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>> i question america, is this america, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hook because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in america. thank you. >> standing on the shoulders of giants. we hear the voices of black trail blazers like fannie lou hamer and shirley chisholm as kamala harris prepares for her historic nomination to be the president of the united states. also tonight, trump has a weird lack of respect for america's men and women in uniform. and now he's gone and denigrated our veterans once again. >> but we begin in north carolina, where earlier today, vice president kamala harris unveiled her plans to tackle one

of the top issues for voters this election cycle. the cost of living. harris pitched a handful of comprehensive new policies focused on lowering costs for american families including a ban on price gouging for food and groceries, and expanded child tax credit. tax cuts for regular income earners as opposed to the rich. a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers and a cap on prescription drug costs. the vp spoke about the progress the economy has made since the covid pandemic which started four years ago and devastated the economy. causing inflation to spike. and she emphasized while inflation has cooled, there's still work to do. >> still, we know that many americans don't yet feel that progress in their daily lives. costs are still too high. and on a deeper level, for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to

just be able to get ahead. as president, i will be laser focused onhe middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity. together, we will build what i call an opportunity economy. >> harris also drew a direct contrast between her plan and donald trump's plan or lack thereof, calling out the speech he delivered in the same state earlier this week. >> two days ago, donald trump was here in north carolina. he said he was going to talk about the economy. i think you all watched. you know what i'm about to say. but he offered no serious plans. to reduce cost for middle class

families. no plan to expand access to housing or health care. and that actually i think for most of us was not surprising. because we already know his plans. we know the project 2025 agenda. >> it comes after trump's, quote, news conference at his multi-million dollar bedminster country club yesterday where the initiation fees are higher than the $200,000 cost to join mar-a-lago. fees are up to $350,000. and during those remarks he rambled on about cemeteries and "time" magazine with zero policy proposals while being surrounded by groceries some low level aide probably set up and trump probably had never seen before in his whole entire pampered life, and that were sitting out in the hot summer sun for over an hour. but while trump is flailing, vice president harris, who has been a presidential candidate for a little less than a month,

is overseeing a pretty picture perfect campaign. it is actually hard to overestimate just how well run her campaign has been. from their communications team and witty rapid response statements that tear into donald trump and jd vance, by not going too low but rather just low enough to throw hilarious shade, to their social media team's ability to connect with gen z and embrace the memes while being very demure, very mindful. not to mention the record shattering amount of money they pulled in. hundreds of millions of dollars which they're spending in the right way. the campaign launched a $90 million advertising effort in swing states just for this month. even running ads on fox during the daytime. and spending ten times as much as trump on digital advertising. while also running a strong ground game. opening hundreds of field offices in every winnable state because ads are great, but field is what wins elections. starting today, the harris/walz campaign is kicking off a

weekend of action, which will include more than 2800 grassroots events in battleground states, things like call in for kamala phone banks. hound lovers for harris meet-ups at dog parks, and organizing booths at cultural events like wisconsin's africa fest. and on sunday, harris, walz, and their spouses will also be taking part in a bus tour across the crucial state of pennsylvania. but even so, it is important to remember that you can have the best run campaign in the world, and none of it would matter if you don't have a great candidate. but that is exactly what the democrats found with kamala harris, the energy and the momentum that she's been able to generate prove that she was built for this moment. and the contrast between her and trump could not be more stark. and she doubled that by doing something kind of revolutionary, just picking a running mate she vibes with. while trump and vance are rarely seen together. all of this is highlighted in a new video of harris and walz where the two are just having a sit-down conversation about their lives, food, and music, as

well as the issues. kind of like a tv talk show, kamala and the coach, catch it on peacock or hulu or netflix. proving again that unlike the golden toilet's washed up tv star and the yale fund woman hater, they're normal, relatable, and downright fun and joyful people. >> white guy tacos. >> what is that, mayonnaise and tuna? >> pretty much ground beef and cheese. >> that's okay. do you put flavor in it? >> no. here's the deal. >> i called you, tim. i called you, tim. >> yes. >> you didn't answer, tim. >> know, i know. >> what happened? >> the most important call of my life, it popped up and we didn't recognize the caller id. and it went to voice mail. >> joining me is alencia johnson, senior adviser to the 2020 biden/harris campaign, and rick wilson, cofounder of the lincoln project. i cannot not go to rick.

