joining us tonight. i'm erin burnett along with my friend wolf blitzer and wolf tonight represents it's a crucial night and it's a turning point. take for democrats radically reshaped campaign in just the past 30 days and of course, their number one goal now still to defeat donald trump and hold bonta, the white house. >> i got kamala harris elected president of the united states, aaron expect this evening to be kept by a very emotionally charged passing of the torch moments sources are telling us that vice president harris is set to make her first appearance at this convention and joined president joe biden after he delivers his big price i'm primetime speech democrats celebrating harris as their new standard-bearer and saluting president biden's decades of service to our country in his game changing decision to step aside also giving high profile speeches tonight first lady >> jill biden and former secretary of state, former first lady hillary clinton will be speaking as well. erin all

right. >> and as you hear the applause behind us the subpoena here filling up with delegates, it's in session. let's check in with our john berman, who is there on the floor. and john were listening again to the chair of the democratic national committee speaking here as the program is in progress, update on where you are, who you're talking to. their. >> so i am in the washington state delegation, erin and jamie harrison speaking right behind us. talking about the youth vote and energy among young voters. i'm here with some young voters from washington state. frankly, you can't miss them because they're the ones with the white blinking hats. >> here so roja to what's going on with this each day this week, we are doing various themes of our state party on this today. >> how boy harder as we can see with our sasha's are sasha say cuboid formula and we have some amazing paths to go along with it. >> so do you think beyonce is going to show up this week? you mentioned cowboy carter. >> well, there's many rumors that she might be showing up on thursday and we're all really

excited, especially our state party chair, sassy conrad. >> all right. so we're here through this convention. obviously the nominee is going to be vice president kamala harris for weeks and two days ago that wasn't the case. it was going to be president biden. how is he energy different right now, would you say absolutely. >> i think that there is a new revitalized sense of hope and prosperity within our country and especially within young people, were all so excited to be represent are electing someone that represents ourselves and half the population, especially since it's a historic moment which is something we hear a lot. >> and i think all of the young people here at this convention or so beyond grateful and excited to be here. and we just haven't sense of progress being on the ballot. we are looking for progress. >> how did you feel if i can ask, how did you feel when when president biden was still the nominee? different there was a bit different. >> i would say i think he'd senator tremendous amount of work with his last four years in office. but i think he made the right message. he's an honorable man. and he put himself over his country. suddenly i no american has seen

before. and i feel like he gave new life, he rebirth, he guided the flame back, could have democratic party and in choosing kamala harris today, and many of us young people are super excited as he, camila future and we're super excited. he's here coming soon. >> all right washington state, where in the hats people get miss you thanks for being with us. i appreciate it. erin. >> i mean, you find that the fascinating people and that is what that is what it's about. ashley's just the people that are here and even you're looking down, you see the various t-shirts, but the enthusiasm is palpable in on finding those young people are hoping beyond say comes just speaks to this room. >> it's the culture and i have always said culture. dictates politics and you have people wearing like what they probably will wear to be on fape next concert at the democratic national convention. >> if that's a big deal, right? >> if she's not even like plaintiff's i also think you know, that's behind us it's been his plan again, the

lieutenant governor of minnesota he wrote maxine waters taking the stage. >> i'm in this chair because as a little girl from youngstown, ohio, i watch maxine waters speaking of power and tell us how reclaiming my time let's listen to maxine waters hello, delegates know, you know, i've seen a lot in my lifetime i was just 22-years-old. when fannie lou hamer made her presence known at another democratic convention, it was in 1964 in atlantic city and she arrived with a group a black delegates from mississippi and shaye simply asked she's simply ask that her delegates be seated in

place of the states. oh, wide delegation? >> she told the people in the room about the violence. >> she suffered at the hands of white police because she a black woman, had demanded her right to vote when she finished. she asked the country a simple but profound question is this america? she didn't get the outcome. she was hoping for in atlantic city but you can bet but when they owe official mississippi delegation was sitting at the convention four years later, fannie lou hamer was sitting there with them now here we are here we are 60 years later at another

