off the proverbial ball or we could just lose this place altogether. florida already -- huge threats in the last 15 years, alex, florida has lost over a quarter of its spaces to development and in the next three decades, it's predicted that florida is going to lose an area the size of vermont and wild spaces and wilderness. that is why these state parts are so critical. they belong to all of us. not only to the people today but the next generation. we have to do is be resilient that's what i am so excited because this issue has galvanized everyone to ensure that the park survive. >> i hope they reschedule that public discussion period and let you get there and make your plea right there again. that would be great. jeff corwin, thank you so much. i know you're going to go scuba diving and you are hoping to put it off but -- get some cold

water. there you go. that's going to do for me on this edition of alex wood reports. we will be back next saturday and sunday, 1:00 to 4:00 eastern. prime weekend is next. no welcome to prime time weekend. i'm nicolle wallace. let's get right to the week's top stories. >> the political earthquake that was the democratic national convention is still reverberating in chicago and across our national politics. a short time ago, vice president kamala harris departed chicago and she had a message before she took off. >> --

>> she has back to washington, d.c. with her campaign crackling and turbocharged by that showstopping final night of programming at her convention. by kamala harris's acceptance speech, that not only detailed her uniquely american personal story, and her unassailable professional credentials, but also issued a call to action. a to do list, if you will, for supporters. it was a speech in which kamala harris, the former prosecutor, delivered a scathing indictment of donald trump, laying out with surgical precision, how trump has essentially disqualified himself from ever serving as commander in chief again. >> on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth i accept your nomination to be president of the united states of america. and let me say, i know there

are people of various political views watching tonight and i want you to know i promised to be a president for all americans . you can always trust me to put country above party and self. to hold sacred america's fundamental principles from the rule of law to free and fair elections, to the peaceful transfer of power. fellow americans, this election is not only the most important of our lives. it is one of the most important in the life of our nation. in many ways, donald trump is an unserious man. but the consequences, but the

consequences of putting donald trump back in the white house are extremely serious. donald trump tried to throw away your votes. when he failed, he sent an armed mob to the united states capital, where they assaulted law enforcement officers. when politicians in his own party begged him to call off the mob and send help, he did the opposite. he fanned the flames. and now, for an entirely different set of crimes, he was found guilty of fraud by a jury of everyday americans. separately, and separately found liable for committing sexual abuse. we are the heirs to the

greatest democracy in the history of the world. it is now our turn to do what generations before us have done. guided by optimism and faith. to fight for this country, we love. to fight for the ideals we cherish and to uphold the awesome responsibility that comes with the greatest privilege on earth. the privilege and pride of being an american. >> is where we start today. some of our favorite reporters and friends. -- is back with us in chicago after a whirlwind of -- how

sharpton, host of msnbc's politicsnation and the president of the national action network. also joining us now, michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson and former republican congressman msnbc: -- david jolly is here. yamiche alcindor , there is no mystery anymore about what the objectives were. they were to share kamala harris's personal story, establish her credentials in law enforcement as a prosecutor and it was clear by the end of last night that her commander in chief credentials are there, maybe to remind people that, but then to undermine with what the speech -- and adam kinzinger and others and her strong defense of what it means to be an american, to essentially disqualified donald trump as not just unserious,

but as a serious threat. >> that's right. democrats came into this convention and what they wanted to do was put on display that this is not just an election about vice president harris and former president trump. it's really an election they believe about the future of this country and whether or not you want to be a decent and kind and inclusive american or if you want to go back to a time when america was not inclusive and where people were discriminated against based on race and gender and all sorts of other identifiers. that was the thesis of this. of course, the thesis was also joy. they were really leaning into this idea that democrats are going to be ale to usher in a future in america where people can feel hope again, where people can feel good again. where people can feel enthusiastic about the future and in that speech last night, what we saw from vice president harris was really a speech where she laid out her

credentials but she also laid out a personal reason why she sees the world the way she sees it and she talked over and over again about her mother and while she didn't talk explicitly about the fact that she's making history as the first black woman or south asian woman, the first woman of color to be at the top of a major party ticket, what she did was show is america -- show america. don't let anyone tell you you are, show them we are, and over and over again, she was showing that she's a child of immigrants. to watch her mom spent a decade trying to save money. i know what it means to be a prosecutor and see women who have been sexually abused and then re-victimized by a system that doesn't allow them to have that reproductive health care that they need in order to not continue to be victimized after they were victims of sexual abuse. she was really tying her personal story with all the policy positions that a president might enact. in some ways, it really i think underscored as someone who's been covering her from more than a decade. it really underscored who she is authentically and she leaned

