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are watching cnn. we're at the top of the hour welcome to our continuing coverage of this, the fourth and final night of the democratic convention. let's go to surfside in are down in the crowd. sarah back to back to this music. born in the usa. the boss i am here with the maryland delegation and one after the other. they all have their flags in hand. anderson patriotism is on the top of the ticket tonight. tell me how you're feeling about being here. what does it feel like in here that people outside do not know? >> oh, the energy is so tremendous. this is what america is all about. our shared values. we're all in this together. and we couldn't be more excited for the next 74 days to march into november all right. >> you have the coolest name january, spelled with an i. mckay what's it been like being here today it's been so amazing. >> it's an extremely electrifying night just hearing from everyone about how we are all connected to the vice president and the governor, and

why we are supporting them to be our next president and vice president it's just an amazing experience january, thank you so much i appreciate it, and it's going to toss it back to you jake. thanks. >> thanks so much sarah. >> we're hearing james brown's living in america and i have to say, abby, despite the logistical challenges that have existed, especially in the first night, and then people are having a tough time getting into the arena tonight this is one of the most this is one of the best produced events in terms of a political event that i've ever attended. and right now the energy is palpable. american flags all over the entire arena. it's pretty remarkable. oh yeah, they've gotten it together big time, and i think that they're dealing with now too many people who want to be a part of this event. we were all at the rnc. we're at the dnc now the rnc was an electrifying environment for many of those nights. but this is different tonight i think it feels to me like there is an enormous

amount of energy and happiness in this room, which is a bit of a contrast from what we saw about four weeks ago at the rnc, which is a little more solemn at times, and the anticipation here for all kinds of surprises. tonight i think is really overwhelming. all i'll say is the dj played beyonce and this place went wild for like five seconds. they sure did. >> they thought something. they thought something was happening and you could see it on the screen in person to see this sea of american flags that were given out to all of the delegates patriotism is definitely the watchword here tonight. it is not an accident that this is what they are leaning into. this is the theme of one of the main themes of kamala harris's discussion and what they say they are trying to reclaim from republicans here are the chicks formerly known as the dixie chicks, who are going to sing the national anthem oh say, can you see by

the dawn's early light. >> what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in

air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave land of the free and the home of the brave thank you thank you,

please welcome kerry washington esha karam welcome to the final night of the democratic national convention the last three nights have been extraordinary. >> and tonight we hear from our next president kamala harris now, as i stand here, i know that there are folks on social media already saying, go back to your tv show, shut up and act. >> but i am not here tonight as

an actor. i am here as a mother as a daughter, as a proud union member i'm here i am here as the granddaughter of immigrants as a black woman descended from enslaved people. >> i am here tonight because i am an american and because i am a voter, and because we the people are stronger when all our voices are heard look, i know that i am the one standing on this stage but i am not the lead character in this story. >> you are all of you. you are the messengers. you are the fixers. dare i say it? you are the olivia pope's you are the

superheroes saving this democracy. >> it is you not me, who have the greatest power to convince your loved ones to vote. >> so just like michelle obama told us, let's do something let's make a video everybody take out your phones. everybody take out your phones we're going to make a moment. can somebody bring me my phone? >> i want to capture this historic moment and share it with the people that we love. >> oh, hi get over here hey you okay here's what we're going to do. >> you can take this video, guys. we're all going to take it together. we're going to post it to social media, text your friends send this message out into the world when i say when we fight, you're going to

say are you ready? >> okay, let's record. we're recording. are you ready, tony? yep okay. ready. when we fight, we when we fight when we fight are you ready for kamala harris to win yes. >> good because when kamala wins america wins who we did it. >> we did it joe thank you. >> tony, i don't get to say no you got to go hi everybody. tony goldwyn. ladies and gentlemen okay, so listen, it's come to my attention that there are some folks who struggle or pretend to struggle with the proper pronunciation

of our future president's name so hear me out. >> confusion is understandable disrespect is not so tonight we are going to help everyone get it right here to help me are some very special guests thank you. >> ladies, can you tell us your names? >> hello everybody. my name is amara and my name is leela. her little sister and what are you here to do? to teach you how to say your auntie's name okay so how do you pronounce it? first you say kamala like a kamala in a sentence then you say la la la la la la la put it together and it's one, two, three. >> kamala all right, so let's practice. >> let's practice everybody on

the everybody over here say kamala everybody over here say la la together oh la la la la for president la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la please

welcome meena harris ella emhoff and helen hudson hi. >> i'm mina, i'm ella, and i'm helena i grew up in oakland california in a house full of extraordinary women my mom my grandma and my auntie who showed me the meaning of service, helping her sister, a 17 year old single mom fighting for justice for the american people and still cooking sunday family dinner. >> she guided me. now she's guiding my own children and i know she'll guide our country forward kamala came into my life when i was 14, famously a

very easy time for a teenager like a lot of young people, i didn't always understand what i was feeling. >> but no matter what kamala was there for me she was patient caring and always took me seriously. she's never stopped listening to me and she's not going to stop listening to all of us kamala harris is my godmother to me her advice means everything whether it's pursuing my passions, making an impact, or finding hope. >> when the world doesn't feel so hopeful. she taught me that making a difference means giving your whole heart and taking action she's fighting for economic opportunity lgbtq plus equality and reproductive freedom because we are not going back. she's fighting for

social justice health, justice environmental justice and she isn't alone. we're all in this fight together so let's keep up the fight. let's keep up the joy and let's elect this extraordinary woman as our next president i'm sorry thank you please welcome actor and comedian d.l. hughley hey now. >> hey, chicago. how y'all doing what's happening? >> california now, wait wait.

>> widow's acres at. we're at you know what? in three months ain't gonna be no living with y'all i can tell, i can tell you this. >> i don't blame donald trump for not wanting to debate kamala. i've been married to a black woman for 40 years, and i ain't won one debate. >> i'm owing 93,000 now of course, trump is saying that kamala isn't black. >> i guarantee you this. kamala has been black a lot longer than trump's been a republican and if he keeps sliding in the polls the way he is the only thing, the only way he can keep kamala out of the white house is if he buys it. >> and refuses to rent it to her of course, kamala is

getting broad support. they got black men for kamala, white men for kamala latinos and asians for kamala. they even have republicans for kamala republicans will come, i guess donald trump will finally know what it's like when you get left for a younger woman hey but seriously, kamala knows the truth about the american dream that hard work is not alone enough hard work alone is not enough to succeed, that you need access and information and opportunity and she knows that some folks are often denied those very things. as president she will give each and every one of us a fair shot in life

but i but i have to admit, i didn't always believe that i mean, if you told me the 15 year old me would be on stage supporting a prosecutor and a teacher there is no way that i would have believed you but because of that, i made assumptions about kamala's record, and i often repeated them to a lot of people then one day, kamala invited me to her house. >> she put her hand on my shoulder and she asked me to do some research, something i had never done, something a lot of people i know had never done before imagine attacking someone's character without a single google search um so i did what i should have done in the first place. i learned that she had done for us exactly what she promised to. i believe that your apology should be as loud as your accusation, and i'm here apologizing in front of the whole world i am, i was

wrong i was wrong, and i'm so very glad i was wrong. >> because, kamala, you give me hope for the future. a future where my grandchildren, nolan and stevie have the freedom to control their own bodies, where they have the opportunity to go as far as their wits and their talents would take them that, future, ladies and gentlemen, is possible but only if we elect kamala harris as the 47th president of the united states of america i will say this to you. the best piece of advice i've ever gotten in my entire life is you don't have to know what you will do. just know what you want. and we won't go back the energy in this room is

electric and you can feel it everywhere, all over the country. >> in the coming weeks, i want us to find ways to maintain this energy and this joy and this commitment because there will be days when the work ahead seems impossible. and when that happens, i know what i do. i get involved, i get engaged, i ask myself how can i be of service to my community? because community is why. this is why we do this. am i right yes, we do this for our children, for our parents, for our teachers and care workers who treat our loved ones like their own. we do this for working families who make this country thrive. we do this for the planet and for each other we do this for justice and for peace and for democracy. and as we are about to hear, we do

this for the safety of our communities please welcome genesee county, michigan, sheriff chris swanson my job is to protect people all people in 2020, righteous anger spilled over into the streets of flint, michigan one bad decision from either side, and there would have been bloodshed. >> but that didn't happen we laid down our riot gear and we embraced the community and instead of hate, we chose hope

on january 6th, the opposite occurred that day was paved with division deceit and denigration police officers were attacked that day it could have been stopped we need a leader who will embody what's affixed to all three sides of my sheriff patrol cars protect serve and unify kamala harris is that leader as a prosecutor kamala harris protected us by putting violent criminals and sex offenders behind bars. >> if i was in a courtroom, she's exactly the tough prosecutor that i'd want to see as vice president she served america by keeping us safer and

i can testify firsthand where i come from crime is down and police funding is up as president kamala harris will unify our country. she will bring us together because our country needs a leader who will go toe to toe with drug cartels and bullies one who has already taken the oath, raised her right hand to advocate for the people i can tell you in 2020, we were able to turn a protest into a peaceful movement by walking together one city, one community, and one country. america. >> let's walk. let's walk,

