to attend college then went to yale and earned a law degree and shared his heartbreaking story and a best-selling book only in

america it's this story possible but today, for many families, the american dream is now gone and this is the team tough enough the bring it back jd vance understands that working families have become the forgotten families under biden, wages are going down while prices skyrocket forcing the majority of americans to live paycheck, to paycheck, working families will have jd vance fighting for them seniors. >> jd will have your backs to know more deciding between putting food on your table and paying for the prescriptions you need as a husband and father. jd knows the importance of fighting for parent's right to protect their children. and you can count on this marine stand up for our soldiers who put their lives on the line for their country every day jd vance his story is one of

perseverance duty of commitment to what's right it's an american story and it's just getting started ladies and gentlemen, please welcome. >> usha vance good evening good evening. when i was asked to introduce my husband, jd vance to all of you i was at a loss

what can i say? >> that hasn't already been said before? after all the man was already the subject of ron howard movie jd has shared much of his life through his own eloquent words in his book, hillbilly elegy during his senate campaign and now as a sitting united states senator it occurred to me that there was only one thing to do. to explain from the heart why i love and admire jd and stand here beside him today, and why he will make a great vice president of the united states i met jd in law school when he was fresh out of ohio state which she attended with the support of the gi bill we were friends first because i mean, who wouldn't want to be

friends with jd he was then as now, the most interesting person i knew a working class guy who would overcome childhood traumas that i could barely fathom to end up at yale law school a tough marine who had served in iraq but whose idea of a good time was playing with puppies. and watching the movie babe the most determined person i knew with one overriding ambition then to become a husband and a father. and to build the kind of tight-knit family that he had longed for as a child my background is very different from jds i grew up in san diego in a middle-class community with two loving parents, both immigrants from india and a wonderful sister that jd and i could meet at all let alone

fall in love and marry is a testament to this great country it is also a testament to jd and it tells you something about who he is when jd met me he approached our differences with curiosity and enthusiasm he wanted to know everything about me where i came from, what my life has been like although he's a meat and potatoes kind of guy, he adapted to my vegetarian diet and learn to cook food for my mother, indian food before i knew it he'd become an integral part of my family, a person i could not could not imagine living without the jd i knew then is the same jd uc today. except for that beard

and and as goals in this new role are the same that he has pursued for our family to keep people safe to create opportunities to build a better life and to solve problems with an open-mind it's safe to say that neither jd nor i expected to find ourselves in this position. >> but it's hard to imagine a more powerful example of the american dream. a boy from middletown, ohio raised by his grandmother through tough times chosen to help lead our country through some of its greatest

challenges i'm grateful to all of you for the trust you've placed in him and in our family and would that it is my great privilege to introduce my husband and the next vice president of the united states, jd vance i don't united states, where stop rebuild

thank you there's things to be rebuilding thank you. thank you. please wow wow yeah first of all, lucky guy isn't she lovely amazing greetings.

>> milwaukee my fellow americans and my fellow republicans, my name is jd vance from the great state of ohio tonight i yeah. oh, wait, you you guys. >> we got it were to chill with the ohio love. >> we've got to win michigan to hear so threads. tonight is the night of hope a celebration of what america wants was and with god's grace, what it will soon be again and it is a

reminder of the sacred duty we have to preserve the american experiment to choose a new path for our children and grandchildren but as we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been so much different. instead of a day of celebration, this could have been a day of heartache and morning for the last eight years, president trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country he didn't need politics. >> but the country needed him now prior to running for president, he was one of the most successful businessman in the world. >> he had everything anyone could ever want in life. >> and yet, instead of choosing the easy path, he chose to

endure abuse, slander, and persecution. and he did it because he loves this country what all americans to go and watch? the video of a would-be assassin coming a quarter of an inch from taking his life consider the lies they told you about donald trump and then look at that photo of him defiant fist in the air when donald trump rose's feet and that pennsylvania field, all of america stood with him and what did he call us to do for our country to fight to fight for

america even in his most perilous moment, we were on his mind. his instinct was for us, for our country to call us to something higher, to something greater to once again be citizens who asked what our country needs of us now consider what they said. they said he was a tyrant they said he must be stopped at all costs. >> but how did he respond? >> he called for national unity for national calm literally right after an assassin nearly took his life he remember the victims of the terrible tak, a special actually the brave corey comperatore, who gave his life to protect his family god

bless him and then president trump flew to milwaukee and got back to work now that's the man i've gotten to know personally over the last few years. >> he is tough and he is, but he cares about people he can stand defiant against an assassin. one moment and call for national healing the next. >> he is a beloved father and grandfather in of course, a once in a generation business leader he's the man who is feared by america's adversaries. >> but two nights ago now, sara a moment said good night too, is two boys told him he loved them and made sure to give each of them a kiss on the cheek. and i will say don and eric squirmed the same way. my four-year-old does when his daddy tries to get them a kiss on the cheek, sorry, guys he has all those things, but tonight we celebrate. he has

