threatened by donald trump is best exemplified by the activities of january 6, 2021. and then sources tell us the president and the vice president are expected to to appear together a proverbial passing of the torch. as vice president harris takes center stage at this convention in the democratic party and president biden walks off the stage. other featured speakers include this evening, first lady jill biden, and a democrat who knows firsthand and about the challenges of running against donald trump former secretary of state and first lady hillary clinton. cnn's jeff zeleny is seeing it all up close from his podium. position and cnn's john berman and kaitlan collins are getting reaction from delegates on the convention floor. let's go live there right now to the convention floor, we're seeing and then john berman is standing by john, what is the feeling in the room there? >> jake, i'm here by the new york delegation and it's clear

they are energized. this was not the convention they were expecting for weeks and two days ago back when president biden was still the nominee. but it's the convention they got now that vice president kamala harris is it's even hard to move around now, people have started filing in as the primetime part of this event really kicks off, and you can see there's new york senator kirsten gillibrand right there. part of the new york delegation on the floor here you have delegates, party activists who may be grassroots activists side-by-side, rubbing elbows with sitting u.s. senators. you've also got volunteers who are working the floor to make sure we're all go into the right place or not in the wrong place and then you have the events that are happening up on the stage where the democratic party is trying to lay out for the people here in the convention and also for the american people, the message they want to set and this is union messaging right now back she'll actually in the new york delegation we just walked by randi weingarten teachers union is sitting there. so the unions here are represented the

grassroots activists and the elected officials as well, jake, and it's filling up. there were some empty seats here about 20:30 minutes ago, but now there are few and far between at this zero point, jake and i think you walked by john f. kennedy's grandson. there did you say you know, it happens all the time that a democratic convention, schlossberg, do you wanna go say hi and his loss berg course. >> it was looking at shaye. he thought he thought you were going to be thought you're going to come in and get a it's the tall, handsome, i see with the eyes at the back of my head. but next time we'll book berman. >> all right. let's go live now to cnn's mj lee, mj, the stage is set for some major speeches this evening and for the rest of the week. >> that's right. >> and we are going to be hearing tonight from the couple that currently occupies the white house. >> of course, jill biden, the first lady and president joe biden, he is going to be making an aggressive case for why democrats must elect kamala harris come november and we expect plenty of emotional tributes to the president, but

tomorrow night at jake, we are going to be hearing from the couple that occupied the white house eight years ago. this is former first lady michelle obama, and of course former president barak obama. and they are going to be speaking as a couple that can speak to the importance of the presidency, the high stakes of the election coming up in november. and what i'm being told by a source is that when it comes to former president barak obama, key will very much lean into why he believes kamala harris and tim walz are ready to lead the country at this moment. as for michelle obama, the first lady who we haven't heard actually much from during this campaign cycle, she is going to lose lean into this idea that she believes kamala harris is absolutely ready for the job and that she can help the country turned the page. i'm told on fear and division, and she's really going to stress that she believes harris is one of the most qualified candidates to ever seek the presidency. now, we do expect a both obamas to be involved in different ways. is that throughout the course of the campaign, as we get closer to

november, the former president and particular is looking for ways to zero in on those persuadable voters and areas where he might be able to move the needle. i am told, but all of that of course, is quickly being reconfigured because we now have a new person at the very top. the ticket jaguar, right? mj lee, and there is let me bring in dana bash and abby philip. i mean the president does have a task before him, not only to pretend that this is how he wanted this all to go, which is obviously not the case but also there are pockets of the country where he would do better than kamala harris, at least according to polling today, would do. now kamala harris is obviously energized party. and there are young people that are far more excited all sorts of other groups, latinos, african americans, women but there are also some white working class voters in areas like it's fair

scranton, where trump was the other day where joe biden might still be more popular than her. >> and i'll outtake gave dig in even a little bit more to a demographic older white working-class people, older white men and even some, some black bag who are not totally sold on kamala harris, which is why i talked to a biden ally earlier this evening who said that what the president's goal is tonight is an unqualified enthusiastic, and affectionate endorsement for his vice president. they are keenly aware, despite, as you said, the very real enthusiasm that you're seeing very different from what we saw for joe biden himself. there aware that she right now is has a bit of a hurdle with certain demographics in the democratic coalition. and he is determined to help her along with sectors

of the party. >> abby, we've heard a lot of reporting in the last week or so some of biden's inner circle, ron klain, anita dunn, have been making the rounds talking and acknowledging to their credit that there is some bitterness, some anger, not against vice president harris who to a person they all praise and say she was with him till the very end. but there is some anger and bitterness towards president obama what speaker pelosi had, cetera. so it's probably won't be too much of a tall order for him to express his affection and love for her, for vice president harris. but he still does have some anger, perhaps understandable. yeah. i mean, look, he's a human being he's spent most of his life seeking this office that he's now been forced to step aside from. >> i mean, that is a visceral moment for joe biden on the other hand, what i've been hearing from people who are involved in the convention

planning is that the moment for joe biden tonight? is going to about heralding him honestly as again, row of his party, right? it's going to be giving him a sendoff into this era of his legacy, where he will be looked back on as someone did something selfless that's how everyone is describing it to me as selflessness. so i think there is the hope here that not just what he's going to say, but how he's going to be received by this room might be a salvo for some of those wounds that are still really to rob for him and for his allies. look, there are a lot of people who are enthusiastic. kamala harris supporters. yeah are really angry about how the party the kind of came together to push joe biden out. they are holding both of those things in their minds at the same time. and it's kind of incredible but, but you will see joe biden get a heroes welcome in this room tonight. >> you know, anita dunn said to me earlier today on inside

politics, that tonight's speech is not about joe biden's legacy. it's about kamala harris but what you just said is so you very well said abby, that you can hold them all together. >> that he is maybe he'll speak the words about kamala harris. >> but the let's not to overuse the word vibe, but the vibe in here is no question going to be about him and about the gratitude that the democrats have for him. >> all right. anderson cooper, jake, thanks very much. >> here with david axelrod, audie cornish van jones and scott jennings. david axelrod, we talked about this a little bit last night, but how does this work? does what would the harris-walz campaign's have? read the biden speech before. it's given i am given to believe that there that there has been a reading of the speech and there's an awareness of the station the seem happy with what he's going to do but you know, this is a really hard exercise. >> we've talked about this last night. there's not really

a precedent for this because on the one hand, yes, he ought to claim credit for some of the really important in accomplishments he made and he should say very positive things about his vice president but, you know, you want it to be a handoff, not a deaths and brace you don't want him to so make her a part of his legacy. that it seems like a seamless handoff, but not a change in direction. there. you saw thing on their posters on friday at his at her speech that i think you may see around here saying a new way forward. well, implicit in that is it's not going to be the same and how you how you navigate that tonight? >> i think will be interesting to watch. >> there was a moment the other day when a reporter asked president biden words the effect of, you know, how will

you feel if she's it breaks away from your economic policy? he said words, the effect of she wouldn't do that i'm not sure if that's based on anything. >> maybe much of this is out of his hands. i mean, imagine if you were supposed to be a headline mind you find yourself the opening act it's a different energy you have to bring to that he also has this interesting way to walk where she's got to say she's a challenge candidates, even though she's part of a sitting administration. and that transition has also something i think they're going to seek to make over the course of the making it seem like she is a change agent that this is a movement, not a moment, but to do that they have to build a story of well, that's the thing then republicans are painting this picture that she was prime force in the biden white house. >> obviously now the role of vice president and yet at the same time, she wants to claim credit for things that she felt she had a big hand. >> but first of all, i just

can't wait to see him bring him out, bring out joe biden. i can't wait to see him he's doing something honorable tonight. you go it's up north. you can get interns to lead a white house voluntarily leave, voluntarily. that's something that people do. joe biden's willing to do that because he wants so step back and let her step forward. as far as common harris is concerned, this is not complicated have you ever had a boss? did you ever think your boss is doing good but you could do a little bit better. that's hersh. she can raise them on the stuff that she likes but she's a different person. she's on the west coast. he's from the east coast. he's wife. she's pledging. so she's her own party are going to be in the east coast west coast, a listen i just think that this is a moment for him to do something extraordinary is that the old lions last roared a night and i want to hear it and she's going to do great. but this is his moment tonight. the moment joe biden is known in his career as being one of the best eulogy

givers funerals. and now they're making him come in give his own career. >> he has files of every eulogy, yeah. >> and now they're making him give his own eulogy at this convention. i mean, it doesn't want its best, to you, get to give you yeah, i guess i am anxious that see how they handle it's a sticky wicket. >> i mean, he was bullied out of this race after 52 years of service to the democratic party. and it wasn't all about his age. he was unpopular he was going to lose. it was afghanistan it was inflation. it was immigration and now and he had to be dragged out by the fingernails. i'm sorry, this is not he's not here in a happy moment. okay? i know that this yarn, it's being spun in this hall that he was popular and selfless and handing it is the opposite and everybody knows it. and yet the democrats are engaging in this his theater of looking into cameras and saying is so it's not your interested to see how they handle it tonight, but also moving forward because what the republicans will do is say, look, this was joe biden's

loyal lieutenant, the last person in the room on afghanistan helped him on immigration, which you hate now all of a sudden proposing to do something about inflation when she hasn't for three-and-a-hal f years, she will be stuck to him for the election and will the voters, by that she had nothing to do with any other question is will they buy that the vice president was a major policy maker? do people talk about the pence years when trump was but i can answer it because yes, because how much video do you think there isn't her sitting in the chair and the united states senate casting the deciding votes on the agenda that republicans will say, your liver, the inflation crisis that is what they have, right well, okay, then you've got to give her credit for the infrastructure bill. you gotta give her credit for the health care and pharmaceutical price measures you've got to give a preference look. i think that's the right strategy honestly for that's the best chance you have to try and turn her into an incumbent because right now the worn-out

old incumbent yeah is donald trump, and she is the turn the page candidate. and this is going to be a turn the page convention. >> and then we're actually going to see vice president harris vice versa now it's actually going to come out on the stage at the end. 00. >> that's also i think it's an interesting context. the reverend jesse jackson coming out earlier hillary clinton speaking i think there is also an effort to place her in a spectrum of these past movement candidates, candidates who maybe were dismissed in some ways because like jesse jackson who got very far, but it was just seen as sort of like the black candidate now, kamala harris has actually kind of benefiting from the fruits of the labor of those people it seemed to have hillary clinton's here, obviously given her, her campaign in 2016 obviously, he when hillary clinton was running shoes on, she told there's a lot about breaking that glass ceiling. we haven't heard that kind of language as much from witches

smart. >> yeah. >> i mean, if i mean, i only have the experience of having worked for barak obama in 2008 we never talk about the historic nature of his candidacy because we feared everybody who everybody could figure that out. you didn't need to tell them. and for people for whom that was important they would vote accordingly. and there were probably people who were so put off by that that they were going to vote the other way. but he used to say, i'm proudly of the blast that community, but i'm not limited to it. and i'm running for president of this whole country and that's the right posture to take. and that's the posture of the kamala harris was taken. now and i, think it's remarkable because i hadn't thought about that. reverend jesse jackson open a lot of doors for black candidates, hillary clinton did, but she doesn't have to ring those bells and same way, we ring them, we talk about all the time. she's not moved by that. yeah. she's not talking about herself at all. she's talking about the future of the country. she's talking about working families. and i think it's smart for her to do that. >> but for me, i'm going to