let's walk together. and let's elect kamala harris and turn hate into hope. yet again. >> thank you thank you we were contemplating adopting and then i don't know where i got pregnant. >> jordan was so much fun as a child when all of a sudden, oh, my god somebody's shooting three of those rounds. >> he aimed at jordan. jordan didn't deserve to die that way reports of an active shooter at a high school these students have now lived through so many of these shootings since they were born, almost we were praying and crying. >> i don't know how we're alive. >> an active shooter at an elementary school in uvalde, texas, multiple children have been killed, most of the bodies. so mutilated that only dna tests or green converse

could identify them. >> trump did nothing on guns and was proud of it. >> there was great pressure on me. we did nothing after a mass shooting in iowa, trump said. >> i have to get over it. >> you never get over it. >> kamala harris and joe biden refused to get over it as district attorney. she got illegal guns off the street as attorney general, she took on transnational crime rings and stopped gun trafficking as vice president, she helped pass the most sweeping gun violence legislation in three decades, keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, expanding background checks, closing loopholes. >> we're finally past red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban kamala understands the

fight. we're in the power is with the people and gives people like me survivors like me hope when i worked for everytown for gun safety georgia representative lucy mcbath when i worked for everytown for gun safety and moms demand action for gun sense in america i saw firsthand the power of telling our stories you've just heard mine but there are many more to tell on december 14th, 2012, i

walked into sandy hook school. >> i stopped at the office, chatted with my principal, then started my day with my second graders. suddenly a loud crash like metal folding chairs falling 154 gunshots blaring hiding in the coats trying to sing with my students trying to read to them, trying to drown out the sounds terror crying running i carry that horrific day with me 20 beautiful first grade children and six of my beautiful colleagues were killed they should still be

here it's 10:30 a.m. at robb elementary in uvalde. >> the school is recognizing my 10-year-old daughter, lexi, for receiving all a's she receives a good citizen award, and we pose for photos she wears a saint mary's sweatshirt and a smile that lights up the room 30 minutes later, a gunman murders her 18 classmates and two teachers. we are taken to a private room where police tell us she isn't coming home uvalde is national news parents

everywhere reach for their children. i reach out for the daughter i will never hold again lexi my niece, sandy patrice, was 22. she drove to myrtle beach for sun and fun and motorcycle parades hours later, my phone rang shooting on the beach. no one can find sandy i stayed calm you see, my mother, patricia ann had been shot and killed by an abusive

partner. i was calm then too. i got to handling business i called relatives the police hospitals and i kept calling voice steady, heartbeat pulsing then i was connected to the coroner ten years of waiting and sandy's murder is still unsolved i'll keep calling and i'll keep fighting i was in high school when my classmate got shot. >> it changed my story. instead of worrying about taking a test, i started worrying about living to take another test. >> they say schools are for

learning, and i did learn a lot that day. i learned how to run, how to hide and drop that. what happens in the news can happen to me but i learned something else too that we can write and must write a new story if we choose to our our stories of loss but make no mistake our losses do not weaken us they strengthen our resolve we will secure a safer futures that we all deserve we will organize we

will advocate we will run for office and we will join with americans from small towns and big cities to keep our communities safe and we will elect leaders like kamala harris who won't just empathize, but will act for

nazma akther that's what law ron wyden law ron wyden for god. law for god court for please welcome former arizona representative gabby giffords hello, fellow americans i'm

gabby giffords i was born in the great state of arizona i was born with grit. >> i grew up racing motorcycles mucking stalls, and exploring the beautiful desert. >> i fell for an astronaut for five years, i served in congress from a swing district. >> everybody called me a rising star. then on january eighth, 2011, a man tried to assassinate me. >> he shot 19 people. he killed six. >> a terrible terrible day. >> i almost died, but i fought for my life. and i survived i

learned to walk again. >> one step at a time i learned to walk again one word at a time so many people helped me as i worked hard to recover, including a decent man from delaware who always checked in. he still does thank you, joe biden. thank you for everything joe is a great president. my friend kamala will be a great president. she is tough. she has grit kamala can beat the gun lobby. >> she can fight gun trafficking kamala stood up to wall street and the drug company. >> she will protect abortion

access she will defend our freedom. >> she saved lives. join me in voting for kamala harris bravo. thank you congresswoman. >> former congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband, senator mark kelly it's really a remarkable the progress she has made since that horrible shooting in 2011. dana where she was grievously injured and six others were killed gretchen whitmer. i remember seeing her within the year after an interview here, after she was shot and to think about that versus what we just saw here and to hear her say, i was a rising star. and that was

stolen from her. >> yeah. and to say i was almost killed and to have her standing there with her husband, who is never going to be a politician but stepped in and ran and became a senator from his adopted home state of arizona because she was no longer a rising star because it was because she was shot in the head. that whole segment was so incredibly moving. on gun violence to see those mothers the teachers the students who were all there and we were covering so many of those events. i remember many of those days like they were yesterday. it was silent in here, reverend, in here, it was incredibly searing we are about to now hear from philadelphia's pride and joy doylestown, pennsylvania's own pink. >> who's going to be singing the song? what about us from her 2017 album let's listen da

da da da we are searchlights we can see in the dark we are rockets pointed up at the stars we are billions of beautiful hearts and we're sold us down the river too far what about us? >> what about all the times you said you had the answer what about us? what about all the broken, happy ever afters what

about us? >> what about all the plans that ended in disaster what about love? what about trust? what about us we are problems that want to be solved we are children that need to be loved we were willing we came when you call but man, you fooled us. enough is enough now what about us? what about all the times you said you had the answers what about us?

>> what about all the broken, happy ever afters what about us? >> what about all the plans that ended in disaster what about love? >> what about trust? what about us sticks and stones. >> they may break these bones, but then i'll be ready. are you ready? >> i don't want control. i want to let go i'll be ready now. it's time to let them know that about us. >> what about all the times you said you had the answers so

what about us? >> what about all the broken happy ever afters what about us what about all the plans that ended in disaster what about love? what about trust? what about us what about us? what about us? >> what about what al-qaim there was pink performing with her daughter, willow. >> audie. cornish. we heard the word freedom so much this week. >> we do only we hear freedom from rather than freedom to do something it's this interesting turn of language where basically you have democrats saying that there's a kind of encroachment on various

freedoms and saying, look, we can be free from gun violence. >> we can be free from, you know, a variety of things. and it's an interesting, kind of parallel to this long running conversation, even about abortion america. >> yeah, i agree, i agree, i to the world. i mean, for me this whole thing has been so beautiful and there's just too many funerals. there's too many funerals in america. there's just too much pain. and to have it spoken to in this way and and and to believe that there is somebody who understands because she's been there on the front lines. kamala harris has gone to those funerals she's held the hands of those victims, and she wants to do more. she wants to do something about it. >> the thing about these stories is they really aren't republican stories they're democratic stories, rural or urban. they cross so many lines and we have a common humanity, and they speak to those coming up right now is senator mark kelly. >> let's listen to senator mark kelly hello chicago hello

democrats karen bass tal kopan kate sullivan so president obama had a follow. >> michel i had a follow. gabby. and pink gabby amazes me. >> every single day she was able to walk out and address you tonight because she's a fighter and thanks to a team of doctors, nurses and especially

her speech therapist we all need a team i've flown into space four times. i've flown into combat nearly 40 times. >> not once did i do that by myself it took a team to accomplish a mission. it always does i flew in the navy during the first gulf war america rallied our allies to kick out a tyrant who invaded a neighbor today, vladimir putin is testing whether we're still that strong iran north korea

and especially china. watch closely what's trump's answer? >> he invited russia to do, and these are his words not mine whatever the hell they want vice president harris has always championed america's support for nato, for ukraine and for the ukrainian people on the senate intelligence committee, she investigated russian interference in our election she defends free and fair elections everywhere you already know how trump feels about those donald trump

skipped his intelligence briefings he was too busy sucking up to dictators and dreaming of becoming one himself. >> trump thinks that americans who have made the ultimate sacrifice are suckers and losers if we fall for that again and make him the commander in chief, the only suckers would be us kamala harris knows that standing with our allies means standing up for americans she'll keep modernizing our military to support our troops and to support our veterans like our

next vice president, tim walz the world laughs at trump literally but folks, it is not funny. >> when he was president, that meant the world was laughing at us. >> the threats we face are too serious. the sacrifices our service members make are too sacred. >> the alliances we've spent decades building are too critical that's what's at stake now. and the choice. the choice isn't even close. >> but in arizona and nationwide, this election will be we'll win in the same way we launch rockets into space

and land fighter jets on an aircraft carrier as one team on one mission state by state voter by voter, coming together. >> no country, no country is better than ours at solving big problems so on november 5th, let's prove that america is still the leader of the world needs today by electing the leader we need right now. kamala harris. >> thank you everybody. thank you please welcome former secretary of defense leon panetta my fellow americans

i'm proud to have served in the army. the congress, the white house chief of staff cia director and secretary of defense i've looked into the eyes of our warriors and deployed them into battle i gave the order directing our special operations forces to fly two helicopters, 150 miles into abbottabad at night and by the time the sun rose osama bin laden was dead you were because