democratic convention with kamala harris pamela as our nominee oh, no oh, there is no better leader to marshal us into the future. common law has been a courtroom prosecutor, a district attorney, and attorney general, a united states senator, vice president of the united states and when the dust settles in november and americans of all stripes have elected her, there president she'll be thinking about fannie lou who asked happen to know, is one of camilla's. he rode in that moment all of us, all of us from new york to pennsylvania, to arizona, to california we can ask ourselves

is this america? and we will be, able to say loudly and proudly, you're right, it is all right. maxine waters represented a house first in 19 91st election, south los angeles for her district rousing speech here in this room from maxine waters in just a moment, i wanted to ask my panel about something here, but first there's fruit district outside. we've talked about tens of thousands of them. we talked about the importance of the gaza is a war. too many of those protesters, what we're seeing outside causing massive blockage is actually in terms of getting into the arena where we are, ryan young is outside with some of those protesters. we know the national guard here in illinois has been put on

hold and alert as well. ryan, what are you seeing right now? >> well, we've seen a large group of officers who had to meet protesters inside this park here, you can see some of the command staff that's still left behind here. but as the officers walk away, this is where the protesters and officers sort of came together there, are metal fencing that is just beyond the ridge of that parkway. there. what we know apparently some of the protesters tried to breach that area. they lifted up the metal gates and they were met by officers four people have been arrested, one other person has been detained. so then they brought in the riot gear officers to come in and clear out the park. you can see some of the protests because you were sort of left behind here at this point, but we'll show you some of the video that we shot in the middle of this because it was chaotic at one point when you had about 300 officers, all marching out creating a circle in this area and they really wanted to make sure they cut this perimeter off and shut this parked down. this is where the protesters want to return, but we'll walk

you this direction because want to say something you can see in the distance that's the united center. that is one of the gate lines that has been set up as a perimeter to make sure people can just go wherever they want to go. that's where some of the protesters tried to jump over it and they tried to breach it. that happened within the last hour or so that after that we've been asking folks to back out of this park because obviously it was a situation where officers were trying to arrest folks. actually, the superintendent of police is just over here. he was talking to his officers earlier. actually doing the commands as this was all going down. so and of course we're watching this situation once again for people arrested and one to take all right. >> ryan, thank you very much. just outside the united arena where we are with all of those protesters. such an important part of the story at the dnc, as we wait some of the key mark his speeches of the evening from some of the biggest names and some of the new rising stars, democratic party wants to profile here in this crucial convention, you were watching the dnc on cnn this fall comedy

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without jesse jackson, there may not have been a barack obama for a number of reasons. and in the times that i've talked to him over the last several years, one of the things that he's told me that really stuck with me is that he believes if that his candidacy was about lifting the ceiling on black possibility, lifting the ceiling on black possibility, but i might amend that to say lifting the ceiling on american possibility because before jesse jackson he came the closest to the presidency until barack obama. so it's a really powerful moment. he's 82-years-old. he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease in 2017. he is ailing at the advanced age he is in. and so for so many people, including many on moore who's the co-chair of this convention, who is an acolyte of his? this is an opportunity for them to honor him and let's hear the round of applause as this room

i'm moving moment. actually i see tears. listen now to the cheers in the room abby, as you're watching this, and obviously you mentioned his health, he is not actually speaking but a moment for him. and of course, reminiscent i'm i'm thinking back to those those moments when he spoke. so rousing lee at these conventions. what is this moment? what does it mean in this room? and we did see so many tears. yeah. you saw the looks on the faces of so many

people. you know, aaron in those years that he spoke on this convention stage delivering what a lot of people still tell me are two of the best convention speeches really ever delivered at a major party convention millions of families watched from home, seeing for the very first time, a black man in that position. and on the stage with him tonight was his son, yousef, his other son, jonathan jackson, who who's a congressman from here in the state of illinois and al sharpton who was a protege of his, someone who modeled himself, who saw jesse jackson as almost like a farce other figure. so there are moments i think when people around him wonder whether he has gotten his doom. i think tonight was an important moment given his failing health we ought to give him a moment on a stage when the nominee of the democratic party now is a black woman. another thing that's so many of these people never thought they would see happen in their