talk about but it's based on a lot of lessons learned and i'll not have clinton staffers and aides now work for the harris campaign i'm seeing the reporting that even some of the speech writing that who wrote the concession speech for hillary is involved with the speech for this week. >> so there's some overlap. hillary clinton has truly been very supportive of kamala harris and the clintons are among the first to come out that weekend. they're biden stepped out to say, we support her. they didn't say open primary or town halls across the land. they said that would have been fun. >> he won't take the clintons now though, hillary, i started get her place in this but bill clinton after all these years and everything that's happened and everything we know and everything this country has evolved on how is it that he still gets to come to this hall and canceled and you're not discussed this at the 2020 convention? that everybody believes in second chances? yes. but is it still is this still okay in the euro 20240,

i'm sorry donald trump but trump but they've got 99 maybe six seconds would be convicted in indictments. by the way l.a. >> mayor karen bass is speaking live are you think i am kamala harris for all almost 20 years our bond was forged years ago by a shared commitment to children believed that it is everyone's responsibility to care for every child no matter where they come from, and no matter who their parents are

each generation has an obligation to the next that's when i was speaker of the state assembly. >> and she was a prosecutor we thought address youth homelessness, and reform the child welfare system we wanted to make sure california's foster, you are cut off and left on their own the day they turn 18 has attorney general common law created our states bureau of children's justice and worked to give children in the juvenile justice system. less important. they needed and when i asked her to swear me in, the first woman vice president swearing in the first woman hello san we were sending

a message to young girls everywhere that they can leave now, i know calm along and she feels the importance of this work. >> her bones when camilla meets a young person, you can feel her passion you can feel her heart. and you can her fearlessness that is what defines a commitment to children. being willing to fight fiercely for every child and trust me, common law has done that her entire life this november are going to fight to elect please welcome grammy

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our special live coverage of the democratic national convention here in chicago. >> this is a night for powerful women. we heard from los angeles mayor karen bass, the first woman mayor of that city. we're the democratic party. here is about to nominate its first ever african american woman to be the presidential nominee. and we have with us of course the original trailblazer nancy pelosi, former speaker of the house, the first woman speaker of the house, and the history of this great republic what are you? >> you hoping to hear from president biden tonight well, i'm hoping that the president will just take such pride in that he has accomplished we are here to talk about his legacy. >> and i want him to talk about it as well. and also the comfort level that he has with passing the baton to another generation i want him to feel the love that is in this room that it is just overwhelming people are no grateful to him

and you were at the democratic convention eight years ago when hillary clinton was nominated. >> the first nominee of the democratic party of a party will have to have a woman and i'm wondering if you think a lot of people think that one of the reasons hillary clinton didn't win, you were a lot of reasons, of course, but one of them perhaps was sexism, misogyny. and i'm wondering if you think the nation has evolved as much as it would need to in that eight years to elect a woman president, whether democrat or republican well, to things. >> first of all hillary clinton, as you probably know, was one of the best qualified people to run for president while she did win the election? she certainly won that campaign and lay a trailblazer for other women to come after. also, kamala harris has been the vice president of the united states. so i think by dint of the path that hillary put for and the

experience that camilla has that she's a little bit further they're down the road. i have no doubt that you will be president of the united states but just to follow up on what jake said, what about the country and voters are they are they further along in how they feel about female leaders? i always thought that we would have a woman president long before we'd ever have a woman speaker of the house because so congress is a very, very, shall we say, male oriented bondy. so that's not you're being very nice job being very diplomatic. >> that's not what you okay. keep going but but i think that what is one other thing that is happening in this election is massage. >> it is so evident the things that the republican candidates are saying about women, i think is evoking a response. and one thing that i keep telling people to know, of course, when we put forth roe v. wade and shrine and into the law in the house of representatives. we

didn't get one republican vote. but think of this when we put forth, women should have a right to contraception eight republicans voted, yet 100 195 voted no, 195 republicans why japan women take that disrespect? personally because it's personal and i think that some of what they are saying about. i mean, they say the democratic party has been ruled by childless cat woman, while i have five children, six years and seven days, i don't consider although we have a family cat, i don't consider myself in that category, but people, women they're taking offense at that because of the extreme to which they are going. >> one of the big attack lines against kamala harris is that she's a san francisco liberal. >> yeah. >> you are a proud san francisco liberal. what should she do with that? >> well i think that she goes forward as i say, in san francisco, we are very proud of

our values song of st. francis is our anthem. of our city when i was hungry, you fed me by piece. so those are our values, but you don't govern from where you are personally govern from the center in our country. and what she's putting out there as an economic package that draws in the middle class not a triple down to trillion tax cuts for the richest people in america to maybe triple down it doesn't as a republican say. so be it. >> but i think that she is prepared and so many ways and i'll talk about it on wednesday to, unify our country. >> not to say, well, you said this and i said that no, to unify our country, it's about the children. their health or education, the economics, security, their families, a safe environment in which they can drive including from gun violence the world at peace in

which they can reach their fulfillment in our countries as well. so it's about, our unity as a country honoring the values of our founders the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. this unifies us and the aspirations of our children. >> so are you interviewed? you roughly a week or so ago about your brand new book, which is a great page turner and at that point you had not yet talked to president biden. obviously it was for weeks and one day ago that he stepped aside and i know that there it was very difficult for him. that's been made very clear by some of his top aides it's like a anita dunn and ron klain. and there does seem to be even though anita dunn said earlier today, quote, nobody wants to have a fight with nancy pelosi at this time? unquote. >> it does seem like there's some residual bad blood or resentment and i'm wondering if you've spoken to him in what your responses to that sometimes you just have to take

a punch for the children and that's what you're doing right now. you're just going to take the children who is punching right now. >> i don't know i'm anita dunn said in here he is here with me he's showing the punch. >> i don't know. >> i'm not i would never budge she doesn't want to fight. nobody wants to have a fight with nancy pelosi at this time what have you i have is my life. what i have to do, right? he made the decision for the country. >> my concern was not about the president, was about his campaign as you has he has seen, that the exuberance, the excitement that has come forth in our country. i just did an event for one of our members in illinois, eric tarantino, today immediately he got 1,100 volunteers into his campaign as soon as that nobody is questioning the fact that the democratic party seems much better position right now than it did. four weeks and two days ago, there's no question about

that former speaker, pelosi, why we've been talking about it they put it on my script they're holding they're calling holding my cat hospital speaker pelosi. thank you so much. we're about to show you a video from the democratic party. they are talking a lot about a thing called project 2025 let's take a look future. >> i'm not going to be nice. it will ban abortion nationwide. >> rid of roe v. >> wade, raise taxes on middle-class families gun mitigate. >> that's money that funds a lot of medical treatment, strip lights from lgbtq plus people wait a minute. >> i'm not finished because over time, it is going to affect workers. >> bottom lines, give him unchecked power and i will wield that tower very aggressively. >> and it begins his first day back in office in an explosive under cover video, a coauthor of project 2025 saying that donald trump, quote, blessed the world he's doing now, he's being mutation, he's raised money for our relation.

he's blessed it. he's very supportive of what we do. >> he doesn't want freedom he only once control know donald trump's type project 2025 take our. country backward we are not going back obviously we should note that former president trump denies that the plans of project 2025 are related to his plans in his second term? let's listen into more from the democratic national convention michigan state senator mallory mcmorrow this is project 2025 now, over

the next four nights, you are going to hear a lot about what is in this 900 page documents why because this is the republican blueprint for a second trump term that's? right they went ahead and wrote down all the extreme things that donald trump wants to do in the next four years. >> and then they just tweeted it out putting it out on the internet for everybody to read so we read it and whatever you think it might be, it is so much worse so now i want to tell you about just one aspect

of project 2025. >> it's planned to turn donald trump into a dictator okay. >> right here on page 535, it says quotes re-issued trump's schedule f executive order to permit discharge of nonperforming please. know that doesn't sound that scary, right but here's what it actually means in plain english. if donald trump gets back into the white house he's going to fire civil servants like intelligence officers engineers, and even federal prosecutors if he decides that they don't serve his personal agenda there talking about replacing the entire federal the government with his army of

loyalists who answer only to donald trump all right then okay. >> page 873, it says, quote conservatives have long believed neither ending law enforcement activity because of independent agencies or ending their independent status again that sounds pretty boring. >> but what it means is that under project 2025 donald trump would be able to weaponize the department of justice to go after his political opponents he could even turn the fbi in who is own personal police force that is not how it works in america. >> how it works dictatorships

and that's exactly what donald trump and his maga, minions have. been mined. >> an expansion of presidential powers, like no president has ever had or should ever have. now by the way, if you're asking if any of this is even legal, while remember, thanks to donald trump's hand picked supreme court he's now completely immune from prosecution even if he breaks the law but that's not who we are because we believe in a government of the people by the people well, no for the people not the government of donald trump by donald trump trump far donald trump we believe in the

separation of powers and the rule of law we believe in a system built up to serve everyone not breaking a system to serve one petty selfish man the truth is, there's only one way to stop him and to stop project 2020 25 how do we do we elect we'll be back tomorrow night's to tell you what project 2025 means for you. >> your pocketbook please welcome california senator laphonza butler hello it's

great to see so many familiar faces and can't forget that i was born and raised in mississippi. >> democrats let everybody here democrats before i joined the senate i. >> was a leader in the labor movement know a champion and

for the people, when i see one i met kamala harris when she was district attorney and i was president of a large care workers union we hit it off right away what really impressed me was how well she got to know my family my wife, mikki, but especially our daughter, nilo and as soon as najla heard that ms camila was running for president she asked if she could be vice president no disrespect to governor walz, but najla put her name in first vice president harris, and i share a lot in common we both graduated from historically black colleges me, from jackson

state university the, vice president from howard university we were both raised by mothers who worked fiercely we provide for us and we both believe that every single one of us has the power to change the world would we choose to do it together you see kamala harris has always understood the assignment no matter if she were the underdog, no matter the bullying or the name calling, she never doubted that our best was still ahead. she knew a better future a better future was possible if we stood side by with our neighbors and

we fought for it no matter what language they spoke, no matter what country they came from, no matter the size of their bank account. and that's what she did as a prosecutor to give their width law enforcement see prioritized holding criminals accountable and protecting public safety. as state attorney general together, what students. she put a scam college out of business after. the mortgage crisis together with families who lost their homes, she took on the biggest banks in the world. and we're won a settlement times what was initially offered every time she walked into a courtroom she would simply say kamala harris for the people for her. it

wasn't just they professional. oh it was a bag i don't cry and let's be clear so her opponents, this way of seeing the world, the idea of fighting for someone other than yourself it's unthinkable but let me tell you, democrats what's really unthinkable wanting young people who simply want a good etiquette, good education is on thinkable stiffing, hardworking, laborers like donald trump did in atlantic city is on thinkable bragging about having ripped away now a woman's freedom to choose what she does with her own body is on thinkable and democrats, americans, we deserve better we deserve, we deserve a president who is not just stopped talking

one who's, shatters the boundaries of what's possible, not a boundaries of what's legal and one who wiped the floor with sheets and fraudsters because well democrats she knows the type democrats that president hit president that we deserve. that president is my friend, kamala harris. thank you all so much we're going to have much more ahead from the democratic national convention here in chicago was we expect to see vice president kamala harris enter the hall plus remarks by former secretary of state hillary clinton in the big finish on this opening night speech by president biden, stay with us to be here today from arizona yes we doing don't use