back into this kamala harris for the people. i was talking to a source, they were consulting other people who pulled her away and said you need to use other phrasing. this is a speech or she says i'm going back to the center of who i am and i have kamala harris for the people. >> let me show you that section that yamiche is talking about where she talked about her mom. >> my mother was a brilliant, five foot tall brown woman with an accent. and as the eldest child, as the eldest child, i saw how the world would sometimes treat her. but my mother never lost her cool. she was tough, courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women's health, and she taught maia and me a lesson that michelle mentioned the other night. she taught us to never complain about injustice, do something about it. do something about it.

you know, our opponents in this race are out there every day denigrating america. talking about how terrible everything is. well, my mother had another lesson. when that she used to teach. never let anyone tell you who you are. you show them who you are. this was, it's hard to judge what was the loudest applause line but that was up there. >> it was very much up there. i think there were several things going through people's minds when they were listening. one, the kind of, the way people were raised and they shared the union experience that shaved them into being them. you know, you don't hear that a lot from politicians and

certainly not in the age of donald trump. i don't think i ever heard donald trump refer to his mother for any less than he's earned. so i think that it was very significant that this, probably the largest ordinance on television audience in america an audience that she has addressed gets to know how she was, in many ways, raised by a mother, and what a really -- put into the principles and i think a lot of people could identify with that. then, saying that a mother shouldn't make excuses. show people who you are. that she is not coming as this, as being projected by the trump people. somebody wants to get down and give handouts. she is a self- sufficient, self standing person that wants to see in the even playing field. but does not want to go into this whole kind of image that

they try to project. i thought it was very effective to talk about her mother. >> i want to show you, secretary, what she had to say about dictators. rooting for donald trump. >> i will not close -- to tyrants and tyrants like kim jong-un who are rooting for trump. who are rooting for trump. because, you know, they know, they know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors. they know trump won't hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an autocrat himself. and as president, i will never waver in defense of america's security and ideals because in the enduring struggle between

democracy and tyranny, i know where i am standing and i know where the united states belongs. >> madam secretary, she takes this thing that we all know, right, that donald trump is a threat to our democracy because of his actions, before january 6, but especially on january 6. she ties at the something else we all know, his affinity, his bizarre affinity to kim jong- un. he talks about the beautiful love letters that they were one another. and then she makes it clear, not just that she's going to protect us, but that we know who we are. she puts us in this story about democracy versus tyranny in a way that i really haven't heard anybody do in the four years since january 6. >> you know, i was there at the convention in part spending time with harry done -- to retire u.s. capital police

officers who were there on january 6 and the three of us were really moved by the fact that our experience, defending democracy was validated and heard and seen and talk about and the connection made between what we have endured, defending democracy on the ground these last several years and the global implications that we have all had to hold dear about not sitting to defend democracy in this moment. what every american citizen has this year about who we are going to be moving forward. are we going to continue moving forward to become a truly multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural democracy that is the bedrock of who and how we as a country were founded. to share that moment with those two heroes was really moving. so hard to even watch it and not get choked up because we

have endured the threats that democracy has endured personally these last several years and we know what is at stake. i hope every american citizen knows the choice that they have now before them and i hope everyone chooses democracy. >> david jolly, let me show you something that starts with her sort of laying out what he intends to do. consider what he intends to do when he is president once again. >> every day, in the court room , i stood proudly before a judge and i said five words. kamala harris for the people. and, to be clear, and to be clear, my entire career, i have only had one client, the people.