lifetimes know just the emotion in the room, yeah. >> asked you to see him come out and just two watch watch that crosses base, obviously with his house yeah. >> and the possibility that maybe said something, obviously he didn't but it was his presence was good for so much. sometimes you don't need words thank you, just need to give a champion a solution and over time, i'm overwhelmed right now because i got to work for the first black president because of gestures i was little, but i remember seeing jesse jackson signs of my parents, yard signs of my parent's garage because keep hope bilal. >> a moment where i am right now and i don't want to make it political, but this is a political convention and in this room, you can fill the possibility of america. you can feel everybody belong,

everybody can move for it. >> we don't have to be one against the other. and it feels like that's the moment we're in right now. and i just want everybody could have been in here right now because it it and for it to happen on tonight when the president is handling been torch jesse company handed the torch to camila tonight as well? >> thank you mr. jackson. >> thank you, reverend jackson, for your service. >> is okay. >> sorry. can give together go question. i covered the 1984 jesse jackson campaign were on the road for 13 months and i consider for his family, friends. i've known jonathan jackson now congressman since he was in high school, was when i first met them that campaign went to towns and cities and churches that no politician ever went to when we won, said

politicians visited churches. jesse jackson live in them and to your point, there is a whole generation of not just elected officials, but people who worked behind the scenes because of reverend jackson let's go to john berman, who is on the floor and you were there john watching and witnessing that moment. >> and i know now you're joined by the governor of illinois, jb pritzker. >> yeah, i am here with governor jb pritzker of illinois. and are they say, you know, if you build it, they will come governor, i think a lot of people think that you are responsible for helping build this convention. what's it feel like now that it's getting underway? >> well, we fought hard to win the convention for chicago and now you can see that not only have we put together a beautiful convention hall, but it's about 73 degrees outside and sunny and it will be always. so we're excited to have all of you here. >> well done booking the weather, governor. there was just a tribute to reverend

jackson, chicago, one of the many places the claims him as their own. what was that like for you to witness? >> well, he's our civil rights leader here in chicago, certainly, because this is where he came from. he's somebody that all of us who care deeply about making advancements in civil rights look to. and even as he's gotten older we still rely upon him. he sees a legend, but he's also someone who stand for something. and it's the fight, the struggle, and so many people who have stood on his shoulders to get ahead. so we're just i mean, to be able to celebrate him for a few moments on stage as a reminder to all of us that we have while long way to go, but we've also come along way governor there telling him my ear and i know you haven't been briefed on what's going on outside the convention, neither have i. what are your concerns for security? here as the protests do continue? >> well, we have a good plan in place. in fact, there was a breach at one of the fences, but it was brief that breach and the police actually stepped in, did a great job to the superintendent of police came

and backed up his own men and frankly, that's the way it's gonna be. it's gonna be obviously we've got people who are concerned about the war in the middle east they're expressing themselves were going to protect the right to express themselves. but we're not going to see him for any may so president biden delivering the keynote, not you've obviously worked in so many different ways in so many different campaigns. that's good. it's going to be different tonight. it's going to be the likes of things we've never seen before. what are your feelings going into it? >> well, we get to celebrate a man who it has worn the empathy on his sleeve for 50 years in public office, someone who's really fought to make advancements that matter to american families. and i think the hardest thing in the world for him had to be deciding to step back and have kamala harris ber leader and our candidate but the sacrifices that he's made to do that are just in a long line of sacrifices. he's made for the american people so tonight we get to celebrate him. i'm really excited about that because i care deeply about