rick, this calls to you. look, this is how the republicans -- your former team, because look, you used to run some pretty bomb ads. you're good at this. you're good at campaigning. this is how conservatives are reacting to harris and walz talking about food and white guy tacos. mike cern avich pointed to a 2016 award winning recipe of walz that included paprika, chili powder, they know spices. one said it's like a minstrel show lampooning white midwestern stereotypes. ben shapiro felt the need to fact check that europeans liked spices so much they got involved in several00red years of war to control the spice trade, and senator cruz said hispanics are not tacos. rick, rick. what is happening? >> joy, these people, their brains are so broken. their brains are so broken at

this point, i mean, they're literally spending millions of hours panicking about tim walz's bland taco recipe. you know, this is a party that is so broken brained, that is so completely off the rails, they're in such a deep panic, by next week, they're going to like wonder if he's gotten -- if his breakfast cereal is approved by some sort of midwestern board of blandness. they are in a panic, joy. i am eating this up with a spoon because these people are absolutely hopeless. they have got nothing. they got nothing. >> nothing. nothing. i mean, you have to have something. you have to have some kind of strategy. it's so wild, i cannot believe they're fact checking -- they're like, white people like spices too. that's literally their reaction to kamala harris and tim walz. white people like spices. okay, so that's your answer to

this? okay, ma'am, let me go to these polls. this is why they're panning. it's not just the fact they're mad. his tuna can be spicy. why you got to do that to him? defending him? are you mad at him? do you like him? okay. pennsylvania, harris up one. michigan, harris up three. wisconsin, harris up three. georgia, even. north carolina, harris, one. that's what they're mad about, right? >> oh, my goodness. they're mad that they are behind in the polls, but they're also behind in being the person that somebody wants to have a beer with, because they're the ones who came up with that analogy, right? it's actually really funny to watch them go hysterical with this analogy. i mean, even donald trump decided to bring cereal boxes out. so it's just like, it's the wildest -- >> haven't seen cheerios in a while. >> it's the wildest attack on grocery store items, and

everyday items versus actually a policy, and to be honest, i was listening a little bit to trump this week, that weird press conference or whatever you call it, and i can only imagine that people are kind of just tired of him talking in circles about the economy and grocery stores and bacon prices and all of these things that he's just making up on the fly, and then they're going after the nicest guy ever. i mean, like how can you -- like republicans like tim in congress. they're going after him, talking about his food choices versus the fact that they actually have policy positions that majority of americans, including those who vote republican, actually support. getting prices lower in grocery stores. so people can buy more seasonings. right? you know. >> lowry's season salt for all. >> all of the things.

>> i mean, look, and it's like, y'all, it's okay. if you want to put it on your food, everybody can have lowry's, that's what the harris/walz team is about. everyone can spice their food as much as they want or as little as they want. it's okay. i think the other piece about this, rick, is normally, republicans kind of get a default lead on the economy. i'm not sure why because they normally are the ones who have recessions, but harris has evaporated that lead. she's leading because it's a mood thing, and she's talking about things you can relate to, lowering rent costs, food costs, lowering the cost of buying a home, giving people help getting a down payment. that's something that people say that sounds like can get something. trump standing next to cereal at bedminster, standing next to boxes of food he would never buy. >> come on. >> joy, here's what i admire about the harris campaign's brilliant understanding of where

the economy is. they figure something out that it's not just promising to, you know, something ephemeral. they're not talking directly to young people and middle aged people and middle class people, and saying we're going to take on the things that are hurting you. we're going to take on big pharma and big banks and big tech. we're going to go after the people that have screwed you over, insurance companies. we're going to get the people who screwed you over. we're not going to owe them a damn thing. we're going to take care of you first. i think this is somebody that when trump says the billionaires treat me so nice, i love them. they love me. people get it now. this is hollow. all trump's economic bravado is just that. it's hollow. when he says, a depression like 1929, no, there will be a depression if donald trump gets his way like the one he caused in 2020. this is a guy -- >> absolutely. >> -- he has no credibility on the economy, and the idea that somehow we're going to give elon musk and peter thiel and george

soros and warren buffett and whoever else is in the billionaire class, whether they're republican or democrat, a tax break, it's not working for people anymore. it didn't work, i say this as a former republic and a guy who believes that we ought to have a balanced tax system. nobody buys this bs anymore that it's going to trickle down from elon musk to the guy who turns a wrench on a production line in indiana. it doesn't work. people know it, and trump cannot sell that. >> by the way, and i'm telling you it's authentic because i met rick wilson because we used to fight on twitter about tax rates. we used to literally debate about the economy. like, this is how we became friends. last word to you, alencia. the other piece of it is that the trump people, his only real policy when he was president was that giant tax cut for the corporations and the rich. that's the only real thing he actually did. now he wants to double down on that as rick said, while also pushing this meritocracy