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daughter of a working mom and she worked at mcdonald's while she got her degree. kamala harris knows what it's like to be middle-class is why she's determined to lower health care costs and make housing more affordable. donald trump has no plan to help the middle-class just more tax cuts for billionaires being president is about who you fight big four. and she's fighting for people like you. >> and kamala harris. and i approve this message hi guys, bill. >> you look great. >> now that i have inspire, i'm free from struggling with the mask and the hose fire inspires of sleep apnea treatment that works inside my body with a click of this button where you go. >> i'm going to get inspired, learn more in view important safety information it's inspires sleep.com, upset stomach. >> i bureau guest indigestion. a bureau gas bloating. five-euro guest. thanks to a unique combination of herbs. i bureau gassed helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better six digestive symptoms, that power of nature, i bureau guest today, let's pay with bare america's most

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>> are you and i were talking about the music that they had been playing here they're both with chasten and the previous performed. i'm fascinated because there to country artists who are considered boundary breaking in one way or another, i'm certainly making biden has she? just one of the first black woman to win as solo grammy and also has been praised by beyonce batters but also even isabel. he has a huge progressive following online and we've talked about this being a very online campaign. he is someone who is it's really been a kind of counter voice to cook the conservative voice of country music, or at least corporate country music. and he is someone who is always spoken out against that. i think him being on stage tonight is like a fascinating example of how the campaign is in dialogue but with the culture, especially the culture of progressives like, oh, let's get a jeff zeleny zone for yes. >> anderson, we are awaiting

vice president harris's arrival here to the convention center i'm sorry, i'm having a little audio problems here as we are really looking out on this crowd here tonight, this is really a, this is commonly hertz convention as we know, she is going to be arriving here to watch our president since biden's speech tonight, we know that this is a place she wanted to beat tonight in this hall, tomorrow night, she will be in milwaukee at a campaign rally. of course, the neighboring state, a battleground state. but here tonight, she'll be watching this speech and of course the speech from hillary clinton as well. she'll be coming home to chicago, of course, heard native illinois that speech also will be so important as she passes the torch in a different way. >> and vice president harris will make her first appearance. >> she will not be appearance every night like donald trump did. but tonight is their first appearance until thursday when she accepts the nomination. >> i understand zeleny. thanks very much. i want to go to john king, who is standing by john. i mean, the democrats now have run this the third time running against donald trump tell us

about what we have seen in the past, and the path forward for the vice president. >> let's focus on the moment of the democratic convention because this hall is full of excited democrats, they've seen the polling in the last few weeks. this is our map showing vice president harris with a modest, very modest advantage over donald trump. but we know from the state polls, anniston, she has a path through the blue wall to 70 she has a potential sunbelt, patrick to 70 these democrats are very energized because they believe she has the ball right now. she has momentum in this race and that's a fact. so let's just go back and look at the covid year. there were weird conventions, but joe biden and his convention in 2020 was already on the verge of winning at 200 68 electoral votes in terms of solid democratic and lean democratic, he went on to win 305 electoral votes and sweeping. but i just want to remind you that first campaign against donald trump well, we're at the democratic convention in 2016. hillary clinton was favored. again, that's a modest amount to 36 to 191. but then the map just simply did not go her way. we had pennsylvania a toss up then donald trump won pennsylvania. we have michigan leaning democratic that know donald

trump won it. same with wisconsin. donald trump wanted donald trump held ohio donald trump won north carolina. hillary clinton did win virginia. but donald trump won ohio hillary clinton won new hampshire. but donald trump won florida he kept georgia and donald and hillary clinton did end up winning nevada in the end, but that's how it ended up. so democrats came into that convention in 2016 full of confidence as well. different story, third-party candidates are the coleman the announcement late in the campaign, democrats would say caused that, but just a cautious note. kamala harris is such a better position than joe biden was when he was the candidate in milwaukee? by leaps and bounds are better position, but we've still got two-and-a-half months a campaign ago john, thanks for standing by for the arrival. >> vice president harris and awaiting speeches by representative alexandria ocasio cortez, former secretary of state, hillary clinton, first lady jill biden. and of course, president joe biden stay with us as you see vice presidential nominee hey, ryan

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pain more we are just minutes away from the start of the democratic primetime convention program featuring some of the biggest names in the democratic party coming up. >> we expect to see vice president kamala harris exciting delegates as she makes her first in-person appearance at this convention. let's go right now to kaitlan collins on the floor of the convention, kaitlan we are on the floor here of course, we are waiting as everyone is for the key speakers coming out tonight secretary hillary clinton, first lady jill biden, and president biden himself, we saw him out here earlier. >> i will say that as we were saying and again here, jake and as the room is filled up with the delegates right behind me, you can see up there that is the vip box that is where all

of the vips that i don't talk so great person and i believe our colleague john berman is right there with the vice presidential nominee, governor walz governor walz has talking to someone else right now, i'm going to try to talk. >> i'm going to try to talk to the second gentleman, doug emhoff. mr. emhoff, how are you doing tonight nice to see you excited for the night? >> it's going to be a great night. i'm looking forward to hearing from the president thank you very much governor walz governor walz governor walz, governor walz governor walz is doing his best job ignoring me right now, but you can see this is the family box. >> tony west, brother-in-law to the vice president maya harris, the sister, than we see that children of governor walz right behind him as well. this is the vip section. this is where there'll be watching guys. >> all right. let's listen

into new york governor kathy hochul parents came from ireland, is teenagers with nothing but hope in their hearts and fire in their bellies they built their lives and the promise land of buffalo, new york a union card good work at the steel plant the steel plant that lifted my parents from living in a trailer to the middle-class like other families. >> and my blue collar community they believed there was hard work. they could build a better future not just for themselves but for those with less hope. unless opportunity i'm proud of my roots and the values i learned grit, determination,

compassion kamala harris, and tim walz grew up those same values and those values have always defined the people of my state well most of us anyway donald trump was born on new yorker but ended up of fraud a philanderer and a felon he wasn't raised with the new york values that i know he never had a worry about childcare costs or groceries or rent he never had a worry about anything or anyone but himself trust me, america if you would. think you're tired of donald trump? talk to a new yorker had

to deal with them for 70 long years the fraud tax dodging the sham university of this shady charities we've seen him stiff contractors rip off workers he abuses women briggs about it. and then takes away their rights and yorkers are sick of it it's no wonder he had a fleet of mar-a-lago sorry about that. florida sorry about that drum pads and spent much time in new york lately except that is to get convicted of 34 felonies and that's just fine with us because new york's

motto is excelsior ever upward? >> and trump takes us ever downward because here's what trump never understood america is not a luxury good to be bought and sold by the privileged and powerful you america. >> we just can't afford another four years of that. we have kids to feed, rose to build jobs, to create real problems. >> and we need leaders who can get it done trump, talk, big about bringing back manufacturing jobs but you know, who actually did it president biden, and vice president kamala harris. >> thank you. joe thank you. camila and look no further than

the city of sarah hughes were company called micron is building a 100 $100,000,000,000 microchip factory with union labor it's the largest private investment in american history and it's going to create 50,000 good paying jobs the biden-harris administration has made the most significant investments in our economy in generations and as president kamala harris will continue to build an opportunity economy for all my friends history is watching us together we must protect abortion rights together, we must protect the

middle class together, we must protect the american dream. together. >> we must elect kamala harris, president of the united states tell us wow the regular. he knew wife, plants. >> what kind of america do we want one in one, we were divided depressed tell. us we were americans fascism we conquered it. the moon landed. on it the future, building it freedom nobody loves him more

we fight for it freedom from control read them from extremism in stream miss want to take us back but we are not going back we go that's american and we need a leader who is for the people is a fight for the future kamala harris protecting people from predators and big drug cartels, holding wall street banks accountable a crime perpetrated against our middle standing up to dictators and fighting for

all of us i say we fight that's our choice a prosecutor or a felony are you ready to make your voice we believe in the promise of america

it is so good to be with everyone. >> this evening in this hall and everyone at home this is

going to be great week and i want to kick us off by celebrating our incredible presence. president joe biden will be speaking later tonight joe. thank you for your historic leadership for your lifetime of service to our nation and for all you will continue to do we are forever grateful to you thank you, joan and looking out looking out at everyone tonight i see the beauty of our great nation people from every corner of our country and every walk of life are here united by our shared

vision for the future of our country. >> and this november we will come together and declare with one voice as one people, we are moving forward and faith guided by our love of country, knowing we all have so much more in common than what separates us. let us fight for the ideals we hold dear and let us always remember when we fight bless the united states of america jubilant vice president kamala harris making something of a surprise and three in this arena. >> the uk, the united center in the crowd is just ecstatic

here. tens of thousands of democrats delegates union members on their feet, holding up signs from the top of the rafters to down on the floor dana and abby. this is a he different democratic party definitely a different mood than just for all weeks and two days ago. here is actor tony goldwyn coming out we're not going to, take him, but he just spoke at danna. the crowd is really excited here. >> it's electric and not to mix metaphors, but it does feel like something just got uncorked. like, you know, there's just a lot of pressure and all of the sudden everybody feels free to express their, their joy. and there's no question that this is a feeling that democrats wanted to feel. they were searching for this kind of energy and this kind of enthusiasm particularly we'll

just in general, but particularly given the republican that they're running again. >> and i think heightened by the fact that they went through a period of weeks of just absolute despair what you're seeing in this room are people who have a sense of hope again, about the trajectory of this race and people who want to see vice president harris when, i mean, you felt the energy in the room building as the video was playing. i mean, it was a pre-produced video with beyonce playing and people were on their feet for chanting along with the video, they were cheering along with the video. and then when she stepped out on that stage, i mean, we all heard it and saw it, but people maybe some people didn't know if she was going to speak tonight. they knew she would be in the room but maybe not speaking, but to see her on that stage, i think you felt everyone expressing what she means to the party right now, which is giving them a shot in this race. well, slipping away from them just a few weeks and we should, we should know that

one of what one of the dynamics that is going on, and this is going to be a knight obviously there, was an homage to president biden, and we just heard vice president harris calc about thanking him and how important he has been to this country into this party. but one of the issues is that for the land asked year, as people geared up for the 2024 race the candidates were in the minds of democrats won one candidate, the republican can who would come out in the fend them, and the other candidate their candidate, the democrat joe biden, who would come out and they would sit on the edge of their seat and hope that he didn't say something good thing. meandering or off message or adult. and that fear about their nominee speaking is gone. now they had somebody who i mean, it is, does project joy and they're not particularly

subtle about how they want the message such of this convention to be joy, but it's she does project joy with her smile and her tone in her man and she's not somebody that in a situation like this is going to cause democrats that tension that we used to feel in the media. and all americans when the president would come out and speak, yeah, exactly. >> that's sort of why, again, i keep going back to the notion of stealing like like, you kind of open a bottle and everything it's kinda spilling out and the everything here is relief and excitement and you could feel the fact that people in this hall are desperate to be excited and they are genuinely excited about her. but i don't want to lose sight of the fact that she is keenly aware of what republicans are trying to say that she staged a coup,

which there's no evidence have in fact, the evidence is that she put her head down and he told everybody around her, do not get involved until joe biden himself came out. other democrats push very hard publicly and privately she did not. but the fact that she understands, even though this is her convention, it is joe biden's night and she was very, very careful to one of the first things that she said, phrase, the man who brought her onto the ticket four years ago, look, its opening night of what will be a really big week for the democratic party. one of the dynamics here in chicago is something that you haven't really felt from the democratic party since 2008 with barack, we're going to listen. >> i'm sorry. to interrupt we're this is we're about to hear from steve her former nba champion with the balls and the spurs. and also for time nba champion coach with the golden state warriors. there are you, steve, her, his father. he's a gun violence father, mount

malcolm have been assassinated in 1984 president, with the american university of beirut. let's listen in to steve, her who i believe did he used to play in this very arena while he was a bowl anyway? >> so far to be back here in the united center and as you guys know, a lot of good stuff has happened in this building especially in the 90s you're young people, google, michael jordan in, you can read all about it there was an amazing live in this building back in those days and i feel that same winning spirit here tonight so the last time he was in a packed basketball arena it's in paris, france nine days ago.