are once and future president of the united states of americ a now i want to respond and to his call for unity myself. >> we have a big tent in this party on everything from national security to economic policy. >> but my message to you, my fellow republicans, is we love this country and we are united to win right now, i think are disagreements actually make a stronger that's what i've learned in my time, the united states senate, where sometimes i persuade my colleagues and

sometimes they persuade me. >> and my message to my fellow americans, those watching from across the country is shouldn't we be governed by a party that is unafraid to debate ideas and come to to the best solution that it's the republican party of the next four years united in our love for this country and committed to free speech and open exchange of ideas and so tonight, mr. chairman, i stand here humble and i'm overwhelmed with gratitude to say i officially accept your nomination to be vice president of the united states of americ a

no never in my wildest imagination could i have believed? >> did i be standing here tonight i grew up in middletown, ohio a small town where people spoke. >> their minds, built with their hands and loved there god, their family, their community. and there country with their whole hearts but it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by america's ruling class in washington. when i was in the fourth grade, a career politician by the name of joe biden, supported nafta a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to mexico when i was

a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named joe biden gave china a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good american middle-class manufacturing jobs when i was a senior in high school, that same joe biden supported the disastrous invasion of iraq. and at each step of the way, in small towns like mine and ohio, or next door and pennsylvania or michigan in states all across our country jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war and i agree

and somehow a real estate developer from new york city by the name of donald j. >> trump was right on all of these issues while biden was wrong president trump knew even then that we needed leaders who would put america first now thanks to these, these policies that biden and other out-of-touch politicians in washington you didn gave us our country was flooded with cheaper chinese goods with cheap foreign labor and in the decades to come, deadly, chinese fentanyl joe biden screwed up. and my community paid the price now, i was lucky despite the closing factories in the growing addiction in towns like mine in my life, i

had a guardian angel by my side. she was an old woman who could barely walk, but she was tough as nails i called her mammal the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers ma'am all raised me as their own excuse me, ma'am. all raised me as my mother struggled with addiction mammal was in so many ways, a woman of contradictions. she loved the lord latest gentleman. she was a woman, a very deep christian faith but she also loved the f-word i'm not kidding. >> she could make a sailor blush i see you once told me when she found out that i was spending too much time with a local kid who is known for dealing drugs then if i ever hung out with that kid again,

she would run them over with their car that's true. >> and she said jd, no one will ever find out about it now thanks to that mammal, things worked out for me after 911. i did what thousands of other young men my age did and that time of soaring patriotism and love of country. i enlisted in the united states marines simplified my fellow marines i loved the marines after four years of went to the ohio state

university i'm sorry, michigan. >> i had to get that in there come on, come on. we've had enough political violence. let's now after ohio state i went to yale law school where i met my beautiful wife. and then i started businesses to create jobs in the kind of places that i grew up in now my work taught me that there is still so much talent and grid in the american heartland. there really is but for these places to thrive, my friends we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country we need a leader

who's not in the pocket of big business, but answers to the working man union and non-union alike leader who won't sell out to multinational corporations. but will stand up for american companies. and american industry leader who rejects joe biden and calm kamala harris is green news scam and fights to bring back our great american factories. we need president donald j. trump some people tell me i've lived the american dream and of course their right, and i'm so grateful for it. >> but the american dream that always counted most was not starting a business or becoming

a senator were even being here with you find people though it's pretty awesome my most important american dream was becoming a good husband and a good dad of being able to give i wanted to give my kids the things that i didn't have when i was growing up. and that the accomplishment that i'm proud of stuff that's tonight. i'm joined by my beautiful wife, usha, an incredible lawyer in a better mom and are three beautiful kids un who seven the vague who's four, and mirabel who's to now they're back at the hotel and kids, if you're watching, daddy loves you very much, but get your butts and ben it's 10:00 but my friends things did not work out well for a lot of kids. i grew up with every now and then i will get a call from a relative back home who asked did you know so

and so and i'll remember a face from years ago and then all here, they died of an overdose. >> as always, america's ruling class wrote the checks communities like mine paid the price for decades, that divide between the few with their power and comfort in washington and the rest of us only widened from iraq to afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the great recession from open borders to stagnating wages. >> the people who govern this country have failed and failed again that is of course, until a guy named named donald j. trump came along president trump represents america's last best hope. >> to restore. what if lost, may never be found again. a country we're working class boy born far from the halls of