argument. here's his potential transition team. linda mcmahon from wwe wrestling. howard lotnic from a hedge fund y believe. jd vance, honorary chair, and then his kids, donald and eric. like, such merit. the qualifications for the job is their last name is trump. your thoughts. >> yeah. the qualifications are that they are in his camp, and that they are so out of touch with reality that they can't really see that, listen, as much as i talk about how democrats have a very complicated message at times, we have done a really good job over the last several years, and thanks to donald trump being able to be clear about the reason that people can't afford to live life, the reason they can't afford medicine, rent, mortgages, groceries, gas, because of corporate greed and tax breaks to the wealthy, and people who are in positions like those five who have never actually felt what it feels like to live paycheck to paycheck. american people will see this,

and that's why kamala harris, vice president harris, her campaign rally today, in raleigh, is going to go wild going into the convention. >> because the two democrats know what it's like to live on a regular salary. that's the difference. >> she worked at mcdonald's. >> there you go. boom. thank you. you're a lot of fun. up next, donald trump has never hidden his disdain for soldiers and veterans, and now, he's gone and insulted them yet again. stay with us. and doug. (bell ringing) limu, someone needs to customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. let's fly! (inaudible sounds) chief! doug. (inaudible sounds) ooooo ah. (elevator doors opening) (inaudible sounds) i thought you were right behind me. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, ♪ ♪ liberty. ♪

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on thursday morning, senator jd vance and a handful of house republican veterans gathered at the vfw in lower burrell, pennsylvania, to attack a fellow veteran, governor tim walz's 24-year military service and the biden administration's poliies on the military and veteran. barely ten hours later, donald trump, who never served in the military and who has a pampered rich guy in his 20s shrunk from his duties to serve in vietnam by scoring a diagnosis from a friendly doctor of bone spurs. went ahead and publicly insulted veterans by saying a civilian award he gave to a billionaire named marion adelson, one of his biggest financial donors was much better than the medal of honor, a military decoration meant to honor individuals who have distinguished themselves with acts of valor. >> that's the highest award you

can get, the equivalent of the congressional medal of honor, but civilian version. it's much better because everyone gets the congressional medal of honor. that's soldiers. they're either in bad shape because they have been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead. >> wow. okay, at this point, it is clear that donald trump has no compunction about disrespecting veterans of war. he has repeatedly insulted their sacrifice. here's a small sample of his ugly repulsive attacks. >> donald trump said today he owes senator john mccain no apologies, one day after declaring the vietnam veteran and prisoner of war is not a war hero. >> donald trump again hitting the gold star family. >> the president responding to the report he rejected a 2018 trip to an american cemetery in fraps, saying why should i go to that cemetery? it's filled with losers, and calling the marines buried there suckers. >> for the first time ever,

kelly sets the record straight with on the record confirmation of a number of damning details about donald trump from background sources. kelly describes trump as, quote, a person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat or spend years being tortured as pows are all, quote, suckers because, quote, there is nothing in it for them. >> what he said yesterday was the public confirmation of the private reports of what he said behind veterans' backs. the harris/walz campaign issued a statement slamming the comments saying donald trump knowing nothing about service to anyone or anything but himself. we owe it to our service members, our country, and our future to make sure donald trump is never our nation's commander in chief. joining me is an iraq war veteran and cofounder and chairman of vote vets. i don't even have a question. i'm going to let you respond to what donald trump said.

>> trump, i mean, he completely changed the narrative. for ten days they have been after walz on these little issues about debates on did he retire as a master sergeant or sergeant major, and trump does what he always does, fumbles the football and demonstrates he doesn't understand our community or the united states military. there's only 14 medal of honor resip ypts alive from iraq or afghanistan today, and he sits there at a conference speaking to sheldon adelson's widow, and look, vote vets was the fifth biggest pac for democrats last year, he's really trying to raise a $100 million check, he threw medal of honor recipients under the bus. he demonstrated once again he doesn't understand our military. that's his game. he uses the military to benefit himself, when in reality, his real framework for it is, i don't want to go to vietnam, and i'm afraid to go to vietnam, and that's where we get comments about people who served are