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told that time has been written into the program for there to be thunderous applause for him. of course, she will be joining into that but erin, for my position on the podium here, just looking out onto the scene, this is kamala harris is convention from the shirts people are wearing to the signs that are being displayed at this is all about celebrating and elevating her in the words of one senior adviser now the goal of this convention, of course, is to keep the momentum alive and that she has been riding for the last month or so. but yesterday when she was campaigning in pennsylvania, making her way here to chicago, oh, she said that she is still the underdog in this race i am told by a senior adviser that was it intentional description. she does not want democrats to be so sort of caught up in this exuberance that they think it has an easy race. she knows it's a difficult race ahead. so yes, tonight is about celebrating kamala harris praising joe biden. she'll be on hand here tonight and we'll likely see them together. >> aaron. >> all right. jeff, thank you

very much. and i want to bring in a former democratic presidential candidate, the current transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, joining me as a member of the party, not as a member of president biden's cabinet and obviously the enthusiasm you feel it, it's probable in the room i know you share it. what are you what all right. >> all right. we're going to listen for a moment if you don't mind because are about to nominate tim walz as the vice presidential race. obviously nominee. so let's just listen into that when kamla. harris set out to find her vice president just one month ago she was looking for someone who believes in our democracy who works hard for the american people. >> and has an endless supply of hope for our future she found that in vice president tim walz

come on, give it up for vice, give it up on august 6 the democratic party officially nominated governor walz as a vice presidential candidate while governor walz is nomination has already been certified, we could miss the opportunity. it's a celebrate. this future vice presidents integrity, commitment decency, and service to our nation. the chair will entertain a motion to sarah moon monyela confirmed governor walz selection as the democratic party's vice presidential nominee we have a motion. is there a second we have a second. we will now have a voice vote on the motion to sit ceremonially confirm our

vice presidential nominee, all in favor of the motion, please. proudly say but the eyes heaven. >> i'm i'm thrilled to proud we reaffirm tim walz as a democratic nominee for vice president all right. >> let's go to the minnesota delegation right now, kaitlan collins is there. obviously that is the epicenter of the tim walz fever. and fervor we hear in this room, kaitlan yeah. >> alright. and you can hear the usa chants breaking out around me. they put out signage at every convention right now it is usa signs that they've just recently passed out i'm standing here with ken martin, who is the vice chair of the dnc and also the chair of the democratic party in minnesota, where they've just so we're very proudly nominating governor walz. what does it

mean to you to have governor walz on the ticket? >> all were just so excited. you can see all the energy here at the minnesota crew. we are just pumped our governor as amazing as everyone's starting to see a little bit. they didn't know who the heck he was up your weeks ago now everyone is in love with them across the country where it's so glad he's on the ticket. >> so jamie, is that right? >> i'm sure i said in minnesota, you bounce a baby on your knee and tell them they're gonna be vice president someday well, absolutely. vice president hubert humphrey, vice president walter mondale. and in 78 days, vice president tim walz, we couldn't be more excited. >> and martin, we'll let you go celebrate. thank you so much for your time. erin. >> all right. kaitlan. thank you very much. and here with pete buttigieg mayor pete petition secretary, obviously, you're here at personally. you just saw this in the room. >> how does it feel for you? >> it's really exciting. i mea' extraordinary energy here and definitely excited to see the party coming together around tim walz and kamala harris. i'm a midwesterner. so obviously i'm a little bit biased about what someone like tim walz brings to the ticket. but i also think it's worth noting that, you know, so many campaigns and so many parties

spend millions on political consultants and adds to try to make their candidates seem like the kind of guy who would be a football coach for a teacher or would serve 24 years in the military. >> he is all of those things what you see is what you get. >> he's the genuine article and he's bringing a lot to this. >> all right. >> you're gonna be speaking on wednesday obviously tonight we are going to be we're going to hear from president biden, were hear from joe biden, hillary clinton. you're speaking on wednesday. are you finished? have you decided, you know, what your core message is going to be? >> the truth is, i'm still working on it, but i'm excited and honored to have that opportunity to speak about what our politics will be like or could be like, how much better it will be when and if america chooses kamala harris and tim walz versus a rerun of the donald trump show. >> now, we just w some protesters outside. there are a lot of them right in a lot of multiple issues, but obviously the israel-gaza war is first and foremost among them. and their uncommitted delegates here, they've spoken, said we represent 700,000 people. one