>> some of the best players on earth 12 incredible american gunmen came together to win olympic gold and the next night, i was back in that same building, watch june 12 more of the best players on earth our incredible american women do the same thing up think of a better metaphor for what this country is all about than the way team usa came together at the olympics we had players from across our wonderful country players who have trained and fought relentlessly shed tears, trying to beat one another throughout their careers. joining forces to where the red, white, and blue and when we won, the american flag raised to the rafters and national anthem playing gold medals draped around the necks of our planet there's whose hands were held over their hearts it was the proudest

moment of my life thank you know, like i've never have imagined that a few days later, i would receive an invitation to step into a different kind of arena and so here i am i know, i know very well that speaking out now, politics these days comes with risks i can see the shut up and whistle tweets being fired off as we speak but i also knew as soon as yes, i was asked that it was too important as an american citizen, not to speak up in an election of this magnitude the reason i said yes to speaking here tonight is that as a coach and former player, as a husband?

>> a son, a father, even a grandfather and as an american i believe in a certain kind of leadership i believe that leaders must display dignity i believe the leaders must tell the truth i believe that leaders should be able to laugh at themselves i believe leaders must care for and loved the people they are leading i believe leaders must possess knowledge and expertise, but with the full awareness that none of us has all the answers and in fact some of the best answers often come from members of the team and if you look for those qualities in your friends or your boss, or an employee

are your child's teacher or your mayor, and shouldn't you want those same qualities in your president and when you think about it that way this is no contest with kamala harris and tim walz. >> i see all those qualities. they have devoted the their lives to serving other people whether vice president harris was defending her community in the courtroom or governor walz was inspiring the next generation in the classroom or on the field for that matter. by the way, coach to coach that guy is awesome although i have to say coach walz way too much reliance on the blitz in 99 against mankato east you had a strong defensive line. >> i would have played more u.s. government bridge with your corners and then drop the safeties into a tampa two that's just me sorry i wanted you to know how i feel every

day the nba season. >> all right but listen, the joy the compassion the commitment to our country that we saw at the olympics that is what kamala harris and tim walz have and it is what our country needs leader their ship, real leadership not the kind that seeks to divide us but the kind that recognizes and celebrates our common purpose. think about what our team achieved with 12 americans in paris putting aside rivalries to represent our country now imagine what we could do with all 330 million of us playing on the same team not as not as democrats not as republicans, not as libertarians, but as americans who know the greatness of this

nation doesn't come from any one of us but from each, of us doing our part to build a more perfect union that vision is what this campaign is all about. it's why i'm here tonight. and it's why i'll be getting out every day to help people get out and vote on november 5 and elect kamala harris tim walz, as the next president and vice president of the united states and after the results are tallied that night we can in the words of the great steph curry we can tell donald trump night-night let me

tell you, folks in ohio under this area don't sell your house. >> not selling were going to get those jobs coming back at whigham to fill up those factories to it's going to happen but trump lie and abandoned lordstown. this is about a community is going to be a big change to go somewhere else. >> the gm factory in lordstown did close, putting thousands of people out of work because donald trump doesn't care about our communities. >> all those jobs went away and he did nothing. he did not do one thing for those workers there. he didn't come in, make promises he came and made false promises kind of lost hope and everything on don't really want to lose but then something changed instead of lies and broken promises. >> joe biden and kamala harris got to work in broad u.s. manufacturer during jobs back including to lordstown camila will continue to have workers bags and get the job done.

>> american workers deserve a fire, and that's exactly what common harris is ready please welcome united auto workers president shawn fain right yeah. >> thank you good evening,

america. and good evening to the people that make this world a move the working class all behalf of 1 million active and retired members of the uae i am honored to support kamala harris and tim walz to be our next president and vice president and i want to say, thank you, judge. joe biden for making history. and walk the picket line with uaw for the uaw and for working class people everywhere this election comes down to one question which side are you on? on one

side, we have kamala harris and tim walz, who has stood shoulder to shoulder with the working class on the other side we have trump and vance to lap dogs for the billionaire class who only serve themselves so for us in the labor movement, it's real simple kamala harris is one of us she's a fighter so working class and donald trump is a scab that's not just

my opinion. that's a fact oh we have to do is look at the track record when donald trump was president corporate america ran wild donald trump did not bring back the auto industry when donald trump was president auto plants close trump did nothing trump told workers in lordstown, ohio that he would be bringing all the auto jobs back and trump did nothing in

2019, general motors, workers went on strike for 40 days for good jobs and a better life and trump, did nothing talk is cheap but in 2019 you know, who was on the picket line standing shoulder to shoulder with auto workers gave you a clue. her near souls are kamala harris and 2023 who helped bring jobs back to lordstown, ohio kamala harris and in 2024 who will stand with the working class to fight for justice kamala harris and that's the difference.

donald trump is all talk and kamala harris walks in the words of the great american poet nelly it's getting hot in here it's hot in here because you're fired up on your phone up. and the american working class as fired up and fed up the american working class isn't a flight for our lives and if you don't believe me,

just last night blue color workers, uaw members according to the university, had to walk out on strike for a better life because her fighting corporate greed and are only hope is to attack corporate greed head on green turns blue collar blood, sweat and tears into wall street stock buybacks and ceo jackpots it causes inflation it hurts workers. it hurts consumers and it hurts america and corporate greed is alive and well in the auto industry you know, last fall we achieved life changing gains in our strike at the big three we even want a commitment to reopen

close plan not too far from here we were able to do that thanks to the support kamala harris and joe biden. and the thousands of auto workers went on strike but a year later one wants to go back on their commitments in our contract and let me be clear stellantis must keep the promises they made two america. and our union and the uaw will take whatever action necessary and stellantis any other corporation to stand up and hold corporate america accountable and when the uaw

stands up, we know who stands with us and who stands against us donald trump laughed about firing workers who go on strike and kamala harris stay in shoulder to shoulder with workers when they're on strike and that's the difference between kamala harris and donald trump. a scab trump? >> as pushing divide and conquer tactics of the risks it's the oldest trick in the book they want to blame the frustration of working class people they want to take those cross-straits, they want to blame it on race. they want to blame it on lgbtq plus people. they want to blame it on some

destitute desperate person not the border they do that because they weren't working class people to be divided into focus and keep a focus off the one true enemy corporate greed rich think we're stupid but working class americans see this for what it is this is our generation's defining moment so i have a question good for you are you ready to stand up, squeeze up, and show up, and put harris and tim walz in we need to an offender of the working class and a while good house someone who has one of us and someone who knows how to fight and that fighter, it the

next president of the united sage please welcome new york representative alexandria ocasio-cortez and your vision

thank you. thank you, chicago for your energy thank you. kamala harris and tim walz for your vision thank you. >> joe biden for your leadership no six years ago. i was taking on lit orders as a waitress in new york city i didn't have health insurance my family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills after my dad passed away unexpectedly from cancer like millions of americans we were just looking for an honest shake and we were tired of a cynical politics

that scene blind to the realities of working people it was then only through the miracles of democracy and community that the good people of the bronx and queens chose someone like me to elect them in congress and american heart from that same cloth of hope and aspiration, we will also kamala harris and tim walz as president and vice president of the united states of america i'm here tonight because america before us a rare and precious opportunity in kamala harris we have a chance to elect a president who is for

the middle-class because she is from the middle class she understand the urgency of rent check and groceries and prescriptions. >> she has committed to our reproductive and civil rights as she is to taking on corporate greed and she is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in gaza and bringing hostages home. >> a liter understands i see a leader with the real commitment to a better future for working families and. chicago, we have to help her win because we know that donald trump would sell

this country for $1 if it meant lining his own and greasing the palms of his wall street brands about up hearing about how what union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot woman you cannot love this country. if you only fight for the wealthy and big business this country it's to fight for its people working people every day, americans like bartenders and factory workers, and fast food cashiers and are on their feet

in some of the toughest job i'm out there ever since i got it. >> selective republicans have attacked me by saying that i should go back to bar tending but let me tell you i'm happy to any day of the week because there is nothing wrong with working for a living having lead ithe white hoe, who understand tt leaders like chicago just because the choice is clear to , does not mean

that the path will be easy over the next 78 days we will have every moment into making e, history november bene cannot send camila and tim to the white house alone gather we must also alleged strong moaticajority's in the house in the senate so that we can working child care for you if you are a senior who had to go back to work? >> does your retirement didn't stretch far enough for you if you're an immigrant family

starting your american story camila is for you american when we knock on our neighbor's door organized our communities, and elect kamala harris to the presidency on november 5, we will send a loud message that the people of this nation will not go back. we choose a new path and open the door to a new day that is for the people by the people. thank you. thank you very much women from new york, alexandria ocasio ocasio-cortez electrifying the

room. >> really holding this room in rapt attention and as she spoke we're going to hear momentarily froms and childhood friends of vice president kamala harris and then directly after that, we're going to hear from from former secretary of state former first lady also hillary clinton, who some excerpts of her speech have already come out. she's going to she said this sort of the historical nature of kamala harris's campaign we're going to hear some of what hillary clinton spoke about in 2016 about our breaking that glass ceiling and other things from secretary clinton. let's listen in the neighborhood we grew up in was a very hard hard-working middle-class tight-knit community. families going to

church on sunday kids playing in the front yard. mommy goddess, these bright blue mashing bikes with banana seats. >> and rewards surrounded by a caring adults. >> those neighborhood on bancroft way, we've spent so much time here behind me is where it all began her mom, shammalah rented the apartment that was above the shelton's nursery. so in the beginning, visit shelton, u.s. to babysit the girls shama was a single mom life was not easy for them, but she loved her daughter's fiercely camila herself says that her mom told her that she may be the first to do many things, but to make sure that she's not the last she's always been that kind of person, a true leader and very protective of her friends and her family when campbell was all of 4-years-old her best

