it's you know, we've been seeing it everywhere we go enjoy the moment. it's a special night for you. >> well thank you. and it's good advice. i am really looking forward to it. i think the minnesotans are going to be yeah. so it'll be fun. we'll talk to you and i'll talk to you when it's over. >> take care buddy, i'll talk to you now. >> of course do keep in mind the speech that governor walz ended up giving tonight was the speech that vice president harris was supposed to give herself, even as of a month ago, to accept the democratic party's nomination to be its vice president. >> but, of course, everything is so different now, including the speech that we saw tonight. and, jake, i have to tell you that scrum of the minnesota delegation, it is still going strong they are really going pretty crazy. they are absolutely excited right now

it's thursday, august 22nd. >> right now on cnn this morning. history in the making. tonight, kamala harris will become the first black woman and the first asian american to be nominated by a major party. how she is preparing plus you know, you might not know it, but i haven't given a lot of big speeches like this tim walz delivering what could be the most important speech of his career as he introduces himself to america and later but he's been working for rfk's endorsement because rfk represents, i think, an old guard of the democratic party donald trump working hard for robert f kennedy jr. s endorsement as new reporting shows, the independent presidential candidate could drop out of the race by the end of the week 4 a.m. here in

chicago illinois, 5 a.m. out on the east coast. cleanup still kind of underway here at the united center in chicago, home of the democratic national convention good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us in the warm up for tonight's acceptance speech from kamala harris. night three of the democratic convention was a night for the man. democrats are calling coach walz it's the honor of my life to accept your nomination for vice president of the united states minnesota governor tim walz, introducing himself on the national stage with the biggest speech of his life. it was filled with personal moments, like when walz opened up about the fertility treatments they used to help start their family it took gwen and i years, but we had access to fertility treatments and when our

daughter was born we named her hope hope goss and gwen, you are my entire world and i love you you could see his 17 year old son getting emotional right there and yelling out that's my dad! >> from the audience walz turned to firing up the crowd by going after project 2025 with a familiar term from his short time on the campaign trail. so far used the word freedom. >> it's an agenda that does nothing for our neighbors in need. >> is it weird? absolutely absolutely but it's also wrong and it's dangerous the former high school football coach then closed out his speech with what he called a pep talk from a coach to his team it's the

fourth quarter. we're down a field goal, but we're on offense and we've got the ball. we're driving down the field and boy, do we have the right team and my team joins us now. >> leah wright rigueur cnn political historian jeff duncan georgia's former lieutenant governor and a speaker last night. we'll show you some of his speech. shermichael singleton, republican strategist, and megan hayes a consultant for the democratic national convention. welcome to all of you. thank you so much for being here. jeff. really enjoyed your speech. we're going to show the audience a little bit of it here in just a second. let me actually start with you kind of big picture here. you could you could see the crowd embracing this coach walz way of of putting things but walz cuts a figure that is actually relatively unique in presidential politics. democrats have talked about how he is the first public school teacher to be on a ballot like

this. he brings a working class background and sort of a way of being to it that's a little bit different from many of the lawyers, quite frankly and politicians who've come before and also ivy league grads. he made sure to mention that in his speech he's like, i didn't go to yale, right? >> and neither did any of the 24 kids in his high school class. right and i think part of what he really emphasized and what he did an exceptional job at was the idea of small town values, and that he is a regular, ordinary person who treats his neighbor with kindness and with respect. so there was this real emphasis on this. the other thing though, i think that walsh did exceptionally well, is twofold. the first is that he talked about men and masculinity within the context of reproductive choice and reproductive rights, and that is not a conversation that many people have openly. so he talked about how those ivf treatments actually gave him hope, and he ended up naming his daughter. he and his wife named his daughter hope. so that was a conversation that i