consider what he intends to do if we give him power again? consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law-enforcement officers at the capital. his explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy. his explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our own citizens. consider, consider the power he will have, especially after the united states supreme court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution. just imagine donald trump with

no guardrails. and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the united states. not to improve your life, not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had. himself. >> you know, david jolly, i thought what she did so effectively there is have this conversation with the whole country, the millions of people watching that we've had for eight years about guardrails. and how in a second trump presidency and now completely unshackled with any concerns over his own criminal exposure, because of the supreme court's immunity rolling, that this would be, you know, to put it to the country, imagine what he would do without any guardrails,

without even a bill barr to stop him on january 6, without even a mike pence to refuse to do this to thing without the fear of criminal exposure because of the supreme court's ruling? >> donald trump is a threat to the country as we know it. he's a threat to democracy and -- of that threat is a recognition of what has brought together this coalition that has been there, as you say, nicole, the last eight years. but i think even beyond that and what she did and what this we did is really provide a capstone to the last eight years in a very special way. i think that coalition that came together loosely around the threat of donald trump, that coalition really came together this week in a way that it never has before to actually move the country forward together. not just to stop donald trump. >> yamiche, thank you for your reporting all week long from parts not always convenient and

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donald trump handpicked members of the united states supreme court to take away reproductive freedom. now, he brags about it. in his words, quote, i did it and i'm proud to have done it and understand, he is not done. as a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, band medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without congress. and get this. get this, he plans to create a national antiabortion coordinator. and force states to report on women miscarriages and abortions. simply put, they are out of their minds.

and one must ask, one must ask, why exactly is it that they don't trust women? well, we trust women. we trust women. >> we are back with the rev, secretary benson, and david. if you want to know which line most got under donald trump skin, you can go find his post, wherever it is that he post things, and it's an outrageous lie, i won't even repeated about reproductive freedom and an absolute fabrication about his record and what he plans to do if re-elected but that one line, they are out of their minds could apply to so many things, but when you look at the huge numbers that support access to abortion health care and support it as it was before

dobbs, is just a perfect way to put his positions in the stream category they belong. >> yeah, and the idea of trusting women, trusting citizens, all of that is a thread that weaves through the choice that's going to be before voters this fall. in an effort to overturn democracy suggest that you don't trust voters' power and their ability to block or overturn reproductive freedom suggest that you don't trust women to be able to know what's best for their own economic and life choices. so, all of that really, the sense that we, the american citizens deserve to be trusted in a democracy by those who lead our country is really a

powerful framework for us all to think about as we selected not just who we want to lead our country but who we want to lead in states and federal offices. they will also be on the ballot this year and really, i think it drives a stark contrast that underlines what democracy is all about. it's about a government that trust the people to make our decisions for ourselves. secretary, how, you heard from michigan, one of the most important battleground states, how are you feeling about the state of the race? >> well, i will just say this week in chicago, for me, was, among many things, a celebration of women uplifting women. it's what we live through in michigan these last several years and the success, the results for all that come from women working together and supporting each other, trusting each other and lifting each other up. up. that grimy film on your teeth?

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as vice president, i have confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances and engaged with our brave troops overseas. as commander in chief, i will ensure america always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world. and i will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families and i will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice. >> to be commander-in-chief, atop the most fermentable armed forces our planet has ever

known is to be actually the single most powerful person in the world. and when vice president kamala harris makes the case that she is trained and ready to bear that responsibility for her opponent has already failed, she is in making the case alone in the spirit of coalition building and making direct appeals to the far corners of the american electorate, the harris-walz campaign wants voters to hear from other trusted voices on this topic in particular. for instance, speaking to and perhaps on behalf of the entire national security apparatus and community, especially those who have stayed silent. former u.s. secretary of defense made the distinction crystal clear. >> so we face a critical choice. to vote for someone who stands with our military and stands up for democracy or someone who will disrespect our heroes and undermine our democracy. my fellow americans, there is only one choice. one choice. and let me tell you something. when she takes her oath of

office as she will this january , our allies will cheer, our enemies will fear and we will have a commander in chief that we can trust. a similar case may to a slightly different -- adam kinzinger, a veteran, former republican congressman, and member of the january 6 committee speaking directly to his fellow republicans. >> how can a party claim to be patriotic if it idolizes a man who tried to overthrow a free and fair election? how can a party claim to stand for liberty if it sees a fight for freedom in ukraine, and attack against democracy, a

challenge to everything our nation claims to be and it retreats. it equivocates. it nominates a man who is weirdly obsessed with food. -- vladimir putin. his running mate, who said, quote, i don't care what happens in ukraine yeah, and he wants to be vice president. finally, no conversation about u.s. national security is ever complete without input from the men and women for the military, the men and women who wear uniforms, when he delivered his remarks, arizona congressman -- formerly of the marine corps stood on stage with fellow veterans to thunderous applause. -- in front of voters this november. here is congressman -- >> these veterans, the best of our country. we stand united as veterans, democrats and patriots to fight