of them told our donie o'sullivan we're looking for a ceasefire and arms embargo and to stop sending weapons is that something that democratic party that kamala harris will ever get behind in order to get those votes? >> well, i think she's behind peace. she's one of the first people to have spoken out in the administration about a ceasefire. it has to be the kind of ceasefire that comes with the hostages coming home and she has spoken to the complexity of this issue, but importantly, also been very focused on outreach to those who are taking to the streets because of the passion they feel about what has always been one of the most ferociously difficult and complex issue jews in the world. and you compare that to what we're seeing from the trump-vance ticket. remember donald trump is interested in using the military to shut down protesters on american soil. you're not going to see that here. you're going to see respect for anybody who is peacefully exercising their first amendment right. >> i mentioned donald trump and he told reuters today that if he wins, he'll tap elon musk specifically for cabinet or an advisory role if elon musk will do, what do you think of that

idea i mean, you know, i think that what we really need to do is have a serious conversation about the future of climate policy. >> look, i'm not surprised that elon musk as many very, very wealthy people do, is going republican this year, but i do think there's an irony remember, he and many others became wealthy because of the internet. the internet was created by a federal research program that is the exact kind of program that the anti research anti-science anti-government agenda of project 2020 five would eliminate. so i think there is some irony here, but the rest is just politics. >> so you mentioned governor walz, who has just gotten the formal voice, voice vote of that celebration in this room and his military service for president trump has defended his comments. last week about the civilian presidential medal of freedom and he said it's much better than the congressional medal of honor, which of course is the highest decoration that you can receive. military. >> you're a veteran who served

in the naval reserves what's your response to that? >> when you heard that? >> it's just one more reminder of why he is unfit to be commander in chief. look i get that. he just doesn't understand it. sacrifice. he doesn't understand the sacrifice of others. he doesn't understand what it means to put others first, which in the most heroic and courageous fashion is what those winners so the congressional medal of honor do. but, you know, it's of a keeping with donald trump's entire career. remember, he used his status as a teenage multimillionaire to purchase a doctor's note? >> to avoid going into service and let some working class kid take his place as vietnam and decades later, he still very much the same guy. >> the contrast could not there and tonight in this moment when we expect to see vice president kamala harris come onto the stage after joe biden gives his ceremonial passing of the torch do you expect to feel emotion in that moment yourself? i think so. yeah. i mean, you know, it was an emotional

moment for me when i decided to support joe biden ended my campaign then came on board knowing that these the right to bring our party together. member that motive here talking about beau and how reminded i was so touched by that and then have had the honor the part of this incredible journey. and i think you're going to feel a lot of love and a lot of appreciation in this hall really for two things. one for president biden doing something that it's almost without precedent in history for the most powerful person in the world to lay aside power for no other reason than the clearing. the way for a new generation was the right thing to do. but also just appreciation for glue results that america has had under the watch of the biden-harris administration. the fact that we have the kind of job growth that we haven't had in my lifetime. the fact that in where i grew up, where they told us that we were done forever making things that we now have investments in factories, and manufacturing jobs like we haven't seen since kennedy administration. the

fact that that crime is down so many things that have been achieved. so i think both the selfless political decision for lay aside power and what he has done for this country earned him a huge amount of appreciation from this room full of doubt, right? >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. thank you so much for being with us. and of course transportation secretary as well and coming up speeches by hillary clinton, president biden, other top democrats all of this now underway on this democratic national convention, first night thank vendor tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn, its pods biggest sale of the summer save up to 25% on moving in storage for a limited time in cy pods has been trusted with over 6 million move they don't wait, use

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all we, all remember we all remember the world in 2020 where are we were and for some of us who we lost now, i was in my second term as mayor of long beach, california and my mom was the health-care worker like many of you, i watched in terror and horror as the covid, pandemic consumed our lives as mayor, i fought from her hospital beds for more tests and to make masks more accessible. what we needed at that moment was national leadership but instead, we got donald trump while schools

closed and dead bodies filled morgues. donald trump downplayed the virus he told us to inject bleach into our bodies. he peddled conspiracy theories across the country we lost hundreds of thousands of americans and our economy collapsed now, that summer of 2020 my mom and my stepfather both died of the covid pandemic and i miss them every single day so when donald trump and his maga extremists, like marjorie taylor greene downplayed the horror of the pandemic it should make us all furious now, i will never

