>> good evening, philadelphia. good evening. good evening. [ cheers and applause ] >> good evening, everyone. good evening. good evening.

oh, it is good to be back in pennsylvania. >> so let me say, on behalf of myself and the first second gentleman of the united states, my husband, doug emhoff, thank you for the warm welcome. and let me just say, it's good to be here with all of the friends, all of the leaders who are here. i want to thank former governor ed rendell, senator bob casey who we will re-elect this

november, senator john federman, mayor cherelle parker, and chairman jaime harrison, and it is so good to be here with your incredible governor, josh shapiro. [ cheers and applause ] >> and i will say, josh is a dear, dear friend and an extraordinary leader. he and i have been spending a lot of time together over the years. and i told josh, look, i am so so invested in our friendship, doing this together because together with josh shapiro, we will win pennsylvania. [ cheers and applause ] >> we will win pennsylvania. and i thank you, josh. i thank you.

so philadelphia, i launched my campaign for the president of the united states a mere two weeks ago. and it's been a bit of a whirlwind. and just last night the delegates to the democratic national convention finished voting, and so, i stand before you today to proudly announce i am now officially the democratic nominee for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ]

>> and so now we got some work to do. we need to move to the general election and win that. and to all the friends listen, we need to know that we are the underdogs in this race, but we have the momentum and i know exactly what we are up against. now, many of you know, before i was elected vice president or elected a united states senator, i was an elected attorney general and before that, elected district attorney. and before that, i was a courtroom prosecutor. so in those roles, i took on

perpetrators of all kinds. predators who abused women. fraudsters who scammed consumers. cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. so hear me when i say, i know donald trump's type. >> let me just say -- let me

say -- hold on. hold on. hold on. this campaign, our campaign, is not just a fight against donald trump. our campaign, this campaign, is a fight for the future. it's a fight for the future. and pennsylvania, we fight for the future with affordable housing, affordable health care, affordable child care, paid leave. we fight for a future where we build a broad based economy, where every american has an opportunity to own a home, to start a business, and to build

wealth. >> we fight for a future where we bring down prices that are still too high and lower the cost of living for america's families. so that they have a chance not to just get by, but to get ahead. we fight for a future where we defend our most fundamental freedoms. the freedom to vote. the freedom to be safe from gun violence. the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. >> and the freedom of a woman to

make decisions about her own body not having her government tell her what to do. [ cheers and applause ] >> i love you too. so here's the thing. here's the thing. since the day i announced my candidacy, i set out to find a partner who can help build this brighter future. a leader who will help unite our nation and move us forward. a fighter for the middle class. a patriot who believes as i do in the extraordinary promise of

america. a promise -- a promise of freedom, opportunity, and justice, not just for some but for all. so pennsylvania i'm here today because i found such a leader. [ cheers and applause ] >> governor tim walz of the great state of minnesota. so to those who know him best, to those who know him best, tim is more than a governor to his

wife, gwen, he is a husband. to his kids, hope and gus, he is a dad. to his fellow veterans, he is sergeant-major walz. [ cheers and applause ] to the people of southern minnesota for 12 years he was congressman. to his former high school students, he was mr. walz. and to his former high school football players, he was coach.

and in 91 days -- [ cheers and applause ] -- the nation will know coach walz by another name, vice president of the united states. >> so america so some folks are just getting to know coach walz's story. he's a proud product of a middle class family in rural nebraska. he's a veteran who served our

nation in uniform for more than two decades as a member of the army national guard. and he went to college on the g.i. bill. he is someone who long before he entered politics worked as a teacher. when coach walz and his wife, gwen, moved from his native nebraska to minnesota nearly 30 years ago, they both took jobs at the local high school. coach walz taught social studies, gwen taught english. after school tim was the linebackers coach for the football team.

where i heard the stories about he had a knack for using the game of football to teach life lessons. he saw the potential in kids who sometimes didn't even see it in themselves. under those friday night lights, coach walz motivated his players to believe they could achieve anything. and together, they defied the odds, hear this out, going from a winless record, to the school's first ever state championship. [ cheers and applause ]

>> coach, coach, and i'll say and i'll add, tim wasn't only a role model on the football field. around that same time, coach walz was approached by a student in his social studies class. the young man was one of the first openly gay students at the school and was hoping to start a gay/straight alliance, at a time when acceptance was difficult to find for lgbtq students. tim knew the signal that it would send to have a football coach get involved.

so he signed up to be the group's faculty adviser. and as students said, he made the school a safe place for everybody. in the high school yearbook, the students voted coach walz, quote, the most inspiring faculty member. and as i think everyone here can see, tim walz was the kind teacher and mentor that every child in america dreams of having. and that every kid deserves.

the kind of coach, because he's the kind of person, who makes people feel like they belong and then inspires them to dream big. and that's the kind of vice president he will be. and that's the kind of vice president america deserves. so it was coach walz's students who actually helped him decide to run for office. and he served 12 years in congress, representing a purple district as he reached across the aisle to get things done. he was the highest ranking -- he was the highest ranking enlisted man to ever serve in the united states congress. [ cheers and applause ]

and the top democrat on the veterans committee. and he was known as one of capitol hill's best marksmen. winning a bipartisan sharp shooting contest year after year. in washington, tim worked to raise the minimum wage. to protect the freedom of workers to join a union. and he cast one of the critical votes to pass the affordable

care act. which, of course, gave health insurance to tens of millions of americans. when we win, tim and i will continue to make the affordable care act even stronger. >> now, let's talk about what we're dealing with on the other side. so on that last topic, if donald trump gets the chance, he will end the affordable care act. and take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with

preexisting conditions. remember what that was like? children with asthma, breast cancer survivors, grandparents with diabetes. well, governor walz and i will not let that happen. because we believe health care should be a right and not just a privilege for those who can afford it. as governor tim has continued to fight for working families. he secured paid leave for workers in minnesota. [ cheers and applause ] >> and he refused, he refused, as governor, to allow any student in their public schools to go hungry.

so he made school breakfast and lunch free for every child. and tim walz and i we agree about many things, including when our middle class is strong, america is strong. and strengthening the middle class will be my defining goal as i am president of the united states. so pennsylvania, ours is a fight for the future of the middle class and it is a fight for freedom.

in this moment we are witnessing a full-on attack against hard-fought, hard-won freedoms and rights. take reproductive freedom. now think about this. donald trump said he wants to punish women. and as a result of his actions today in america one out of three women live in a state with a trump abortion ban. one out of three. some of these bans go back to the 1800s. even before women had a right to vote. think about that. well, tim and i have a message for trump and others who want to turn back the clock on our fundamental freedoms, we're not going back. we're not going back.