for everyone who served. but politicians but politicians like donald trump, they don't stand with us. they call patriots like senator mccain losers. john mccain was an american hero. show some respect. >> some respect. have you made the case that the united states position of a global leadership is on the line in november. vice president kamala harris, who is -- very clear. this election is not only the most important in our lives, it's one of the most important in the life of our nation. retired u.s. marine corps lieutenant colonel, the founder of democratic majority action pack amy mcgrath is back. plus, former deputy adviser -- ben rose is here. and chief political -- msnbc

national affairs analyst john hellman is here. i looked at the program at the beginning of the night and i wasn't sure where -- fell in. i've had the privilege of speaking to both of them. they are incredible. but once kamala harris got into the national security section, not just her credentials, but her indictment of trump's. it all clicked into place and i heard in his remarks, something that i'm sure we have all heard privately from the kind of men and women who don't want to politicize their former national security agencies, but this scathing indictment of his lack of fitness, what did you think of that presentation last night? >> well, nicole, have a friday, by the way. i thought that i have covered --

-- in that he is not oprah winfrey. and he's not bill clinton. he's not barack obama, he's not michelle obama. he is not a high wattage start. i think that was by intent. i think there was a reason, a very good reason. why we didn't see beyonci or taylor swift last night. it was post be a night last night that was going to focus on kamala harris and, most harris alone. and the perfect surrogate for that because he is someone that most americans who don't live in the political world don't know. -- the mechanic in ministrations, he started his career in the nixon administration. has served in the cia, the pentagon. has served at the omb. has served in the white house. he is someone who, in terms of understanding the interplay between the executive function and the military and the

intelligence operations and the hill is maybe as well versed and credible, more credible, as credible as anyone on earth, arguably more credible than anyone living. so, for me, i thought this is the kind of surrogate you want here, which is someone whose credibility is unimpeachable and someone who's also not going to be anyone who's going to steal any of the limelight that should be focused on the nominee tonight and i thought he did a great job in terms of how he made the argument. on paper, he made the right argument from a guy like leon panetta. and if you put together, you have a very powerful one to punch on the national security -- in terms the work they want to get done for her. >> yeah. amy, i thought this was, and i agree with all of john's analysis here. i thought this was some of the best constructed arguments

because they came at the millions of people viewing from home from every place. they came from a veteran, they came from this long trusted hand speaking almost in monotone without hyperbole, without any flowery language. just to sort of testimony to kamala harris's superiority over the alternative in november. and then adam kinzinger is the one that came with the barnburner with his lack of patriotism, lack of fitness. and a. affinity for vladimir putin. >> yeah, it was the perfect 12 punch. you had leon panetta who really people may not know kamala harris, who care about national security, is this person ready to be commander in chief? you have somebody of his background and his experience vouching for her, saying we need her behind that resolute

desk. we need her as commander in chief. and, at the same time, reminding voters how bad donald trump is. and adam kinzinger did a great job of, you know, he wasn't talking to the democrats who were in the united center. he was talking to fellow republicans. he was talking to independents basically what the other party has lost its way and how can you call yourself patriotic if you follow a man who would not agree to the very basic premise of what american democracy is all about and that is the peaceful transfer of power. i think he did that so effectively last night. >> ben rose, let me show you a little bit of adam kinzinger's -- speaking to republicans. >> i learned something about the democratic party and i want to let my fellow republicans in on the secret. the democrats are as patriotic

as us. they love this country just as much as we do. >> usa! usa! >> and then, and then are as eager to defend american values at home and abroad as we conservatives have ever been. i was relieved to discover that because i have learned something about my party, too. something i could not ignore. the republican party is no longer conservative. it has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself.

>> ben, i said in 2016 after trump's acceptance speech to lester holt, the publican party died in this room. and it didn't really land, you know? i felt it because i worked for bush and mccain and i knew how trump was different. but to hear someone is a republican member of congress say that, the party doesn't exist anymore because it has abandoned its principles. it's only purpose is to support donald trump. it was such an impactful thing for me, as an ex-republican and i'm sure that that just had special resonance as not just someone who's comfortable with harris, but someone who is there campaigning for harris as the only choice on questions of national security.