friend in kindergarten, stacy johnson god, into something with another kid on the playground this one particular day, we had made some clay arts and this one coy in our class, it taken mind for whatever reason and threw it on the ground and its shattered. >> so camila being very protective just jumped in front of me did up to him to me that shows the kind of person that she has always been to stand up to the bully and to stand up for the underdog your dog, and to stand up for what is right kamala carries the lessons of our mother, the fighting spirit of our mother, the compassion and i have seen it over and over again in our growing up when we were in high school, my sister's friend wanda, was being molested by a family

member. >> and camilla just jealous she wanted her to come and stay with us and mommy said, of course that is campbell. >> she can't help her personnel from standing up for people and standing up for what she thinks is right. she has been that way our whole lives, being a protected is what led her to become a prosecutor. looking back, now, i could say it was her calling please welcome. >> stacy johnson, battista and doris johnson good evening. i'm stacy john that's nba bts. and this is my mom doors

johnson week we are so excited and on sir, to be here with you, camila and i have known each other for a long time we met at burke, would hedge school we hit it off immediately and became each other's very first best friends our moms also became fast friends and on weekends we would paul until my 1966 must stay calm kamala mob shoveler was sit in the front with me and camila and maia and stacy would sit in the back we would go to a movie or some adventure my mom's still has that mustang camila and i both get

our grit from our mothers camila has always been a protector one day at school, we made clay art process projects during story time when they were outside on tables to dry for whatever reason, a boy in our class took mine, threw it on the ground and its shattered camila jumped in between him and me and said something that made him so mad. he picked up a rock or something and hit her on the head. blood came streaming down. the school called shammalah come take her to the hospital the stitches she got left a scar over one of her eyes. she still has it that's the kind of person camila has always been from from the very beginning someone who doesn't hesitate to stand up for what's right to take up

for the underdog and to stand up to bullies i have seen it. time and again, whether the bully is an individual digital a gang, or a corporation, she fights for all of us before we go, i know my mom has one more thing to say. >> camila, your mom would be so proud of you please, welcome former secretary of state, hillary clinton hank you.

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there's no energy in

this room, just like something is happening in america you can feel it something we've worked for and dreamed of for a long time. >> first though. >> let's salute president biden mock proceeds champion at home and abroad he brought dignity, decency and competence back to the white house.

>> and he showed what it means to be a true patriot thank you joe biden for your lifetime of service and later, chef and now. we are riding a new chapter in america's story. >> you know, my mother dorothy was born right here in chicago before women had the right to vote that changed 104 years ago yesterday. think about it tennessee became the final

state to ratify hi the 19th amendment to the constitution the state legislature was deadlocked on to one lawmakers, mother, a widow, who read three newspapers a day, sent a letter a letter to her son no more delays she wrote give us the vote and since that day every generation has carried the torch forward in 1972, a fearless black congresswoman named shirley chisholm she ran for president her

determination, let me and millions of others dream bigger, not just because of who she was but because of who she fought for working parents for children. the last the least, and the lost in 1984, i brought my daughter to see geraldine ferraro, the first woman nominated for vice president if we can do this, jury said we can do anything and then there was 2016 when it was the honor of my life to accept our party's nomination for president nearly 66 million

americans voted for a future where there are no ceilings on our dreams and afterwards, we refused to give up on america millions marched many ran for office. >> we kept our eyes on the future. well, my friend the future is here wish my mom and camilla's mother could see us. they would say keep going would say women fighting for

reproductive health care are saying stretching to afford childcare young people struggling to pay their rent there. all asking us to keep going with faith in each other and joy in our hearts. >> let's send kamala harris and tim walz till the white house the story. of my wife and the history of our country is that progress is possible, but

not guaranteed we have to fight for it and never, ever give up there is always a choice do away, push forward, or pull pullback, come together as we the people? >> or split into us versus them. that's the choice we face in this election. camila has the character experience and vision to lead us forward. >> no, her heart and her in a gritty, we both got our start as young lawyers helping children who were abused and neglected that kind of work changes. >> a person. those kids stay with you camila carries with her the hopes of every child

she protected every family she helped every community. she served so as president, she will always have our backs she will be a fighter but for she will fight to lower costs for hardworking families open the doors. wide for good paying jobs and yes, she will restore abortion rights nationwide prosecutor calm kamala locked up murderers and drug traffickers she will never rest in defense of our freedom and safety donald trump fell asleep

at his own trial. >> and when he woke up he made his own kind of history. the first person to run for president with 34 felony convictions as vice president as vice president sat in the situation room we also know but as vice president kamala sad in the situation room and stood

for america's values i know what it takes and i can tell you as commander in chief kamala won't disrespect our military and our veterans she reveres our medal of honor recipients she won't be sending love letters to dictators she will defend democracy and our constitution and will protect america from enemies. foreign and domestic think about it the constitution says the president's job is to

take care that the laws be faithfully executed those are the words of our founders take care. >> just look at the candidates how come like cares, cares about kids and families, cares about america? donald only cares about himself on her first day in court camila said five words that still guide her kamala harris, for the people that is something that donald trump will never understand. so it is no surprise is it that he is lying about camilla's record? he's mocking her name and her laugh sounds familiar but we he had him on the run.

>> now no matter what the polls say, we can't let up we can't get driven down crazy conspiracy rabbit holes. we have to fight for the truth. we have to fight for camila as she will fight for us because you know what it still takes a village to raise a family. he'll a cadre. and when and america needs every one of us our energy, our talents, our dreams were not just electing a

president where uplifting our nation we're opening the promise of america wide enough for everyone together. we've put a lot of cracks in the highest part or does last ceiling and tonight tonight's so close? >> ost to breaking through once and for all, i want to tell you what i see through all those cracks and why it matters for each and every one of us. what do i see? i see freedom i see the freedom to make our own decisions about our help, our lives, our loves, our families

that's freedom to work with dignity and prosper to warship as we choose or not joe speak our minds freely and honestly, i see freedom from fear and intimidation from violence in injustice from chaos and corruption i see the freedom to look our children in the eye and say, in america, you can go as far as your hard work and talent will take you and mean it and you know, what on the other side of that glass ceiling is kamala harris raising her hand and taking the oath of office president my

went up barrier falls for one no boasted. it falls and clears the way for all of us. so for the next 78 days, we need to work harder than we ever have. we need to beat back the dangers that trump and his allies pose to the rule of law. and our way of life don't get distracted or complacent. talk to your friends and neighbors, volunteer be proud champions for the truth and for that contrary that way all love want i want my grandchildren and their grandchildren. >> to know. i was here at this moment. that we we're here and that we're with kamala harris

every step the way this is our time america this is what we stand up that says when right through stuff future fair he room is standing for hillary clinton the corner. >> what did you make of what we heard? >> that's the biggest applause i think i've ever seen her ged, including at her own convention, which when it started in 2016, they were

upset bernie sanders, delegates who were booing some of the lawmakers who came out on stage. so to see her in this moment is actually really striking party is amazing. >> aoc could not be any more different politically than hrc. but they both hit a chord here and you just saw the breadth of this party. but that was the best i've seen hillary clinton do. and i'm proud to be a democrat tonight look, i think that the most important this is all invigorating of the party and that's clear. it was like a rocket took off when primetime came. the storytelling is really important though and some of the most moving pieces of this war, the story telling portions of it then of course, when kamala harris came on the stage herself and that was the kind of reaction of that crowd you got a sense that they felt like they were on the doorstep of something big. and the word we, we fight, we win came up a lot. that is a big difference between now and the 2060 this

is about what we can do together. it's not about the advancement of one the things i love hearing. >> shirley chisholm. >> same in 1960 consolation fire-burned carolina thank you thank you thank you very good evening gear south carolina. >> thank you for, years ago americans are experiencing high anxiety and great uncertainties but then the virus range

schools closed businesses, shuttered donald trump mismanaged the crisis from day one looking out for himself. >> instead of the country the american people responded to the crisis in leadership by electing a new leaders. thanks to joe biden and kamala harris we reopened our schools brought back out distances every stone, our faith in the american can do spirit thanks. so joe and camila reduced the price of prescription drugs repaired roads, and bridges and replaced lead pipes thanks to joe and common law. we are honoring our heroes in uniform and expanded

benefits to over 1 million spectrums to joe and kamala make it in america is no longer justice slogan, but a movement that is bringing millions of manufacturing jobs back to america for president biden's lifetime of achievement in service of his country. we owe him a great gratitude and we're grateful for one of the best decisions he made so lectin, kamala harris, as his vice president and then dawson, her to succeed yeah. hi, often say that we are but to serve our experiences in the introduction

of my memoir, i wrote oh, my experiences have not been pleasant what i can say that all of them to be blessings so, it has been the case with kamala heard experiences have prepared her for this moment. kamala harris is true battle tested leader. it district attorney attorney general, senator, and vice president, who gets things done? well donald trump has been bragging about how he overturned roe. common has been fiercely advocate for the rest of the tape protection of reproduction, freedoms. well,

trump has been looking out for himself and his billionaire buddies calmer has been fighting to lower costs for all americans and row five which in my opinion is jim crow 2.0 comma has been our friend, the american people in leiden proposals and visionary leadership having grown up in the past how often look to the good book for understanding and guidance as second corinthians in foams we are troubled on every side. yet not distressed we are perplexed, but not in despair prosecutor but not for forsaken chest down, but not

discharge greg democracy has been tested and so has the basic goodness of the american people but all resolved to remain a break country with freedom and justice for all. will not falter we will continue march toward a more perfect union. you're not in our common purpose and in bowdoin by our resolve to elect kamala harris and tim walz as the next president and vice president. here united states of america thank you and godspeed in the criminal

justice system. the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups the police who investigate crimes, and the district attorneys who took cute the offenders. this is the story of donald trump entire life, trump has believed he's above the law, that no one would ever dare hold them accountable realize, he rips off workers. these sexually abuses women hey, when your star, they let you do it. >> you can do anything he cheats in business. he cheated on his wife with a porn star and paid her off. so the american people wouldn't find out during an election but in the criminal. justice system ordinary americans have had the courage to find them accountable time and time again, guilty, guilty, guilty. donald trump, guilty on all 34 felony counts for the first time in history, we have a convicted felon running for president and to take on this

case we need a president who has spent her life prosecuting perpetrators like tried overturn georgia's free and fair election. >> i yes want to find 11,780 he's tried to escape any responsibility for instigating the january 6 attack on our capitol were going to walk down to the capitol and i'll be there with you. if elected trump has promised to overturn laws that would keep them accountable and exact retribution on anyone he could citizen enemy, even warning of a bloodbath if he doesn't get his way. so we the people have a chance to render our own verdict on donald trump the jewelry he moved. when we vote this november we vote for justice accountability and the rule with law that keeps america please welcome maryland

representative jamie raskin hello and welcome to the democracy convention welcome. >> to the freedom convention and thank you for the beautiful