forget when called kamala harris called me after my parents died she told me about her own story about losing her own mother and that she was praying for me at that very moment now, we all know that later that year joe biden and kamala harris were elected president and vice president. and what a difference they made together they got people vaccinated they got the virus under control they safely reopened our schools and they passed the american rescue plan historic a historic economic package that helps small businesses and created jobs all

across the country thank you. joe biden and kamala harris now, i i am a proud immigrant who came to the united states as a young child we grew up poor english was our second language and we often like many immigrant families, struggled to get by but my mom, she moved here to the united states because she believed in the american dream i'll never forget the day that i became a united states citizen i raised my right hand and i pledge an oath to protect and to love this country. >> it was the proudest day of my life my law my mom taught me

to love this country she taught me that real american patriotism is not about screaming and yelling america first real american patriotism is loving your country so much that you want to help the people in your country that is american patriotism and we all know that kamala harris understands and knows this as well. kamala harris is ready to lead this country we can all remember 2020 we can all remember the horrors of donald trump. but let's remember most importantly, tonight. and every single day this week, that we are not going back thank you

all right democratic congressman robert garcia of california, very emotional just, you know, chris over the last several minutes, this convention has become really outspoken and going after donald trump referred speaker after speaker blasting. yeah, it's very interesting, i guess if this is the contrast part of the evening, because we hadn't heard a lot about donald trump for the first hours. and particularly on the issue of covid and they actually ran a video, a series of clips of donald trump, someone say his greatest non heads on this one, a 20 when he was downplaying covid and talking about injecting bleach into you to try to solve it and you know, it's an interesting question, i think covid is not a sure fire winner for democrats because there's this kind of revisionist fester rate now

that the country was shut down too long and that the biden when he came in in 2021, continued to shut down businesses and continued to shut down schools my own feeling is it's a revisionist history because, you know, we know a lot more about covid now than we did back pre vaccine. and in 20202021. but there are two sides to this argument, and i think republicans are happy to engage on the issue the handling of covid casey standby. we're going to take a quick, very quick break right now resume our special coverage of this democratic national convention right after this there's fall. >> comedy is coming to cnn what could go wrong if i got news for you, for me or saturday september 14, nine on cnn for the most comfortable, luxurious

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link relief work blake really, the only three and one extended release formula for dry eyes back here at the democratic national committee convention, first night, let's get to phil mattingly down on the floor. actually note, let's go to kaitlan collins down on the floor, kaitlan i aaron. >> yes, i'm here with the pennsylvania governor, josh shapiro. we are standing right by pennsylvania delegation. i know you're a lieutenant governor is about but just tell me what you want to hear from president biden when he gets on that stage tonight? i think president biden should take a victory lap. the extraordinary work he's done over decades in this country. the extraordinary patriotism that he showed. he deserves our recognition are appreciation and also want to see him pass the torch to the next generation. >> and we're really excited to see that happen. >> and stand up for kamala harris and tim walz. >> well, we expect to see you on the campaign trail with vice president harris and governor

walz. >> hell, yeah. i'll look forward to campaigning with him in pennsylvania anywhere else where i can be helpful and look forward to continuing to push their message and prosecute the case against donald trump. >> how does she win pennsylvania by doing exactly what she's doing, getting people fired up and motivated. >> she's rebuilt the coalition and smartly showing up in communities that are oftentimes ignored and forgotten she and tim were in beaver county, pennsylvania, you know where beaver county is and the southwestern corner, an area that for too long people have overlooked by showing up there and talking about cost talking about the issues on people's minds. she's doing exactly what she needs to do. and i'm proud to support them. >> i have to ask you about donald trump's claims that anti-semitism is what played a role and you not ultimately being selected as the vice president. what's your response to that? >> donald trump has absolutely no credibility to speak on that issue. he is a person exacted bigoted. he is a person who