power can stand on this stage as the next vice president of the united states of america. >> but my fellow americans here in this stage and watch it at home. >> this moment is not about me. it's about all of us and it's about who we're fighting for. it's about the auto worker in michigan wondering why out-of-touch politicians are destroying. their jobs it's about the factory worker and wisconsin who makes things with their hands in his proud of american craftsmanship it's about the energy worker in

pennsylvania and ohio who doesn't understand why joe biden is willing to buy energy from tin-pot dictator taters across the world when he could buy it from his own citizens right here in our own country you guys are great ground wow

and it's about our movement is about single moms like mine, who's struggled with money and addiction, but never gave up and i'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here ten years clean and sober. i love you, mom

and you know mama i was thinking it'll be ten years officially in january of 2025, if president trump's okay with it, let's have the celebration in the white house

in our movement, ladies and gentlemen, it's about grandparents all across this country the who were living on social security and raising grandchildren. >> they didn't expect to raise while we're on the topic of grandparents, let me tell you another mammal story. now why mammal died shortly before i left for iraq in 2005. and when we went through the things we found 19 loaded handguns. >> they were now. the thing is that they were stashed all over her house under her bed in her closet, in the silverware drawer and we wondered what was going on. >> and it occurred to us that towards the end of her life, mammal couldn't get around so well. >> and so this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was, she was within arm's

length of whatever she needed to protect her family that's what we fight for. that's american spirit now, joe biden has been a politician in washington for longer than i've been alive 39-years-old cobble harris does not much further behind for, half a century. he's been the champion of every major policy initiatives to make america weaker and poor in four short years donald trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by joe

biden and the rest of the corrupt washington insiders he created the greatest economy in history for workers really was amazing. there's there's this chart that shows worker wages and they stagnated for pretty much my entire life until president donald j. trump came along. >> workers wages went through the roof and just imagine what he's going to do when we give him four more years months ago,

i heard some young family member observe that their parents generation, the baby boomers, could afford to buy a home when they first entered the workforce but i don't know this person observed if i'll ever be able to afford a home. the absurd cost of housing is the result of so many failures. and it reveals so much about what's broken in washington i can tell you exactly how it happened. wall street barons crashed the economy and american builders went out of business as tradesmen scrambled for jobs, houses stopped being built the lack of good jobs, of course, led to stagnant wages. >> and then the democrats flooded this country with millions of illegal aliens so citizens had to compete with people who shouldn't even be here for precious housing.

>> joe biden's inflation crisis, my friends is really an affordability crisis. and many of the people that i grew up with can't afford to pay more for groceries, more for gas, more for rent. and that's exactly what joe biden's economy has given them so prices soared, dreams were shattered and china in the cartel sent vuitton's fentanyl across the border, adding addiction to the heart ache but ladies and gentlemen, that is not the end of our story we've heard about villains in their victims. i've talked a lot about that, but let me tell you about the future. president trump's vision is so simple

and yet so powerful we're done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to wall street will commit to the working man we're done importing foreign labor or worse? we're going to fight for american citizens and they're good jobs and they're good wages we're done by an energy from countries that hate us. we're going to get it right here from american workers and pennsylvania and ohio. and across the country we're done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade. and we're going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label made in the us a

we're going to build factories again, put people to work making real products for american families, made with the hands of american workers together we will protect the wages of american workers and stop the chinese communist party from building there middle-class on the backs of american citizens together we will make sure our allies share in the burden of securing world peace no more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the american

taxpayer together, we will send our kids to war only when we must what is president trump showed with the elimination of isis and so much more when we punched, we're going to punch hard together we will put the citizens of america first, whatever the color of their skin we will, in short, make america great. again one of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that america is an idea and to be clear america

was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty, things written into the fabric of our constitution and our nation but america is not just an idea. >> it is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. >> it is in short, a nation now it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers. but when we allow newcomers into our american family, we allow them on our terms that's the way we preserve the continuity of this project from 200 than 50 years past to hopefully 250 years in the future and let me illustrate this with a story. if i may, i'm of course, married to the daughter of south asian immigrants to this

country. incredible people, people who genuinely have enriched this country in so many ways. and of course, i'm biased because i love my wife and her family but it's true. now when i proposed to my wife, we were in law school and i said, honey, i come with $120,000 worth a law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountain side in eastern kentucky and i guess standing here tonight, it's just gotten a weirder and weirder honey that but that's what she was getting now that cemetery plot in eastern kentucky is near my family's ancestral home. and like a lot of people, we came from the mountains of appalachia into the factories of ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin now