weather chicago it's. been a little rough on capitol hill where it's not just the heat, it's the stupidity now we meet in this great city tonight. where abraham lincoln was nominated in 18, 60 to save the union from fanatical insurrectionists and we're franklin d roosevelt was renominated by democrats in 1942, defeat fascist dictators now we fight in our time to defend our freedom and our democracy against the banana republicans who have converted lincoln's party into a dangerous, cult of personality

you know, i'll never forget the pounding on the doors of the house chamber on january 6 were the screams to follow hundreds of our police officers taunted and attacked honored, and 40 of them were wounded by extremist wielding a baseball bats steel pipes even american flags five people died that day. and for more of our officers took their own lives in the days and weeks to come all of this after trump was defeated by more than 7 million votes by the grape joe biden it was after at judges rejected

every ridiculous claim raised by this store loser who does not know how did take no for an answer from american voters american courts, or american women remember what the mob chanted as they stormed the capitol? an injured are officers hang mike pence someone should have told donald trump that the president's job under article two of the constitution someone should have told dumb, i'm from that the president's job under article two of the constitution is to take care that the laws

are faithfully executed not that the vice president is executed pence has now joined more than two dozen officials from donald trump's own administration in denouncing him and historical record and pence is the first vice president in more than two centuries not to support the president he served with in a general election and by the way, j.d. >> vance, do you understand why there was a sudden job opening for running mate on the gop ticket? they tried to kill your predecessor they tried to kill him because he would not follow trump plan to destroy and

nullify the votes of millions of americans your votes pennsylvania your votes, michigan you're votes, georgia, nevada, arizona are we going to go back? to the days of election suppression and violent insurrection we're not going back one week after that beautiful day is trump calls it the republicans ten republicans joined all of the democrats to

impeach trump for the worst high crime and misdemeanor every committed by a president inciting insurrection against our own constitution. make no mistake a man who used his fraud theft and violence to take power we will commit any crime to keep it now, trump's promising to pardon hundreds of his fellow criminal convict and insurrectionists he calls for quote, the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles even those in the constitution my friends are we the people going to let donald trump terminate our constitution and obliterate the blessings of liberty per our posterity that's right.

>> we're going to elect kamala harris we're going to elect the career prosecutor and inspiring public servants and coach walz and we're going to defeat donald trump the career criminal and incorrigible resisted of this on man and his pet. >> her million j.d vance and america. let's make it a landslide. so big that donald trump and his kangaroo courts, supreme court justices, cannot even try to steal land let's make every vote count let's

make sure every vote is counted. let's lead freedom ring, and let's lead democracy work in america please welcome. texas representative jasmine crockett well, here a president

commander leader of the free world so let's compare their resume. >> shall we one, candidate worked at mcdonald's. well, she was in college at an hbcu eight-two was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and helped his daddy in the family and discrimination that is she became a career prosecutor. >> while he became a career criminal with 30 31 starts approving entire career as an elected district attorney

attorney general, and senator she's always worked for one client the people may while he's a 78-year-old lifelong predator fraudster known for inciting a violent mobs less than y'all he's only looked out for one person himself as women are dying, he is bragging about overturning roe and you know, i come from texas and right now in texas come on six. but right now and sachs is the death penalty that is a problem welcome. harris is fighting for our reproductive rights to be restored. >> the leader we need on the global stage.

>> she helped secure the release of americans wrongfully detained in russia at the same time, he calls to his role model vladimir putin and maga holes legislation hostage here at home. critical resources to secure the border military aid to ukraine bill live, the american dream well he's been american nightmare america looking at the choices before you, who would you hire donald trump kamala harris the resume

donald trump had the rap sheet over the city. well, he keeps our national secrets next is thinking chair you know what i said that other time ago well, donald trump wants to put our 17, 87 constitution through his project 2025 paper shredder. and make every day january 6 kamala harris is fighting to fulfill the promise of america in the real world this wouldn't even be close but this election is don't make a mistake. we are the underdogs in this fight even though there's only one person qualified, only one person who's done the work and who is the delivered the results and

she needs you see means you're one vote. this november can we count on you some of, you know, a little bit of my history, some of you don't. so let me i was a public defender i did criminal as well as practice civil rights law for almost two decades good prosecutor when i see one kamala harris is the kind of prosecutor we long for in the cases like those of brionna taylor she was the first attorney general in the nation to order that her office

where body cams and she started the back on track program to reduce recidivism listen i'll she did all these things because she genuinely cares about people she sees each person as just that a person, not a statistic she's proven that since the first day she stepped into a courtroom and say it was already heard hillary say, i did not copy off of her speech. i just want to know she walked into that courtroom and said kamala harris, for the people and she meant then many of you know, her credentials but what i love about kamala harris goes beyond her resume is that she sees the humanity in everyone she's the only candidate in this race who

was capable of empathy when i first got to congress i wasn't sure i made the right decision the chaos caucus couldn't elect a speaker. >> and the oversight committee was unhinged. i was going through all of this when i visited the vice president's residence for the first time as i approached vice president harris for all official photo she turned to me and asked what's wrong mind you, we'd never met but she saw right through me she saw that a stress i immediately began crying and the most powerful

woman in the world, white months ears and listen so are you sir? she said, among other things, you're exactly where god wants you your district shows you because they believe in you and so to why the next month but wait viral for the first of many times to come we're heading republicans with a dose of their own medicine that brief but impactful

insurrection gave me my legislative legs and abin running ever since the question before us we'll have been dictum bile villain violate voters vision i'm here a little russians are back we deserve better. we deserve a president who can be a bright light in a sea of darkness one who will put us, who will pull us forward because we won't go back amanda gorman said it

best. there is always light if only we are brave enough to see it if only we are brave enough to be it. kamala harris, show me that light and america, when she is our president, to together, we will shine as that beacon of hope and freedom around the world once more. all right god bless shaw this is one of our robot this is the outfit. she was going to maybe wear home from the hospital blink at the 54 years they were

trying to get roe v. wade terminated. and i did it and i'm proud to have done it i was punished for three days having to wait for either my baby to die or me did i are both i was stuck in this horrific hell of both wanting to hear her heartbeat and also hoping i wouldn't it has to be some form of punishment for the woman yeah, it has to be some form i almost died because doctors were forced to follow trump's abortion ban kamala will protect a woman's right to choose wait trust women to make decisions about their i have so much faith in her and when congress passes a law to restore reproductive freedoms as president of the united

states sign it into law we have to fight for kamala harris. >> are rights or freedoms, and frankly, our lives, everything is on the line. when you're expecting a baby, packing for the hospital should be a joyful moment for us. it was different we were told with 100% certainty we would lose our baby girl, willow, and we were sent home for three days. we waited until amanda was sick enough to receive standard abortion care. eventually, amanda's temperature spiked she was shaking disoriented, and crashing i, don't remember what i threw into our bag that

day. only that instead of welcoming willow, i was hoping amanda's life could be saved i'm here tonight because the fight for reproductive rights isn't just a woman's fight. this is about fighting this is about fighting for our families and is kamala harris future every time i share sorry, my heartbreaks for the baby girl we wanted desperately for the doctors and nurses who couldn't help me deliver her safely. >> for, josh, who feared he would lose me to but i was lucky i live so i'll, continue

sharing our story standing with women and families across the country today because of donald trump more than one in three women of reproductive age in america lives under an abortion ban a second trump term would rip away even more of our rights passing a national abortion ban letting states monitor pregnancies and prosecute doctors, restricting birth control and fertility treatments we cannot let that happen we need to vote as if lives depend on it because they do two years ago. my husband

and i were expecting our second child. our daughter, loren, couldn't wait to be a big sister i was getting ready for her fourth birthday party when something did feel right to emergency rooms sent me away because of louisiana's abortion ban, no one would confirm that i was miscarrying i was in pain bleeding so much. my husband feared for my life no woman should experience what i endured. but to many have they write to me saying, what had been a, you happen to me. sometimes there are miscarrying, scared to tell anyone even their doctors our daughters deserve better america deserves better kamala

harris and tim walz will fight for reproductive rights in our freedom and our shared future growing up i was an all-american girl varsity soccer captain cheerleading captain, homecoming queen and survivor i was raped by my stepfather after years of sexual abuse at age 12 i took my first pregnancy test and it was positive that was the first time i was ever told you have options i can't imagine not

having a choice but today, that's the reality for many women and girls across the country because of donald trump's abortion bans he calls it a beautiful thing what is so beautiful about a child having to carry her parents child there are other survivors out there who have no options and i want you to know that we see you we hear you harris sign a national law to restore the

right to an abortion she will fight for every woman in every girl even those who are not fighting for her now i am honored to introduce another champion for women a leader who has fought for me and for so many others governor andy beshear e duvall is one of the

bravest people i've ever met i'm amazed at the courage it takes to share her pain to share her truth. >> yet donald trump brags about tearing a constitutional right away from hadley and every the other woman and girl in our country that's why we must tear away any chance. he can ever be president ever again in 21 states trump's actions have resulted in extreme bans on

abortion in my state, even in cases of rape incest and non-viable pregnancies that leaves 12-year-old girls like hadley with no options that fails any test of humanity any test of basic decency any test of whether you have any underlying empathy. thankfully, this extremism is being soundly rejected. all over our country in kentucky. >> we put reproductive freedom on the ballot last november and i'll beat donald trump and mitch mcconnell's handpick candidate by more than five percentage points this november, we're going to beat them again kamala harris and

tim walz. and protect reproductive freedom folks donalds trump appointed the supreme court justices who got us into this mess. his project 2025 goes even further here's the thing trump and vance simply don't believe in your freedom trump says people are absolutely thrilled that women had their basic rights eliminated j.d. vance says, women should stay in violent marriages the pregnancies resulting from rapes are simply inconvenience their policies give rapist more rights than their victims that's not inconvenient and a woman grieving a non-viable pregnancy

shouldn't be required to carry it to term just to listen to her child die or to hear no sound at all all women should have the freedom to make their own decisions freedom over their own bodies freedom about whether to pursue ivf freedom, about whether to have children at all how we treat people transcends party lines it goes right to the heart of who we are my faith teaches me the golden rule that i'm to love my neighbor as myself in the parable of the good samaritan says, we are all each other's neighbors so i want anyone watching tonight republican independent, democrat to know that you are welcome here. we

believe in an america where we live out, our vote now u.s in anger politics once and for all and move beyond this, us versus them by remembering we are all american yes that's how joe biden and kamala harris lead they both called to ask how they could help kentucky in recovering from natural disasters. they helped us improve our roads. our bridges. and invested in our people they didn't ask me who kentuckian's voted for. they asked me what kentuckian's needed and folks, they delivered kamala harris gets it she knows we must move beyond anger, extremism, and division.

