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>> in week, 2024 campaign trail brings you highlights in the libertarian party's national conv and a look at ohio's u.s. senate race. first, theask. former president donald trump was found gu o4 counts on the hush money trial in new york city. this is what he said on the day after the jury returned itself verdict have. >> from the president, by a man who can't put two sentences together, there is all done peo. maybe his people more importantly. i don't know if bidmuch about it know if he knows about anything but he's nevertheless the president so we have to use his name and this is done by washington and nobody's ever seen anything like it. so we have a judge who's highly

conflicted. you know what the confliction is. nobody wants to write about it and i'm not allowed to talk about it. said i get put in jail. so we'll play that game a little bit longer. we won't talk about it but. i hope you do because there's never been anybody so-con atlanticed as in. as far as the trial itself, it was very unfair. we weren't allow to use our election expert under any circumstances. you saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were on our side. they were literally crucified by in who looks like an angel but he's really a devil. he looks so nice and soft, people say oh, he seems like such you saw him in action and you saw that with a certain witness that went through hell and when we wanted to dohings, he wouldn't let us do those

things but when the government wanted something, they got everything. they got everything they wanted. it's a rigged -- it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change where we could have a fair trial. we didn't get it. we wanted a judge change. we wanted a judge that wasn't conflicted and obviously he didn't do that. nobody's ever seen anything like it. let me give you the good news. the good news is -- last night, we just got a report this morning, in the history of belim wrong, somebody will find that i'm wrong maybe, but i don't think so. they raised with,oney donors, meaning like -- 212, $42, $53 -- 38, a record -- 39 million in about a 10-hour

period. [applause] >> former president trump was also onef e speakers at last weekend's libertarian party national convention. s e of two■t non-libertaan who spoke at the convention, making his case that the party should support his canda instead of the party's own presidential nominee. next, highlights from his remarks there and the failed attempt to nominate mr. trump as a libertarian candidate. [boos] >> a lot of people ask why i came to speak this libertarian convention and, you know, it's aing an interesting, question, isn't it? but we're going to have a lot of fun. in the last year i've been indicted by t 91

different things so if i wasn't libertarian before, i sure as hell am a libertarian now. our rights and freedoms have never been more in danger than they are right now. that is why i have come to extend a hand of friendship to ask for your partnership to defeat communism, and defeat crooked joe biden who's he's destroying our country. we can be libertarian or anything else, in man is destroying our country. [audience chanting] >> the fact is, we should not be fighting each other. if joe biden get back in, until be no more liquid for anyone in our country. combined with us in a

partnership3o -- we must work together. combine with us. you have to combine with us. we cannot give crooked joe biden four more years and i stand before you tonight as your best hope of defeating the biden [boos] >> and the very evil regime that his people because it's probably not because he doesn't know where the hell he is but that his people are pursuing. you can make the difference. the libertarian party can make a big difference. together we can make america freer than ever before for of as and all walks of life. we can unleash new hope, un-- if we unite we arelease u

unstoppable. true friend to libertarians in the white house. [boos] >> a great libertarian who may very well be in the room right now, i believe,■■ but he's a grt libertarian. leroy murdoch, who i've become friends with this his writings in american spectator and other places wrote an article in which he mentions just some of the things that m a libertarian without even trying to be one. that's nice. he wrote -- donald j. trump will address the libertarian party at its national convention on saturday. the libertarian matter should nominate trump for president of the united states. that's nice. that's nice.

[boos] >> only if you want to win. only if you want to win. maybe you don't want to win. maybe you don't want to win. thank you, the d. roy. only do that if you want to win. if you want to lose, don't do that. keep getting your 3% every four years. the reasons for doing sotics, as the hope g d. roy says that this event is very unprecedented, he said. as the cato institute pe oned in thursday's "washington post," it will be the first time a u.s. -- think of this -- first time in u.s. al candidate of a rival party will address the convention of a prey

gathering to nominate its own candidate. now i think you should nominate me or at least vote for me and we should win together. [boos] you heard nose words. nominate me or vote.nç■ vote for me because the libertarians wants to vote for me will and it's very important because we have to get rid of the worst president in history and together we will. and without it, there's a risk that we could have four more years, we don't won't have a country left so what is the purpose of the libertarian party getting 3%? what is the reason to take a chance of having this horrible president destroy our country which he will do in far less than four years. it's not going to take four years. that is why i am committing to you tonight that i will put a libertarian in my cabinet and

also libertarians in senior posts. [boos] good. that's pretty big. or you can going the way you have for the last long decades and get your 3% and meet again, get another 3%. no, you want to make yourself winners. you want to be winners. you have a lot of common sense. it's time to be winners. think of asking for the libertas and lots of libertarian votes based on my four-year very outstanding presidential record. much of my record is lib ontario. >> i would like to nominate if greatest president of our time,

donald j. trump. [boos] >> can anyone kell me uncredentialed if donald j. trump is able to accept the nomination? >> -- madam chair, ie to confirm for the record and an entire body delegation that i

did take the opportunity last night after that to credential mr. trump. in all of the profiles, that not one te is he a basic sustaining member, so he does not qualify. >> thank you. all right. thank you very much, mr. potter. i also learned mr. trump did not turn in any nominating papers. but he was nominated and it is nice to beomated. >> independent presidential contender robert f. kennedy, jr. also tried to make inroads at the libertarian convention and received some support in the form of a nomination two days tehis remarks to the group.