that's kentucky coal country, one of the ten now, it's one of the ten poorest counties in the entire united it's states of america they are very hardworking people and they're very good people. they're the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back, even if they can't afford enough to eat and our media calls them privileged and looks down on them. but they love this country, not only because it's a good idea, but because in their bones they know that this is their home. and it will be their children's home and they would die fighting to protect it that is the source of america's greatness as the united states senator, i get to

represent millions of people in the great state of ohio was similar stories. and it is the great honor of my life now in that cemetery, there are people who are born around the time of the civil war and if, as i hope, my wife and i are eventually laid to rest there and our kids follow us. there will be seven generations just in that small mountain cemetery plot in eastern kentucky seven generations of people who have fought for this country, who've built this country, who have made things in this country, and who would fight, and die to protect this country if they were asked to now now that's not just an idea diaa, my friends. that's not just a set of principle, even though the ideas in the principles are great. that is a homeland, that is our homeland people will not

fight for abstractions, but they will fight for their home and if this movement of hours is going to succeed, and if this country is going to thrive, our leaders have to remember that america is a nation and its citizens deserve leaders who put its interests first now we won't agree on every issue, of course not even in this room. >> we may disagree from time to time about how best to reinvigorate american industry and renew american family. that's fine. in fact, it's more than fine. it's good. but never forget that the reason why this united republican party exists, why we do this, why we care about those great ideas and great history is that we want this nation to thrive for centuries to come. now

eventually in that, that mountain cemetery my children will lay me to rest and when they do, i would like them to know that thanks to the work of this republican party, that united states of america and as strong and as proud and as great as ever that is who we serve. >> my friends, that is who we fight for. and the only thing that we need to do right now, the most important thing that we can do for those people, for that american nation that we all love is to reelect donald j. trump, president of the united states mr. president, i

will never take for granted the trust you've put in me and what an honor it is to help achieve the extraordinary vision that you have for this country no, i pledge to every american, no matter your party, i will give you everything i have to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself your family, and your country. we'll be possible once again and i, promise you one more thing to the people of middletown, ohio and all the forgotten communities in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and ohio, and every corner of our nation, i promise you this. i will be a

vice president who never forgets where he came from. and every single day for the next four years when i walked into that white house to help president trump, i will be doing it for you for your family, for your future and for this great country. thank you. god bless all of you and god bless our great country. >> senator jd vance of ohio 39-years-old in the senate for about a year auhalf introducing himself to the american people, and accepting his party's nomination. areas with his wife, usha, and attorney in the

mother of their three children there he is hugging his mom who is about to celebrate ten years of sobriety jd vance basically two parts of his speech. one was autobiographical autobiographical explaining who he is, where he comes from, his very compelling personal life story already as his wife pointed out, the subject of a ron howard movie hillbilly elegy of bestselling book telling about his hardscrabble routes and appalachia. his mom with an addiction problem and a father who disappeared. he was raised by his grandparents and part of his biography for fee was cementing himself to three battleground states. the son of ohio talked about wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. i think i counted four or five times that he referred to those three specific states that president trump and senator vance would like to win in

november. >> the second part of his presentation was as clear as the introductory music we heard merle haggard, america first which if you listen to the lyrics, it came out in 2005 that song is a protest song against the iraq war. that is a song that as explicitly or rejected shan, of george w bush saying that george w bush should have been rebuilding america not iraq. and in jd vance's message. dana bash not only did he criticize the foreign policy of the republican party of old, but the economic policy of the republican party of old and the democratic party of today noting how president biden has a senator, supported both nap the and most favorite nation status for china those were trade deals that hurt people in ohio. and if you weren't sure,

he did mentioned michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin you know, the way that he talked about economic policy was so stunning, jake, because you almost forgot for those of us who have covered republican conventions in the past that we were actually at a republican convention i mean, he was trashing the free trade policies that republicans espoused for very long time when after wall street went after big corporations and talked over and over about the working man aside from some of the other issues that he doesn't disagree with, doesn't agree with bernie sanders could have given some of these talking points tonight, elizabeth warren could have as well. but the way that he wrapped what i just described into the generational sort of frame, talking about how he was in fourth grade when joe biden supported nafta, he

was a sophomore in high school when joe biden gave china a sweetheart deal so he not only made himself clearly the populist that he is, and donald trump is to a lesser extent but he reminded people throughout that riff, how young he is and what a generational difference there is between him also between him and his guide at the top of the ticket, odd favorite line in the speech was what you said america's ruling class wrote the checks and our communities paid the price and it seemed to me it really harked back to the original message. >> the donald trump made. that was so affected back in 2016, which is the idea that there's a rigged game in america. there's a ruling class he used that phrase that makes the deals makes the money, and it's the forgotten. he talked about forgotten people. he talked about forgotten

