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>> good evening. good evening. good evening, everyone. good evening. good evening. it is good to be back in pennsylvania. [ cheers and applause ] 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. let me just say,

it's good to be here with all of the friends, although leaders who are here. i want to thank former governor ed rendell, senator bob casey who we will reelect this november, senator jon fetterman , mayor parker, and chairman jaime harrison. it is so good to be here with your incredible governor josh schapiro. [ cheers and applause ] i will say just schapiro is

an extraordinary leader. we've been spending a lot of time together over the years and i said, i am so invested in our friendship and doing this together, because together with josh schapiro, we will win pennsylvania. [ cheers and applause ] we will win pennsylvania. 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 has been a bit of a whirlwind. and just last night, the delegates to the democratic national convention finished voting, and so [ cheers and applause ], i stand before you

today to proudly announce i am now officially the democratic nominee for president of the united states. >> and so now we have some work to do. we need to move to the general election and win that. [ cheers and applause ] and tall the friends, we also need to level set. 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 are elected 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 an 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 [ cheers and applause ], i note donald

trump's type. >> but, but, let me just say. let me say. 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. [ cheers and applause ] it's a fight for the future. and, pennsylvania, we fight for the future with affordable housing, affordable health care,

affordable childcare, paid leave . we fight for a future where we build a broad-based economy where every american has the 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 just to 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. so, i love you to. here's the thing. since the day that 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 am here today because i found such a leader. 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 just a governor. to his wife, gwen, he is a husband. to his kids he is a dad. to his fellow veterans, he is sergeant major walz. 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. coach. and in 91 days the nation will know coach walz by another name, vice president of the united states.

>> so, america, for some folks there just getting to know coach walz' story. is the proud product of a rural class family in rural nebraska. 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 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 and when taught english. and 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. together they defied the odds,

here this out, going from a winless record to the school's first ever state championship. coach, [ laughter ], and i will say, tim wasn't only a role model on the football field. around the same time, coach walz was approached by a student in his social studies class. the one 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 students said he made the school a safe place for everybody. in the high school yearbook, the students voted coach walz the, quote, most inspiring faculty member. and,

as i think everyone here can see, tim walz was the kind of teacher and mentor that every child in america dreams of having, and that every kid deserves. the kind of coach, because he is the kind of person, who makes people feel like they belong and inspires them to dream big. that is the kind of vice president he will be. and that is the kind of vice president america deserves. so, it was coach walz' students

who 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, and the top democrat on the veterans committee, and he was known as one of capitol hill's best marksman. [ laughter ] winning a bipartisan sharpshooting 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. i will tell you, when we win, tim and i will continue to make the affordable care act even stronger. we will win.

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 pre- existing conditions. do you remember what that was like? children with asthma. breast cancer survivors. grandparents with diabetes. 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. 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, hours 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. 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 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 are not going back. we are not going back. we are not going back. we are not going back. >> we are not going back. we are not going back. >> we are not going back. 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 v. wade 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 u.s. congress, we will pass a bill to restore reproductive freedom, and i will promptly sign it into law. 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 and over 50 years. and with governor walz' help, when i am president, we are going to finally pass the jon lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. we are 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 firearms sales.

and, together, when we win in november, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and assault weapons ban. through his work, tim, the way i think about it, he shines a light on a brighter future that we can build together. in his stake, he has been a model chief executive, and with his experience, i am telling you, tim walz will be ready on day one. in fact, in fact, when you

compare his resume [ laughter ] shall we? to trump's running mate, well, well, some might say, it's like a match between the varsity team and the jv squad. so, pennsylvania, ultimately in this election, we each face a question. what kind of country to 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 of people. we love our country. and i believe is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country. that is how we preserve the promise of america.

after all, you know, the promise of america is what makes it possible for two middle-class kids, 18 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 is 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. [ cheers and applause ] only in

america. only in america. only in america. >> usa. usa. usa. usa. >> and so, coach walz and i may hail from different corners of our great country, but our values are the same. we both believe in lifting people up and not knocking them down. 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. my promise to you is this. our campaign will reach out to everyone from red states to blue states, from the heartland to the coast. in rural, urban, suburban and tribal communities. , we are running a campaign in behalf of all americans, and when elected, we will cover in behalf of all americans. and so, with tim walz by my side

, and with all of you at our side, let as fights for the promise of our future. with that, i ask pennsylvania, are you ready to make your voices heard? 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 its? and when we fight, we win. and, now, welcome the next vice president of the united states, tim walz. >> [ cheers and applause ]

>> how -- wow. thank you. thank you, philadelphia. thank you, madam vice president for the trust you put in me, but maybe, more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. i am thrilled to be on this journey with you and doug, this incredible journey. pennsylvania, i know you know this, but, my god, what a treasure you have in josh schapiro.

[ cheers and applause ] only hell, can this guy bring the fire. this is a visionary leader. i have to tell you, everybody in america knows, when you need a bridge fixed, call that guy. and, i think sometimes we forget, and you see people one- dimensional, but seeing a guy who care so deeply about his family, a man with compassion, vision, and i have to tell you this, i know from experience, there is no one you would rather go to a springsteen concert with in jersey than him. i can't wait for all of you and

america to get to know my incredible wife gwen, 29 year public school educator. don't ever under miss -- underestimate teachers. our two beautiful kids hope and gus. i couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket and to help vice president harris to become, what we know is 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 state 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 and stood up against powerful corporate interests, and she never hesitated to reach across the aisle, if it meant improving people's lives. i want all of you to hold this, and don't ever underestimate 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, small town of 400, where community was a way of life. growing up, spent the summers working on the family farm. i mom and dad taught us, show generosity toward your neighbors come and work for a common good. my dad served in the army during the korean war, and 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.