spreads hate, and he is a person who tingly divides people in this country listen, when folks marched in charlottesville and quite literally said with tiki torches in their hand, jews will not replace us. what did donald trump say? he said, there are good people on both sides. there were not good people on both sides. i want to be crystal clear about something anti-semitism played. absolutely no role in the dialog i had with the vice president. it is true that there is anti-semitism in our country. it is true that there is some anti-semitism within our party, but we need to stand up and speak out against hate in all forms anti-semitism islamophobia, racism any form of hatred and bigotry has no place on what i want to see from leaders is what kamala harris is doing. what i try and do every day speaking and acting with moral clarity, something that donald trump is bankrupt on. he has no moral clarity, and he has absolutely

no bid since a pining on this issue, given his track record, governor josh shapiro, thank you for your time. thank you. kaitlan erin, right. >> kaitlan. thank you very much. and now let's go to phil mattingly also down on the floor and phil, what are you seeing right now? >> there and i'm actually york, pennsylvania. i've been traveling with the former president. and what's fascinating in this moment, we were in on the floor in milwaukee kind of watching that whole process. just how much has changed in the 30 days and when you talk to trump advisors, they make very clear on some level, as one told me the forward presence a little bit nostalgic for what the race actually looked like a month ago. and that adviser said understandably, so i asked if they exceed expectation was that he would be watching the president's speech tonight. his former opponent and while they've been coy the campaign is really focused this week on a very significant swing state run through critical states on her programming, at least trying to counter program the democratic national convention. one advisor said, of course he's probably going to watch why well, that nostalgia is certainly in play. you see it

on social media. the former president constantly posting on truth social about the former, about president biden, about what he calls a coup just a couple of hours ago. you see it when he talks consistently talking about his former opponent is one official put it today, erin, they thought they were going to win rather easily just a month ago. it's understandable that it would still be focused in on some level fixated on the current president while his campaign clearly right now is moving sharply to focus on vice president harris, their attacks throughout the swing states that he'll be bidding visiting, and j.d. vance, we'll be visiting over the next couple of days was interesting here. just a couple of hours ago during his event, it was a small event. it was really supposed to be policy-focused on the economy and on energy. >> for the former president said something that was interesting. >> he said on his way to pennsylvania, he saw the report house republicans put out saying that they'd found impeachable offenses against president biden something the former president has constantly talked about over the course of the last several months while they found no explicit

wrongdoing, by then vice president biden, no direct quid pro quo. the former president made clear on a speech that was almost entirely about the economy and energy. he wanted a significant portion also to summarize the findings of that house republican report, clearly the current president who will be speaking tonight, that the former president is expected to watch very much still on his mind no absolutely. and i can see you're in pennsylvania all right. phil mattingly. thanks so much. and our coverage right now of the first night of the democratic national convention continues right now. >> good evening from chicago's, we continue cnn's live coverage. the democratic national convention on this opening night in inside this arena, the party is just getting started formally launching the new harris-walz ticket and building toward the first convention appearance by

vice president harris and a speech tonight hi by president joe biden. we are following all of it from our cnn skybox and with their teams on in new near the convention floor. i'm anderson cooper along with jake tapper and jake though the biggest features of an eye and perhaps a few surprises all ahead. >> that's right, anderson, the democrats have several goals for this evening. the first night of their convention first to begin defining vice president kamala harris in the minds of voters, also to showcase party unity and enthusiasm for her candidates and then lastly, of course, to pay tribute to president biden, the president is getting a prominent primetime slot addressing his party amir month after he he ended his reelection bid. he was of course, supposed to be in his mind addressing the crowd on thursday night, not monday night, but say lobby we're told that president biden will make a forceful case for electing his vice president, kamala harris, and also for protecting

democracy. the democracy that he continued he's to argue is threatened by donald trump is best exemplified by the activities of january 6, 2021. and then sources tell us the president and the vice president are expected to to appear together a proverbial passing of the torch. as vice president harris takes center stage at this convention in the democratic party and president biden walks off the stage. other featured speakers include this evening, first lady jill biden, and a democrat who knows firsthand and about the challenges of running against donald trump former secretary of state and first lady hillary clinton. cnn's jeff zeleny is seeing it all up close from his podium. position and cnn's john berman and kaitlan collins are getting reaction from delegates on the convention floor. let's go live there right now to the convention floor, we're seeing and then john berman is standing by john, what is the feeling in the room there? >> jake, i'm here by the new

york delegation and it's