think a lot of men may relate to, but aren't having publicly. the second thing that he did is he put his son in the spotlight his son has multiple disabilities, which he has talked about are his son's superpowers, and to see his son, who is nonverbal, right. this is one of his disabilities stand up crying and say, that's my dad there he is right there. >> i have to say, i mean, this is sort of it's emotional. it's emotional and powerful moment. he knocked it out the park. yeah. megan let me get you to weigh in on this also. and and shermichael as well. just in terms of i mean, i think this part of the speech is really what, what what touched me what stood out to me. you also had other emotional moments, like when they brought his former football players up on stage as well. >> yeah. i mean, i think you know, in oprah's speech she was talking about decency and respect are back on the ballot. and that's what people are voting for and their values. and these are the types of moments that really show that and really highlight that. and

this is probably the first time that we have two candidates at the top of the ticket with the vice president and the governor. that really kind of embody what families look like nowadays. they're not these traditional ivy league. you know, it's not the kennedys that have this like storied past. these are real people with real families who want to lead our country. >> well, i will say the kennedys would argue sorry, they were they were breaking barriers as well as i'm just these storied past. fair enough. camelot feelings. these are, you know, we have a blended family. we have families that have disabilities who had ivf treatment. i mean, didn't go to ivy league schools. it's very different than what we're very middle of america shermichael you've talked a lot over the course of this week about the gender gap and trying to appeal to to white working class voters i mean, this is where tim walz comes from. >> you know yesterday i said that i was a little critical because i thought president obama would sort of mention or have some thematic elements of his speech that would touch on working class white voters, because they were a surprising part of his original coalition. and i said if he didn't do it,

then my expectation was that governor walz and former president bill clinton needed to do it and he did. i mean, those thematic elements are there. i thought it was important to make those appeals my presumption will be that you'll see the continuation of that beyond this week. so tactically speaking, if i were writing the speech, i think the speechwriters did a great job trying to put the spotlight on the types of voters that he was chosen to help bring into the harris ticket. >> geoff duncan i want to show a little bit of of what you had to say last night, because another important piece of what we saw on the stage were appeals to republicans who feel very disaffected by donald trump we saw a lot of discussion of january 6th. in addition to there were plenty of political jabs against against donald trump. yours it seemed to me, was a a patriotic one, an argument for country over party. let's watch a little bit of what you said last night our party is not

civil or conservative. >> it's chaotic and crazy and the only thing left to do is dump trump. these days, our party acts more like a cult, a cult worshiping a felonius thug. let me be clear to my republican friends at home watching if you vote for kamala harris, kamala harris in 2024, you're not a democrat. you're a patriot so and there you have it i was going to say, would you like to add, revise and extend your remarks? and i endorse that statement what was it like to be up there on stage? >> i mean, you are a conservative guy from a southern state. this is not necessarily a hometown crowd for you. and yet they did embrace you. >> yeah complete sea of emotions, right? of course i'm on the other team. you know, it's like getting traded from the yankees to the red sox. you know but, you know, you had folks back home that were really supportive. you had folks back home that were, you

know, trying to send text messages like, what are you thinking at the end of the day, this is a heartfelt message to try to convince 10 million republicans or independents that there's a better way to do this, and we have to play the long play right now. we've already lost as common sense conservatives, our our our nominee is not worthy to be president nor is he going to be president. and so let's get somebody in there that can be a steady hand keep the trains on time, and we go back home and take our medicine and fix this party. >> harris is going to accept the nomination tonight. what do you hear from friends back home as you put it, about her, their willingness to potentially vote for her? and, i mean, i know you also see data and you talk to a lot of people who who do politics professionally. do you think georgia is actually on the map yet yeah, the soil is definitely softer now than when she first kind of came on the scene. >> as you know replacing president biden just because i think a couple of those policy positions that she took in the 2020 election and that primary have softened not all of them certainly not a majority of them, but some of them, i feel

like she's she's taken that and been able to drop that in the laps of us independents and republicans. so i do think it's softening as far as georgia goes. absolutely. it's in play. the second joe biden came off the ballot, it took the biggest excuse for voting for a democrat, which was he was too old. now you've got a 59 year old energetic. that's just doing everything right. in addition donald trump comes down to georgia and tries to just blow up brian kemp for no reason other than just a self grievance. and that really carried a lot of weight to it. so in my opinion, and i think you're watching the polling, it is a dead heat. >> very interesting. all right we're gonna take a quick break here. up next on cnn this morning, a reminder and a warning let us not forget who assaulted democracy on january sixth. he did. >> democrats making the january 6th insurrection a focal point a night three of the democratic national convention, plus robert f kennedy jr's campaign could be in its final days. but will he endorse trump and we