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. 304 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. it was my students, they encouraged me to run for office. they saw and me what i was hoping to instill in them, a commitment of common good.

a belief that one person can make a difference. in 2006, 2006, i took a leap and ran for congress. and because high school teachers are super optimistic, i was running in a district that had one democrat since 1892. well, my neighbors graced me with an opportunity to represent them in the house of representatives. i am proud of the work we did there together. i worked across the aisle and veterans issues, and agriculture, and in ways to grow rural economies. i learn 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 facing our great state. minnesota strengths comes from our values. our commitment to working together. to see past differences, to being willing to lend a helping hand. those of the same values i learned of the family farm and try to instill in my students. i took it to congress into the state capitol, and now, vice president harris and i are running to take those 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 sows 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 is not even counting the crimes he committed.

>> you know, some of us, 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 the personal choices they make.

even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there's a golden rule. mind your own business . >> these guys are after my own heart chanting mind your own business. 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. i remember praying every night for a call for good news. the pit in my stomach when the phone rang and the agony when we heard the treatments had network. it was not by chance is that when we welcomed our daughter

in the world, we named her hope. when the 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 will be shot dead in their classrooms. by the way, as you heard, was one of the best shots in congress by the minnesota we believe in the second amendment but we also believe in common sense gun violence laws. vice president harris idea freedom is a ticket for

education to be the ticket to the middle class and not crippling debt. air that is clean. water that is pure. communities that are safe. a place where we settle our political differences not through violence but with our votes. and that is what this election is about. what direction will this country go in? he's not going back. donald trump well sure take us backwards . and don't believe him when he placed him. he knows exactly what project 2025 will do to restrict our freedoms.

to break 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 families. he will repeal the affordable care act. no doubt about it. he will cut social security and medicare. and when somebody tells you, believe him. he said he will ban abortion and he will do it whether congress is there or not. donald trump is not fighting for you or your family. he never said -- sat at the kitchen table wondering how we were going to pay the bills. he set his country club and mar-

a-lago wondering how he could cut taxes for his rich friends. i've got to tell you, his running mate shares his dangerous and backward agenda for this country. j.d. vance literally, literally at the for work for the architect of the project 2025 agenda. like all regular people i grew up within the heartland, jd studied at yale. his career funded by silicon valley philip -- ellie anderson then wrote a best seller trashing the community. that is not what middle america is. i've got to tell you. i can't wait to debate the guy.

>> that is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up. did you see what i did there? i got to tell you. pointing out an observation of mine that i made. i have to say it. you know it, you feel it, these guys are creepy and just weird as hell. that is 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 are not going back. we are not going back. we are not going back. >> we've got 91 days. my god that's easy. we will sleep when we are dead. over those next 91 days, and every day in the white house, i will have vice president harris' back every single day. and we will have yours. you know how this works.

we cannot do it alone. we need you. each and every one of you. go over to, this harris.com and get on board because 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 are not going back. she believes in the opportunity for every single person to join the middle class. she believes in the promise of

america. we've just got to fight. we've got to fight. because is soon to be president harris says, when we fight, we win. thank you, philadelphia. thank you, vice president. god bless america. >> ♪ >> [ cheers and applause ]

>> the democratic ticket, vice president harris in her newly announced running mate governor of minnesota walls. their respective spouses. america's first-ever gentlemen -- second gentleman doug emhoff and gwen wallace who has the governor put in his speech, 29 years school public educator in minnesota. they are speaking at a capacity crowd, actually i think it's beyond capacity crowd, at temple university in philadelphia. campaign tells us there's more than 12,000 people at this event. you heard governor walz shouting out to the people at the top, you came here to sit way up there. as you know, we are not going back. before the two spoke the crowd

went bananas for pennsylvania's governor josh shapiro. came close to being named the vice presidential running mate himself. the crowd went bananas as he gave a rip roaring speech before this very fired up crowd. than the nomine herself, kamala harris, gave remarks in detail, introducing america to a figure is popular in his home state but not widely known outside of a. the vast majority of americans saying today in the polling done upon his selection as her vice presidential running mate, american saying they don't have an opinion because i do not know him. she, taking the time and her remarks to introduce him in detail and her newly announced running mate himself giving the kind of speech that shows way she picked him. the two appeared together as a ticket for the first time right now.

they will do multiple swing states in a fast-moving, very condensed tour for the rest of this week including in wisconsin and michigan tomorrow. multiple swing states before the end of the week. tim wallace was born in small town nebraska and grew up in a family farm. his father was in the army and he would lose his father when he was 19 years old. he died of lung cancer. walz enlisted at 17 and served 24 years in the army national guard. tim walz retired from the army national guard and command sergeant major. it's a big deal. it would become the highest- ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve in the united states congress and while he was there chaired the veterans affairs committee. before he got to congress, spent 20 years teaching high school social studies and coaching football. he took his high school football team in a few years from winning the cicely zero games. what's the opposite of undefeated, but they were that.