>> we're not going back. >> we're not going back. we're in the going back. we're not going back. we're not going back. we're not going back. and so let me say, about tim walz. he has shown up to stand against these attacks long before he stood on the stage with me. after roe was overturned, he was the first governor in the country to sign a new law that enshrined reproductive freedom as a fundamental right. and with tim walz by my side, when i am president of the united states and we win

majorities in the united states congress, we will pass a bill to restore reproductive freedom and i will proudly sign it into la tim walz has also defended the sacred freedom to vote. as governor, as governor, he signed the most significant expansion of voting rights in minnesota in over 50 years. and with governor walz's help, when i am president we are going to finally pass the john lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. [ cheers and applause ] >> we're going to get it done.

so tim is a hunter. and a gun owner who believes, as the majority of gun owners do, that we need reasonable gun safety laws in america. so as governor he expanded background checks and increased penalties for illegal firearm sales. and together when we win in november, we are going to finally pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an assault weapons ban. through his work, tim -- the way

i think about it, he really does shine a light on a brighter future. that we can build together. in his state, he has been a model chief executive and with his experience, i'm telling you, tim walz will be ready on day one. [ cheers and applause ] in fact, in fact, when you compare his resume -- shall we? to trump's running mate. well, well, well, some might say, it's like -- it's like a

matchup between the varsity team and the jv squad. so, pennsylvania, ultimately in this election we each face a question. what kind of country do we want to live in? a country -- a country of freedom, compassion, and rule of law? or a country of chaos, fear and hate? and here's the beauty of our democracy, we each have the power to answer that question. we each have the power to answer that question.

the power is with the people. we love our country. and i believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country. that is how we preserve the promise of america. and after all, you know, the promise of america is what makes it possible for two middle class kids, one a daughter of oakland, california, who was raised by a working mother. the other, a son of the

nebraska plains who grew up working on a farm, it's the promise of america, because only in america, only in america is it possible for them together to make it all the way to the white house. only in america. only in america. only in america. >> usa. usa. usa. usa. >> that's right. that's right.

and so, coach walz and i may hail from different corners of our great country but our values are the same. and we both believe in lifting people up, not knocking them down. [ cheers and applause ] >> he and i we both know the vast majority of people in our country have so much more in common than what separates them. when we look at folks, we see in our fellow americans neighbors, not enemies. not enemies. so our promise to you is this, our campaign will reach out to everyone, from red states to blue states, from the heartland

to the coasts, in rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities. we are running a campaign on behalf of all americans. and when elected we will govern on behalf of all americans. so with tim walz by my side and with all of you at our side, let us fight for the promise of our future. and with that i ask pennsylvania, are you ready to make your voices heard? [ cheers and applause ] >> do we believe in freedom? do we believe in opportunity?

do we believe in the promise of america? and are we ready to fight for it? and when we fight, we win! and now, welcome the next vice president of the united states, tim walz. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. wow. thank you, philadelphia.

thank you madame vice president for the trust you put in me, but maybe more so thank you for bringing back the joy. i'm thrilled to be on this journey with you and doug, this incredible journey. and pennsylvania, i know you know this, but my god what a treasure you have in josh shapiro. holy hell can this guy bring the fire? he can bring the fire. this is a visionary leader. also i have to tell you, everybody in america knows when you need a bridge fixed, call that guy.

i think sometimes we forget and you see people a little one dimensional. but seeing a guy who cares so deeply about his family, a man with compassion, vision and i have to tell you this, i know this from experience, there's no one you would rather go to a springsteen concert in jersey with than him. than that guy. and i can't wait for all of you and america to get to know my incredible wife gwen. a 29-year-old public school educator. don't ever under estimate teachers.

and our two beautiful kids, hope and gus. i couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket and to help vice president harris become what we all know is very, very good for us to think about, next president of the united states of america. from her first day as a prosecutor, as a district attorney, attorney general of the great state of california, a united states senator, and vice president of the united states, vice president harris has fought on the side of the american people. she took on the predators, she took on the fraudsters, she took down the transnational gangs.

she stood up against cooperate interest. and she never hesitated to reach across the aisle if it meant improving people's lives. and i want all of you to hold this and don't ever under estimate the power of this, she does it all with a sense of joy. >> i know a little something about that commitment to people. i was born in west point, nebraska. i lived in butte, a small town of 400. where community was a way of life. growing up i spent the summers working on the family farm. my mom and dad taught us, show generosity towards your neighbors and work for a common good.

my dad served in in the army during the korean war. with his encouragement, at 17 i joined the army national guard. for 24 years i proudly wore the uniform of this nation. the national guard gave me purpose. it gave me the strength of a shared commitment to something greater than ourselves. and just as it did for my dad and millions of others, the g.i. bill gave me a shot at a college education. my dad was a teacher, my brothers and sisters and i followed in their footsteps. three out of four of us married teachers. what we do.

for nearly 20 years i had the privilege of teaching high school social studies and coaching football. including winning that state championship. don't ever close the yearbook. but it was my students, they encouraged me to run for office. they saw in me what i was hoping to instill in them, a commitment of common good. a belief that one person can make a difference. so in 2006, i -- 2006, i took a leap and i ran for congress. >> and because high school teachers are super optimistic i was running in a district that had one democrat since 1892.

my neighbors graced me with an opportunity to represent them in the united states house of representatives. >> i'm proud of the work we did there together. i worked across the aisle on veterans issues, agriculture and ways to grow rural economy. i learned the art of compromise without compromising my values. and now as governor of the great state of minnesota i bring those experiences to bear in tackling the challenges in our great state. minnesota's values come to seeing past our differences, always willing to lend a helping hand. i took that to congress and to the state capital and now, vice

president harris and i are running to take those very values to the white house. >> now donald trump sees the world a little differently than us. first of all he doesn't know the first thing about service. he doesn't have time for it because he's too busy serving himself. again and again and again trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own hand. he mocks our laws. he sews chaos and division and that's to say nothing of his record as president.