because nobody attacks our country and gets away with it nobody that's that's what our warriors do. >> that's what our warriors do, our warriors need a tough, cool headed commander in chief to defend our democracy from tyrants and terrorists. >> we need kamala harris behind the resolute desk she knows she knows a tyrant when she sees one. >> and our allies know a leader when they see one on the senate

intelligence committee. and as vice president she worked with more than 150 world leaders she's looked our allies in the eye and said, america has your back trump would abandon our allies and isolate america we tried that in the 1930s. it was foolish and dangerous then, and it's foolish and dangerous now listen to president reagan, president reagan isolationism never was. >> and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments never trump tells tyrants like putin

they can do whatever the hell they want kamala harris tells tyrants the hell you can. >> not on my watch she's worked with president zelenskyy to fight back against russia. she knows that protecting their democracy protects our democracy. as well look donald trump does not understand the world, and he does not understand the service. >> and sacrifice of our military our fallen veterans are not suckers. they are not losers. they are our heroes

kamala harris will honor our veterans and in tim walz we will have a vice president who has served in uniform honorably for 24 years. >> kamala harris understands this moment. it is a moment of danger and a moment of opportunity she'll keep america's military the strongest in the world the strongest ever known and she understands what our military is for the role of our military is to defend us from foreign enemies. it is not to threaten americans and it sure as hell

isn't to put immigrants in camps every president every president since world war two, republican and democrat has shared the belief that america must protect democracy in the world every president has honored our veterans and their sacrifices every president but one but one. >> so we face a critical choice to vote for someone who stands with our military and stands up for democracy or someone who will disrespect our heroes and undermine our democracy my fellow americans, there is only

one choice, one choice. >> and let me tell you something when she takes her oath of office as she will, this january our allies will cheer our enemies will fear and we will have a commander in chief that we can trust. god bless our veterans and god bless our country please welcome arizona representative ruben gallego i'm a dad

husband congressman and the proudest arizonan you'll ever meet but i am even prouder to be a marine. >> rough my mom raised us alone on a secretary's salary. >> i slept on the floor. i worked every job i could. meatpacking construction, making pizzas. i made it to harvard with no money or connections other kids were happy because they were at harvard. i was happy because i finally had a mattress then i enlisted, fought alongside my brothers with lima. >> 325 in iraq. >> they called us lucky lima, but our luck ran out. we saw

some of the heaviest combat of the war and when we got home, the government failed to help us readjust. we have a duty to care for our patriots who serve our nation for the vietnam veteran and buckeye who relies on the va for his medication. >> for the afghan veteran in pittsburgh who finally got treatment for his ptsd. for the marine in milwaukee, who relies on the benefits she earned from my navajo brothers and sisters to serve the marines with me, i remember you to kamala harris and tim walz are fighting for them. kamala harris has delivered more benefits to more veterans than ever before, and has achieved the lowest veterans unemployment rate in history vice president harris has stood up for us and our

families always tim walz served for 24 years. >> his passion for veterans earned him respect on both sides of the aisle, and he stands with us, too. in fact, let me introduce you to some of the many democrats who understand what service means, because we put country over politics we were proud to wear the uniform and we're proud serving our countries and city halls. >> state capitals, the u.s. house and the senate these veterans represent the best of our country. we stand united as veterans democrats, and patriots to fight for everyone

who serves but politicians but politicians like donald trump, they don't stand with us they call patriots like senator mccain losers john mccain was an american hero show some respect trump's project 2025 will slash veteran benefits and force va hospitals to close across the nation, show some respect so for the 18 year old, who decides to enlist. >> for the families like mine who prayed every night that their loved one would come home for our troops stationed thousands of miles away for my marines of lima company let's elect kamala harris and tim

walz, who don't just respect our service, but revere it because the veterans who defended this country aren't just the reason we can sleep at night they are the reason we can dream and together together, we'll fight for our veterans and everyone who served our country. >> thank you thank you we see

members of congress there who are all united states veterans mikie sherrill there in the white and others. >> and here is the governor of michigan gretchen whitmer >> i'm governor gretchen whitmer in lansing, they call

me governor. >> but in detroit they call me big gretch donald trump called me that woman from michigan as an insult being a woman from michigan is a badge of honor like women across america, we just gsd get stuff done at 29, i joined the sandwich generation sandwiched between working and raising my newborn and caring for my mom who was dying from brain cancer. it was hard but not extraordinary.

it's life. those nights reminded me who i was fighting for. people just trying to make it. >> kamala harris knows who she's fighting for. to she took care of her mom, who also battled cancer. >> as president, she'll fight to lower the cost of health care. and elder care for every family she's lived a life like ours. she knows us. donald trump doesn't know you at all you think he understands that when your car breaks down, you can't get to work? >> no his first word was probably chauffeur you think he's ever had to take items

out of the cart before checking out hell, you think he's ever been to a grocery store that's what the chauffeur is for but kamala harris she gets us. >> she sees us. she is us look, we've all. it's exhausting. >> we don't know what the next four years will bring but what we do know is this. through it all, your life won't stop. you're going to have to get to work. >> pick up the kids and pay your bills and then one day, when you're just trying to get everyone out the door a news alert goes off something happened something hit the fan.

>> you'll ask, is my family going to be okay and then you'll ask, who the hell is in charge? >> what if it's him what? what if it's that man from mar? a lago i know in a crisis, we need someone strong enough to come up with a plan to tell the truth and to bring people together. >> right now before the crisis is when we get to choose. why wouldn't we choose the leader who's tough tested and a total badass i know who i want as our

commander in chief, america. >> let's choose kamala harris please welcome actress director and philanthropist eva longoria hello chicago yes. >> i am so excited to be here tonight. what an honor to be part of this historic moment. and you all are part of it

look, i have known kamala harris for more than a decade, and she comes from a family a lot like mine. >> and i'm sure a lot like yours. >> we were both raised knowing that no one was going to hand us anything, especially as women, that we were going to have to touch every rung of the ladder to get ahead. we were going to have to work really hard. now she worked at mcdonald's, but i worked at wendy's and look at us now you see kamala and i were able to see beyond the horizon because our families supported our big dreams. well, guess what as americans, we're all part of one big family. somos familia and as familia we have to have each other's back.

>> we have to support each other's dreams because kamala's success is our success and she supports us to dream big too. >> so let me tell you, in the latino community, in our community, we have a saying si se puede which means yes, it means yes we can. but tonight i'm here to tell you. yes she can. so we're going to say, she said puede so when when someone asks you is she ready to lead this country forward. >> we're going to say she se puede. when somebody says is she qualified for the job, we're going to say she said. when somebody asks is she going to be the first female president of the united states? we're going to say, she said puede. our voices, our vote. we're going to decide this election. and let me tell you,

the energy tonight isn't just here in chicago. it's all across the country. people are gathered at watch parties everywhere to celebrate kamala harris say hello yes all right. >> we know how to work. so let's get to work. let's turn all of this enthusiasm and joy into action between now and november fifth. let's go. se puede! si se puede thank you please welcome former illinois republican representative adam kinzinger hey hey. good

evening. good evening. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. >> i'm adam kinzinger and i am proud to be in the trenches with you as part of this. sometimes awkward alliance that we have to defend truth defend democracy and decency i was just a kid when i was drawn to the party of ronald reagan, to his vision of a strong america the shining city on a hill. >> i was a republican for 12 years in congress, and i still hold on to the label. i never thought i'd be here. but listen, you never thought you'd see me here, did you? but i've learned something about the democratic party and

i want to let my fellow republicans in on the secret. the democrats are as patriotic as us they they love this country just as much as we do em steck and they and they are as eager to defend american values at home and abroad as we conservatives have ever been i was relieved to discover that because i've learned something about my party, too. something i couldn't ignore the republican party is no longer conservative. it has switched its allegiance from the

principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself donald trump is a weak man pretending to be strong he is a small man pretending to be big he's a faithless man pretending to be righteous he's a perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim he puts on. listen. he he puts on quite a show. but there is no real strength there. as a conservative and a veteran, i believe true strength lies in defending the vulnerable. it's in protecting your family. it's in standing up for our constitution and our democracy that that is the soul of being a conservative. it used to be

the soul of being a republican. but donald trump has suffocated the soul of the republican party his fundamental weakness has coursed through my party like an illness sapping our strength, softening our spine, whipping us into a fever that is untethered us from our values, our democracy was frayed by the events of january 6th, as donald trump's deceit and dishonor led to a siege on the united states capitol that day, i stood witness to a profound sorrow. the desecration of our sacred tradition, of peaceful transition, of power tarnished by a man too fragile, too vain and too weak to accept defeat how can a party claim to be

patriotic if it idolizes a man who tried to overthrow a free and fair election how? how can a party claim to stand for liberty if it sees a fight for freedom in ukraine, an attack pitting tyranny against democracy, a challenge to everything our nation claims to be? >> and it retreats. >> it equivocates. it nominates a man who is weirdly obsessed with putin and his running mate. his running mate who said, quote, i don't care what happens in ukraine yet he wants to be vice president. >> yeah. >> how can a party claim to be conservative when it tarnishes the gifts that our forebears fought for men like my grandfather, who served in world war two, who believed in a cause bigger than himself and he risked his life for it behind enemy lines to preserve american democracy. his