nextl, highlights from mr. kennedy's time at the convention in the nation's capital. >> i'm curious how president trump is going to defend his attacks on the constitution when i meet him on the debating stage. if -- debate in front of you and the members of this party, but he declined.at some point, i hoe courage to stand up there so we can all talk about these issues and makeure these assaults on our constitution never happen again. we need to have a civics lesson for the american people to make sure it is never repeated. off the assault on the constitution intensif biden violated a freedom so fundamental, that james madison did not even think

to put it in the bill of rights. he never imagined the government could mandate medical procedures to unwilling americans in violation autonomy. that is what happened during the pandemic. a program of coercion and information, chaos and information, control that prevented the public from making fully informed choices. that wasn't the worst of it. he put the power of his office behind the assault of the one upon which all other freedoms rely, the freedom of the press. we now know in the twitter discovery in the mercy versus biting case, and my own case which is in front of the supreme court, kennedy versus biden, at 37 hours after he took the oath of office,

president biden was colluding th the fbi to coerce the social media sites google, twitter, facebook, youtube, instagram to open portals to allow the federal agencies to censor political speech of americans. i stand with you in valuing personal liberty. and i promise you that when i'm president, i'm ing p freely. i'm going to protect your right to assemble peacefully. i will protect your freedom to area i will protect your right to keep and bear arms. >> good morning, madam chair. >> i'm hector roose from florida. >> we would like to nominate robert f. kennedy, jr..

the single most important anti- two-party system we have seen in our lifetime. >> one moment, settle down. > he is, madam chair. as the credentials committee chair, i confirm he is aic sustaining member. >> he is a basic sustaining member. it is my understanding he did turn in nomination papers that had the required amount of signatures on them. does he accept the nomination? >> we have confirmation that he does. >> do you want me to call him and ask him accepts the nomination? ringing. good morning. i'm at the podiui need to ask ie

nomination. going to get back to us. >> madam chair -- we are going to jump to micropho three. >> thank you. i do believe it is in the policy 2g■manual if you are a speaker t the convention, you have to sign to say you will not seek the nomination for president for the libertarian party, therefore his nomination is out of order. >> i'm going to give you my ruling and another piece of information. mr. kennedy did not sign any such agreement. and it was not duringge -- durig convention business or on the stage that he spoke. so your point of order is not state he did not

turn in any statement on his intention to run for secretary. so his nomination is not in order at this time. >> point of order, madame chairman. as has been explained to my team multiple times, an inability to accept the nomination or unwillingness to submit the paperwork in a timely fashion is tantamount to declining the nomination. the reason i got out of bed this morning was to make sure you had the paperwork and i would samem mr. kennedy if he were serious. the libertarian party -- [applause] >> the libertarian party is quite literally convened by definition, those who are not in the room today, i will leave it to you to define. i have been informed mr. kennedy did accept the nomination. this is the deal. it is time to read you guys in

this body right now have a moment unlike any other. every single one of you in this room has a chance to change the course of history. not just for this country, but for the world. i understand, let's get something straight. ■v■ro k libertarian. can we admithalet's get the elef the room. exactly. let's get something else straight. we are all misfits, outcasts. a have been born libertarian. but the rest of us, we found our way here. we found enough pain either in the republican party, whatever , to decide this is going to be our home. >> this morning to let you know i accept this unexpected honor. i will always admire the libertarian party, aligned with

core values, the antipathy toward war, the commitment to end ourddiction to forever wars. and the love of personal freedoms and liberties, the understanding that we are going to fulfill -- is by exercising freedom of choice and that united states constitution global template, we are outlining those freedoms, and those freedoms are sacrosanct. and that there are no exceptions. i'm going to protect these rights, your rights, the united states constitution. i'm going to end foreign wars. and i'm very grateful to the libertarian party, it is a great honor. i look forward to an alliance

across the country all of these parties are nowwthaenging the republican and democrat corrupt duopoly. >> after seven rounds of voting that lasted nearly 14 hoursth libertarian party nominated chase oliver as its presidential caidate. . iver, who ran for the u.s. senate in georgia in 2020 has a libertarian beat out other party hopefuls to be a standardbearer for this year's presidential race. next, some of his acceptance speech near the conclusion of the libertarian convention. >> thank you libertarian party. has today been a wild ride or what? right now, there are two things we said first and foremost. i want to thank those who invited me to your home, to your favorite restaurants, state conventions. those who picked me up from the