he froze in the face of the covid crisis. he drove our economy into the ground. and make no mistake, violent crime was up under donald trump. that's not even counting the crimes he committed. >> you know, some of us -- some of us are -- some of us -- some

of us in here are old enough to remember -- i see you down there. i see those old white guys. some of us are old enough to remember when it was republicans who were talking about freedom. it turns out now what they meant was the government should be free to invade your doctor's office. in minnesota we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there's a golden rule, mind your own damn business. [ cheers and applause ] >> these guys are out more few

heart chanting mind your own damn business. so that feels good. thank you. look that includes ivf, and this gets personal for me and my family. when my wife and i decided to have children, we spent years going through infertility treatments and i remember praying every night for a call for good news. the pit in my stomach when the phone rang and the agony when the treatments hadn't worked. so it wasn't by chance when we welcomed our daughter in the world we named her hope. >> when vice president and i talk about freedom, we mean the freedom to make your own health care decisions. and for our children to be free to go to school without worrying they'll be shot dead in their

classrooms. [ cheers and applause ] >> by the way, as you heard, i was one of the best shots in congress, but in minnesota we believe in the second amendment but we also believe in common sense gun violence laws. vice president harris' idea is a ticket for education to be that ticket to the middle class, not crippling debt. air that's clean, water that's pure, communities that are safe. a place where we settle our political differences not through violence but with our votes.

and that's what this election is about. what direction will this country go in? we're not going back. well, donald trump would damn sure take us backwards. let's be clear about that. and don't believe him when he plays dumb. he knows exactly what project 2025 will do to restrict our freedoms. to rig the economy to help the super rich. if trump gets a chance to return, he's going to pick up exactly where he left off four years ago. only this time it will be much, much worse. raising costs on middle class family, he will repeal the

affordable care act, no doubt about it. he'll gut social security and medicare. and when somebody tells you who they are, believe them. he said he would ban abortion across this country and he'll do it whether or not congress is there or not. donald trump's not fighting for you or your family. he never sat at that kitchen table like the one i grew up at wondering how we were going to pay the bills. he's at the country club in mar-a-lago wondering how to cut taxes for his rich friends. and i got to tell you, his running mate shares his dangerous and backwards agenda for this country. jd vance literally, literally wrote the forward for the architect for the project 2025 agenda.

like all regular people i grew up with in the heartland, jd studied at yale. had his career funded by silicone valley billionaires and then wrote a best-seller trashing that community. come on. that's not what middle america is. and i got to tell you, i can't wait to debate the guy. [ cheers and applause ] >> that is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up. you see what i did there?

i got to tell you, just an observation of mine that i made, i just have to say it, you know it, you feel it, these guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell. that's what you see. that's what you see. so you know what's out there, so say it with me, we aren't going back. we aren't going back. we are not going back. >> we're not going back. we're not going back. we're not going back. we're not going back. we're in the on the going back. we're not going back. >> so we got 91 days, my god that's easy.

we'll sleep when we're dead. [ cheers and applause ] >> over those next 91 days, and every day in the white house, i'll have vice president harris' back. every single day. and we'll have yours. you know how this works. we can't do it alone. we need you. each and every one of you. go over to kamalaharris.com, get on board. we need you. free to make our own choices. this leader, this compassionate, careful, joyous leader, believes

in each and every one of you. my god, you came here tonight, to sit at the very top because you love this country and you're not going back. [ cheers and applause ] >> she believes in the opportunity for every single person to join the middle class. she believes in the promise of america. we just got to fight. we just got to fight. because as soon to be president harris says, when we fight, we win! [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, philadelphia. thank you vice president. god bless america. ♪♪

[ cheers and applause ] >> the democratic presidential ticket, vice president walz. the respective spouses. america's first ever second gentleman doug emhoff and gwen walz, 29-year school public

educator in minnesota. they are speaking at a capacity crowd. actually, i think it might be a beyond capacity crowd at temple university in philadelphia. it is he is made there are more than 12,000 people. they are shouting out to the people at the top. you came here sitting way up there. before the two of them spoke, this crowd went absolutely bananas for pennsylvania's governor, josh shapiro who came very close to being named the vice presidential running mate himself. the crowd went bananas as shapiro gave a rip-roaring speech before this very fired up crowd. then the nominee herself, kamala harris, gave remarks in detail introducing america to a figure who is popular in his home state but not widely known outside of it. the vast majority of american saying today in the instant

polling done upon his selection as her vice presidential running mate, the vast majority of americans saying they do not have an opinion of him because they do not know him. she took the time to introduce him in detail and then her newly announced running mate himself giving the kind of speech that shows why she did. the two of them appearing as a ticket for the first time right now. they will do multiple swing states in a fast-moving, very condensed tour the rest of this week including in wisconsin and michigan tomorrow. multiple swing states even before the end of the workweek. tim walsh grew up on a family farm. his father was in the army. he lost his father when he was only 19 years old. his father died of lung cancer. in the meantime, walz himself enlisted and served 24 years in the army national guard. he retired at the level of

command sergeant major. he would become the highest ranking. before he ever got to congress, he spent 20 years teaching high school social studies and coaching high school football. he took his high school football team in just a few years from winning precisely zero games. what's the opposite of undefeated? but they were that. to winning the state championship for the first time in the school's history. in his remarks today, governor walz still expressing kind of uncontrollable pride in that fact saying, never close that year book. he was elected in a relatively conservative district in minnesota. one that he said was represented by a democrat precisely once since the 1890s before he won that seat as a democrat. he ousted an incumbent

republican. re-elected five times. after he left that seat in congress to run for governor in minnesota, it went back to being a republican-controlled seat. when he was elected governor in minnesota in 2018, he won by a lot. he won by more than 10 points. when he ran for re-election in 2022, he not only won by a lot again but when he was re-elected as governor of minnesota in 2022, the democrats held on to the state house and took over the state senate that won the trifecta in the minnesota governor for the first time in a decade. having that trifecta, the minnesota state governor, allowed him as governor of that state to start rising as a democratic star with what will eventually be a now national profile. his rise in national democratic politics is on the strength of

his perceived moderation, particularly as a member of congress, coupled with what he was able to get past in terms of progressive agenda and practical policies in minnesota. but also, his personality, his practicality, his likability, his appeal to all sorts of different constituencies. and to moderates and even cross-party appeal. it includes background checks for gun purchases and a red flag law that includes passing paid family and medical leave. boosting renewable energy. free breakfast and lunch to all minnesota school kids. protecting abortion rights as soon as roe v. wade was overturned by the supreme court by donald trump's appointees on the supreme court. tim walz signed a law to codify in that state the protections of roe v. wade into state law. and now he is kamala harris's running mate. a campaign says that they have raised thus far already more