generation found the courage to face down armies listen, all we're asked to do is to summon the courage to stand up to one weak man some. >> some have questioned. some have questioned why i've taken the stand. i have. the answer is really simple. ladies and gentlemen we must put country first. and tonight. and tonight as a republican speaking before you i'm putting our country first. because the fact is i do belong here. i know kamala harris shares my allegiance to the rule of law. the constitution and democracy and she is dedicated to uphold upholding all three in service

to our country whatever policies we disagree on pale in comparison with those fundamental matters of principle of decency and of fidelity to this nation listen to my fellow republicans. if you still pledge allegiance to those principles, i suspect you belong here too because because democracy knows no party it's a it's a living breathing ideal that defines us as a nation. >> it's the bedrock that separates us from tyranny. and when that foundation is fractured we must all stand together, united to strengthen it if you think those

principles are worth defending then i urge you make the right choice vote. >> vote for our bedrock values and vote for kamala harris. god bless you please welcome lawyer policy advocate and sister of the vice president, maya harris hello, chicago in 1958, a 19 year old from india left the only country she'd ever known to chart her own path in america. >> she came here to pursue an

education, but she stayed here to build a life. her name was doctor shyamala gopalan harris but we called her mommy. >> mommy was so many things to so many people a civil rights activist a scientist, a devoted mother to her two little girls but most of all mommy was a trailblazer who defied the odds and defined herself. >> and when it came to kamala and me mommy had great expectations for us but she had even greater expectations of us she she raised us to believe that we could be and do anything and we believed her you see mommy understood the

power and the possibility that come with knowing and showing who you truly are. she knew we could be the authors of our own stories just as she'd been the author of her own mommy's journey and the opportunity that she wanted for kamala and me. >> that's a distinctly american story we may all have different histories, different struggles, or different perspectives, but what binds us together is the fervent desire to be free, to fulfill our god given potential kamala's entire life has been about fighting for each of us to have that freedom. and like so many americans, kamala knows what

it's like to be underestimated and be counted out. she knows what it's like to be the underdog and yet still beat the odds. and now she has created so much electricity so much optimism, so much joy throughout the nation. and it is why we need her leadership in this historic moment we are living in a time when some are trying to divide us to separate us in ways that make it difficult for us to come together. >> well look, my sister rejects that view where others push darkness. kamala sees promise where others feel detachment. kamala fosters connection where others want to drag us back to

the past. my sister says, hold up now. >> we are not going back because kamala understands we have so much more in common than what separates us. >> she knows the measure of our success isn't just winning an election it's about who we bring along and lift up in the process and so, as i look out at all of you today and take in this incredible moment, i so wish that mommy could be here tonight i can just see her smiling saying how proud she is

of kamala and then without missing a beat she'd say, that's enough. >> you got work to do she would tell all of us to roll up our sleeves and get to work to elect a leader who sees the potential in each of us. >> a leader who cares for all of us. a leader who fights for every one of us. our democratic nominee. my big sister. the next president of the united states, kamala harris please welcome north carolina governor

roy cooper hello america. i'm roy cooper. >> the last guy standing between you and the moment we're all waiting for so? >> so i'm going to get right to it. all week, you've heard stories about my friend kamala. i want to take you behind the scenes of one of them. 2011 was a rough time for american homeowners. >> homeowners hundreds of thousands were losing their homes to illegal foreclosure. i was attorney general in north carolina while kamala had just become california's all the ags were close to a settlement

with the big banks and it was a pretty good deal. would have meant $4 billion for california families who'd been ripped off. >> i know that sounds like a lot, but kamala said hang on a minute i've met these families. >> i know what they've been through. and they deserve more she went toe to toe with some of the world's most powerful executives, and she refused to give in. >> let me tell you, this was a huge risk. but she knew it was a risk worth taking. that's kamala, and we all know what happened. the banks caved that $4 billion for california families became 20 billion. >> that was the first time i witnessed kamala in action and

what i saw was a leader who does exactly what she says she's going to do who never will settle for less. >> america. >> we got a lot of big fights ahead of us, and we've got one hell of a fighter ready to take them on i know that. >> i know that because i know her. >> and tonight, i want the american people to know if. even if you don't agree with her on everything. >> kamala harris will fight for you to the very end. >> for families who need better health care or a safer place to live. kamala will fight for you. for parents who want better schools for their kids. for workers worried about a secure retirement for themselves, kamala will fight

for you. for any one of our allies anywhere in the world wondering if america still has your back remember this. kamala will fight for you. >> and when she fights we win kamala is ready. >> kamala is ready. the question is, are we are we going to stand up and fight for kamala like she'll stand up and fight for us? >> all right. >> if you're ready, my home state of north carolina. stand up stand up pennsylvania. stand up michigan. stand up! wisconsin. >> stand up! georgia. stand up! nevada. >> stand up arizona.

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everyone. >> good evening good evening oh, my good evening everyone. >> good evening. >> good good evening. >> thank you thank you. thank you good evening. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you everyone. thank you. >> thank you thank you thank you all thank you all. okay, we

got to get to some business. we got to get to some business. okay. thank you all. >> okay. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. >> please. thank you. please. thank you so very much. thank you everyone. thank you everyone. thank you. okay let's get to business. let's get to business. >> all right so let me start by thanking my most incredible husband, doug for being an incredible partner to me and an incredible father to cole and ella and happy anniversary dougie i love you so very much to our president, joe biden

when i think about the path that we have traveled together joe, i am filled with gratitude. your record is extraordinary as history will show and your character is inspiring and doug and i love you and jill and are forever thankful to you both and to coach tim walz you are going to be an incredible vice president and to the delegates and everyone who has put your faith in our campaign, your support is humbling. >> so america the path that led

me here in recent weeks was no doubt unexpected but i'm no stranger to unlikely journeys so my mother, our mother, shyamala harris, had one of her own, and i miss her every day. and especially right now and i know she's looking down smiling i know that. so my mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone, traveling from india to california with an unshakable dream to be the scientist who would cure breast cancer when she finished school, she was supposed to return home to a traditional arranged marriage. but as fate would have it, she met my father, donald harris a student from jamaica they they fell in

love and got married and that act of self-determination made my sister maya and me growing up, we moved a lot. >> i will always remember that big mayflower truck packed with all our belongings ready to go to illinois to wisconsin and wherever our parents jobs took us my early memories of our parents together are very joyful ones. >> a home filled with laughter and music aretha coltrane and miles at the park my mother would say stay close, but my father would say, as he smiled, run, kamala, run don't be afraid. don't let anything stop you from my earliest years

he taught me to be fearless. >> but the harmony between my parents did not last. when i was in elementary school, they split up and it was mostly my mother who raised us before she could finally afford to buy a home, she rented a small apartment in the east bay in the bay in the bay you either live in the hills or the flatlands. we lived in the flats a beautiful working class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers all who tended their lawns with pride. my mother, she worked long hours and like many working parents, she leaned on a trusted circle to help raise

us. mrs. shelton who ran the daycare below us and became a second mother, uncle sherman, aunt mary uncle freddie, auntie chris, none of them family by blood and all of them family by love family who taught us how to make gumbo. how to play chess and sometimes even let us win family who loved us believed in us and told us we could be anything and do anything they instilled in us the values they personified community faith and the importance of treating others

as you would want to be treated with kindness respect and compassion my mother was a brilliant five foot tall brown woman with an accent and as the eldest child as the eldest child i saw how the world would sometimes treat her but my mother never lost her cool. >> she was tough courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women's health, and she taught maya and me a lesson that michelle mentioned the other night she taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it do something about it that was my mother and she taught us, and she always she also taught us

and she also taught us and never do anything half and that is a direct quote a direct quote i grew up immersed in the ideals of the civil rights movement. >> my parents had met at a civil rights gathering and they made sure that we learned about civil rights leaders including the lawyers, like thurgood marshall and constance baker motley those who battled in the courtroom to make real the promise of america. so at a young age, i decided i wanted to do that work. i wanted to be a lawyer. and when it came time to choose the type of law i would pursue, i reflected on a pivotal moment in my life. you see, when i was in high school, i started to notice something about my best friend wanda. she

was mad at school and there were times she didn't want to go home. so one day i asked if everything was all right and she confided in me that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather. >> and i immediately told her she had to come stay with us. and she did this is one of the reasons i became a prosecutor to protect people like wanda, because i believe everyone has a right to safety, to dignity and to justice as a prosecutor when i had a case i charged it not in the name of the victim but in the name of the people. for a simple reason. in our system of justice a harm against any one of us is a harm

against all of us and i would often explain this to console survivors of crime, to remind them no one should be made to fight alone. >> we are all in this together and every day in the courtroom, i stood proudly before a judge and i said, five words. >> kamala harris for the people and to be clear and to be clear my entire career i've only had one client. the people and so on behalf of the people on

behalf of every american regardless of party, race gender or the language your grandmother speaks on behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey on behalf of americans like the people i grew up with people who work hard chase their dreams and look out for one another on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation. on earth. >> i accept your nomination to be president of the united states of america and with this

election and and with this election, our nation, our nation, with this election has a precious fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness cynicism and divisive battles of the past. >> a chance to chart a new way forward not not as members of any one party or faction, but as americans and let me say, i know there are people of various political views watching tonight, and i want

you to know, i promise to be a president for all americans you can always trust me to put country above party and self to hold sacred. america's fundamental principles from the rule of law to free and fair elections, to the peaceful transfer of power i will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations a president who leads and listens, who is realistic practical and has common sense and always fights for the american people from the

courthouse to the white house. >> that has been my life's work as a young courtroom prosecutor in oakland california, i stood up for women and children against predators who abused them as attorney general of california, i took on the big banks delivered $20 billion for middle class families who faced foreclosure and helped pass a homeowner bill of rights. one of the first of its kind in the nation i stood up for veterans and students being scammed by big, for profit colleges for workers who are being cheated out of their wages, the wages they were due for seniors facing elder abuse.