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democratic national convention in new york city back in 1992. fast forward to last night. the former president made his 13th speaking appearance at a dnc. he had a very different speech prepared than the one that he ended up delivering. after seeing the energy of the first night of the convention, he reportedly ripped up the first version, and he started from scratch for more going for more poetry and less prose he mostly talks about himself right so the next time you hear him, don't count the lies. >> count the eyes he's like one of those tenors opening up before he walks out on stage like i did, trying to get his lungs open by singing me, me me me me me shermichael singleton,

bill clinton has long been a messenger to many of these voters that you have been talking about. uh, this is how politico described it. they say clinton has long compared himself not to a dog, but to a racehorse with his party, the stable keeper. every two years, he would joke, they let him out of the barn for another lap around the track. clinton was noticeably slower on wednesday but he still seemed to relish getting off his lines about trump, whom he described as a paragon of consistency. what was your view of how bill clinton, i mean i'm biased. i think the world of bill clinton, in terms of his intellect, in terms of his ability to communicate. he's a great narrator um, and so i was happy to see him there. he said, this may be the last one. he's not sure how many he'll be able to speak at in the future. the problem i think, though, and i was texting with a lot of different people about this last night. the democratic party has changed. so much since bill clinton's presidency. and he alluded to that. he talked about democrats needing to talk to other types of voters and arkansas and

rural parts of new york and other parts of the country. and he said, you should not demean these people merely because you may disagree with them. so i was happy to see him there, but i just think he was he was looking back at the halcyon days from the past as a party is just is just desperate. it's ideologically different from where it used to be. and i'm not sure if the appeals that a lot of people respect about the former president have the same resolve in today's democratic party. >> megan, would you agree with that assessment? >> no, i still think that democrats are the party for the working class, and i think that that's the foundation of the democratic party. they are about the middle class. they are about making life better for people. and i don't think that's fundamentally different from the president. clinton, i do think that we are a big tent party, and we are trying to build a broader coalition and bring more people in, but i don't think the basis of our party has changed. >> geoff duncan here's another little bit of what clinton had to say about donald trump comparing it to acknowledging clinton, acknowledging his own age in this. but take a look

now let's cut to the chase i am too old to gild the lily two days ago, i turned 78, the oldest man in my family of four generations. >> and the only personal vanity i want to assert is i'm still younger than donald trump fair well, you were here for clinton's speech last night what a line. yeah absolutely. i mean, the only thing that that really kind of kept us away from as a country talking about donald trump's age, was joe biden's age because it was obviously it was close, but still the numbers were higher. but yeah, i think highlighting it. but, you know, donald trump's biggest issues are not his age related issues. it's just his psyche. it's his personality. it's his core and you just watch that play out over and over and over again. it really starting to feel like a ponzi scheme cracking apart for donald trump in my opinion. >> leah this, of course, a long arc for democrats here. i mean,

some of it is the changing nature of the country in addition to the changing nature of the party. >> yeah. so i think part of what's going on with with bill clinton is that clinton represents an era of democratic politics that really was about this, this kind of idea of unity. but under the idea of a new vision of the democratic party, quite literally. he's one of the founders of the new democratic movement of the 1980s. and 1990s that comes out of the south and comes out of arkansas, where he's where he's governor. he becomes the face of it. and i do agree, actually, with shermichael about this idea that the democratic party is starting to shift or may look different, but i i disagree on what the face of the democratic party looks like when i say that it's shifting. it has expanded. part of what they're doing is bringing bill clinton back as a kind of like a herald to a bygone day, right? there is a reason why bill clinton is speaking on the night in the lead up to tim walz the theme