than $20 million today just since kamala harris announced his place on the ticket. former president barack obama said he was the ideal partner. watching these remarks tonight from the nominee, from the presidential nominee, vice president harris and from her running mate selection tim walz, i do think that we are seeing another no-drama moment in the democratic party. i don't think there are aggrieved constituencies who are mad about this. i'm sure they were pulling for others on the short list but i think tonight he's showing what he brings to the table. what he brings to the ticket. >> today marks kamala harris's first big decision which she would carry four years into the presidency. and it went really well. the decision looks good on substance, and the speech was a home run. there are times where you just

need a whiskey. we've all had those times covering the news cycles. [ laughter ] >> long pause. taking a drink. but there are other times where the best thing for you is some gatorade and a good long run. and i think the party has had these debates and these moments and these freakouts and then is stabilizing. harris is leading to now handing off as a running mate who we saw give that speech. this is america's dad, america's football coach -- >> she called him coach walz. >> america's teacher. and a teacher that is cool enough without trying to be cool but then when people are, i was reading about this today and it came up on the stage. when people are sinning out other classmates because of their identity of who they are, this is the person who comes in and leads. that's actually really cool. cool in a deeper way. and you get this impression.

there will be time to assess all this and have debates. and have the investigative journalism. this is someone who accorded himself tremendously well. and will that gatorade and that run and that healthy uplifting vibe, boy, does the party need it. as they made the argument, so does america need it. liberal without being strident. strong without being overly bombastic. kind in the traditional sense of the word. and i don't really do dog whistles and i swear this is not a dog whistle. you have to remember why this is not just a purely coastal blue state, red state ticket. yes, he's from a blue state. we talked about the district he's from. it had a heartland thing going on. and heartland isn't necessarily left or right. so kamala harris's first bigg addition, whatever you heard about me, i don't know how to get things done. i know how to lead. i'm bringing from another part of the country.

that doesn't mean compromising on your core beliefs. >> i think that you learn politics in the rooms you're in. comedians talk about the room. you're given jokes and the people are in that room and you do it over and over and you find out what hits and what doesn't. we've seen donald trump do that with his crowd. that's a collaboration between donald trump and the maga faithful. >> that's how he learns what his policies are. >> and this is a guy whose room has been, he's been working as a teacher in a rural school district and then in a conservative rural congressional district, and then in the state of minnesota, a statewide level. again, a state that is a bl state but can be a battleground state. donald trump came very close to yanking it away in 2016. and i think josh shapiro does as well, the approach of barack obama's 2004 convention speech. like patriotic pluralism. like a vision of an inclusive

society, the american civic creed, where we stand up to bullies and we mine our own business and that's a way of talking about a certain set of what to me are genuine liberal and progressive policies in an open-hearted and inviting way that is not wrapped up in hard to understand jargon. and i think he just does it real damn well. >> nicole? >> so in 2008, working for the mccain campaign. looking at the obama campaign, there was something cellular about winning this. they have this cellular winningness going on. and you brought up the whiskey and i think that we were all together five and a half weeks ago covering the debate. and there was a moment. you were the first to come on the air and what we saw and you were unflinching and it was

brutal. this is the vibe of winning. it is momentum pure and simple. vice president kamala harris isn't flawless. i don't think she would say she's flawless. she is running a flawless campaign. she has not made one single mistake. democrats like to say, but she will. she mate not. republicans have nominated trump three times. i mean, she is running a flawless campaign and this choice even eight hours ago wasn't as obvious as it is now. he made a couch joke for pete's sake. yes to all the universitial of his appeal. they are unapologetic in their policies and morals and the things that they fight more. they're totally approachable. you get the feeling that he has plenty neighbors who wear maga hats and he picks up their paper and brings to it their front door and they're friends.

there is been a thirst and a hunger for that. and i think she had another -- winning also is about stringing together one good news cycle after one good news cycle after one good news cycle. she has done that every single day including today. >> absolutely. the line that i wrote down from coach walz, i guess we'll have to call him. thank you for bringing back the joy. >> that was his opening line. and i think that's part of what it is. i've gotten so many text messages from people who have been locked in this cycle of terror and fear about what is to come, right? this fear of fascism that is legitimate. donald trump really does want to bring back fascism. >> you said you wouldn't talk about our private discussions. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> i can't!

the reality is i think a lot of people have forgotten how fun campaigns can be. i've enjoyed working on campaigns back in the day. there was something about it that was sort of the civic-mindedness of it. the camaraderie of it. and there is a certain aspect that's fun even though the stakes are big. and i think with donald trump, he has this kind of stale act that isn't new. it isn't fresh. 's doing the same-stick that he did. it's wrapped up in the things he wants to do to us. they want to drag us back to the 1950s. they want women to all get married and have babies and they want 10-year-olds to have kids. he wants 10-year-olds to have lunch. it is the simple midwestern values thing that barack obama did in his campaign. you can say he's this exotic figure, trump is uing his whole middle name. he's a guy would you play

basketball with and so is this guy. it worked. and it worked for joe biden. it is one of the ways biden defeated trump. i'm just going to bring back normal. i'm not going to poo in a gold toilet. j.d. vance is even weirder and this is comfortable. >> if you look for americans discovering that there's a person named tim walz today, which is a huge percentage. >> just to be clear -- >> even of democrats, right? but they're learning this is a guy who is a straight white guy from the midwest who talks like he's from minnesota because he's from minnesota. he grew up on a farm. his dad was in the army. he did 24 years in the army national guard. he was a command sergeant major which is a big deal. he was a high school social studies teacher. his wife was the english teacher. he was the football coach. he ran in a conservative

district, was seen as a centrist, was the congressional sharpshooter, and when parkland happened, when the parkland shooting happened and his daughter was 17 years old. he's a life-long hunter and rated from the nra. he decides he needs to evolve on that issue. as most gun owners do, decides he's going to support background checks, red flag laws and other common sense gun safety laws. and when he was running for governor that year when all of that was happening, he makes that change and then he turns around and he donates to charity every dollar the nra ever donated to him over the course of his career when he was an a-rated nra from a rural red-leaning district. now he has an f. >> what the harris campaign is saying with this is, this is america and it's inviting.