communities like it is that end up paying the price and he really cemented himself as part of that forgotten community. and those people who don't feel that they have anybody looking out for them in washington or wall street. i also thought the reference to the cemetery at it specifically was about the idea that seemed to me said america is an idea, but it's a lot more than that. it's a nation. it's a homeland. and i think he was saying, in effect, you know, does a lot of principles and social policies and all of that out there. but this is a nation and we have to protect it and cherish it. whether that's in terms of enforcing our borders, whether that's in terms of protecting our jobs and businesses and industries that it was a different slant on america. first, not isolation is yes, but protecting what we have and holding a dear and well, i thought was very

powerful speech. very well. >> can i say one thing that i forgot to mention? you know, we didn't hear at all when it comes to economics, there was no call for tax cuts there was not a discussion about the national debt, but specifically on tax cuts. when was the last time you heard a republican give a speech and not call? for cutting of your taxes. >> yeah. it's been a long time he well, that's not that's certainly not in keeping with his message. >> jd vance, his personal message. it is certainly what the guy at the top of the ticket, donald trump has said to big donors behind in closed doors that he wants to give him another big tax cut. it is also interesting. i would note there was only the briefest of illusions unless i missed it about he didn't say the word ukraine. i don't think he is famously or infamously, depending on your point of view opposed to military aid from the united states to ukraine? he he did talk about the fact that it is important for the republican party to be a place where these ideas can be debated and i thought that was

him anderson leaning into the idea of i mean, obliquely, but leaning into the idea of yes, i look at some of these things differently, but let's hash it out. now, that's my interpretation anyway jake, thanks very much john king. >> i mean, you've heard a lot of vice presidential nominees, speeches what do you make of this? >> well, let's start with the most important fact. there is nothing in american political history that says a vice president actually makes a difference. come election day, people vote for president. you can scour the books, you can scour the data, and you will find no compelling case that any nominee for vice president ever has been the factor in making a difference come election day. however, they can hurt. didn't do anything to hurt them tonight. he gave a very compelling speech. we can argue about the policy so that's what that's what debates are about. told a very compelling story. and the forgotten part, where he's from and where he will be looked. the people. a very pennsylvania yeah. in grand rapids, michigan and oshkosh, wisconsin are going to see a lot of jd vance he's going to talk about

growing up in middle take is family grew up in kentucky. he grew up in middletown, which she was once an industrial town along that there was a canal that ran all the way up the side of ohio in the old days, that's where the jobs were there. all people who worked with their hands manufacturing jobs. you can go to a lot of those communities across america main street is nothing anymore. and he knows that he can tell that story. you find those places in pennsylvania, in michigan, and wisconsin. ai, so he's a very compelling campaigner. we're going to see him on local tv markets and all those places forever. so he's a good ad. i don't want to overstate the idea that he's going to make any huge difference because there's no history. >> can i say something about i mean, you're absolutely right about his story, which is compelling, which makes you wonder why his story cree wasn't his entry point into the speech. the speech had four or five pages of hayunes to donald trump and his courage and all of that. and i actually was really disappointed. this guy wrote a great book, a great memoir that was moving and filled with stories as told a

larger story about the struggles of people. and i was really expecting him to be a great storyteller tonight and really rapidly let's look at what somebody who's been on the on the political scene for less than two years. now. >> it's a work, it's a work in progress. i think is the best way to describe the price of admission to the proper messaging you're saying that was upside down. >> he should have started with the best part, which is his life, is mama, that story was what lit up this audience. >> the rest of it kind of fell a little bit flat. but look, i don't think trump picked him because he was a really great speaker, somebody who could live in up this room he picked him because he had the right message and the right the biography and probably wasn't going to upstage him. and i think he did probably all of those things. >> i mean, look so jd vance isn't going to be a vegas act. >> that's okay. we need to be vice president. he doesn't need to overshadow donald trump i was listening, mission accomplished i was listening to

the song they played when he finished don't stop thinking about tomorrow. >> so now they got bill clinton song but increasingly, they have bill clinton's voters, the people who are gravitating to this ticket are the same people who voted that working class base voted for bill clinton in the 90s. they largely gravitated to the republicans over cultural issues. and now vance and trump are going to give them the economic agenda to go with it a couple of issues. i think the riff on the seven generations built things and made things i thought that was effective and that will resonate in the kinds of areas where he's going to campaign. and i loved the homage to his mother cleaners over for ten years. that was a powerful moment. and that is an issue that every family in this country, some way somehow is dealing with the biden family but i was going to say, look, when when jd vance was strongest out there, he's talking about his mom, his grandmother, his mother, who's related. >> he's being humans that's what he was the most when he was giving that kind of the raw meat to the base, kind of ofs