winning the state championship for the first time in the school's history. in his remarks, governor walz expressing uncontrollable pride in that fact singing never close that yearbook. he served 12 years in congress. he was elected in a relatively conservative district in minnesota. one that had not been represented by democrat precisely once since the 1890s before he won't go the seat as a democrat. he hosted an incumbent republican to get that seat and reelected five times. after he left that seat in congress to run for governor in minnesota, went back to being a republican-controlled seat. when elected governor in 2018, he won't go by a lot. more than 10 points. when he ran for reelection in 2022 coming not only won by a lot again, but when he was

reelected as governor of minnesota in 2022, democrats held onto the statehouse and took over the state senate and that one go the democrats a trifecta in minnesota government for the first time in a decade. having that trifecta and the governor that allowed him to start rising is a democratics star with what will eventually be a noun 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 a progressive agenda practical policies in ski minnesota. also his personality, his practicality, his likability, his appeal to all sorts of different constituencies. progressives and moderates and cross party appeal and his purple stay. his record as governor includes

extending 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 schoolkids and protecting abortion rights as soon as roe v. wade was overturned by the u.s. supreme court by donald trump's appointees on the supreme court. two miles sunday law to codify in that state the protections of roe v. wade into state law. and now, is kamala harris' running mate. the campaign says that they have raised thus far, ready, more than $20 million today just since kamala harris announced his place on the ticket. former president barack obama praising tim walz as, quote, ideal partner. watching these remarks tonight from the nomine, presidential nominee, vice president harris and from her running mate tim walz, i do think we are seeing another no

drama moment in the democratic party. i don't think there are aggrieved constituencies mad that this happened. i think tonight he is showing what he brings to the table, the ticket. >> today marks kamala harris first big decision which she would care for dig into the presidency, and it went really well. it looks good on substance and the speech was a home run. there are times when you ed a whiskey. we've all had those times covering this new cycle. [ laughter ] but there are other times, speaking of drink, but other times with the best thing for you is gatorade and a good long run. i think the party has had these debates in these moments and freak outs and harris is

leading to now handing off as a running mate summon who gave that speech, this is america's dad. america's football coach. >> she called him coach walz. >> america's teacher and a teacher cool enough without trying to be cool but then i was reading this today, when people are singling out other classmates because of their identity of who they are, this is the person who leads. that is really cool. cool in a deeper way. there will be time to assess the sand at debates and how they investigative journalism, but this accords himself well and that gatorade and that run until the uplifting five, the party needs to come up a so does america need it. his record. his record. liberal without being vibrant,

kind in the traditional sense of the word. i swear this is not a dog whistle, but you got a reminder why this isn't a purely coastal big state, blue state ticket. yes, he's from a blue state but we already talked about the district he's from and the way he represents, which had a heartland thing going on. and heartland isn't necessarily left or right, or doesn't need to be. you're reminded by kamala harris' first decision she says to the nation whatever you know about me i know how to get things done and lead, that doesn't mean compromising on your core beliefs either. >> i also think just you learn politics in the rooms you're in. when comedians talk about the room, you're giving jokes and people are in that room and you don it over and over and you fd out what hits and what doesn't. we've seen donald trump do that with this crowd. that is a collaboration between donald trump and the maga faithful. >> that's what heor learns what his policies are. >> that's how he learns what theyw are. and this is a guy he's ben

working as a teacher in oa rural school district and nen in a conservative rural congressional district. and then in the state of minnesota at a statewide level, and again a state that is a blue state but can be a battleground state. donald trump came very close to yoinking it away in 2016 barack obama's 2004 convention speech, it's like patriotic pluralism, a vision of an inclusive society where we stand up to bullies and we look out for people and we're all bound together and we mind our w own damned business, and that's a way of talking about a certain set of what to me are generally liberal and open set of the progresses in an open and inviting way that is not wrapped up in, you know, hard to understand k jargon. and i think he just does it real damn well, and they saw that on

display. >> so in 2008 working for the campaign and there's something cellular about winning this. they have something cellular going on. you brought up the whiskey and i think we were all together 5 1/2 weeks agoto covering the debate you were first to come on the air to talk utwhat what we see. it is the vibe of winning, it is the momentum pure and simp. vice president kamala harris isn't flawless. i don't think she'd say she's flawless. she is running a flawless campaign. she's not made one single mistakemism i think democrats might say she will, she might not. republicans havemi nominated trp three times. i mean she is running a flawless

campaign, and this choice even 8 hours ago wasn't as obvious as it is now. he made a couch joke, for pete's sake, and yes to all the cultural sort of universality of his appeal, but he also is unafraid. they're unapologetic in their policies, but he's totally approachable. i think that's -- there's been a thirst and a hunger for that. winning also is about stringing together one good news cycle after one good news cycle after one good news cycle. and she's done that including today. >> absolutely. the line i wrote done from coach walz, thank you for bringing back the joy. >> that was his opening line. >> i think that's part of what

it is. i've gotten so many tenth messages from people who have been locked in this just cycle of terror and fear about what's to come, right? this fear of fascism that's legitimate because donald trump really does want to bring back fascism. >> you said we wouldn't talk about our private discussions. [ laughter ] >> i can't with you. >> i'm sorry. >> but the reality is i think a lot of people have forgotten how fun campaigns can be. i actually enjoyed working on campaigns back in the day because there was something about it that was sort of the civic-minded of it, the kind of camaraderie of it, and a certain aspect that's fun even though the stakes are big. i think with donald trump he's got this kind of stale act that isn't anew, it isn't fresh. he's doing the same schtick.