we talked about the zoom call which can be different constituency groups. the white-guy zoom call. it's a joke. >> like the dude. >> it's half a joke but very real in that you're bringing people together. democrats spent many years on defense, on so-called conservative issues including national security, or safe. you just talked about what does safety look lake and wearing a dog pin. i'm all for america any way you choose. all the right wing flag pin theater is very different from what harris is saying today which is, this is also america. it has certain values. and he said you can have compromise orientation without compromising your values. that's a different sort of invitation. and it's different than being right wing performative. now you have the so-called maga folks on defense. what's the real america? >> they're debating who is weirder. if you're debating whether

you're weirder or they're weirder, you're already losing. he's what j.d. vance pretends to be. >> 76% of americans, not divided on gun safety. all the republicans have had for the last ten years is cultural division. he erases it all in a 40-minute speech. gone. >> i think watching the democratic party work through itself in the last three weeks or so, and it just, i keep coming back to this notion of pluralism. it's a water-dated word. i think it is really beautiful and the central core of this. democracy is about attaching across all the differences. we only want a big one since the voting rights act. it is really hard tad.

they fall apart left and right. she has these parents from different traditions. she grows up in oakland. he's from this totally different part of manager, different upbringing. and they're on stage stitching together this coalition that is the pro democracy coalition. it has to old together with people who disagree and coming from different places. it felt like that was it today. you see it. >> the word for that is diversity. >> exactly. >> others are running from it but that's what it is. it means everyone is at the table. >> different types of people had a come from different places who slayer the value that's we all have an equal say. senior senior from minnesota is amy klobuchar. she is good friends with the new vice presidential pick, tim walz. not just from serving together in minnesota. their families go way back. senator klobuchar's husband is

from the same town where governor walz used to teach hail. on the new years day this year, they hosted gwen and tim walz for lunch. amy klobuchar's mother brought them a chicken parma dinner. in other words, they are close. joining us now, amy klobuchar. thank you for being here. a really pleasure to have you here tonight. >> well, thanks. thanks for giving me the street creds from the heartland. i love the comments about the whiskey. it is a celebration. tim walz did his job. first, he did it in a room full of philadelphia eagles fans. he walked there as a major viking fan and they embraced him. he did it without a:00y cutter spaex. his acknowledgement and

friendship with josh sapiro. laid to rest the disunit that we've seen from the other side. and then his genuine love for the vice president and the way he was able to take down donald trump and j.d. vance. he showed himself to be a campaigner and we know he took a winless high school team and made it into a state champion. so i don't know how much better it gets than that. >> let's pretend we're not on tv and let's pretend i just buttonholed you somewhere and no one can hear us talking. i would say, soer snarks klobuchar, even if we weren't on tv, i would call you that. tell me what governor walz is really like. i have watched his speeches, his key press conferences, i've watched him on tv making the case in recent days and his previous days. what is he like as a guy? what is he like to spend time with? what is his personality? what would you tell me if we

weren't on tv? >> what i think a number of you will like is he's going with strong. we gwen is a really strong woman. his lieutenant governor is really strong and he's worked with me many years. if he thinks you've messed up, he will call you and say it. he is blunt and to the point. and i think that will work well with kamala harris. secondly, you see how climbed he is. he genuinely cares about people. when i found out i had breast cancer and announced it, he was one of the first people to call me. he is a stand-up person and he's done that his whole life. the people in our state, even if they don't agree everything with, that's why he can bring in moderate republicans into the coalition. then you see a different guy. it shows kamala harris's strength that she was able to pluck someone out, maybe not someone everyone knew, and say

this is a good guy, a smart winner. the fact that he was a winner of the sharpshooter contest in congress, that he stood in the winters for hours, great. the fact that he stood up for gun safety and he has stood up for lunches and breakfasts for school kids, that's great. i think you see someone that gets the mission. the fact that he was so fluid out there, adlibed, so happy to be there, didn't act nervous, didn't act scared, didn't seem scripted. that's quite amazing and extraordinary for a first major rally lake that. i know. i've been at these things. and he's able to be himself which is the first test for any data bit off the grid. he passed with flying colors. >> we've been talking about the fact so many are learning for the first time.

people are learning the first things about him. and there's sort of a race to define him. particularly by the republicans, by his opponents. and i think you've heard democrats today marvel that he is a choice that unionifies in the democratic coalition moderates. and there's a lot of things in his record that suggest centrism. and outspoken for the from people like bernie sanders and aoc and the chair of the congressional progressive caucus. so you're hearing on the democrat side this balance of where people should put him. the republicans are saying he's to the left of chairman mao. so for americans who don't know, who are just hearing the descriptions and the caricatures of almost today, how do you see him of where he stands on the

lane between conservative and liberal? >> as a moderate, someone who has been attacked for that, let me make the case. his congressional district which you pointed out well. he is the second democrat to win it and he won it over and over again. he didn't shea away from his votes for the affordable care act. he did town hall meetings with a former republican senator who we reasonably lost. they stood up for the affordable care act. tim walz did that. he is someone who says what he thinks. he's not afraid to do that. we need more of that in our politics and not less. he is someone who receives out. he's on a mission. he was on a mission when he was a soldier, when he signed up at age 17 like so many young kids do in the heartland. he was on a mission when he taught his kids and brought

those kids along with him. he was on a mission during the pandemic. when you have a clear north star to follow, all this criticism, you're too far left or right, it falls away. you know you're doing it for the right reason and that's what you saw tonight. >> senator klobuchar, if vice president harris and governor walz are elected in no, ma'am and they become the president and vice president of the united states, you'll be among one of the best connected people in american politics because of your friendship with both of these leaders and your own leadership in the state of minnesota. are you going to stay in the senate or want to be secretary of state or something? >> i'm in the senate. and actually, i'm going to farm fest tomorrow morning. you may not be there tomorrow, in southern minnesota. i'm doing my job and i look forward to working both of these. as both pointed out, it is 98

days, right? 90 days of hard work. 90 days and you can put anything aside during that time and get to work. and that's our message right now. this is for, as joe biden used to say, the soul of our nation. the fought of our nation. i just love that we have this new joy and this new zest with this team. and i just can't wait for the convention and to get through november. this was pointed out with positivity and we'll have some fun along the way. having a campaign with tim walz in big towns and little towns all over our state, he is someone had a loves to campaign. he loves to have fun. he loves to joke around. and i can't wait to bring that back into our politics. as you can see from the jokes today, it is more than ready to take on j.d. vance. >> i don't even know how to talk about the couch line yet.