>> he didn't look uncomfortable to be there. he looked like he was in the right place. you know? it looked like he was wearing the same clothes that fit him. and look, in terms of the slowness in 2016 for some people to come around to that view. it's now been a decade almost of donald trump dominating this party. you can no longer say to yourself, well, -- if gets in there, maybe he will hire people that are familiar to me as republicans. like we are now through the third election cycle which is this is becoming increasing about the interest of one man. the pup couple of ways that i think it's particularly effective, with the kamala harris speech, is number one, the democrats from the first day of the convention through the very end who very assertive about american patriotism. there was a through line in all the speeches from the symbolism to the rhetoric to who was on stage about a big, inclusive american patriotism.

that was i think intentional. to say, this is our flag, freedom is our word. we stand for the things that should unite americans, not just democrats themselves. so can finger -- -- -- on both national security, and on others in politics is that he was a leader for himself. he's got one client, himself. he collects -- he likes these autocrats because he wants to be one. trump is not in it for the country, but he runs down the country. he attacks war heroes like don mccain he wants to politicize -- john mccain. he was the politicize things of his own interest. it ties together, nicole, into one mentions -- message. the democratic party is one inclusive patriotic party that stands for american values and the republican party has become the vehicle for one man's personal interest and ambitions. t and ambitions.

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in the nfl, we had a term for guys like donald trump and my opponent, ted cruz. me guys. you know the type? talk a big game, only care about themselves. but you don't want to be stuck with them at a barbecue. the truth is america has never been about me. we will protect and restore reproductive freedom. we will secure the border. we will protect medicare and social security and we will turn the page on a new chapter for this country and elect kamala harris for the next president and beat ted cruz. >> congressman colin allred with a brutally honest and important message for the me guys out there. people like donald trump and ted cruz. despite their efforts against it, democracy is and always has been about us. we the people. joining us now, the after

mention congressman, colin allred from texas. how was that? tell me what that experience was like? >> hey, nicole, thanks for having me. it was great and it was a unique experience for me. you know, what i wanted to do in the short bit of time i had was introduce myself, talk about how important the selection is, but also, and you know we all know guys like ted cruz and donald trump. anyone who's been on a team, anyone who's had to work in a group setting knows what i'm talking about. there's those guys that will take all the credit, you don't do any of the work, who you can't count on in a crisis and there the guys who hold you back and you can have too many of them. any kind of team setting. locker rooms had a way of turning those guys out.

you see them bouncing around the league, going from team to team, even though they are talented. in congress, we have too many of them. for texas, we can afford six more years of a guy like ted cruz only cares about himself but also, part of his self interest is taking away the rights of texans and a lot of this convention was about stories of ted cruz's texas, where women were telling stories about losing their fundamental freedoms and the right to make their own decisions about their own body. we are talking about how he has prevented us from securing a border and we have to protect medicare. this is what ted cruz has made us into and in this convention, a lot of ways, it was about that. >> such an interesting point. i watched every minute of it and i think about that, but we also heard from -- so this is ted cruz is america that we are all living in when it comes to doing anything about gun safety, something that upwards of 80% of americans want. kate cox was the texas woman who spoke during the roll call

about -- not receiving abortion healthcare. 70% of americans supported row and he took that away and his role in stopping the biden harris administration for doing anything on immigration, i wonder if you can speak to the effort by the harris candidacy to depict these things not as masculine or strong, but as cowardly and weak and small? >> i think that they are pursuing the right path there for us in texas, we are used to having independent leaders who put texas first. we have a long tradition of this. you know this, nicole and, you know, in a lot of ways, ted cruz is a follower. he's a follower who is just kind of trying to feed off of the scraps of his leader who, in many cases, -- in texas is interest. what i try to be is someone who, listen, i'm a democrat, obviously, but i will stand up to my party when i think we are wrong. what we have to do is also put

these folks in the right context. that, for us, we'll have to be embarrassed. we can get a new one. we'll have to have a small senator who is a follower who doesn't get things done for us. we can get a new one. >> this has been prime time weekend. i'm nicolle wallace. please tune into deadline white house and all of our prime time shows, weekdays on msnbc. so you can get back to your monster to-do list. -really? -get a quote at progresivecommercial.com. ( ♪♪ ) my name is jaxon, and i have spastic cerebral palsy. it's a mouthful. one of the harder things

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