suckers. it changes the narrative. of course, this morning he set out his public affairs nco, jd vance to clean up his mess and he stepped it in and made it worse. >> here's jd vance trying to do that. >> this is a guy who loves our veterans and who honors our veterans. i don't think him complimenting and saying a nice word about a person who received the presidential medal of freedom is in any way denigrating those who received military honors. they are two different awards. >> your thoughts on that? >> that guy is a fraud. okay. that guy is a fraud, because first he's a public affairs noncommission officer. great, totally respect his serve, but he's a fraud. any veteran who can stand with a man who disrespected john mccain, khizr khan at a speech, calling veterans suckers and losers. look, john kelly is the source for it. john kelly has confirmed this on the record. this is his chief of staff, and continually defending and trying to say he didn't say these

things, then of course, he goes out and trashes basically the medal of honor, so he can raise a super pac check, and if you're going to be a veteran and go out there and stump for this guy, you have to ask yourself, are you a fraud? jd vance is a fraud because he sold out every member of the military and every veteran in this country and sold his soul to someone who basically unleashed the biggest attack on this country in january 6th that we had seen since 9/11. it's preposterous, and it makes me completely not like him. not just politically, but as a person. and as a veteran, i don't respect him because he's giving this guy cover when he should be denouncing him. >> and by the way, none of the generals who served, donald trump was very ostentatious about recruiting generals to serve in his administration. none of them support him now. general kelly has confirmed his nasty and ugly remarks about veterans. we haven't seen general mattis come out and support him. mark milley, you could go on and on. let's go also to the medal of

freedom. in a way, he disrespected the medal of freedom, too. he gave it not just to adelson. he also gave it to antonin scalia, he gave it to rush limbaugh. basically for being a jerk on the radio that right wingers like. devin nunes, that guy, the senator -- congressman who was helpful to him, and jim jordan for i guess screaming at people on his behalf in congress. by contrast, another republican president, george w. bush, gave it to nelson mandela, nancy reagan, yulia childs, mr. rogers, aretha franklin. joe biden gave it to simone biles, gabby giffords, khizr khan, diane nash, jim clyburn, and nancy pelosi. he doesn't even give the medal of freedom to people who seem super deserving. >> you can tie those two thoughts together. he built this administration and at first he had all these generals that are supposed to be on board with him. none of them like him now.

kelly's quiet. milley is hiding. there's been threats against his life. jim mattis he trashed. they thought they could work with him. these are traditionally public servants who get the medal of freedom. trump gives it to his friends. if you dig into project 2025, every person in the military should be scared out of their minds. because what they did to alex vindman, they can do to anyone in the military. trump does not want a political people serving in our government. he wants his buddies in the government, and that's who he gives the medal of freedom to, as you talked about, his buddies. >> i am proud to know one of the medal of honor recipients, he's awesome. we love him at msnbc. you see him frequently on our air, and he's a great man. >> we love him, too. >> he's awesome. he's one of the best ever. john, you're also the best. thank you so much. and up next, kamala harris' historic moment and how we got here, on the shoulders of

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sunflower county, the home of senator james eastland and senator stint. >> that was fannie lou hamer on the floor of the democratic national convention in atlantic city, new jersey, in august 1964. it was broadcast live to millions of americans watching at home. hamer was a 47-year-old mississippi share cropper, the granddaughter of slaves of voting rights activist, and a member of the mississippi freedom democratic party. and integrated rival delegation from the state whose segregated democratic party which ruled the state with an iron fist, had since the end of reconstruction, refused black citizens access to the ballot. therefore, the official mississippi democratic delegation was all white. the mississippi freedom democrats, 64 strong, had traveled to atlantic city by bus, much like the thousand-plus freedom riders who had descended on mississippi that summer to try to register black citizens

to vote, including two murdered by klan members along with a mississippi activist that june. all were in their early 20s. two months later, hamer's truth telling about the american south shook the party and the nation to their core. so much so that president lyndon johnson called a hasty press conference to try to get that black woman off tv. but his effort failed as her entire testimony would air that night on the evening news. >> it was the 31st of august in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. we was met by policemen, highway patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.