>> we're not going there. >> thank you. senator amy klobuchar, thank you very much. lawrence o'donnell, what did you make of the rollout of tim walz and kamala harris for the first time? >> about the couch line -- >> oh, god! [ laughter ] >> i have nothing to say about it. because the perfection of the lane is, people who get it, get it. and it still makes sense to people who don't. when he says it, the context in which he says it. so not realizing this but i've been sitting around american politics in the spectator section midwestly for most of may life. i've been waiting for the democrats to actually have a message on the issue of abortion. something other than this term pro-choice, okay, i get it. all the language that has been a kind of stiff language around

it. they have it. it's mind your own damn business. and they just got it from their vice presidential nominee. and there is not a single democratic politician in the history of that subject who has ever come close to that particular message on that crucial issue which is more crucial in this election than any other election we've ever had before. he found it. and everybody was searching for it for decades. there were word-smiths haired. is there a way to say this? some plain-spoken way of saying it. well, the hail teacher fastball coach will come up with it for you. and he will come up with it without even trying. >> and then the crowd immediately shouts, mind your own business. >> that will be the bumper sticker across the bumper. that's the most astonishing single phrase contribution i've ever seen a vase presidential

candidate contribute to a campaign. and it is easy to review your memory about this. if you sit around and think, what did the vice presidential candidate say in any election? most of the time you can't think of a single thing they said. lloyd benson had one famous line written for him in the debate. that's about it. this is a remarkable start for someone had a has next been on the national stage before tonight. this is how unusual that is. the democrats have never closen a vase presidential nominee who hasn't been on the stat stage before. kamala harris ran for president. joe biden ran against her. john edwards, joe lieberman, al gore, these were all national reputation democrats before you ever heard them open their mouths as a vice presidential nominee. this is the first time we've seen this and that is as strong

a start as you can ask for. >> i've been on this text chain the last couple days with fellow ccc alumni from 2006 which is the area that tim walz was elected. >> that's the nationalic democratic party trying to elect democratic members. >> correct. and that area was the year that rahm emanuel was the chair and we wanted to win back this race. tim walz was running that nobody thought could win including us. it was a reminder that sometime we overcomplicate politics. over the last couple days, weeks, friends pooh had their what it boards. how will this help us electorally? it is really about how you make people feel. it feels like you could run into

him at a diner, a store, like he was their teacher. i think that's how vice president kamala harris felt. statements that's what it is about. sitting there, i was thinking, throw out the what it boards. it is who can connect. >> i will say whale we're talking about the sort of personality assets that governor walz brings to the table. some of them stand than. he's a likable person. that's a good thing in politics. but are some important. i'm not just talking about midwesterner versus midwesterner. the utter humorlessness of donald trump. we saw this with the republicans trying to make it a negative thing about kamala harris. that she laughs. and then they're set out to be an anthropological research

project around america to find, for somebody to find tach donald trump laughing ever. nobody has ever heard it. when walz was announced today, the instant response from the trump campaign was tim walz will unleash hell. it was just like, it's so funny. i have a friend had a i was texting with at the time and it said, tim walz is so funny. if he's good at this, he will release a recipe for a hot dish that is called unleash hell. it has a little paprika in it for a little space. he just punctures the humorlessness and pompousness of trump that nothing quite like humor can do. >> i will put, nominate for second base his contribution to the trump train. i'm in this group, i think trump is scary and what he's doing is turning doj into a police forceful he talks about

shrinkage. he talks about shrinking trump. and trump probably at some level likes that we're all afraid of him. right? he likes -- >> that's his power. >> but what walz has done for the last three weeks is talk about the need to shrink him. and it's hilarious. it's hilarious on many, many, many levels. a seinfeldesque level. we all covered his speech in real-time. you sat there through all 11 hours thinking, how this close? he brings him down to earth in a political gravitational way. >> he said it himself. in the talk in which, the interview in which em, they're weird in that same sort of chat he said, they're bullies. what bullies are are people who are afraid themselves and who have no real power. and that's the only power they have is our father. hurt the, they would harm

america greatly. but in that moment they're just weird. wait a minute. the way we've been thinking about trump and his power, he it yet. at the moment he's just a weird guy in mar-a-lago maybe with some classified documents in the bathroom. he has this odd friend that wants to ban birth control. ability. you're making a demon out of unmarried women and women with pets. they're so bizarre. beyond the fact that they have project 2025, if enacted would turn the whole country into mississippi, but at the moment, they're just a bunch of weird angry, humorless men that don't particularly seem to like anybody else in this country. >> what tim walz ds is he walls them off from the supporters. he doesn't say this is not how i feel about his supporters or any republicans. he makes clear, he's just talking about just the candidate. >> it turns out having the

skills of having managed a high school lunch room for 20 years turns out to be exactly the right skills to bring to bear against bringing a campaign against that particular republican. our special coverage palestinians right after this. an historic night. a really important night in the 2024 election. the democratic ticket is now set. there's a lot more. >> and now, welcome the next vice president of the united states, tim walz! ed gutters.

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old enough to remember when it was republicans who were talking about freedom. it turns out now what they men was the government should be free to invade your doctor's office. in minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices they make.

even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there is a golden rule. mind your own damn business. these guys are after that. >> in that moment, seeing vice president harris be like, oh, yeah, i picked the right guy. this is good. the harris-walz campaign rally tonight are together for the first time. pennsylvania is a critical part of their path toward winning the white house. they held their first rally tonight in philadelphia, pennsylvania. pennsylvania seemed quite happy to have them. this picture was tweeted of governor tim walz today. look how happy the pig looks.

holding a baby pig at a state fair. this person wrote, i personally look forward to seeing tim walz at every pennsylvania state fair his schedule will allow. a member. advisory board, also now running for auditor general in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. it is great to see you. thank you for being here. >> happy to be with you. >> you've seen a lot of politics in your young life. what is your assessment of the reception in philadelphia and pennsylvania tonight gave to the ticket, gave to governor walz who a lot of people are meeting for the very first time this evening. >> the last time a presidential candidate tried to do a rally like this in my district, the seats were as empty as his promises. tonight what you saw was a fired up crowd of people who heard not

just a campaign message but they heard a vision for a future in this country where every single person can be treated with dignity and respectful where you can have a job that pays you a dignified wage. be treated, given benefits if you are hurt at that job. know that you're not lying to your kids when you look them in their eyes and tell them the future will be a little better for them than it was for the last generation. i think what we've seen over the last couple of democratic campaigns, with obama we heard a message of hope and change. with president biden we heard about restoring the soul of america. with tim walz and kamala harris, what we are hearing from this vice president, future president, is a message of freedom and joy. and that is what you saw in this rally today. >> the polls in pennsylvania show a tied race. a very, very tight race between the democratic and republican tickets. a lot of people looking at the importance of pennsylvania.