go off message. it really wasn't he wasn't his best. i'd like to hear her talk more about his record. experience. >> you'll be the first marine corps veteran on any major party ticket, which which isn't, which is something in a country that has lots of military that ban i think he's a very friendly face on a pretty disturbing agenda part the gender. i could tell him, guess what? you don't have to run for vice president for the good part of your agenda, you can just vote for joe biden's. you've talked about a supply chains oh, joe biden passed a bill called the chips act that takes care of that, losing the right direction without this support. he's talked about being not buying energy from people that don't like it. we're a net energy export. >> he's talking about manufacturing. the manufacturing peek under biden is higher than the peak under trump. >> if he wants his policy agenda. you can just stay home and vote for joe biden. joe biden might not do in canada, but tomorrow morning so it's up to, but that's not the problem with the speech to probably the speeches setting a very

friendly face on a very selfish and narrow vision of what america is supposed to be. >> and unlike shroff, who was an intuitive, impulsive, instinctive nationalists, this is an ideological nationals that's the theory. >> different strain of the virus he could sell this stuff to silicon valley wall street and normal people. but his vision will make a miracle. it's smaller morning carol and weaker. again, that's the problem with dana said earlier is actually through his economic agenda sounded like bernie sanders, not lot bill clinton burnett. and at promise that donald trump program as president was very much a wall street oriented program. >> it wasn't a populist agenda fascinating. >> they are if there is a trump-vance the ftc is going to look just like it does now exact mod running it. he has she's actually an ally, is but can i say? >> just going on, the person i was watching, who's not always katie van to that, but donald trump says, i think the

understated part of what mike pence did four years was how he navigated incredibly challenging president to work with? i mean, as catholic cabinet and when he had started out, waive everything he was saying, donald trump's not to have to do that. if you worked for donald trump, that is not a happy to get the convention that is going to be his role over the next four. >> years. >> i want to bring in cnn's fact-checker senior reporter, daniel dale is you listened to all tonight's speech daniel, which stood out to you anderson tonight was a fact check, doozy, a whole lot of false and misleading claims. i want to start with the claim that jd vance made in his speech. he strongly suggested that in contrast to joe biden, donald trump opposed the invasion of iraq. listen what i was a senior in high school that same joe biden supported the disastrous invasion of iraq somehow a real estate developer from new york city by the name of donald j. >> trump was right on all of these issues while biden was rolled this claim is highly misleading at best. in reality, donald trump was supportive of

the invasion of iraq when he was asked six months before the invasion by howard stern whether he was for an invasion. he said, quote, yeah, i guess so. i wish the first time it was done correctly than two months before the invasion, he said on fox news that president bush pushing this is a direct quote, has either got to do something or not do something. perhaps not the words of an explicit opponent. now he did become an opponent of the war in 2004, but vance, a suggestion that trump was on the opposite side of biden on the question of starting the war that trump got this invasion question, right? while biden was wrong. and that's just not true and that was not anderson, the only assertion tonight that was misleading or flat wrong and i'll give you just some of them. a former trump adviser, peter navarro, whose fresh out of prison, falsely claimed jack smith prosecuted him. smith did not. a florida congressman, mike waltz and mocked biden for allegedly being focused on building electric tanks that is pure fiction. biden has made no he'll push for electric tanks. they'll, the army does want some other vehicles to be electrified. a various speakers

depicted a country with ramp and crime and violence without acknowledging and violent crime has now lower than it was in donald trump's last year in office, 2020, a former house speaker, newt gingrich, said trump orchestrated an orderly end to the war in afghanistan. trump didn't actually orchestrate a withdrawal at all. i think which also claimed no us soldier was killed in nearly two years. there there was not any two-year period under trump when zero us troops were killed in afghanistan? and finally, conservative commentator kimberly guilfoyle, donald trump, junior three, rnc, declared that trump handed joe biden a booming economy. you might remember what things were actually like in january of 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.4%. anderson daniel dale, thanks very much going to take a short break just ahead as we wrap up night three of the republican national convention here, milwaukee. there's new information just coming into cnn about the deep we or i should say the deepening divisions among democrats could tell you what sources are now sharing with us about our recent phone call between president biden and nancy pelosi we'll have that news