he wants 10-year-olds to have lunch, you know? it's just a simple midwestern values thing president obama did, barack obama did in this campaign. trump is, again, is gep using his whole middle name, but he's like a normal guy you would play basketball with, and so is this guy. i think that a powerful thing people forget and it works. it worked for joe biden and one of the ways in which he defeated trump. i'm not going to pooon a gold toilet like this guy. this guy is odd, j.d. vance is evennc weirder. and this is like comfortable, normal, and joyful. that is a powerful thing in campaigns. >> i will say if you look at for

americans discovering there's someone famed tim walz today -- which is a huge proportion even of democrats, right? but they're learning this is a guy who's 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 tarmy, he did 24 years, he was a high school social studies teacher, his wife an english teacher. he's a football coach and ran in a conservative district and was the champion congressional sharpshooter, and when parkland happened -- when the parkland shooting happened and his daughter was 17 years old, and he is a lifelong gun owner and hunter and he's a-rated from the nra, he decides that he needs to evolve on that issue, and he as most gun owners do decides he's going toes support background checks, he's going to support

red flag laws and other common sense gun safety laws. and what does he do when he was running for governor that year when all that is happening? he makes that change and then he turns around and donates to charity every dollar the nra had ever donated to him over the course of his career when he was an a-rated nra democratic moderate from a rural red leaning urdistrict. >> and now he gets an "f." >> now he gets an "f" and he wears it as a badge of honor. >> what the harris campaign what she'se saying about this is th is america and it's inviting. we talked about the zoom calls, which can be different constituency groups, but the white guy zoom call it's half a joke -- white dudes, it's also a joke but very real. democrats spent many years on defense on so-called conservative issues including national security or safety or

wearing a darn flag pin. and i'm all for celebrating america any way you choose. but all the flag pin theater is very different from what harris is d saying today, which is thi is also america but it has certain values. he said you can have compromised orientation without compromising your values. that's a different invitation and different than being a right-wing performative. now you have the so-called maga folks on defense about what's the america -- >> if you're debating whether you're weirder or their weirder, you're already losing. he is what j.d. vance pretends to be. >> the other thing is i think because the country is not particularly divided on abortions. 76% of americans thought roe was properly decided. 80% wants gun safety legislation include agmajority of gun owners. but all the republicans have had the past 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, it just -- again, i keep kpg back to thisfession of pluralism because it's a weird, dated word no one uses anymore but central and core to this thing. democracy is like attaching across all these lines of difference. we're trying to build a multiracial budemocracy. it's super hard to do. they fall apart left and right. and here you've got this moment on stang where she's got these parents who are both immigrants from different traditions, she grows up in oakland, he's from this totally different part of america and totally different up bringing, and there they are on stage like stitching together this coalition, the pro-democracy coalition inviting the democratic party and all different kinds of line of difference. it's got to hold together with people who disagree.

you see it, this is what it lookse like. >> the word for that is diversity. it just means that everyone is at the table. >> we're different types of people who come from different places and share the values and all have an equal say. senior senator from minnesota is amy klobuchar. she's good friends with the new vice presidential pick on the democratic side, minnesota governor tim walz. and it's just from their time serving in government in minnesota. their families goov way back. senator klobuchar's husband is from the same town where governor walz used to teach high school. on new year's day this year they hosted them for lunch. when his son was born governor walz's family brought them a chicken parm forbr dinner. in other words, they are close. joining us now is minnesota senator amy klobuchar. senator, thanks for being here.

it's a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> well, thanks. thanks for giving me those street kreds from the heartland. i loved ari's remark about the whiskey. i think if we're downing a whiskey it's out affcelebration tonight because tim walz did his job. first of all he did it in a room full of philadelphia eagles fans. he did it without a cookie cutter speech. his acknowledgement of his respect and friendship with josh shapiro, josh shapiro's beautiful speech before that i think latd to rest some of these unity arguments we're see on the other side. and the way he was able to take down donald trump and j.d. vance, he showed himself to be a campaigner, and we now know he took a winless high school football 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 pretend i button holed you somewhere and no one can hear us talking. so i would say senator klobuchar, tell me what tim walz is really like. i know what his persona is as a politician. i have watched his speeches, his key press conferences, watched him on tv making the case in recent days and also previous campaigns, i know his history. but what's he like as a guy? what's he like to spend time with, his personality? what would you tell me he's like if we weren't on tv? >> well, i know a number of you like he's good with strong women. his lieutenant governor penny flanagan is strong, and he's worked with me many, many years. if he thinks he's done something wrong, he'll adjust call you and say it. he's blunt and to the point. i think that's going to work well with kamala harris. secondly, you see how kind he

is. when i found out i had breast cancer and announced it, he was one of the first people that called me. he is a stand up person, and he's done that his whole life, andth the people of our state en if they don't agree with everything he says, that is why he's able to bring in independents, moderate republicans, and democrats into this strong coalition, and then you just see a different guy standing up there as a candidate, and it shows kamala harris' strength she was able to pluck someone out, maybe not anyone new and say this is a good guy, and a strong guy. the fact he's the winner of the sharpshooter contest in congress, great. if fact he stood in minnesota in winters for hours, great. the fact he has stood up for gun safety and he'sup stood up for lunches and breakfasts for school kids, that is great. so i just think you see someone who gets the mission. and the fact he was so fluid out there, ad-libbed, was so happy