that everyone has dignity and deserves respect america we're going to win and we're going to win by staying true to our values of compassion, empathy, and doing right by our neighbors. i'm so proud to be all in for the next president of the united states kamala harris. thank you please welcome georgia senator raphael warnock america thank you so

very much. on january 5 5, 2021 the people of georgia did an amazing thing. >> they said a black kid who grew up in public housing the jewish son of an immigrant to the united states senate in one fell swoop among those

georgians was my then 82-year-old mother she grew up in waycross, georgia. do you know where that is his way? across georgia? >> she grew up in waycross, georgia where she picked other people's cut another people's tobacco but because this is america, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else's continent, somebody else's tobacco, picked her youngest son to be a united states senator this is my american thank you, mom thank

you. >> georgia thank you, america for raising your voice and you using your vote a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children, and our prayers are stronger when we pray together so together together, we flip the senate hell the. house and we said, joe biden and kamala harris to the white house together together. >> we vaccinated our citizens. we florida five our cities and our terms, and we stood by our small oh, businesses together, we set out to heal the land a,

nation besieged by a deadly pandemic and beset by the awful and divisive rhetoric of a man too small for the office in trusted him or the task set before it the day after my january 5 election he instigated an insurrection a violent assault on our nation's capital and the peaceful transfer of power all driven by the big lie but behind the big lie wasn't even bigger live it is the lie that this increasingly diverse american electorate does not get to determine the future of the country the law and the

logic of january 6 is a sickness it is a kind of cancer that ben metastasized into dozens of voter suppression laws all across our country and we must be vigilant tonight because these anti democratic forces are at work, right now in georgia and all across our country. and the question is who will heal the land and so here we are, america, or you read it you're ready to stand up in this moral moment stand up for the best in the american covenant elections are about the character of a country and

we must disarm again, we are the latest generation of americans who get to decide what kind of country we want to be and we must choose between the promise of january 5 and the peril january 6 a nation thatmbraces a nation that embraces all of us, or just some of us donald trump's america is the america of january 6, people who have no vision are traffic, and division he does not know how to lead us and so he wants to divide us. america make no mistake. donald trump is a plague on the american conscience he is a fresh, he is

a clear and present threat to the press, just covenant we share with one another and yes, i saw him. i saw him holding the bible and endorsing a bible as if it needed his endorsement he's your trial reading it it says do justice love kindness, and walk humbly with your god. he should try reading it. it says loved and may neighbor as yourself it's has him as much as you've done until the least of these, you have done at all. so onto me the american

covenant you pluribus unum out of many one, i choose january 5, i choose a nation that provides a path ordinary people and goods every child a chance and that's joe biden's america and he's been fighting for it for more than i half century president biden, america is so much better because of you are true patriot who has always put the people first thank you john thank you.

there's no not only is that joe biden's america, that's kamala house is america she was leading with joe biden when we expanded the child tax credit, cutting child poverty in america merely in we ought to renew it she cast the tie-breaking vote for my bill, capping the cost of insulin to no more than $35 per month. for seniors we ought to extend it to everybody together. we passed and infrastructure bill bolstered american manufacturing and clean energy, energy and investment in the house that we all we'll share

together now got. news for you. we are just getting started the, wellness kamala harris and tim walz represent the new way forward we're going back going back because we are the united states of america, we always dream about the future and so far on women's reproductive rights, because we believe that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for a

woman, her doctor, and the united states government that's too many people in the room for workers the right. because most people do not man work and they just want to share the prosperity that they are creating. father's forward on voting rights on affordable housing access to health care. we moving forward so i'm inspired tonight i'm inspired by all of you i'm inspired by the resilience of an american spirit that is rebounded from the pandemic and is holding at bay the forces that are trying

to divide us. >> and i'm inspired tonight by the memory of my late father a preacher me jump man monday through friday he lifted all broken cars and put them on the back of an old rig what on sunday morning, the man who lived at broken cars lifted broken people whom other people had discard it and told him that day what god somebody my dad discovered strengthen the broken places a p.o.w. it made perfect in weakness and so i'm convinced tonight that we can lift the broken even as we climb i'm convinced that we can kill sick bodies. we can heal the wounds that divide us we can kill a planet in peril.

we can heal the land and then a strange way in a. strange way the pandemic taught us how a contagious airborne disease means that i have a personal stake in the health of my neighbor if she's sick, i may get sick. also, her health care is good for my health angus trying to tell you that we are as close in our humanity as a call i need my neighbor's children to be okay. saw that my children will be okay. i need all of my neighbors children so be okay in a city of children in atlanta and poor

children of ap malaysia need the children of israel and the court children gaza need israelis and palestinians goals in the cargo for the tractor be okay let's yes god bless you. >> please. welcome. >> delaware senator chris coons

good evening, good evening, america good evening. chicago. are there any democrats? in the room tonight we are on the verge of making history we are on the verge of an historic election and i want to talk with you for just a few minutes about my dear friend, hour president joe biden joe biden's mom had a sane you are defined by your courage and you're redeemed by your loyalty four years ago, i had the honor of helping introduce joe biden to our national convention i spoke about joe's faith his love of family, his

determination to restore the soul of our nation back in 2020. >> america was nearly flat on our back from a deadly pandemic and economic collapse and then in january and assault on our democracy all of us all of this because the drama and chaos of our former president had knocked us down but folks joe biden's courage joe biden's faith in us. joe biden's determination to heal the soul of our nation gave us hope and gave us confidence someone who has himself been knocked down by life, time. >> and again joe biden knows the brits and determination of

the american people. he believed in us. and joe biden helped us get back up again. using the incredible skills he developed in many years in the u.s. senate joe got passed and signed into law. the most consequential legislation of any president in 60 years helping our veterans advancing gun safety cutting prescription drug prices fighting climate change rebuilding bridges and broadband bringing manufacturing back to america together. joe and kamala help rebuild our economy from the middle up from the bottom-up and the middle out, not from the top down. and they made our families safer and our country

stronger at home and abroad today we are so much better off because they believed in us and our democracy and. our incredible first lady, jill biden are incredible first lady jill biden all are incredible first lady, jill biden was that jerk? so side every step of the way fighting for education advancing the cancer moonshot, determined to improve women's health care. honoring military families joe and jill together, you have done so much for us. and there's so much more you will do. and we can do together mr. president thank you thank

you. for elevating a great leader in kamala harris vice president harris. thank you for choosing a great running mate with a heart for the middle class like yours? >> in sargent congressmen, coach governor tim walz i have hope. >> do you have do you? >> do you is in no small part because of joe biden i have never known a more compassionate man than joe biden i have never known a man who has taken from his own los and his own faith and delivered

so much for the future so many others mr. president mr. president you were mine, senator as a delawarean you are my president as an american, and you will always be my friend on behalf of our nation, joe for your courage in fighting for our democracy. we thank you on behalf of our democratic party for your loyalty in fighting for our democratic values. >> we thank you and on behalf of delaware. thank you, joe and god bless you we love you.

>> we love joe joe joe we love thank you all. >> we love joe. god bless you and thank you very much hi i'm 15 where? well, name of fourth-grade student and chris mccollum. i've been dancing around all week, excited for this this moment. last night, i can barely sleep i remember the day that we heard that president biden had won and the whole neighbourhoods started celebrating. when i heard you were coming out i really wanted to meet you i adore you because

you embrace change from my generation and the ones to come i look up to you now it is, my honor the new introduce our first lady, dr. jill biden please welcome first lady of the united states jill biden

thank you thank you. >> thank you so much. love you too joe and. >> i have been together for almost 50 years still there are moments when i fall in love with him all over again like when i handed him our baby, ashley for the first time. and saw this smile that lit up his

face or on nights after an exhausting day in working in the senate, when he would read one more bedtime story, just because the kids asked when he stuffs on a rope line because he sees someone grieving who needs to know that everything is going to be all right one day or to encourage that child with a stutter to find the confidence she needs those moments when i'm reminded of all he's accomplished in the name of something bigger than himself receiving the medal of freedom with you melody placing his hand on our family bible to take his oath of office and

weeks ago when i saw him dig deep into his soul and decide to no longer seek reelection and endorsed kamala harris with faith and conviction. >> joe knows that our nation's strength doesn't come from intimidation or cruelty it comes from the small acts of kindness that heal deep wounds from service to the communities that make us who we are trump glove of a country that shines with promise and renewal kamala harris knows that too our son,

beau first word his kamala when he was attorney general of delaware told me dinner table one night, mom she's special. someone to keep your eye on and he was right you and i know kamala, we have seen her courage, her determination, and her leadership up close kamala and tim you will win you are inspiring. >> i knew generation we are all

a part of something bigger than ourselves. and we are stronger than we know the future of our country is in the hands of those in this room. and all of you watching at home it's going to take all of us and we can't afford to lose with faith in each other. hope for brighter future. and love for our country we will fight and we will win to gather please

welcome first daughter, ashley biden good evening i have this memory. >> it's the eve of my eighth birthday dad is still in dc tending to urgent matters in the senate that night. >> as a deprives mom told me, beau and hunter to get in the car i remember pulling up to the wilmington amtrak station riding up the escalator to the platform. the train stopped doors open, and dad steps out as soon as i saw him, i run down that platform in jump into his arms like magic.

>> mom brought out a cake. they sang happy birthday and i blew out the candles dead, hugged me and he said that he had to get back to work he crossed to the southbound train and off he went to dc that was a snapshot of one moment of one day on this extraordinary journey of being joe biden's daughter joe biden is the og girl dad he told me i could be anything i could do anything as a child, i would sit on the leather chair in his office during my homework and he would sit next to me doing his work drafting the violence against women act

any wasn't just a girl dad i could see any wasn't just a girl dad. >> i could see that he valued and trusted women how he listened to his mother, how he believed in his sister and most of all, how he respected my mother's career dad was always there doing everything he could to be a true partner to her dad. you always tell us, but we don't tell you enough that you are the love of our lives and the life of our lives. love i

had my wedding reception in my parents backyard all right at the time, my dad was vice president but he was also that dad who literally set up the entire reception he was riding around in his john deere four wheeler fixing the place settings, arranging the plants. and by the way, he was very i thought that i would be a mess, but he was the one crying and i was the one who had to comfort him before you walk me down the aisle he turned to me and said that he would always be my best friend all these years later, dad, you are still my best friend his example in service inspired my career. >> i'm a social worker in philadelphia i support formerly

incarcerated women as they heal from past drama and they reclaim their lives dad always told me that i was no better than anybody else and nobody was better than me he taught me that everyone deserves a fair shot and that we shouldn't leave anyone behind that's what you learn from a fighter who has been underestimated his entire life when i look at dad, i see race, strength, and humility. i see one of the most consequential leaders ever in history. and i also know that he never stops thinking about,

you about your dreams about your dignity, about your opportunities, about your family dad knows that family is everything when hunter and i lost our brother, beau to cancer in 2015 the grief and the pain felt like it might never and dad had the capacity to step out of his own pain and absorb are and i know that bow is here with us tonight as he is always with that after vote passed i got this tattoo on my wrist. it says courage, dear heart a reminder to myself to keep going, to get backed up. like my dad has always done he

is taught me that it courageous heart is a miraculous thing. a courageous heart can heal a family a courageous heart can heal a nation. and maybe even the world and now this election wires the courageous parts of all of us in 2020, my dad selected kamala harris to beat donald trump and he knows in 2024, she will beat donald trump again so tonight, i am asking you if you stood with dust in 2020, call upon your courageous heart. >> stand with us today. work

harder than you have ever worked before in your life? this is the fight of our lifetime. >> our freedom, our democracy, our reproductive rights all of this all of it is on the ballot. >> and i know together we can do this because my dad helped show us the way and now, i would like to introduce my father you're 46th president of the united states joe biden

all right

thank you.