>> i fought against the cartels who traffic in guns and drugs and human beings who threaten the security of our border and the safety of our communities and i will tell you, these fights were not easy and neither were the elections that put me in those offices we were underestimated at practically every turn but we never gave up because the future is always worth fighting for and that's the fight we are in right now. >> a fight for america's future fellow americans, this election is not only the most important

of our lives, it is one of the most important in the life of our nation in many ways donald trump is an unserious man but the consequences but the consequences of putting donald trump back in the white house are extremely serious consider consider not only the chaos and calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election donald trump tried to throw away your votes when he failed, he sent an armed mob to the united states capitol, where they assaulted

law enforcement officers. when politicians in his own party begged him to call off the mob and send help, he did the opposite. he fanned the flames and now for an entirely different set of crimes he was found guilty of fraud by a jury of everyday americans and separately and separately found liable for committing sexual abuse and consider consider what he intends to do if we give him power again consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the capitol his explicit intent to jail

journalists political opponents and anyone he sees as the enemy. his explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our own citizens consider consider the power he will have especially after the united states supreme court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution just imagine donald trump with no guardrails and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the united states not to improve your life not to strengthen our national security, but to serve

the only client he has ever had himself and we know, and we know what a second trump term would look like. >> it's all laid out in project 2025, written by his closest advisers and it's sum total is to pull our country back to the past. >> but america, we are not going back we are not going back. we are not going back we are not going back to when donald trump tried to cut social security and medicare. we are not going back to when he tried to get rid of the affordable care act, when insurance companies could deny people with preexisting

conditions we are not going to let him eliminate the department of education that funds our public schools we are not going to let him end programs like head start that provide preschool and childcare for our children. america. we are not going back raphael warnock and we are charting and we are charting a new way forward forward to a future with a strong and growing middle class. because we know a strong middle class has always been critical to america's success and building that middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency and i'll

tell you, this is personal for me. >> the middle class is where i come from. >> my mother kept a strict budget we lived within our means, yet we wanted for little and she expected us to make the most of the opportunities that were available to us and to be grateful for them. because as she taught us opportunity is not available to everyone that's why we will create what i call an opportunity economy an opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete and a chance to succeed whether you live in a rural area, small town or big city, and as president i will bring together labor and workers and

small business owners and entrepreneurs and american companies to create jobs to grow our economy and to lower the cost of everyday needs like health care and housing and groceries. >> we will provide access to capital for small business owners and entrepreneurs and founders and we will end america's housing shortage and protect social security and medicare now compare that to donald trump because i think everyone here knows he doesn't actually fight for the middle class, not he doesn't actually fight for the middle class instead, he fights for himself and his billionaire friends and he will give them another round of tax breaks that will add up to $5 trillion to the national

debt and all the while, he intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax. >> call it a trump tax. that would raise prices on middle class families by almost $4,000 a year well instead of a trump tax hike, we will pass a middle class tax cut that will benefit more than 100 million americans. >> my friends, i believe america cannot truly be prosperous unless americans are fully able to make their own decisions about their own lives especially on matters of heart and home but tonight, in

america, too many women are not able to make those decisions. >> and let's be clear about how we got here. donald trump hand-picked members of the united states supreme court to take away reproductive freedom and now he brags about it in his words, quote, i did it and i'm proud to have done it. end quote. >> well i'll tell you over the last two years, i've traveled across our country and women have told me their stories husbands and fathers have shared theirs stories of women miscarrying in a parking lot developing sepsis, losing the ability to ever again have children. all because doctors are afraid they may go to jail

for caring for their patients couples just trying to grow their family, cut off in the middle of ivf treatments children who have survived sexual assault potentially being forced to carry a pregnancy to term this is what's happening in our country because of donald trump and understand he has not done as a part of his agenda he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication, abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without congress and get this get this he plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women's miscarriages

and abortions simply put they are out of their minds and one must ask one must ask why exactly is it that they don't trust women well, we trust women we trust women and when congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom as president of the united states, i will proudly sign it into law in this election many other

fundamental freedoms are at stake the freedom to live safe from gun violence in our schools, communities and places of worship. the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis and the freedom that unlocks all the others. the freedom to vote with this election, we finally have the opportunity to pass the john lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act and let me be clear and let me be clear

after decades in law enforcement i know the importance of safety and security, especially at our border. last year, joe and i brought together democrats and conservative republicans to write the strongest border bill in decades. the border patrol endorsed it. >> but donald trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign so he ordered his allies in congress to kill the deal well, i refuse to play politics with our security and here is my pledge to you as president. >> i will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed, and i will sign it into law i know i know, we can live up to our proud heritage as a nation of

immigrants and reform our broken immigration system we can create an earned pathway to citizenship and secure our border and america, we must also be steadfast in advancing our security and values abroad as vice president, i have confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders strengthened our alliances and engaged with our brave troops overseas as commander in chief, i will ensure america always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world and i will fulfill our sacred obligation

to care for our troops and their families and i will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice i will make sure that we lead the world into the future on space and artificial intelligence. that america, not china, wins the competition for the 21st century. and that we strengthen, not abdicate, our global leadership trump on the other hand threatened to abandon nato. he encouraged putin to invade our allies said russia could quote, do whatever the hell they want five days

before russia attacked ukraine, i met with president zelenskyy to warn him about russia's plan to invade i helped mobilize a global response over 50 countries to defend against putin's aggression and as president i will stand strong with ukraine and our nato allies with respect to the war in gaza president biden and i are working around the clock because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done and let me be clear and let me be clear. >> i will always stand up for

israel's right to defend itself and i will always ensure israel has the ability to defend itself, because the people of israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called hamas caused on october 7th, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival at the same time, what has happened in gaza over the past ten months is devastating so many innocent lives lost desperate hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again. the scale of suffering is heartbreaking president biden and i are working to end this

war such that israel is secure. the hostages are released, the suffering in gaza ends and the palestinian people can realize their right to dignity security freedom and self-determination and know this i will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against iran and iran backed terrorists. >> i will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators like kim jong u.n. who are rooting for trump who are rooting for trump because, you know, they know they know. he is easy to manipulate with flattery and

favors they know trump won't hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an autocrat himself and as president, i will never waver in defense of america's security and ideals, because in the enduring struggle between democracy and tyranny, i know where i stand and i know where the united states belongs so, fellow americans fellow americans i, i love our country with all my heart everywhere i go everywhere i go, in everyone

i meet, i see a nation that is ready to move forward ready for the next step in the incredible journey that is america i see an america where we hold fast to the fearless belief that built our nation and inspired the world, that here in this country anything is possible that nothing is out of reach an america where we care for one another. look out for one another and recognize that we have so much more in common than what separates us that none of us none of us has to

fail. >> for all of us to succeed and that in unity there is strength you know, our opponents in this race are out there every day denigrating america, talking about how terrible everything is well my mother had another lesson she used to teach never let anyone tell you who you are you show them who you are america let us show each other and the world who we are and what we stand for. >> freedom opportunity compassion dignity, fairness and endless possibilities we

are the heirs to the greatest democracy in the history of the world and on behalf of our children and our grandchildren and all those who sacrificed so dearly for our freedom and liberty, we must be worthy of this moment. it is now our turn to do what generations before us have done guided by optimism and faith, to fight for this country we love to fight for the ideals we cherish and to

uphold the awesome responsibility that comes with the greatest privilege on earth. >> the privilege and pride of being an american so let's get out there let's fight for it let's get out there let's vote for it and together let us write the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told thank you god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. >> thank you all trying to

rain. >> trying to rain on the thunder. tell the storm i'm new i'm a walk i'm on my drama. regular. >> ain't no white flags. blue love. forgive me i've been running, running blind in truth i'm a rain i'm a rain. on this little love tell a sweet i'm new i'm telling these tears go and fall away. fall away oh that's when my into flames freedom. oh freedom i can't move freedom cut me loose,

yeah. freedom freedom. where are you? cause i need freedom too i break chains all by myself. won't let my freedom rot in hell. hey i'ma keep running cause a winner don't quit on themselves vice president kamala devi harris age 59. >> daughter of oakland. accepting her party's nomination for the presidency of the united states of america. it was a speech that for weeks and five days ago she was not preparing to make. but as she said she is no stranger