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national convention just wrapped up here in milwaukee in battleground state, wisconsin senator jd vance of ohio introduced him himself to the party into the nation as donald trump's running mate, he accepted his party's nomination formerly this evening, there's also news on the other side of the aisle from the debris macron sources sharing with cnn details of a recent phone call between president biden and former house speaker nancy pelosi, who remember, remains a very powerful and influence blanche will democrat in congress. cnn's mj lee is joining us from the white house with more mj. what can you tell us about this call? >> jake, we are learning that former house speaker nancy pelosi and present didn't biden spoke again recently, and that pelosi told the president that polling shows that the president cannot defeat donald trump. and that he could destroy democrats chances of winning the house if he were to continue seeking a second term, that we are also told by our sources that the president responded by being defensive about the polls willing telling

pelosi he has seen the data polling that shows that he can in fact, win and that at one point up pelosi asked mike donilon the presidency in your advisor to get on the line to go over the data. now, none of our sources said whether in this phone call nancy pelosi privately told president biden that she believes he should drop out of the race, but it's important to note this is the second can known conversation. now between nancy pelosi and president biden since his debate performance, that really shook the party. and at the end of june, i should also note the white house wouldn't comment on our reporting and this meeting. they said president biden is the nominee of the party he plans to win in a pelosi spokesperson said pelosi has been in california since friday and has not spoken to biden since, obviously, jake, we cannot overstate just how important nancy pelosi is to all of this. she has so much sway within the party. as you probably have the that's pulse on where all of her colleagues are on the biden situation,

than probably anybody else. and the big question going forward is at some point, does she get to a point where she may be papillae says she believes that the president shouldn't stay in the race all right. mj lee, amazing stuff jeff zeleny also has been reporting on the story. jeff, tell us more about these conversations between former house speaker nancy pelosi and president biden but jake, a lot of democrats have been taking their worries and fears to former house speaker nancy pelosi, and we have really seen an evolution of our thinking over the last now nearly three weeks since that debate. >> now on president biden said he is going to run. he's not reconsidering. she reopened the door for him and that allowed some other house democrats to have conversation patients with her. so she has been trying to handle this behind the scenes, if you will. but what we are hearing is that it hasn't worked, so they are being slightly more public with this, but she's not alone last saturday, a key meeting in all of this history may show this to be a pivotal meeting here

depending on what happens, senator chuck schumer, the senate majority later traveled to rehoboth beach. that's where the president was spending the weekend. he had a private one-on-one meeting with the president expressing concerns of senate democrats as well, that they do not think that they can win and are worried about him winning in november. so jake, taken together all of this, this is a different moment here as we we hit the three week period, as for the president, he's back in delaware. that campaign tells me tonight he's in this race. he is not changing and they say he'll be the democratic nominee. of course, we'll see about that. jake. >> we will jeff zeleny stick around. let's talk about this with my panel. chris wallace and dana bash. i want to show some recent video. the most recent video we have the president biden. he has covid he had to cancel an appearance at an event. here he is earlier tonight at dover air force base delaware walking down the stairs looking i don't know

around let's say and it's a very halting procession down the stairs though. and the reason i wanted to show this video is i'm not sure in all these conversations how much it's being illustrated to president biden not just that democrats worry he cannot turn this around, that he's a drag on the ticket that he is going to lose. >> but that the reason he is the drag on the ticket, the reason that his poll numbers are so bad? >> it's irreversible. >> it is because the american people think he's too old not competent to do the job that was highlighted even more in the debate. but that's where the american people, according to polls have been for months, if not years this is not something that he can turn around we've seen him speak before the naacp and lose his train of thought. we've seen him give interviews to speedy stephanopoulos. know not

stephanopoulos now speed is the youtuber. yeah and he loses his train of thought in those interviews as well. >> this is not something that he can turn around. it's you can be donald trump, but you can't beat father time. >> yeah listen, i mean, that is why what you are seeing the private conversations that mj was just reporting on even more so with nancy pelosi, what we know chuck schumer, would we know that he was very direct? >> with with joe biden when he spoke with the president on saturday and we know about these series of conversations that he's had with house democrats, particularly the one with some of the front liners, the more centrist democrats, who are very blunt with him on the polling, but also on the fundamentals that you were just talking about. now he has covid. i mean, we both have covid have had covid. i certainly have not felt great

but this is far beyond the moment that we were that we are in right now. jake, i have talked to house members. i've been texting with them listening to what has been going on publicly, even in the last ten hours, 12 hours knowing what has already been going on privately, seeing it become more public. one said to me, the walls are closing in on the president because the desperation, the frustration, frustration, and the real, sometime in some cases, anger is overwhelming that they can't get through to him. >> you know, sometimes you see an image and it's almost a perfect metaphor for a situation. and to see joe biden looking so slow, so halting, so old as he came down the steps. and when it originally happens, cnn put it on live and a

split-screen. i forget exactly what was going on at the convention at that point, but there was energy and excitement and a plan for the future, not saying it's necessarily the right plan. and you see joe biden as his political support is crumbling, as its financial support is crumbling, as he's suffered a health setback, as he's had a series as you say of troubling interviews, as he's making the effort to show that the debate that you moderated it was somehow a bad night it isn't going away and tonight just seemed to be a combination of having said all of that. it's one thing to say to a guy. hey, your numbers an ohio or pennsylvania, or really, really bad, it's another thing to say you're no longer up to the job that that gets to a whole different, not a political level of personal level. and for him and his wife, jill, and his family to come to terms with that is