for the night was supposed to be freedom, but it is also about what kind of tent do we want to have? what kind of people do we want to bring in? we want to talk about the old bill clinton, chicago, 1992 1996. this idea of you know, he's nominated when he's nominated, but we also want to look forward to the future and think about the people that we've included in the past and the people that we want to do a good job including in the future. the other thing that i'll say here, too, is that clinton, in his heyday, is this remarkable storyteller. but he is also incredibly popular with all kinds of different demographics and i think it is clearly very important to bring someone like that in who has the ability, even if that ability has rusted a little bit, even if it's a little bit older, he can still spin a yarn and he can still relate to people in a way that is deeply charismatic and that speaks to some of those issues that we've talked about on this panel that democrats really need to hit if they want to win. it was a perfect tee up for tim walz

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at the united center home, of course, of the democratic national convention. we are here up in the skybox. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. amid the musical performances, celebrity appearances and plenty of enthusiastic celebrations day three of the dnc also focused in on a much more serious topic the insurrection at the u.s. capitol on january 26th. on january 6th, 2021, pre-produced videos playing on the jumbotron throughout the arena, reminding attendees of the violence and chaos, and of donald trump's words to his supporters who had gathered on the ellipse that fateful day we will never give up. >> we will never concede. it doesn't happen. you don't concede when there's theft involved and after this, we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you. we're going to walk down to the capitol because you'll never take back our country with weakness on stage in chicago, speakers

recounted their experiences as the riot unfolded, including former trump administration staffers and a former capitol police officer, a hero who was injured while protecting me and all of us who were on capitol hill that day we were beaten and blinded i was assaulted with a pole attached to the american flag president trump summoned our attackers and sided with them. he betrayed us he betrayed us. >> that was aquilino gonell speaking to nbc news yesterday, republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance condemned democrats messaging around january 6th and claimed that what occurred that day was a normal, peaceful transition of power we have had a peaceful transfer of power every single election in this country as much as people. >> of course make a lot of waves about what happened on

january the 6th, you had some rioters at the capitol, and that was, of course, a bad thing. donald trump still transferred power peacefully, and i think it's weird for the the democrats to try to fearmonger over this. we have a proud tradition to be to to remember and to to hang our hats on here uh, panels back geoff duncan. >> uh i was there that day. i saw it with my own eyes. it was not peaceful period. the end um what do you make of what jd vance said there? uh, in comparison to what you saw play out here yesterday when january 6th played out, it felt like the ultimate pivot point, right? i was stuck in the midst of trying to defend georgia's elections and then january 6th happened. it just felt like no republican could ever support donald trump. uh, in that moment going forward. but because of time and lies and, and just intentional confusion, uh republicans have kind of fallen away from actually thinking january 6th was that worst horrific moment in in kind of this, this recent time.

uh, but i think this is a huge data point for independents. and republicans that are sitting in the middle that they can come back if they're continually reminded of how awful that day was and statements like j.d. vance just don't make sense. they just don't align with reality. and so i think that's going to continue to be a nemesis. but i think if the democrats continue to push and remind people how horrific, horrific that day and at the end, it really was a moment in time that showed how delicate democracy really is. just a couple of hours could put the greatest country in the world over time. at the brink. that was scary it's also it also shows that this comes down to to people and the character of our leaders. >> i just want to remind everyone what donald trump had to say about mike pence, who was then vice president of the united states. uh this was on january 6th. what he had to say. and again, these rioters, insurrectionists actually went down to the capitol and started yelling hang mike pence. but here was trump if mike pence

does the right thing, we win the election. >> all vice president pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president. and you are the happiest people. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. and if he doesn't that will be a sad day for our country i mean shermichael that directly repudiates what j.d. >> vance was trying to say there in that. well, this was a peaceful transfer of power. that's what donald trump intended all along. he was saying no this is what i want mike pence to do. and then he says he's going to go down to the capitol with these people who then kind of violently overtake it to try to get mike pence to do what they wanted to do. and when they realized he's not start hunting him in the hallways, i realized that this is something that now republicans talk differently about than they did in the immediate aftermath but i still have trouble squaring it. >> i mean, yeah republicans do talk differently about it. i take that point. but i also