after we had taken the test and started back, we were held up by the city police and the state highway patrolmen and carried back to indianola while the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color. >> the bid to seat the integrated delegation failed, but the democratic party under pressure pledged to end discrimination at future conventions. eight years later in 1972, another black woman made a dramatic appearance at a democratic convention. >> i stand before you today as a candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency of the united states of america. i am not the candidate of black

america. although i am black and proud. i am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although i am a woman and i'm equally proud of that. i am not the candidate of any political voices or special interests. i stand here now without endorsements from many big named politicians or celebrities or any other kind of prop. i do not intend to offer to you the tired cliches which for too long have been an accepted part of our political life. i am the candidate of the people of america. >> her name was shirley chisholm, a columbia university educated social worker from

brownsville, brooklyn, who in 1968 had become the first black woman elected to congress. now, she was running for president. becoming the first woman of any race to seek the democratic party nomination. her slogan, unbought and unbossed. chisholm, the daughter of guyanese and barbadian immigrants came to the convention in florida without the endorsement of national black leaders. many viewed her with skepticism, treating her as an advocate for feminism more than a black leader. she would face down that sexism along with the racism she had to deal with in congress in the most indefatigable way, 2020, another black woman raised her sand to seek the nomination, citing chisholm as her inspiration, tweeting she stands on the shoulders of shirley chisholm, unbought and unbossed and never afraid to speak the truth. kamala harris didn't quite get there in 2020, but she came as

close as you can get, accepting joe biden's invitation to be his running mate, following fierce advocacy by prominent black women. she would become america's first woman, first black woman, and first asian american vice president. and next week, kamala harris will make herstory and american history again when she accepts the democratic nomination for president of the united states. and if she wins in november, she will follow barack obama as our second black president and claim the mantle of the first woman to lead the united states in the highest office in the land. up next, two black women trail blazers who continue the fight that fanna lieu hamer waged 60 years ago, including congresswoman barbree lee. stay with us. e. stay with us

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nice to be with you. it's just a defining moment, i think, in our history. remember, dr. king said the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward -- it's one of those huge bends. you know, congresswoman shirley chisholm, yes, i got involved in politics, i remember her taking me to task and telling me i needed to fight and be on the inside and have a seat at the table. she also told me that we needed to register to vote. i was intentional about not voting because i believed that the democratic party and the republican party weren't speaking of the issues i believed were important to me. as a young single mom on public assistance with two little beautiful boys. now, let me go back to 2019, it was so great to see vice president, then senator harris decide she was going to run for the presidency. i stood there right beside her because i knew then this was a continuation of the fannie lou

hamer sojourn of truth and all these black women who came before, even shirley chisholm, but this was another step in the direction of justice and a step in the direction of making our democracy work for everyone. so i knew that day in 2019 that she would be one day the president of the united states because so many people, so many black people especially, so many men, so many young people have paved the way for this day to happen. i'm excited, but we have to do the work. i'm here in arizona, in tucson, a wonderful active black community here in arizona in tucson, and we have to work to make this happen. >> you and gwen ifill, because she seemed to call it too. i have to come to you. look, the moral arc of the democratic party has been long, and it has been incredible. having done that medgar evers book, fannie lou hamer was in jail when medgar evers was

killed, but she used his line, first class citizenship on the following year on the floor of the democratic convention. what an arc for a party that started off rooted in hate and division, to come potentially with a second black president. and a woman. >> absolutely. and you know, the interesting thing is the party did not get there by itself. the way the party got there, i do believe because of the work and contributions of women, black women, women of marginalized communities. any time there is a shift, there is an opening. a light in a dark room changes the nature of the room. part of what we're seeing, we're seeing those who believe in democracy and an inclusive democracy, their work is paying off. it's opening up the space so now we can actually imagine and put in office a woman of color in the highest seat in the land. i think that's remarkable that that is actually movement. >> and to talk about the work

that the congresswoman talked about, the work is real. you do this work on the ground. you were one of the prominent black women who said, hey, joe biden, you should have a black woman running mate. he was like okay and ended up with kamala harris. it is a lot of work and it's a lot of activism and demands. >> it's a lot of work. you know, it's not about participation. it's really about power. we have to recognize women are the majority of people in the country. then when you look at elected office, where it's severely underrepresented. so even the idea, the notion that we have had all the presidents we have had, we only had one president that was a president of color and never had a woman, that is shameful, but it also speaks to the power of secism in this country, and also where we are right now speaks to the power of the movement. when people come together, right, to really demand something different, this is what we can do. it's a lot of work. our work is not over. we still have a lot of work to do, but i'm celebrating where we