to be there, didn't act nervous, didn't act scared, didn't seem scripted, that is quite amazing and extraordinary for a first major rally like that. i know. i've been at these things. and he's able to go out there and be himself, which i think is the first test of any candidate that's a bitte off the grid. and he passed with flying colors. >> we've been talking about the fact that so many americans are learning about him for the first time. they're learning it's pronounced walz and not waltz. they're learning he's the governor of on "m" state. which state? minnesota. people are learning 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 unifies in the democratic coalition moderates, and there's a lot of things in his record that suggests centrism and moderation but also progressive, that he was the choice, for example, outspoken

support from people like bernie sanders and aoc and from pramila jayapal, who's the chair of the congressional progressive caucus. you're hearing thisss balanced perspective where people should put him on the ideological number line, where republicans are saying, you know, he's to the left of chairman mao. for americans who don't know, who are juster hearing the sortf descriptions and caricatures of him today, how do you see him in terms of where he falls on the line between conservative and liberal? >> as a moderate and someone who's been attacked for that, let me make the case. his congressional district, which you pointed out well, he's second democrat in a hundred years to win it, and he won it over and over again. part of that that he didn't shy away from his votes for the affordable care act. he went out and did town hall meetings for a former republican senator who he recently lost,

david durenberger. he's someone who says what he thinks. i think if you've seen him one television in it last few weeks, he's not afraid to do that. i think we need more of that in our politics and not less. and he's just someone who reaches out. one thing that's going to suit him, he's on g a mission. he's on a mission when he was a soldier and siped up at age 17 like so many kids do in the heartland. he was on a mission when he taught his kids and brought those kids along with him and his football team. and he was on a mission when he governed our state during the pandemic. when you have a clear north star to follow like tim walz has all this criticism and saying you're too s right and too left, it ju fades away because 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 november and they become the president and

vice president of the united states, you are going to 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 ine the senate, or are you going to 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, rachel, i southern minnesota. but i'm doing my job, and i look forward to working for both of these these. as both of them pointed out it is 90 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 is that this is for as joe biden used to say the soul of our nation. this is for the future of our nation. and 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, but we're going to do

this as pointed out with positivity, andpo we're going t have some fun along the way. because having campaigns with tim walz in big town and little towns all over our state, he is someone that loves to campaign. he loves to have fun. heov loves to joke around, and can't wait to bring that back in our politics. and as you can see from some of hisee jokes today, he's more th ready to take on j.d. vance on his own terms. >> oh, yes, absolutely. i don't even know how to talk about the couch line yet. i'm still taking advice. >> yeah, we're not going there. >> thank you. senator amy t klobuchar, great have you with us tonight. thank you. lawrence o'donnell, what did you make of the rollout of tim walz and kamala harris together for the first time? >> about the couch line -- >> oh, god. >> i have nothing to say about it because the perfection of the line is people who get it, get

it. and it still makes sense to people who don't when he says it in the context in which he says it. so i've been -- plot realizing this, but i've been sitting around american politics in the spectator section mostly -- for mostly of my life waiting for t democrats to actually have a message on the issue of abortion, something other than this term pro-choice, which, okay, i get it. all the language, there's been a kind ofua stiff language around it. they haven't. it's mind your own damn business, and they just got it from their vice presidential nominee, and there's not a single's democratic politician 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 in any election we've ever had

before. he found it, and everybody was searching for it for decades. there were wordsmiths hired about is there ads way to say this? and there some plain way to say it? and like some high school football coach is going to come up with it for you. >> and then the crowd immediately shouts mind your own business. >> that's the bumper m sticker going tobu go all the way acros the bumper. it's a few more words than a typical bumper sticker. that in and of itself is the most astonishing single word contribution i've ever seen a viceti presidential candidate contribute to a campaign. it's easy to review your memory about this if you sit around and think about what did the vice presidential candidate say in any election. most of the time you can't this can of a single word they said. lloyd benson had one famous line written for him in the debate, that's about it. this is remarkable start for someone who's never been on the national stage before tonight. and this is how unusual that is.

the democrats have never chosen the vice presidential nominee who hasn't been on the national stage before. kamala harris ran forfo preside, joe biden ran against her. that's how she got the nomination. barack obama ran against him. that's how he got it. john edwards, joe leiberman, al gore. these were all national reputationwe democrats before y 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 you could ask for. >>a jen psaki. >> watching this, i've been on this text chain the last cup of days with fellow d triple c -- >> that's part of the national democratic party trying to elect democratic members of the house of representatives. >> correct. and that year was the year rahm emaniple was the chair and we

win back the house. tim walls was running this race no one thought he could win including many of us working there. watching this is just a reminder sometimes you overcomplicate politics, right? and over the last couple of days, weeks, all our friends people were texting and people had their white boards about hor will this help us electorally. tim walz makes people feel like they could run into him at a hardware store, maybe he was their teacher, and i think that's part of why kamala harris picked him, how he made her feel. but also watching her today that's how he made people in the crowd feel. and sometimes that's what politics is about and sitting there i was watching thinking, throw out thehi white boards. it's really who can connect. >> i will also say while we're talking aboutl the sort of personality assets that governor walz brings to the table, some