going to be very hard and i'm not sure that he will. >> yeah. and anderson, that's that's what i'm wondering these blunt messages that are being given to who president biden from speaker pelosi, from leader schumer, the democratic leader of the senate and on and on and on how many of those messages are performance-based as opposed to just your, your polling numbers are bad. how many of them are? the kind of blunt conversation that so many of us have had to have with parents or grandparents because of the inevitability, the situation that if we're lucky enough to get to be that old, we all face adam schiff as well has come out very publicly. i mean, david axelrod, of course jake makes the point about conversations people have had with family members that we've all had with family members and that's what this may boil down to conversations with biden

family members and from all the reporting, it seems the world has shrunk anderson to his family and a couple of close advisers and someone has to recognize the reality of the situation. >> there was a memo circulating today among the congressional leadership done by a pac for the senate and house of packs for the senate and house and in it, it said that 18% of people now say they believe the president is fit to serve 18%, including just a third of people who voted for him last time. you put that together with the meeting with katzenberg which reflects i think the reality the money has dried up. and i said earlier, there's reported that jeffrey katzenberg, a large fundraising his his his key he fundraiser. >> no one has done more for the president and katzenberg, he's devoted his life to this project you know, someone has to say here is the reality,

there is not a path forward. he said in an interview that he would get out if he was told by his advisers that there was as a path forward, if his advisers don't tell him that now they're not doing him a service and they shouldn't be his advisers this is this is the end game. >> now he may be able to run out the clock and stay on the ticket but you got to lead. and we have a big coalition. you have a lot of african american voters who are still with joe biden they still want him to stick in. there. we're used to seeing our leader stumble we're used to seeing our leaders be attacked by the media in ways that aren't fair and were slow to let go. somebody's hand. so i'm proud that the black grassroots sustaining with joe biden. but the party is bigger the donors walking away, the best people in our party, the smart people in our party are looking at the math and saying the math, don't math. and so it's important, i think that we recognize that this could be this is the end game one way or the other thing in game and

tonight's very 11, just one other thing i want to am sorry, just one last data point which is that there was an ap norc poll today that said two-thirds of democrats want him to drop out, and that yes, he has got stronger for support among african-americans, but there are a fair number of african americans, but that too, and it's a reflection of what they see. well, and jeff zeleny makes a great point that tomorrow marks three weeks since the debate and i talked to white house officials. i was at the white house last week. they really thought they were going to hit the ground running, coming out of this, he was going to do a lot of public events. he was going to do a bunch of interviews. well, now he's going to self-isolate for a few days in every interview in public appearance, he has done has not done enough to materially change what you were hearing from democrats behind closed doors who do believe that it is up to the policies and schumer's and that small group advisers around in the mike donilon, steve richetti, to have that conversation. and even they behind the scenes seem to be getting closer to that. >> so add to that what we heard from jd vance right. which is

not on daniel deals list because it's true but it is true. we have a big tent in our party. we love this country. we are united to win the democrats see this here. this party has rallied around donald trump for all the controversy about trump in the past, this party is rallied around donald trump. so democrats are looking not just at the polling, but to david's point into jake race, this point if you make a policy mistake or you did something out there, you can change that. you can apologize, you can change your policy. you can have an event. this is a performance question. it's not just that they're telling the president you're losing michigan, you losing in pennsylvania, losing wisconsin, you're losing nevada. you losing arizona, you're beginning to put new mexico in play. what you're getting to put new hampshire in play, watch you're putting virginia in play. hello. this is not just that they're saying the reason is because the american people to david's point about the poll and they're showing the data. they do not believe you are up to the job. it's not that's not something you can change. at least if you if you come onto the debate, you knew they were raising that question didn't to kaitlan's point and abby's point about the interviews and the performances. if you thought you could change it, you have

not succeeded because the numbers are getting worse. scott i continue to think that this is more than just a political problem. >> i mean, if democrats are saying that he's not fit to serve in january and we're seeing the rapid deterioration of the president before our very eyes right now. i still think we need to have a conversation about who's running the country today. and is he fit to serve for the next few months? i'm just not satisfied that this is only a political campaign problem to me, the country still has to operate and he's still supposedly i would just say quickly, the split screen of joe biden walk enough that airplane and the imagery from this evening should have democrats very concerned stay with cnn as the republican convention heads into its fourth and final night laura coates, is that cnn grill to break it all down? she's coming up next ready to be in new york

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