looking at the tightness of the polls in pennsylvania. thought that was the real reason to put dwor josh shapiro on the ticket. he was not chosen as the running mate but he gave a speech that took the bark off the trees. shouting himself hoarse. bringing the house down in philadelphia. what do you make about the prospects for harris-walz in pennsylvania? how those might have changed since president biden abandoned his re-election bid but also since this new running mate has been announced? >> this is like how do you pick an ice cream scoop. right? there are only good options. the vice president had a ton of good options. only she could answer the question about who she needed to help her advance a bold agenda to make life better for people. what i'm excited about in this entire process, the entire country got to see the bench of

democratic rock stars, true american statesmen who are doing important things. i'm excited that folks got to know josh shapiro who is my good friend, who i've had the good fortune of knowing and working with. we just passed a budget. the single largest investment in k-12 in history. i worked on a bill that we will reform how we deal with pharmacy benefit managers. we'll lower the cost of prescription drugs in pennsylvania. to make available feminine hygiene products in schools. because of this process, a lot of people got to hear that. i am telling you, you can take governor walz to any part of the commonwealth right now and he would get a reception just like this. i'll let you in on something. i said to governor walz and vice president harris before the rally, when he goes tom first state fair, i'd better be with him. and he said yes.

he's ready to go. i'm looking forward to it. we have a message here as democrats that i think works in every single corner of the commonwealth. and it is why you're seeing this race be in a position where yes, it will be close. where i do feel like the momentum is on our side. >> state representative malcolm kenyatta. it is always great to talk to you. thank you for making time to talk with us. >> stephanie, what did you think? >> it is tough to find any flaw in it. i'm always focused on the economy. and as it relates to tim walz and kamala harris, they're completely aligned. it is about the practical care economy. and he has the record to prove it. for people going, well, this midwestern guy, does he know big business? you have target, 3m, general mills, united health care all based in minnesota. when you think about his record, look at even the last five years when the expanded child tax credit expired on a federal

level, he passed it on the state level. he said it was one of signature. they don't even have it done yet in pennsylvania. he did it in minnesota. free breakfast and free lunch. his platform is about dignity. that really aligns with what kamala harris is talking about. everyone should live socially free, physically safe. they did i have backgrounds. what they're trying to provide the american people are completely aligned and he's done in it minnesota. >> and minnesota has a aaa bond rating. they're one of the top ten states in the country for business. they're rated the best in the country for health care. he calls the state the best state in the country to raise kids. and he said that's his guiding star as governor. when the business community, when the wall street donors, when the class who all text you for some reason ask your opinion

about him, are you able to look at his record and about what has happened and tells the business community that it's they have something that appeals to them? >> i can show them donald trump. trying to give every olive branch to donald trump to be a human. he wrote an article in the "washington post" last week saying we need both candidates to come together. we need unity. we need to stop with name calling. he didn't call out donald trump. today donald trump is on his social media platform saying the most awful, ridiculous, silly insults of every elected democrat. so it is getting harder and harder for big business people to be anti-this democratic ticket. look at their record. the thing to be concerned about, this tech community is real.

this elon musk universe is real. just yesterday that court ruling against google, right? calling out google for being the monopoly that it is fair to say, it very much is. you are going to see a groundswell of money get behind donald trump. the idea that these massive tech companies are being called out. yes. google is the only search engine out there. no one else can get in the game. be prepared. we could see a lot of big quiet money get behind donald trump even if they hate his guts. because they are afraid that they're about to be called to task. >> super interesting. nicole? >> i'm happy that they're number three on the happy index. >> that helps. >> who doesn't like corn dogs? coming up, clay masters, senior reporter for minnesota public radio. we are all going to school.

tell us what is unsurprising to you. >> it is not surprising to see him playing to his midwest roots. he grew up in a small town in nebraska. it's a very small town in nebraska. and i'm a nebraska native and can verify how far away that he was from where the lincoln and omaha are located. he went to mankato and i'm traveling in his old congressional district right now doing some reporting at a farm trade show. you heard senator klobuchar talking about it a moment ago called farm fest. so this is his district. there are a lot of politicians who are here speaking. governor walz was supposed to speak tomorrow. he has bigger things going on now, obviously. you see a lot of trump hats. i talked to a lot of people who were not happy that governor

walz was selected. one person said that maybe that means they can take him away from us in minnesota. i think it is really important to point out that there was a really blue dog democrat kind of way he was seen when he was a member of congress. and will that really changed when he went to become the governor of minnesota. and you saw it really change as rachel pointed out a moment ago in the way, when they got the trifecta of the house, the senate, and the governor's office, passing all this sweeping legislation protecting gender-affirming health care, abortion, providing no-cost public school lunches, legalizing recreational marijuana. you really saw him playing to the progressive base which is what vice president harris has really latched on to. >> when he comes across as temperamentally moderate, is that in your view the lingering

effects of the upbringing you're talking about? of his time served as part of the more blue-dog democratic caucus? >> yeah. and certainly, he had a much more moderate base to play to when he was a member of congress representing minnesota's first congressional district. .with congressman ken erstad who said he talks to people who, that he was a much more moderate person. he said walz was not the same as he once was. i think you will see them trying the bring up the progressive agenda he has passed in the minnesota legislature, not to mention the unrest following the murder of george floyd. there were questions that were risen at the time over how long it took for the national guard for walz to bring them in. so you will see these things,

including the way he handled covid. so i think you will start seeing these attack lines coming out from the trump campaign as we move into the next few days. >> thank you. so for spending time with us tonight. >> thank you. >> everybody who has been on the tim walz beat in minnesota is about to need a new data plan on your phone. everybody in america, as lawrence was saying earlier, this is a vice presidential pick who does not come from a place of already having a national profile. so minnesota political reporters, if you have ever served as a minnesota political reporter going back to 2006, you're about to be very, very in demand. soon after joe biden said he wouldn't stand for re-election, we quickly saw harris energizing the democratic coalition. energizing the democratic base.