>> thank you my daughter all right. thank you for my

daughter god. >> love you red or direction my courageous heart wall, hunter entire. >> family and especially iraq. jill those of you who she still leads me both breathless and speechless everybody knows her. i love her more genes tell me he walks down the stairs and i still get that going. boom, boom, boom you know, be no, not kidding. let's give a special round of applause. our first lady, jill biden my dad my dad

used to have an expression for real joey, families the beginning, the middle, and the end and i love you all an, america i love, you let me ask you let me ask you are ready to

vote for freedom we're ready to vote for democracy and for america let me ask you, are ready to elect kamala harris and tim my fellow democrats my fellow americans nearly four years ago can wager on the steps of the capital on a cold january day i raised my right hand and i swore an oath to you and you've god to preserve protect, and defend the constitution and the faithfully

execute the office of the president united states front of me in front of me was the city surrounded by the national guard behind me a capital. >> there's two weeks before he bowled over overrun by violent mob what i knew that from the bottom of my heart that i do now there is no place in america for political violence none you cannot say you love your country only when you win that moment i was looking to the past i was looking to the future. i spoke to the work at hand but mobile, we had to me

it was i told you then a winter of peril and possibility a peril and possibility where the grip of a once in a century pandemic historic joblessness a call for racial justice long overdue and present threat to our very democracy. thank you i believe i believe now the progress was in his possible justice as it cheveux on our best days are not behind us.

>> therapy for us now it's summer winter is passed and we're grateful heart i stand before you now on this august night to report that democracy is prevail democracy democracy has delivered and now democracy must be preserved you've heard me fed before we're facing an inflection point 0.1 of those rare moments in history when the decisions we make now will determine the fate of our nation and the world for

decades to come, i start hyperbole. >> i mean, literally we're in a battle for the soul of america i ran for president in 2020 because what i saw in charlottesville in august of 2017 extreme coming out of the woods carrying torches their veins bulging from there next carry, nazi swastikas and can do the same exact anti semitic bile that was heard and germany in the early 30s neo-nazis white supremacist the ku klux klan so emboldened by a president then in the white house but they saw as an ally they didn't even bother to wear their hoods hey, who was on the march in america?

>> oh, gross in new garments stirring up the oldest divisions stoking the oldest fears give me an oxygen to the oldest forces that they've long sought to tear apart america and process a young woman was killed my contact her mother asked about what happened. >> she told me when the president was asked what he thought had happened, donald trump said, and i quote there are very fine people on both sides my god that's what he said. that is what he said and what he meant that's what i realized had listened to the admonition my dead son, i could not stay on the sidelines

sorry. desired. no intention of running again? i just lost part of my soul when i ran with a deep conviction. in america i know and believe and then america where honesty dignity, decency still matter and america where everyone has a fair shot. and hey, has no safe harbor in america where the, amount created this station that all of us are created equal is still very much alive and a broad coalition of americans joined with me at million voters voted for us time in history because of all

of you in this room and others, we came together in 2020 to save democracy as your president. i've been determined to keep america moving forward not going back to stand against hate and violence in all its forms to be nation where we not only live with but thrive on diversity demonize he no one leaving, no one behind and become a nation. and we profess to be i also ran to rebuild the backbone of america the middle class i made a commitment to eu that'd be

present for all americans whether you voted for me or not we have done that study show the major bills we are passed actually delivered board or red states than blue because the job of the president is delivered to the americans because of you i'm not exaggerated because of, you we've had a lot of those extraordinary for years of progress ever period i mean, cropland me yes. thank you. bother curl would no longer controls our lives we got from economic crisis to the strongest economy the entire world record 60 million jobs,

record small growth record high stock market record high for one k's wages up inflation down, way down and continuing to go down the smallest racial wealth gap in 20 years and yes we both know we have more to do but we're moving in the right direction for america's at peace of mind it comes from having health insurance. more americans have health insurance today than ever before in american history and after as a young senator, beginning to fight you got into flight for 50 years to give medicare power to negotiate lower prescription

drug prices we finally beat big pharma and guess you cast the tie-breaking vote vice president shouldn't be president kamala harris now it's the law of the land instead of paying $400 a month for insulin and senior to diabetes will pay 35 a month the law was passed already. >> closing started in january. every seniors total prescription costs can be kept at 2000 no matter how expensive the drugs they have well, we don't focus on and our republican friends don't seem to understand dan hard for him, don't just save seniors money. they say the american taxpayers money know we just passed safe

to said the hundred and $60 billion over the next decade that's not hyperbole is because medicare no longer has to pay those exorbitant prices big pharma thank you. >> kamala how could we have the strongest economy in the world? without the best infrastructure in the world donald trump promised infrastructure week. every week for four years and he never build a thing and now because of com live done

remember we were told we couldn't get it done. remember when he came into office, we couldn't get anything passed but right now, give america and infrastructure decade not weak we're modernizing our roads or bridges, our porch, or for its are trades are bustling rebuild, read every lead pipe from schools and homes. so every child can drink clean water rodney, the affordable high-speed internet. for every american nevada where they live on like not unlike would roosevelt did with electricity and, so much more we are uniting a country we're growing our economy improving our quality of life and we're building a better america disaster. we are probably be

the strongest nation in the world now, leading the world and science and technology after years and 40, 90% of our semiconductor chips from abroad which america invented. those chips our chips and science act meant to private companies from around the world are now investing literally tens of billions of dollars to build new chip factories right here in america though craig, tens of thousands the jobs in may, those jobs in the so-called fabs the building that make the chips had been constructed now. and guess what? >> the average salary those fabs size of a football field will be over $100,000 a year and you don't need a college degree because if you did so

many electeds out there american manufacturers back where they'll say, we wouldn't lead the world of manufacturing hundred thousand new manufacturing jobs all republican friends and others made sure they go abroad to get the cheapest labor we used to import products and export jobs now we export american products and creating american jobs right here are jobs belong with every new job whatever you do, fractured pride and hope is being brought back to communities throughout the country that were left behind. >> you know, you're from and many of you, you know what

it's like when that factory closed or your mother, your father, your grandmother, grandfather work. and now you're back providing once again, proving the wall street didn't build america the middle class built america and unions unions built the middle class it's been my views as i came to the senate that's why i'm proud. to have been the first president to walk a picket line it'd be lego most pro union president in history. >> and i accept the good news. >> do well we all do well you

gotta you got it i'm proud member joel, we couldn't get anything done because we couldn't get anything done in congress well, we're their support we passed the most significant climate law in the history of mankind $370 billion cutting carbon emissions. in half by 2030 launch into climate corps similar in america or peace corps trading tens of thousands of jobs for young people in the future. we're going to make sure this continues hundreds of thousands

of jobs in clean energy for american workers go to the ibew, installing 500,000 500,000 charging stations the process reducing carbon emissions and we're seeing it we're seeing to it that the first beneficiaries environmental initiatives are those fenceline communities that have been smothered by the legacy of pollution louisiana in delaware road nine all factors, all those chemical factors are right next to the poorest neighborhoods they're the ones we're going to bring back and how awfully be the greatest nation in the world about the best education system

in the world donald trump at a republican friends then not only can think they can't read very well sir, if you think about it look at their project 2025 want to do away with the part of education during the pandemic common-law help states and cities get back there scholes back open and we gave public school teachers a raise we traded apprenticeships his businesses communities, put his students on a path of good play job whether or not they go to college i by the way, we're making college a hell a lot more affordable. crazy, brands by $900 over $15 billion to hbcus already serving hispanic

institution and travel collagen recap our provide more student relief than ever by lifting the burden of helping millions of families. so they could get married, start a family, buy a home, and began to bill family wealth, a contributor to the community and grow our economy it's not costing us greatly more wealth we fundamentally transformed. how are transformed? our economy grows from the middle out and the bottom up. you said as the top down you know my dad, you said that wasn't a whole hell a lot to dropped down my kitchen table at the end of the month i come from beijing, middle-class family. three-bedroom house for kids, grandpop living with us decent neighborhood but never a penny to spare and looked at

top-down notion. never work a lot of democrats didn't get worse, but both thought it worked, but it doesn't when we did all that what we've done everybody can do well. everybody donald trump calls america failing nation i'm sure think about this think about this he publicly says that the whole world, i'm going to say something outrageous. i know more foreign leaders by their first names and know them weldon, anybody live? >> that's because i'm so old when i'm not joking they get a message he sends around the world when he talks about america being a fairly nation he says, we're losing he's the loser. >> he's dead wrong many of you

are very successful people who traveled the world named mia, country in the world that doesn't think we're the leading nation in the world without america. not a joke. think about it. i mean literal who could lead the world rather than united states of america guess what? america is winning in the world is better off for it america, more prosperous. america are safe here today than runner donald trump trump continues to lie about crime in america. like everything else guess what on his watch. >> there murder rate went up 30%. >> the biggest increase in history meanwhile, we made the largest investment common lie in public safety ever now, the

murder rate is falling faster than a time in history. violent crime has dropped to the lowest level of more than 50 years and crime okay. keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the oval office, instead of a convicted felon folks singly senator from the sea, senator from california. and i fast. the, first ban on assault weapons and guess what? it works if we care about public safety we need to prevent gun violence it makes me a ashamed when i've traveled the world, which i do two more children in america are killed by a gunshot

than any other cause in the united states more die from a bullet than cancer accidents, ready to yell and the united states in america my god that's like common higher proud we beat the nra when we pass the first major bipartisan gun shade grand, 30 years i'm sure it that comes from there and now it's time to bet and assault weapons again and demand universal background checks it's hard i never thought i'd stand before a crowd of democrats refer to a president and is a liar so many times no i'm. >> not trying to be funny it's sad trump continues to lie

about the border here's what he won't tell you. trump killed the strongest bipartisan border deal on the history united states now, we negotiated with senate republicans, took four months, four weeks once it passed and never acknowledged those expansive border change in american history he called senators to say, don't support the bipartisan bill he said it would help me politically and hurt him politically. my god i'm serious. think about it. not a job asking you in the press, who doesn't like me, they'll tell you that's true typically trauma. once again putting himself first and america last then i had to take

executive action result of the executive action i took border encounters have dropped over 50% in fact, there are fewer border crossing today than when donald trump left office and unlike trump we will not demonize immigrants saying that a poison, the blood of america or isn't the blood of our country kamala are committed to strengthening illegal immigration including protecting dreamers and more and here's what so i believe in protecting your freedom your freedom to vote your afraid rule, love who you love you're, freedom to choose it's decision

over. attorney roe v wade. as you heard earlier than i united states supreme court majority wrote the following quote women are not without electrical were not allowed because there's not without electoral electoral or political power no, kidding niagara republic has found out the power of women in 2022 donald trump is going to find out the power of women in 2024 number trump maga republicans, right?

>> where's seek to erase history we democrats who continued to write history and make more history i'm proud i'm proud to have kept my commitment to appoint the first black woman to the united states supreme court he brown. jackson the civil forever young woman in america as you could do anything i'm proud i've kept my commitment to having administration that looks like america and taps in both town of our nation most diverse cabinet in history including the first black woman and south asian descent to serve as vice president i will serve as the 47th president, united states