to unlikely journeys. she shared with us her origin story as a prosecutor with her childhood friend wanda kagan, who is here tonight being molested by her stepfather she talked about representing the people. kamala harris for the people in her time as a prosecutor she discussed how she would be a president for everyone and wanting to form an opportunity economy to build and strengthen the middle class. it was a speech of progressive politics and unifying rhetoric, a speech with many, many shots across the bow of donald trump. her opponent, and a speech in which she sought to portray herself as a credible commander in chief, patriotic firm, confident and credible. she discussed israel and palestine. she discussed ukraine. she discussed the threat from iran it was a remarkable address. one that i've never seen her

give quite like this before, a very, very powerful speech. you got to go back, i think, to barack obama in 2008 for a democratic speech like this, perhaps even a speech like this at all. >> dana, jake, the hallmark of her vice presidency until frankly, until the dobbs decision was that she was dismissed and underestimated. and even now, some biden aides are saying that they didn't treat her the way that they should have. and the theme of this speech was that she's an underdog. the theme of the speech was don't underestimate america. don't underestimate all of us. and that is her story. that is her story. in the brief four years that we have seen her picked by uh, president biden and in the four weeks since she has been a

candidate for president in her own right and i will just say it was striking on the substance of this. how much policy there was how much populist policy there was on economics and how forceful she was on the foreign policy of it all. very very, um hawkish. >> i think if there's one thing that we know about kamala harris is that voters don't feel like they fully understand her. she has not actually been in the public eye in elected office on the political side, in, in for quite that long. so she is relatively new to this. and i felt like this speech was really filling out some of the contours of who she is as a person. and i do think she's been very misunderstood politically for quite some time in the primary, in 2020, she had to run to the left but when

i covered her then i covered. i spoke to a lot of people who covered her in her senate race. and in the years before she even became a politician in the true sense they view her in a very different way as a pretty pragmatic person, as somebody who has progressive beliefs but is not an ideologue and this part of her speech really struck out to me. she said she would be a president who is realistic, practical and has common sense and i think that if there is anything in this speech that she wanted to convey that would cut against the narrative, that is being written about her by republicans is that she is in the interest. she is interested in solving problems. she is interested in not just doing what you know the the left or the right says you should be on in terms of the ideological sides. but what she thinks is the right thing to do. and that was an important message for her to deliver tonight. and and i think she has to do that from this point forward is to help

to explain to people not just what does she believe, but how does she think about the decisions that she makes. and of course, it's always about a contrast, right, jake? i mean this is her introduction as you put so well abby, to filling out the contours of who she is and what she's going to do she treats donald trump as a as a threat, as a threat to democracy, as a threat to the word freedom. she uses over and over again and other opponents, whether it's been in his primaries or uh, you know running against him in a general election, have treated him a little bit more of a of a joke and she has said she said in this speech that he's not a serious man, but you have to take it seriously. and that clearly is going to frame the next 70 plus days. >> the speech was infused with patriotism from the beginning to the end. she also noted, quote, i know there are people

of various political views watching tonight and i want you to know i promise to be a president for all americans. you can always trust me to put country above party and self to hold sacred america's fundamental principles from the rule of law to free and fair elections, to the peaceful transfer of power. she was attempting to demonstrate that her patriotism is quite a contrast from that of her opponent, anderson rhetoric at times was muscular. uh, she talked about being a prosecutor, a commander in chief tempered with compassion, saying a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. >> she went on to say. we are all in this together and toward the end, talking about a lesson her mother, she says, used to teach which was never let anyone tell you who you are. you show them who you are tonight she wanted to show

america who she believes she is on this stage tonight. >> david axelrod yeah, look i mean, that was a great speech. i think it was a great speech she met the moment she told her own story compellingly. she told it in the sort of, uh in the in the context of the larger american story in a way that everyone can, could relate to she spoke to the struggles of middle class people and her desire to do do things to help, which i think will resonate a lot with folks in a country where that is continuing to be a concern. >> she she she hit the right themes on national security and personal security. um, you know, i think that she and the biggest thing is think back four weeks to the speech we heard in milwaukee and how discordant and negative and divisive it was and this was a unifying speech. this was a

speech in which she asserted, but also demonstrated a desire to be the president of the entire country. >> it would be fascinating to play those speeches side by side. it really would it would be devastating. i think you would think so. but if nothing else, the choice is very, very clear here between a unifying candidate who is who has positioned herself, i think, in the mainstream of american thought and values and donald trump and i think that was the goal and they succeeded audie, i think that we know she's been saying that that people have been talking about her as a joyful warrior we heard more warrior it was really about projecting strength all the way through even her personal story and growing up, they were framed in almost an opening arguments, right? >> referring to the public as her clients, saying that donald trump's client was himself it

actually helped for once, not for once. it helped that she used her biography to the fullest extent because that was the thing that she was perceived to have struggled with in the past. and here she was presenting that with the foot forward and i think that it just shows a very interesting sign of growth in 2020. >> there was criticism by some on the left saying kamala is a cop. >> yes there were moments tonight where she stepped very much into that. >> this is the kamala harris that we know uh, as a you ask a question, how does some kid from you know, the bay area who's a multiracial and all these different things climb to the very top of american politics because she is that tough she is that smart. who would have thought it would? it would take a multiracial woman from a blended family to remind america of what real patriotism is and how it works, and how it functions? could you see her as a commander in chief? that was

what she had to prove. you could see her as a commander in chief. you could see her facing down putin. if you're a dictator on the world stage right now, you should be very, very nervous that this woman is going to be in the white house. she is going to be a tough, tough partizan defender of freedom. >> john king anderson, two ways to look at it. let me start with what i think is the smaller piece of it. at least tonight, the policy part of it. what were her weaknesses coming into this speech? trump polls better than she does on the economy, on immigration she presented this let's get housing let's get jobs. let's help workers. let's do middle class. republicans will push her. how are you going to pay for it? all of that. but she made an affirmative case for how i can help the middle class grow on immigration. she mocked trump for pulling away from the bipartisan border deal, said i'll sign that deal, but i'll also go back to us being a nation of immigrants with strong border security again, she'll have to defend this in the 75 days to come. but she tried to address in a forceful way her two biggest weakness on policy bigger. i think, though, as people have discussed, was the contrast we have now a

biden-trump race was a race between two older men that much of america didn't want. you have a very clear choice after this speech tonight especially after listening to donald trump in milwaukee, optimistic and american dream, an american journey. let's come together a unifying speech. her challenge tonight was to prove she could be a credible center left president. the incoming i'm getting from republicans say a lot of them think, at least with this speech, she did just what she had to do. >> scott. yeah let me start with a couple of things that i think she did absolutely right or that are improving for her. first of all, the podium presence is really good. i didn't think much of her public speaking before, but since she's gotten into this race, she's only been behind a podium and she did that well tonight. so from a plausibility perspective, what you would expect to see out of a president, she absolutely did that. >> it is a sea change from what she was in 2020. >> it's a lot. well, even while she has been during the biden years she's not been that steady on her feet. but behind the podium, off a prompter in a big speech, she obviously can do it. that's number one.

number two, as an image matter, she looks young, she looks coherent she seemed calm. so she's the anti biden, right? i mean that's that's what was the problem with the democratic campaign. he was none of those three things. and now she puts that on. now the republican pushback. and i think there's some truth to this is that some of this is just substanceless pablum that there's really no specificity in it and that they ultimately think they are going to be able to fire her as the incumbent. and i think that's the question that we're really going to be answering over the next couple of months, how far can she run away from joe biden to prevent the republicans from portraying her as the incumbent and then firing her as the incumbent? the country is off on the wrong track. people believe it. they still have economic anxiety. can she shake off those vibes and replace them with this sort of esoteric unity vibe that they've been portraying at the convention? >> i think i think when you said that last night, you were on very solid ground. i don't think today you're on solid

ground. this was substantive all night long policy on immigration, policy on foreign policy, policy on on gun violence, on climate, on the care economy. this, you know, this was not all sizzle. this was sizzle. plus real steak. and by the way, i think we both have to say the way she dealt with israel and the way she dealt with gaza tough and defensive of of israel, but also compassion to the palestinians. she their sizzle and their steak tonight agree with you on israel. >> i thought that paragraph was good. the issue you didn't list in your bullets the economy and inflation. i still think at the end of the day, the people are so upset with biden and harris on the economy. if the republicans tie her to it, all of the other stuff falls away because it's the most important issue. >> the check in with kaitlan collins on the floor, caitlin hey, anderson, i am standing here in the california delegation where everyone just watched that speech. >> a lot of them had tears in their eyes as the vice president was speaking. i was just about 20ft away from from her entire family. they were seated right there in the front

row sisters, her nieces doug emhoff, the second gentleman, his kids as well. they were all there in the front row as she was delivering that speech, her nieces were actually holding up a hand colored, hand-drawn signs as she was giving that speech that had butterflies and hearts on them as she was speaking. but this delegation right here, i mean, before she could even get the sentence out of her mouth that she was accepting their nomination as the democratic nominee for president of the united states, they shot up out of their seats, their seats. they were up essentially every few lines as she was delivering that speech, not only talking about her personal story referencing her sister, how they grew up, her sister had just given a deeply personal story before talking about her mother and how they wished her mom could be here for this. she also delved into those issues that scott was just talking about, the ones that she's often been seen as the most vulnerable on the economy. immigration for democrats, the israel and the war in gaza talking about all of those things head on in this speech tonight and of course,