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he froze in the face of the covid crisis. he drove our economy into the ground. and make no mistake, violent crime was up under donald trump. that's not even counting the crimes he committed. [ applause ] >> vice president harris try to hold it together and not smile too broadly at that. moments later in the speech she

had to try even harder to keep it together when this happened. >> like all regular people i grew up with in the heartland, jd studied at yale. had his career funded by silicon valley billionaires and then wrote a best seller trashing that community. come on. that's not what middle america is. i got to tell you, i can't wait to debate the guy. [ applause ] >> that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.

you see what i did there? [ applause ] >> vice president harris is like -- i'm having a hard time not laughing. her face when he makes that joke. her motto has been when we fight we win. tim walz introducing himself tonight as a fighter but obviously one with a somewhat wicked sense of humor. that brings us to our next guest in a way. david hogg you know as a survivor of the park when shooting and an activist for gun safety ever since after vice president harris announced governor walz as a running mate he wrote about his record. his record as a gun owner and hunter who has nevertheless been willing to face down the nra. saying tim walz is a gun safety champion who can bridge the divide and he's been a bold leader as governor when he made the courageous decision to give

back the nra's contributions after the shooting in parkland. we are beyond excited to get to work to help put the harris walls to get in the lighthouse. let's go with. david hogg said young people are fired up like i've never seen to vote in this election. governor walz is turbocharging that. my friend joy reed has david hogg standing by now. >> thank you. joining us is the ever mentioned david hogg, the founder and president of leaders we deserve march for our lives cofounder and former parkland student. all right, last time i had you on my show you predict did, pitched for, you where the big fan for tim walz. how happy are you and i like to call them the internet kids because i'm old. >> i've not been this happy in years. it is such a breath of fresh air to feel hope. everybody in america knows somebody like tim

walz and he's the guy who's always there to help you whether it's changing your oil, fixing a lawnmower or whether helping to fix our democracy, he is always there for us. at the same time everybody in america knows date events but we stay away from him because he's weird. tim walz is always there and he's not a politician, he's a teacher, veteran, coach and he's a father. the biggest endorsement i saw by far that gave me so much confidence wasn't what other people were saying about him, but it was the videos i saw governor walz with his daughter when he was doing a psa for example about fighting distracted driving and how genuine the relationship was. his own daughters endorsement in the relationship they have said all i needed to know to get behind him. two weeks ago when i started going crazy on twitter talking about him constantly to the point people were asking me if i was paid by governor walz. the fact is i wish i was because i would've made a lot of money, but i wasn't. i genuinely love the man.

i saw him speak at the nebraska convention and he brought me so much hope and i remember texting people in february i said walz -- they were texting me, back in february i was saying he would be an amazing vp to a number of friends. i didn't expect that in this election season and it feels so good to have hope. >> is this about as far as vice president harris, is this about her listening? there was a strong -- it's not internet-based, youth movement for tim walz. that was very clear who young americans wanted, who the young voters wanted. is that what this is about, younger folks like yourself, gun reform activists feel listened to? >> i think that is part of it but it comes down to the fact that he is not just a choice to make sure we don't do any harm. where than anything he is a great choice. he is so experienced between the fact his district for congress trump one that

district by 15% and he still won their and he won over six times in a deeply red district and he's been an extremely successful governor. the reason why young people are behind them is because of that experience and the track record. they want someone who can get things done and that is what tim walz has shown over and over again along with his incredible early supportive things like marriage in that competitive district and so much more, but it's about the younger candidates out there running that i saw were so supportive. leaders we are hoping to reinforce that you devote around the country, to give young people to vote for down ballot so they turn out and vote and know that while this is the party of kamala harris and tim walz and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi it's also the party of people like congressman frost who marched for our lives organizing director. if anybody wants to support us in that effort they can go to leaders we deserve.com because

we are grassroots funded, candidates don't take corporate money. we spent $300,000 on a race in texas and our candidate became the youngest in the state senate by 60 votes. every single vote in these elections counts. please support us at leaders we deserve.com. >> david hogg, you might not of had coins on the table but the moral victory is yours. you are the victor of this vp nominee. >> he's very good at what he does. big secret we want to let you in on msnbc is that we all have our various skills and all things we bring to the table as hostess. the only one of us who is truly connected, truly has a bat phone which you can call the most powerful in the world is the reverend l sharpton who joined us here. i want to ask you what you thought of the rollout tonight but then i want to ask you what the real powers that be are saying about this choice?

i know the most powerful call you for advice. >> yes. joy does call me. i thought the rollout couldn't have been better. when you see that crowd, donald trump has got to be going crazy. this is legitimately a packed house after she did the same thing in the same arena in atlanta that he was complaining about empty seats. i think it's not only the crowd, it's the enthusiasm, the energy that we have not seen probably since 2008 that is really bringing people together across age groups, gender and race. when you look at tim walz when it was announced this morning, i was sitting in this room with nancy pelosi when it was announced the media thing i thought about coming here is a guy, gun owner, came as a blue

congressman when george floyd happened and the family called me and i flew to minneapolis in a pandemic they were writing. he was dealing with all of the violence and at the same time people were saying did you hear what the minneapolis d.a. said? call governor walz and it was he that talked to the d.a. to step aside and he appointed keith everson as a special prosecutor. i do not believe we would've got the convictions, probably the few police -- as much as that tape convicted them we have had tapes before if keith ellison had not been the prosecutor that would not have happened without governor walz. during the trial a young man was killed in brooklyn center minnesota, about 15 or 20 miles up. not only did he denounce the killing, he came to the funeral. i introduced him this week and he gave a proclamation to the family and he says i am pro-

police, pro-law enforcement but we have got to stop this killing of black kids. this is what he said. a man with that kind of balance i think is the right man to be on this ticket because this is the balance that kamala harris has. you have to remember the publicans always ran as the law and order candidate. here you have people that have been a prosecutor, a police running against a man with 34 felonies that i would suspect he's got to call his parole officer to get permission to go to the neck city to campaign because you have to report. by the way, he's got to stop in september to be sentenced right here in manhattan. how is that the law and order candidate? you have a candidate with felonies as the president and you have a guy that is running for vice president that we don't know what he is because he doesn't know what he has. >> a hole in republican self- awareness today when they briefly started criticizing governor