of them stand alone. they sort of exist in terms of their absolute value. a likable person, that's always a good thing in politics, but some of them are particularly important given who the republican ticket is. andpu i'm not just talking abou midwesterner versus midwesterner versus j.d. vance. i mean the utter humanlessness of donald trump. we saw this with them trying to make a thing about cost and she laughs and they're setout to be an thru logical research se project. when walz was announced today the instant response from the trump campaign was tim walz will unleash hell on america. it's so funny. i have a friend i was texting with at the time who came out and said tim walz is so funny if

he's good at this, he will release a recipe for a hot dish that's called unleash hell and a little paprika in there for a little spice. there's something in there he punctures the humorlessness. >> i'm in this group that, you know, i think trump is scary and what he's running on is turning doj into something it's never been, personal police force. he talks about shrinkage, he talks about shrinking trump. and trump probably at some level likes that we're all afraid of him, right? likes that we cover -- >> that's his power. but what walz has done for the last few weeks is talk about the need to shrink him. and it's hilarious, again. it's hilarious on many levels and just the bring him down to size. we all cover his speech in

realtime and you sat there through all 11 hours of it thinking how h is this close? he brings him down-to-earth in a political gravitational way. >> he said it himself in the speech or the talk -- or interviewlk in which he said they're weird in that same sort of chat he said they're bullies. and 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 fear. sure, they would harm america greatly if they had power back, but they're alsopo just weird, d in that moment you sort of said wait a minute, the way that we've been sort of thinking about trump and his power, he doesn't have it yet. at the moment he's just like a weird guy that's in mar-a-lago, maybe with some classified documents in the bathroom, right? that's got this odd friend that wants to like -- >> ban birth control. >> and with cats and no kids. you're making a demon out of unmarried women and women with

pets. they're so bizarre that beyond the fact they have project 2025 that if enacted would turn the whole country into mississippi, 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 does is he walls them off from supporters. he doesn't say this is not how i feel about supporters or any republicans. he makes clear he's just talking about the candidate. >> that's right. it turns out having the skills of having managed a high school lunchroom, overseeing that school lunchroom for 20 years turns out to be exactly the right skills to bring to bear in running a campaign against that particular republican. all right, our special coverage continues right after this, a historic night, really important night in the 2024 election. the democratic ticket is now 2 set. there's a lot more to say about it, a lot more people talk to. stay with us.

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turns out now what they meant was the government should be free to invade you're 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 after my heart chanting "mind your own damn business." that feels good, so thank you. in that moment seeing vice president harris be like, oh, yeah, i picked the right guy. the harris-walz campaign rally tonight for the first time they're together. pennsylvania, of course, is a

critical part of their path toward winning the white house, and so they held their first rally tonight in philadelphia, pennsylvania. pennsylvania seems quite happy to have them. pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta tweeted this picture of tim walz today, holding a baby pig at a state fair. joining us now from the harris-walz rally in philly is pennsylvania state rep malcolm kenyatta, a member of the national advisory board and also now running for auditor general in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. it's great to see you. thanks so much 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 that pennsylvania and philadelphia tonight gave to the ticket, gave to governor walz, who a lot of people are meeting

for the first time this very evening. >> you know, listen, the last time a presidential candidate tried to do a rally like this in my district here, the seats were just as empty as his promises. tonight what you saw was a fired up crowd of people who heard a -- 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 respect, where you can have a job that pays you a dignified wage. be treated -- be given benefits if you happen to get hurt at that job. know that you're lying to your kids when you look them in their eyes and tell them the future is going to be a little bit better for them than it was for the last generation. i think what we've seen really 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. and with tim walz and kamala harris, what we're hearing from this vice president and future president is a message of

freedom and joy. and that's what you saw in this rally today, so much joy. >> the polls right now in pennsylvania show essentially a tight 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 that was a real reason to put governor josh shapiro on the ticket. he was not chosen as the running mate, but he gave a speech tonight that took the bark off the trees, shouting himself hoarse, bringing the house down in philadelphia. what do you make of about the prospects for harris and walz in pennsylvania, how those might have changed since president biden abandoned his re-election bid, but also now seps this new running mate has been announced. >> you know, listen, this is like how do you pick an ice cream scoop? the only good options, the vice president had a ton of good

options, but only she could answer the question about who she needed to help her advance a bold agenda to make life better for people. but what i'm excited about in this entire process is that the entire country got to see the bench of democratic rock stars in a true american statesman who are doing important things. listen, i'm excited that folks got to know josh shapiro, who's my good friend, who i've had the good fortune of knowing and working with. we just passed a budget, the single investment in k-12 in history. i worked with representative bill how we're going to reform how we do a benefit with managers, which is complicated thing to say, lower prescription drugs in pps. we're making it so there are feminine hygiene products available in all our schools and all our kids can get a free lunch. we're getting things done in pennsylvania, and because of