just really the mood here to see these californians with governor gavin newsom and former house speaker nancy pelosi seated in the front row watching that speech very closely as she was delivering it. anderson, we talked to a lot of the california delegates. we've been around them for the last three hours or so. and obviously a real sense of pride watching her as they are in the prime seating on this floor. now, the balloons, of course are everywhere, confetti falling as all of these delegates here were watching their home state california, and deliver that speech here at the democratic convention. >> anderson, let's go to sara sidner who's also on the floor. sara i am standing in front of minnesota, but we have some interlopers here who are so excited. they had to get as close as they could to the stage. we've got dara, shannon and chris. you're from tennessee, you're from dc you're from new york. three different states. >> um, tell me what you heard today because you were obviously young voters. what did you hear today that might

appeal to young voters? being that this could be an extremely tight race where every vote group counts. >> we heard joy here. we heard truth. >> we heard accountability. we heard from diverse populations, from her family from black men, from republicans and youth were empowered with information tonight with passion and with joy. and i think that's what we want and what we need. so we're excited. we're pumped, and we love the love that is being spread in our country again. we are proud to say we are americans now seriously, because of what we see our democracy doing now. so i represent the youth vote and i know that this is how we feel. so very excited i have a feeling that you will be running for office one day. >> i will be keeping this interview. tell me what you saw that struck you, that made you feel like you wanted to help? that you wanted to help. campaign vice president harris represents our values she shows up for our communities. she talked about her track record everybody who came to the stage talked about what she has done

for us. she has shown up continuously for our communities, and we're looking forward to how she can take us forward into the future and for you, miss new york, what did you see that you liked and was there anything you saw that you didn't like? oh my god, this everything i loved here tonight. like they all said, it's all love. but one of the biggest things because of the biden administration and vp kamala harris, she's been a huge advocate for gun violence prevention and intervention, making sure these organizations are getting funded and responding to community based public safety first and redefining public safety. and i know for a fact that a lot of young black and brown people are looking to vote for her on this very special day so those are one of the exciting things that i'm very honored to be a part of. and we're just here excited and watching and embracing all of history tonight as the young people say

anderson, we out here and if you had any doubt that young voters are not enthusiastic they spoke so beautifully about how they feel and what they're going to do when they leave this convention. >> anderson. >> sarah, thanks very much we'll check back in with you. back with the team here you know, we heard things from her that we don't normally hear from a democratic candidate in a speech like this. she talked about maintaining the strongest and most lethal fighting force in the world. and went on to say, you know, about never disparaging their sacrifices, obviously referenced to the many reports about what donald trump has said. >> yeah, but just even talking about the lethality of our fighting forces is language you don't normally hear, right? >> you know this this was a very muscular speech. and look the the whole hallmark of the trump candidacy when you lay it bare is he's strong. he's strong. and that was the advantage he had over joe

biden. she was a she she showed strength on that stage tonight. and i think that she has cut his advantage there. she looked like a president on that stage. i also wanted to mention audi's point was so important to me, having done this for a while biography is really, really important because it's the way in which people take the measure of whether they can believe what you're saying and the way she told the story of her own life and her own choices. uh gives people some confidence that the commitments she's making are genuine commitments. and then the last point i want to scott your point about, uh biden and and the strategy of the republicans which i understand it to be reasonable strategy to try and saddle her with, with some of the negatives that biden has it is really interesting how little she mentioned joe biden in this speech. in certain ways. this was her declaration

of independence. i agree with that and she became her own person in this speech and i've told you before, we'll see how this turns out. i think you're going to have a hard time saddling her in the way that you guys are hopeful that you can. >> well, she she still flies around on air force two. i mean, but that's the race. and it's going to take place in a truncated period of time. can she get away from him, or can donald trump and his campaign apparatus drive home the point that that there's no blank slate here, that this is a person who's been right next to joe biden executing on the policies that you say have driven you crazy over the last four years. and there's really just a simple question for trump to ask if you're upset about the direction of the country maybe you don't put the people in charge who are already in the white house. i don't know who's going to win that race but to me, between now and the debate on september 10th, that is the argument that's going to be had between these two juggernaut campaigns. >> i think that i think that kamala harris has done something she's not just going to get away from biden, which i

think that she can do now, penalty free penalty free. and she she has this party behind her. but she's doing something. she's fixing some problems on the left this whole this whole thing has been an implicit critique of problems that we've had on the left. the left before we walked in here was about justice diversity, trigger warnings reparations for the past, and a bunch of party poopers and scolds that was the knock on the left we have gone from talking about justice, which is wonderful, but now it's about freedom. it's not just about diversity it's about patriotism. it's not just about trigger warnings. in fact, that's gone. it's tough tough, tough reparations for the past no fight for the future party poopers. no. we legalize fun. we legalize fun. if we put the party back in the democratic party and so this is a a remolding of the genetic makeup of what the progressive movement is. these guys want to fight not just biden in the past. they want to fight this

sort of anti-woke war against a left that just died in here. and something new just got born. the kamala harris democrats are a different thing for you guys to fight different things. >> i'm not sure the left is going to go down as as easy as you think. but i agree with your chart. and i did want to pick up on one word that you wrote. and that's patriotism. >> yes, sir i do think that republicans should pay attention to what happened in this hall tonight. >> and the power of patriotism. it is a powerful thing. >> i made a snarky quip about it earlier, but what i what i was noticing was the american flags, the number of them everybody had one towards the end of the speech, they had large american flags there is something very symbolic about a waving american flag of the red, white and blue, especially when you consider what we've seen out of the left on the streets of america and on the campuses of america over the last several months. you didn't really pick that up in the hall, but there is a rebuke. there is something interesting about it, and it was powerful. >> i want to quickly go to caitlin on the floor caitlin. >> yeah. anderson. thanks. i am

joined by two special guests here. pete buttigieg and his husband, chasten buttigieg. great to have both of you. what did you make of vice president harris's speech tonight? it was extraordinary. first of all, a clear and compelling account of who she is why she cares so much about serving others, protecting others and keeping this country safe. she also prosecuted the case against donald trump very effectively reminded americans of the two very different futures in front of us under her leadership versus going back to what he represented. and also a call to people who maybe don't agree with us all the time, maybe don't usually vote democrat, but are absolutely welcome in the coalition that she is building in the name of a better future. >> and your family has been invoked. you invoked it yesterday talking about that. and when talking about donald trump and his running mate and this, i wonder how you have just perceived all of this and this campaign and the contrast in the harris/walz ticket and the vance trump ticket? >> well, as he can attest, i was a blubbering mess all night as a parent you're right. i

couldn't stop thinking about the fact that the first president that our daughter is going to come to know is a woman who looks like her. and i couldn't get over that tonight. i think kamala made the case strongly that she is the candidate in this race who actually cares about families, not only families like ours but like you said, i think she made the case for all families across the country that she will be the president. who knows what it's like to sit at a table and and pay those medical bills and to have the hard conversations about what it means to send your kid to school nervous that they might not come back. so as a teacher, as a dad i'm so proud of her and i cannot wait to see her win this election in november. >> and obviously the speech went over quite well here in the democratic convention hall. but the question really is how does it go over in swing states, in places like michigan where you now live and others how do you think that that resonated with those viewers who are not inside here watching, but were at home watching? >> well, that's why it was so important that she spoke with clarity, not just about who she is, but about the difference between her plans and trump's plans. trump's plans to

eliminate the department of education to eliminate head start plans that would cut social security and medicare and leave families worse off versus her intention to create opportunity for the future you know, americans already agree strongly with her on every major issue they agree with her on protecting the right to choose they're angry at donald trump's decision to eliminate the right to choose. they agree with her that it is the wealthy who are not paying their fair share, and the middle class who need a break. they disagree with donald trump's tax cuts for the rich. so whether we're talking about the policy side or just i think the clearest ever picture americans have seen of what she is about and most importantly, who she is about, not herself, but the american people. i think that's a message that independents reasonable republicans, what i like to call future former republicans, people where we live in michigan and all around the country can relate to one of the biggest applause lines was her saying she supports a peaceful transfer of power. i mean, it's pretty remarkable that that that's an applause

line in this day and age. >> yeah. and i think she wants to lead the way to where that is table stakes, where any republican and any democrat would begin and end saying of course, we support a peaceful transfer of power. of course we believe in elections where a winner wins and a loser admits that they lost, while donald trump was incapable of doing that should not be a partizan issue. democracy should not be a partizan issue. and one of the many things i'm looking forward to when she wins, and i think a lot of republicans are quietly looking forward to, is when trump is defeated for the third time, defeated in 2020, his party really coming up short in 2022, but was defeated for a third time. that means it will be the beginning of the end of trumpism and the beginning of having a normal republican party in the future, which, even though i might not vote republican, is something i passionately believe we need two normal political parties. >> that's interesting. you think that if he loses this election, that that his his political style will come to an end i believe actually, i know for a fact that there are many republican elected officials