are. >> congresswoman, tell us what you learn from shirley chisholm that can help us in this moment to kind of understand and ground us in where we are. >> well, let me just say, i have been to every single convention, 1972 was my first one when shirley chisholm was running for president. and i only missed one when i was in the legislature and we were sequestered because we hadn't passed a budget and willie brown the speaker kept us there. what she taught me was first of all, that we have to have a seat at the table and not to go along to get along. because these rules weren't made for us. and we had to shake things up. it was about power, but it was also about forming coalitions. she went to visit george wallace in the hospital. you saw the film, shirley, you saw what took place there. and she believed if she could find common ground with anyone, that was going to change and make life better for our communities and for the country,

then she was going to do that. she never gave up her principles. she always stood strong as an african american woman, as an woman and an educator. she was a woman who really showed me how to put together a political movement and reminded us that it's the power of the people that's going to elect people, people who are going to change the world. black women and women, and women of color. >> absolutely. my mom loved her because she was half gien ease. that's all she needed. and i agree. barbara lee and latosha brown, we did a win with black women. thank you both for being here. i appreciate it. thank you very much. i appreciate you both. see you at the convention. >> before we go, we have breaking news --

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>> the stage is now set for the democratic national convention next week when the city of chicago will welcome vice president kamala harris,

governor tim walz and thousands others for the historic week long event. this moment of unity however will bring protests with pro- palestinian groups organizing to make their voices heard as well. a coalition of 30 to 40,000 people is expected to be on hand outside the convention venue to publicly pressure the biden harris administration for a cease-fire and into military aid to israel. the demonstrations come as the health ministry says more than 40,000 people have been killed during israel's war in gaza. joining me now is chicago mayor brandon johnson. a very young mayor. this is a big event for chicago. i want to start by asking what is the plan to deal with what appears to be large protests? >> thank you for having me tonight. the city of chicago is prepared for this convention. what better place to launch the first black woman of asian descent to the white house along with a social studies teacher and governor walz like myself? the city of chicago has been at the center of attention for a

long time. we are the global city of the world and this is the city that raise consciousness of america through the writings and expertise of ida b wells. we had to keep hope alive and that paved the pathway for yes we can electing president barack obama. protests have played an intricate part in our democracy and protecting the first amendment right is fundamental to protecting our democracy. we will have a very safe, vibrant electrifying convention that will ultimately make history by securing the most powerful position and one of the most powerful in the entire world. that position being held by a black women, the person made in god's image. >> you answered my second question first. you're a good politician. you're relatively new but you did a good job. as he said protest is a part of

the process of democracy. it is a natural part. chicago actually does enjoy a special important place in american history. it was the gateway for mississippi for a lot of southern blacks who were trying to leave the south. it is the home of barack obama. the 68 convention was epic not in a great way when mayor daley was in charge. they would've had the olympics had republicans not rejected it when president obama was in office. what does this mean for chicago? this is just another note in a city that has had an epic history. >> it's a remarkable testament to the power of love. you had a black haitian immigrant who fell in love with an indigenous women and they set up a trade post at the bank of the river because they saw the city of chicago as the global epicenter for the world economy. this is the city that launched carnegie steel, electricity as we know today came to life at the world fair.

now we are electrifying the political space by electing vice president kamala harris and governor walz. the rich history from mississippi, family is from mississippi which is less than an hour away from montgomery county mississippi where fanny lou was bored. i'm looking forward to the son who comes from the soil of mississippi all the way to the mississippi river i get to know welcome the mississippi delegation that fanny lou hamer fought for. it is very fitting for the city of chicago to be part of this history. >> there's also been a lot of challenges with chicago police, let's be clear. have they got a protocol in place to make sure these protesters are allowed to voice their opinions peacefully without police overreacting? >> constitutional policing is what we have embraced in the city of chicago. we have a strong superintendent coordinating with local law

enforcement as well as the secret service to ensure the fundamental right to protest in this country is protected. they are protected. we want to make sure individuals that wish to cause chaos and disruption much like the republican party don't get a handle on our space. the bottom line is we do not exist if i can be so audacious without protest. our liberation has come to this country by way of the fundamental right to be able to challenge and provide grievances to the government. in the city of chicago we condemned the horrific attacks of hamas in very certain terms. we were also the first city -- major city to call for the release of hostages as well as a cease-fire. the city of chicago is ready and look forward to bringing the world to the city of chicago again. >> chicago mayor brandon johnson. you can see why he got elected. we will see you in chicago next week. that is the reidout. all in with