this process a lot of people got to hear that. i am temming you you can take governor walz to any part of the commonwealth right now and he would get a reception just like this. i said to governor walz and vice president harris before the rally that when he goes to that first state fair i better be with him. and he shook his head yes and said he's ready to go, and i'm looking forward to it because we have a message here as democrats i think works in every single corner of the commonwealth, and it's why you're seeing this race be in a position where, yes, it's going to be close. but where i do feel like the momentum is on our side. >> state representative malcolm kenyatta, sir, it's always great to talk to you. thanks for making the time for us tonight. stephanie ruhle, i've not asked you what you thought about this rollout tonight. what did you think? >> it's tough to find any flaw in it. as it relates to tim walz and kamala harris they're completely aligned because it's all about the practical care economy, and

he's got the record to prove it. for people going this midwestern guy does he know big business? you've got 3m, united health care all based in minnesota. when you actually think about his record look at the last five years. when the expanded child tax credit expired on a federal level, he passed it on a state level. he said it's one of his signature accomplishments. we've all seen the video said this week him surrounded by kids signed into law to make sure they don't ehave it done yet in pennsylvania. he did it in minnesota free breakfast. his platform is about dignity and aligns with what kamala harris is trying to say everyone should live their lives socially free, financially secure and physically safe. what they're trying to provide the american people are completely aligned, and he's done it in minnesota. >> minnesota has a triple a bond rating. they're rated one of the top ten states in the country for business.

they're rated one of the best countries for health care. he called it the best state in the country to raise kids, and he says that's his guiding star as governor. i mean when the business community, the wall street donors, the c-suite class who all text you for some reason, ask your opinion about him, are you able to look at his record and about what's happened as a two-term governor and tell the business community that they've got something that apoopeels in him? >> what i can do is show them donald trump buzz it was less than a week ago jamie diamond, ceo of jp morgan, who's tried to get every single possible conceivable olive branch to donald trump to be a human. okay, he wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" last week saying we need both candidates to come together, we need unity, stop with the name-calling, and he didn't call out donald trump. and today donald trump is on his social media platform saying the most awful, ridiculous, silly

insults of every elected democrat. so it's been getting harder and harder for big business people to be anti- this democratic ticket because look at their record. the thing to be concerned about is this tech community is real. yes there are some backing her, but this elon musk universe is real. just yesterday that court ruling against google, calling out google to be the monopoly which it's fair to say based on it, it very much is. you're going to see a ground swell of money get behind donald trump because the idea these massive tech companies are now being called out. yes, google is the only search engine out there, and because they're the only one no one else can get in game, prebe prepared we can see a lot of big quiet money get behind donald trump even if they hate donald trump because they're afraid they're about to be called out. >> super interesting. nicole, you have a guest.

>> joining our coverage is clay masters. we are all i think going to school. some of us knew more than others about governor walz, so tell us what is unsurprising to you as you see this big rollout tonight. >> well, it's not surprising to see him playing to his midwest roots. he grew up in a small town in nebraska as he said, and it's a very small town in nebraska. and i'm a nebraska native and can -- can verify how far away he was from where the very populous lincoln and omaha are located. went to mantaulk.

this is his district. there are a lot of opoliticians here speaking, congressional candidates. governor walz was supposed to speak tomorrow. he's got bigger things going on now obviously, but you see a lot of trump hats. you see a lot of -- i talk to a lot of people who were not happy that governor walz was the one that was selected. one person actually said to me, oh, maybe that means they can take him away from us in minnesota. but there was a -- i think it's really important to point out there's a real blue dog democrat kind of seen when he was a member of congress, and 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 just in the way that when they got the trifecta in the house, senate, and governor's office just passing all this sweeping legislation protecting gender affirming health care, abortion, providing no cost public school lunches, legalizing recreational

marijuana. you really saw just him playing to the very progressive base that seems to be what vice president harris has really latched onto. >> clay, when he comes across as temperamentally moderate, is that in your view sort of the lingering effects of the upbringing you're talking about and of his time served as part of the more blue dawn 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. i spoke with congressman bob finstad who represents this district now, a republican who says he talks to people who used to tell him he was a much more moderate person. and he said walz is not the same as he once was. i think you're really going to see republicans and the trump-vance ticket trying to bring up the progressive agenda

he has passed in the minnesota legislature, not to mention the unrest following the murder of george floyd. there are questions that were risen at the time about how long it took the national guard to call them in. you're going to see these things ensued during his time as governor. i think you're going to see these attack lines in the trump campaign. >> clay masters, thank you for spending time with us tonight. >> everyone who's been on the tim walz beat in minnesota is about to need a new data plan on your phone because everybody in america, as mars was saying earlier this is vice presidential pick who does not come from a place of already having a national profile. so minnesota political reporters, and if you've ever served as a minnesota political

reporter going back to 2006 you're about to become in very, very demand. we quickly saw harris energizing the democratic coalition, energizing the democratic base and specifically energizing younger voters. one very articulate representative of that generation who has talked very much about what's going on in democratic politics among young voters is parkland activist david hogg. we're going to speak with david hogg in just a moment, get his reaction in this rollout of harris and walz for the first time tonight as a ticket at this blockbuster rally in pennsylvania. that's all ahead. stay with us. >> to fellow veterans he is sergeant major walz.

to the people -- 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 -- the nation will know coach walz by another name. vice president of the united states.