think for the harris/walz campaign, it is not a critical theme of, of of their messaging. and we've sort of seen that. i think the vice president is running on a very different platform and message in terms of how she would prefer to target voters. i think the reason for that is because data suggests that people's opinions and minds and thoughts about the former president and what occurred that day are pretty cemented. i don't think there's a whole lot of people in the middle who are going to cast their votes affirmatively. speaking based upon that issue do you agree with that, megan? no, i disagree, and i do think it's part of her messaging or wouldn't have been here at the convention last night in such a way. we wouldn't be talking about it today if it wasn't part of her messaging and part of the campaign. it was part of president biden's campaign. it was part of it's going to be part of her campaign and the messaging but i also think it's it's not that maybe people's ideas of what happened on january 6th are cemented, but statements like what j.d. vance has said it's reminding people that they're just lying and it reminds people of their character and it reminds people of the contrast of what we have to vote for. and i think that's what will impact independents in the voting so i think the

other thing that it does, and i really don't i mean, i understand j.d. >> vance's point. he was chosen because of his loyalty and his willingness to uphold whatever trump needs him to do. in the aftermath of the november election. but it's also a constant reminder that the reason why j.d. vance is there is because there was an attempt to essentially hang the sitting. the then sitting president, vice president of the united states. i think that part of what we're seeing is a constant reminder and a constant refrain about what is at stake. and so it is important and particularly given that over the course, over the course of the last several years, since january 6th, 2021, there has been a real conscientious and calculated effort to whitewash and remember that moment quite differently. so part of what we're seeing with democratic messaging is a reminder to people of what is at stake. it's not just about the violence or the chaos or the

death or the fact that we saw confederate flags or don't tread on me or gallows, actual physical gallows and the site of sacred sacred space or democratic space. but it's also about this idea of freedom and what is at stake with the question of freedom. and so i actually do agree that part of the part of what harris/walz is trying to do is present a vision of america that is joyful, that is uplifting, that is radically different, that is about normal, everyday americans. but that critical part under underlying all of that is a reminder of what could have been. that is really emphasized in that january 6th moment. >> i just wonder, casey though again, i take all of the points and i think the points are critically important to understand. i was on the capitol that day, so i get it but if i'm thinking about turning out voters as a strategist i'm just wondering what percent of voters have that day as their number five or number four? 3 or 2 top issue that would motivate them or not vote, motivate them to

vote. and i think that's just something that shouldn't be lost in the conversation. >> i think there's friction in messaging with the republican party right now, because we're supposed to be the party that supports law enforcement yet these capitol police officers, when you talk to them and meet them and you hear their stories if if the republican party is is the party of law and order, they should be speaking at the rnc events and not at these events. and so there's this friction in the messaging with the republican party, because there's no way you should take the side of those rioters or those insurrectionists and not those police officers. if you're a republican or 90 plus percent of republican voters, lieutenant governor are still standing with the former president, i think the party has absolutely shifted, and i don't see anything that suggests to me that it's going backwards 90%. >> but they could be wrong, too. >> well, that's a possibility but but i would say looking at the maps so far, the former president is still statistically tied with vice president harris for a reason. i take your points, but i'm just not certain that that is a motivating factor enough to be a deciding element of this election. come november. >> it may not be a deciding factor, but it's an embarrassing factor.