who know deep down that it is wrong to support donald trump, but they're doing it anyway because they think it is the path to power. >> if he leads the republican party to defeat yet again, that equation changes. and i don't think it's too naive to hope that they will come to their senses, if only because the power calculus changed on them pick themselves up and think about a different and better approach to politics. >> pete and chasten buttigieg, thank you for coming and joining us on the floor and braving the balloons. it's really hard to walk here, jake. you can't tell. but the big balloons are actually quite heavy. so we dodged a few of those on the on the way here for this interview, jake. >> all right. caitlin, thanks so much. and obviously kamala harris. vice president harris was prosecuting the case against donald trump this evening quite extensively for anybody wondering what former president trump was doing during the speech, he was very active on social media, posting numerous, numerous items, including where's hunter? too many thank yous too rapidly said, what's going on with her

about the vice president when she introduced herself and thanked her husband and president biden and her running mate coach walz, she called him, at which point donald trump posted wallace was an assistant coach, not a coach. and it went on from there more than 40 posts along those lines in contrast to that lack of discipline that we have seen from donald trump, we should note and this is really interesting, dan, and abby, uh, vice president harris stuck almost completely to script. >> um, she spoke exactly on time 37 minutes and something that's very interesting about her presentation her presentation? >> uh she obviously would be a trailblazing candidate. she would be the first woman president. she would be the first black president who is a woman. she would be the first, uh, at least half indian president she didn't mention any of that at all. i mean, i guess she believes that it

speaks for itself. and that's not how she's running. she is running as a candidate for to represent all of the american people even those people with whom she disagrees and who disagree with her. just kind of kind of an interesting uh, fact that she she really didn't. >> no note it at all. she talked about her, her mom facing discrimination, but but not her. >> and that it was so subtle but that was the way that she sort of wove it in talking about i just pulled up that part of her speech, talking about the way people would treat she watched the way people would treat her mother but her mother just kind of said, move on and focus on other things. and i thought that that was her way of saying, that's what i'm doing right now. i'm focusing on what i'm here for, what i'm going to do, not who i am. whether that is her gender or her race. and her ethnicity and

that was powerful in and of itself. now, this is a campaign where you have all of these everything that has been going on online for for weeks has been white guys for kamala. uh, you know black men for kamala, so on and so forth so people have been kind of dividing up in order to prove that she has different demographics behind her. but when it comes to her and the historic nature of her candidacy she just let it speak for itself, exactly as you said. and that is really interesting. >> i think it's also because she knows that that is not where she needs to grow it's not where she needs to expand her support. the people in this room are the faithful you know, the black women don't need a whole lot of convincing. maybe black men need a little bit more convincing than black women. but these are not the groups that need to be convinced to vote for kamala harris. she was speaking today for a broader swath of the electorate who wants to

understand whether she's prepared to be commander in chief, her gender and her upbringing. she doesn't spend a lot of time on it. when you talk to her about it, she understands the role that it's played in how she's come up in the political world and in her, and how she understands the world. but she does not spend a lot of time talking about it. i think by this point, many people are familiar with her mother's saying, which is you may be the first, but don't let yourself be the last. and i think that really is the reason she repeats that so much is because she doesn't really want to focus as much on the first part of that, saying she wants to focus on the other part of it, which is about what comes after her and what she actually does with with the power that she's been able to accumulate. >> all right. we're going to squeeze in a quick break. still ahead, we're getting the very first reaction to the vice president's speech from undecided voters in the key battleground commonwealth of pennsylvania. plus, we're going to talk live with one of tonight's speakers that is former republican congressman, still a republican, but no

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free and get a 6 million coin bonus. >> make every day a winning day and welcome back the 2024 democratic national convention is officially in the history books. >> is it ever? with kamala harris taking the stage here in chicago and accepting her party's nomination for president of the united states of america, i want to bring in jeff zeleny. jeff what's going on? where you are, jake as we look out over the convention hall there are still so many delegates here still balloons flying in the air the minnesota delegation, as we saw last evening, is still here. and it looks like they are just starting to begin their party. a lot of the other hall is clearing out. but what i'm told that vice president harris and governor walz are doing right now is meeting with some big donors right here in the

convention hall but, jake, for all of the talk and anticipation here and elsewhere that there may be a special guest, i am told by democrats that kamala harris was their guest they did not want a celebrity at the end of this convention to essentially compete with her. one senior adviser telling me, this is a deadly serious election and if you looked at the end of this program, having a leon panetta come on the former defense secretary really presenting vice president harris as a plausible commander in chief, that is one of the reasons i'm told that there was not a celebrity performance at the end of this convention was filled with many stars from oprah winfrey to the chicks to pink. but at the end of this convention, they wanted the takeaway to be about vice president harris. and again, as we look out onto the crowd here, the shouts that you may be able to hear holding kamala signs, that is the minnesota delegation so for all the talk of this convention after vice president harris leaves here, i'm told she and doug emhoff are having an anniversary celebration in downtown chicago

for friends and family john legend, i'm told, will be performing there for this private ceremony so certainly some celebrity, but they wanted the takeaway to be about harris and her 75 day campaign to come. >> those minnesotans, they sure love to party. imagine what's going to happen when the vikings actually win a super bowl. jeff, thanks so much appreciate it. we have a special guest here. even if beyonce didn't show up, we have a special guest. it's an actor director producer man about town ben stiller. thank you so much for being here. >> starts with a b. b e. >> it's close b e and then it's the ben hive. >> i'm a i'm a i'm a drone in the ben hive. oh, really so you were. >> you were up in in the apple box. you're a big guy with the apple. yeah. first. first convention i've ever been at. is that right? yes. yeah. and i was like flashing back to, like, when i was like whatever, like 7 or 8 years old in the lobby of my building in new york holding mcgovern signs you know, and like, i just it's the first time to ever be in this atmosphere. but knowing

what was happening tonight at such a historic moment, to be a part of it, be able to bring my daughter. >> very cool. it was, i mean, incredible so, i mean, was there something even i know you you have you have a son as well. >> and a wife as well. is there something meaningful about being here with your daughter, given the groundbreaking, the trailblazing nature of this candidacy? >> yeah i mean, i mean, first of all, she's going to be the first woman president, which is amazing. um, what she stands for, how she's united, the country. i think, and is going to and how she's about integrity and truth. um reproductive freedom and ending gun violence, all these things that i think are important to, to most people. um and that how she rose to the moment tonight. um, and she was so strong. and the way she talked about, um, what what we need to do to to beat trump. um, i think she it was just an incredible special historic thing tonight. we're

really glad that you're here, but i saw you nodding when jeff zeleny was. was reporting on the fact that the campaign didn't want to have a beyonce at the end, that they wanted her to be the celebrity. yeah. yeah. i mean, i think that's what the whole convention, it seems, has been about, you know, sort of presenting her, lifting her up and and really telling her story and letting people know in a very short amount of time who she is and she just rose to it tonight, and i think i just was taken by how, um forceful in a really honest and organic way she was in a way that i think was telling people that she can do this. she can win this, and she can unite the country. >> it's an extraordinary path to this nomination. obviously, four weeks and five days ago was not in the cards. joe biden was president biden was still the presumptive nominee. obviously, i know you have a lot of respect for president biden, but as a democrat, do you feel more hopeful about

november than than you did five months ago? yeah just to see the energy that's that's come about in such a so fast. and i think it was it was a really tough time. i think everybody was kind of looking at, you know, i think feeling that like maybe this wasn't going to go the way we'd want it to go and by the president doing this incredible thing of stepping aside, which, you know no one ever does, and then how quickly uh, kamala harris rose to the moment and how everybody coalesced around her and the unity that that you're feeling here, this unity, i think is really special. and, uh i think everybody is very very i mean, it's going to be a very close race but i think everybody's energized and excited and wanting to work hard like president obama said to, you know, get to work. >> do you have i'm sorry. i just want to because your daughter is here. she doesn't want to be on camera but you have you have two. you have. well, we invited her, but we have well, let me ask you just if i if i can.

>> i love that she's just like a normal daughter where she's, she's so she's she's so rolling her eyes. >> adorable. hey, dad. so can i just ask you and just talk into your dad's microphone your gen z? do you sense more excitement now than now? than five months ago? six months ago? and speak for you and your brother and your generation, if you can, 100%. >> um you can hold that. there you go. >> 1% for me. just the thought of a woman being president is so exciting and i was 14 years old in the 2016 election. and when hillary lost i, my heart was broken and to to hear her speak the other night and to to be watching this and then to come here tonight i'm so excited and i know all my friends are and i know that we have hope. and i know she's she's going to win. >> so you you voted for the first time in 2020. >> i voted for joe biden. >> i'm trying to do math quickly. it's not my strong suit during covid. yeah. and i was so proud to vote for biden. but this is this is very exciting for me. >> is the is the because my

daughter is 16 and she doesn't really pay. she she's she's very smart. she's very brilliant but she doesn't pay a lot of attention to like, washington politics. but the whole kamala harris brat thing like she got all of a sudden she got interested in politics. is that a real thing among, yes, 100%. >> i think that tapping into what people my age and women my age and and girls want to hear and, you know, the sort of meme culture of it all is silly as it is. or you might underestimate it. it's real distillers, thank you so much. >> so awesome. stay with cnn for much more of our special coverage. we're getting reaction to tonight's historic acceptance speech from the democratic nominee for president, kamala harris. we'll be right back. that was great. thanks, guys the proros for hav i i got news f for you arere pr obvious yeyeah, but whwhat are cons? we c could run o out of n befofore then thatat would neve

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