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 see vice president harris trying 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 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. and i've 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? >> 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 to the country tonight as a fighter but obviously one with a somewhat wicked sense of humor, and that brings us to our next guest in a way.

david hogg you know as a survivor of the parkland shooting and an activist for gun safety ever since. after vice president harris announced governor walz as her running mate governor hogg wrote about walz's record, a record as a gun owner and hunter who's nevertheless been able to face down the nra. saying tim walz is gun safety champion who can bridge the divide and when he made the curaej s and principled 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-walz ticket in the white house. let's go with four o's. david hogg said, quote, young people are fired up like i've never seen to vote in this election, and governor walz is turbo charging that. and my friend joy reid has hogg standing by right now. >> thank you so much, my friend. joining us is the aforementioned david hog, the president and

founder of march for our lives cofounder and former parkland student, david hogg. the last time i had you on my show you predicted, pitched for -- you were the big pitch man for tim walz. how happy are you, and how happy -- i like to call him the internet kid because i'm old. >> i've not been this happy for a number of years. honestly it's such a breath of fresh air to feel hope. everybody in america knows somebody like tim walz. and he's the guy always there to help you whether it's changing your oil, fixing the lawnmower or help us fix our democracy. he is there for us. at the same time everyone knows j.d. vance 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, he's a veteran, he's a coach, and he's a father, right? the biggest endorsement i saw by far that gave me so much confidence wasn't just what other people were saying about him but it was actually the videos that 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 daughter's endorsement of the relationship and they have said all i needed to know to get behind him. back two weeks ago when i started going crazy on twitter to the point people started asking me if i was paid by tub governor walz, and i wish i was because i would have made a lot of money. i genuinely love the man. i saw him speak at the democratic national convention, i knew -- i remember texting people back in february and i said, walz, i'm not making this up. they're say back in february i said walz is an amazing vp pick. and it feels so good to have hope. >> is this about as far as vice president harris is this about her listening because there was a very strong -- it's not just internet based but youth

movement for tim walz, and that was very clear who young americans wanted, who young voters want. is that what this is about is that younger folks like yourself, gun reform activists like yourself feel listened to? >> i think that's part of it, joy. but also it comes down to the fact he's not just a choice to make sure we don't do any harm, more than anything he is a great choice. he's so, so experienced between the fact his district for congress, trump won that district by 15%, and he still won there. and he won over six times in that deeply red district, and he's been an extremely successful governor. the reason why young people were behind him more than anything was because of that experience and the track record. young people want someone who's deliberate and can get things done, and that is what tim walz has shown over and over again along with his incredible early support of things like gay marriage in that competitive district and so much more, but it's also about the younger

candidates out there run too, i saw so supportive of him. leaders we deserve helping to reinforce that youth vote across the country, get other people to vote for down ballot so they turn out and vote. while this is the party of kamala harris obviously and tim walz and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and joe biden, it's also a party with march for our lives former organizing director and so many others. if someone wants to support us in that effort they can go to leaderswedeserve.com. we're grass roots funded. in houston, texas, we spent $300,000 on and our candidate in the senate won by 62 votes. if you can, folks, please support us at leaderswedeserve.com. >> the moral victory is yours, my friend. you were the victor of this vp nominee. >> i'm so happy. >> he's very good at what he

does. >> big secret that we want to let you in on,nist nbc viewers, is that we all have our various skills and all things we bring to the table as msnbc hosts, but the only one of us who's truly connected, truly has a backbone on which he can call the most powerful people in the world is the reverend al sharpton who joins us here. rev, 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 because i know the most powerful people in the world call you for advice. >> yes, joy does call me. i thought the rollout couldn't have been better. when you see that crowd, i mean donald trump has got to be going crazy because 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. but i think it's not only the crowd, it's the enthusiasm, it's the energy that we've not seen probably since '08 that is really bringing people together across age groups, gender, and race. when you look at tim walz was announced this morning, and i was sitting right in this room with nancy pelosi on "morning joe" when it was announced. the immediate thing i thought about it is he is a guy, gun owner, came as a blue dog congressman who when george floyd happened and the family called me and i flew into minneapolis in a pandemic, they were rioting. he was dealing with all of the violence, and at the same time people were saying did you hear, reverend, what the minneapolis d.a. said. we don't know if we're going to get a fair trial. called governor walz, and it was he that talked to the d.a. to step aside, and he appointed keith ellison oz a special

prosecutor. i do not believe we would have gotten the convictions, probably the few police -- as much as that tape convicted him, we've had tapes before, if keith ellison had not been the prosecutor, that would not have happened without governor walz. then during the trial a young man was killed at brooklyn center, minnesota, about 15, 20 miles up. and not only did he denounce the killing as governor, he came to the funeral. i introduced him to speak and he gave a proclamation to the family, and he says i'm pro-police. i'm pro-law enforcement, but we've got to stop this killing of black kids. this is what he said. so the 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 republicans always ran as the law and order candidate. here you have people that have been a prosecutor, that have been pro-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 next city to campaign because you've got to report in. and by the way, he's got to stop in september to be sentenced, right here in manhattan. so how is that a law and order candidate, you've got a candidate with felonies as the president, and you've got a guy that's running for vice president that we don't know what he is because he doesn't know what he is. >> yeah, rareal hole in republican self-awareness today when they briefly started criticizing governor tim walz for restoring voting rights for felons like that was a terrible thing. anyone convicted of a felony shouldn't be allowed to vote they say, before they look around and realize who their nominee is and whether he should be allowed to vote. it's an awkward question when he's candidate for president. our coverage on this special night continues now. donald trump's not fighting for you or your family. he never sat at t