>> well, i think that's a matter of opinion, and i think some republican voters would say that. >> well i also think kind of big picture here. uh, and leah, you touched on this as well, that j.d. vance kind of the way he frames this it's not going to be relevant if they don't win this election. if if trump and vance don't win this election. but it is a telling contrast between vice president pence and possible future vice president vance that could make make a big difference. all right. coming up next here on cnn, this morning, a heartbreaking moment at the dnc. the parents of a hostage in gaza pleading for a ceasefire and for the return of their son. plus let us choose joy oprah making a surprise appearance at the dnc. >> why? she says as an independent she's voting for harris light it guides our

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the leaders of a group that calls itself the uncommitted national movement have been asking for a speaking role at the dnc. for a palestinian american democrat, they didn't get one because of that. they are now staging a sit in at the convention. >> megan hayes, this was an incredibly incredibly emotional moment at the convention last night. one that highlighted, of course, the plight of this israeli-american hostage and all the other hostages that are held with him. of course, the backdrop has been protesters who want a cease fire deal in gaza. can you explain some of the thinking behind making sure that this is a little bit of a controversy for some members of the party, but it does seem also important that that these people and their plight and the focus on their son was also highlighted. what what is the balance you're trying to strike i mean, look, i think that

everyone agrees that there needs to be a cease fire. >> i think they're working towards that. there's language put out last week that they were hopeful for the end of the week. the president and the vice president spoke with netanyahu yesterday. so i think people are working towards that. i think here on the ground, i mean we've always said that we're a big tent party and protesting is part of who we are, and they're doing it peacefully. and that's that's their right to do in terms of the speaking, i do think it's important to highlight that. i think we need to understand what's going on. i think it brings it to the forefront and i, you know, the uncommitted folks, i'm not exactly sure what the calculus is there, but 99.9% of the delegates voted for the vice president. and, you know nominated her. so i think that that's probably where the the organizers landed. >> yeah shermichael how do you look at this? i mean, donald trump has both tried to tell jewish democrat jewish people who vote for democrats that they're not being loyal to their own religion on the other hand, he was also on truth social last night underscoring that josh shapiro who spoke at the convention, is jewish. in a way that was rather uncomfortable. yeah i was actually surprised considering

some of the issues the party has had on this particular topic. i was happy to see the parents there. they've been on our network several times with wolf, with jake, wonderful people um, i think that democrats have been smart to understand the importance of israel as an ally i do wonder if a cease fire does not come in the next week or two. will we see potentially an uprising of campus protests again? i think that remains unseen. i don't think there should be a cease fire until every single one of those hostages are released, and hamas appears to be unwilling to do that. but tactically speaking, i thought it was smart. >> geoff duncan how do you look at this particular issue? and as as someone who is a critic of donald trump, also a republican? so there are there are obviously conservative oriented policy ideas around how this conflict should play out. but trump himself has also talked about this in sort of head spinning ways oftentimes. how do you look at all of this?

>> well, hearing those parents, it was just heartbreaking, right? i just can't imagine one of my sons being in that situation and having that that helpless feeling i think it's important to recognize it's going to take a statesman mentality to to to make headway in this issue. right. it's just not going to be a bull in a china shop mentality. everybody at the negotiating table wants the same things. i think they want a ceasefire and they want the hostages released, with one exception hamas. they're the only one at the negotiating table that doesn't want this. and so i think we've got to continue to work with the statesman mentality to build those those coalitions and those unbreakable bonds even if they have dissenting opinions, they have common goals leah. so i think this is an incredibly delicate issue, and it's one that, you know, if we were talking if we were talking about a democratic national convention where joe biden was still at the top of the ticket, that probably would have been instrumental in costing him the election, that that was a real thorn in his side, particularly in the in the early days of this israel-gaza conflict how

the biden administration handled it with the american public and the american people. that has radically shifted, um, in the in the months over the course of the last several months, but also since it became apparent that kamala harris would be the democratic nominee for president of the united states. um what's important here is that the speakers were able to address the issue of of the hostages right from this incredibly deep and personal space while also simultaneously saying that this is also about ending violence against the 40,000. you know gazan citizens who have perished as a result of this israel, israel gaza conflict and so, i think part of what part of what is part of what we're seeing here, too is an acknowledgment of how to do big tent politics and delicate politics in a way that kamala harris is moving the agenda forward. everybody is with. the panel has already said everybody wants the same thing and they're all working toward

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