airport, who text banked so far, they thought i cheated because we had so many votes coming in. i want to say thank you to the presidential candidates who put themselves out there for the party. those of us who all ran for president, we& had meals together, we took the same flight, we argued in several dozen debates. al arguments drew us stronger, and we are better for that. i want to say thank you to the 500 members plus of our volunteer team who helped get the word across the country, and those who donated to the campaign. we had made the hard work over the last two years worth it. you answered the call when we asked for something. those who did not volunteer, i urge you to get involved in the campaign and spread liberty across all 50 states.

the energy that everyone brought is exactly the energy we need to make freedom win. yes, i'm theçz candidate you nominated. but it is not about me. it is about all of us who will win when we spread liberty across this country. we will win because you plan the events, you took care of me and picked me up from the airport, you text banked and you take every needed request and helped this campaign. i want to preemptively say thank you to each and everyone of you who helped the campaign spread the message of freedom, liberty, individual rights, voluntary exchange, and peace from the war machine around the country. now you are going to get asked what is chase oliver? give me the elevator pitch.

here is the elevator pitch. if you're living your life in peace free from force, fraud, coercion, thefre, your life is your life, your business it is not mine to handle, and it is not the government costs nowday. and we've had many ballots. i ge -- we can make it a little longer. i'm going to g owhat i want to s i'm fighting or a world set free in our lifetime. are you? i'm fighting to end the wars at kill innocent people. are you willing to end the wars that kill innocent people all over the world? i'm tired of monetary policy and

inflation destroying families across this country and forcing them to abject poverty for no other reason than the fact we print trillions of dollars a year to fund those wars. are you ready to end the inflation in our lives? i need you to get out and support me and support my running mate mike term. together, we will send the libertarian message loud and clear. i can think of no more fitting example of people coming together with a guy who marched accountability and aactivist former police officer who understands the need for that accountability. together, we are going to send this message to the millions of people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. in particular, those numbers of generation z whow want octogenar lives. they want to run the

lives, and we should create the conditions for that to happen. and the wars, the abuses, the because what is taxation? that is right. taxationwe will stop the thievit happens from our state all over the country. i need your help to do it. thank you very much, let's set the world free in our lifetime. >> usa today's ohio politics reporter here to talk about sherrod brown, the incumbent senator from that state running for a fourth term.

>> how would you describe sherrod brown's politics? >> he is pretty progressive, but he's always focused a lot of his messaging on workers, workers rights, and labor issues. he has not been shy about disagreeing with the biden administration and other pt pres like trade when he doesn't think it workers. he has spoken out in favor of things like student loan forgiveness. he was a big advocate for the abortion rights amendment on ohio's ballot, which passed last

year and codified the right to an abortion. those are things we see him talking about. his campaign and things have always been a part of his brand. >> who are it -- his supporters and are they enough to win? >> he has a lot of really big union support, which will be helpful tohe has support from ds across the state, abortion rights advocates. one thing that will be interesting is he will also be on the ballot lily with a minimum wage increase issuegathg signatures to support that on the ballot right now. seeing some overlap between those groups. >> you mentioned his challenger. what are his strengths?

>> first and foremost, he's backed by trump that is an endorsement that plays well. trump-endorsed senator j.d. in 22. it propelled him to the republican primary, got him elect to office. that is really key. moreno can also play the political outsiderard. that has become resident with a lot of republicans in ohio. people thinking so-called career politicians, may be looking for a change of pace in washington. i think he has that. he also has an interesting back story. he is a businessman, he emigrated legally from columbia as a child. so immigration is a really big issue for his campaign and somethingked a lot about in ohio. >> what are his weaknesses? >> i do think the political

inexperience is a problem for him. never held elected office before, that shows sometimes. he's also been inconsistent on his positions, he changed his tune about things like immigration, gun control, even once upon a time was critical of trump. so democrats have already painted him as an inconsistent person kind of just changing whichever way the wind blows. i think that is the message you will hear through election night. >> describe their fundraising efforts as well as their ground games. >> senator brown by far has the fundraising advantage. he has been around for a while. he was able to raise money during the prep -- republican primary last year when marino was defending himself in that race. as of the end of april, i think

senator brown's campaign probably has 14 million or so in the bank. marino came out of the primary with about $1.7 million. they are both going to have support from tons of outside groups, from the national senate republican and democratic campaign arms because the race is so competitive. outside money is going to be pouring in. that the republican primary is over, the donors will likely unite behind marino because they want to see sherrod brown out of office.

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