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democratic national convention while they just completed their roll call and they have nominated coach walz and me to be the next vice president and president of the united states

everyone, they're in here we're believing in what we can do together we are so honored to be your nominees. >> this is a people-powered campaign we will chart new way freedom some opportunity of optimism and faith. so to everyone in chicago and across america. thank you. thank you. >> and you're going to hear from our wonderful second gentleman shortly i'll see you in two days chicago please welcome. tv personality, loud and proud, latina all right.

it's an exciting time here for the delegates in the united center, our kaitlan collins is on the floor. kaitlan yeah, jake and when governor gavin newsom, who of course was the last one to go to put california over the top with vice president harris there. >> what does this moment mean? i mean, you have known vice president harris for 30 years. what does this moment mean? >> look, it's it's remarkable you've kind of pinch yourself who were just two people with mutual friends having dinner. none of us even imagined we'd be in politics. the idea that i'd be here today announcing those born and 82 votes that she's the nominee for the party's is surreal and just obvious point of pride. would appoint privilege and what an opportunity to showcase someone who's next level of talent. that's out now of the shadow of being vice president has a chance to shine you obviously speak to her often. >> what is she saying about what this last month has been like? this moment has been like burr i don't know that she's

even had a chance to process. i don't think any of us few of us have had a chance to process the last three weeks, let alone last 3.5 years to be candid with the army covid, and all the stress, the polarization that we're all experiencing. so look, this is a sprint she recognizes what's at stake and she recognizes, you got to stay on the offense. got to stay on the offense every single day and every single way. no one no one is denying what's on the other side. but look, no one has also denied the choice. this is daylight and darkness. and the contrast couldn't be more acute and it's a beautiful thing to watch. i mean, this the beautiful thing to watch donald trump spinning. he doesn't know what to do. he doesn't know how to do it, but he will ultimately land somewhere. and that's why we also have to be humble as it relates to what's in front of us in the next few months. >> and we just saw where she is. that's in milwaukee republicans just had their convention. that is exactly where they just showed vice president harris on stage. why do you think he hasn't been able to figure out how to go up

against her so a lot of theories i have my own humble one. i don't think he ever imagined this would happen. i don't think you imagine what happened so quickly. i don't think he imagined we would consolidate as a party. so quickly and i don't think he also imagined the one intangible. there's a sense of spirit and pride. there's the intangible the thing that sort of defies the policy positions of the delicate count there's a sense of energy that's beyond just these or walz. you see it out there? he'll out there. and that energy is impacting donald trump and it's impacting the people around them that are now openly expressing concern, but are openly offering advice to a president is not easily, well, not obviously to take advice. so i just think it's interesting moment but it's a moment in the question is, is it a movement beyond this convention? and that's why i think as democrats, we can't take anything for granted. >> governor gavin newsom, thank you for that, jake, back to you. >> all right. kaitlan collins. thank you so much. >> it was good to hear tupac

one when california was moved casting the final delegates and bringing the nomination to kamala harris. >> and i will say as much as the first night was logistically problematic. the democrats are doing a very good job of exciting the crowd here. normally roll calls are pretty boring and awful and that one, especially with some oh, cameos from john ashton and eva longoria and a little john now of course. not to mention all of course, the governors and mayors really had the crowd on their feet there's no question that this is a room. >> this is a party that wants to party they're just they're feeling it. even without the dj, even without the music assigned to different states the people here are so desperate two to have their nominee to rally around their nominee and have their nominee be the person out there because they'd like her. but also

because of who she's running again, i think the theme of tonight is 2008 energy that's what when biden adviser told me on the air earlier today with barack obama and michelle obama coming. they wanted to, they need to amp this place up to kinda capture that feeling that a lot of people last felt back in 2008 when they were about to do something historic i think that that is where people are right now. you saw so many of the states that was one of the top things mentioned the history that would be made with vice president harris if she were to be elected and this is a room full of people who are more than ready for that moment to happen, not just for her as a black woman in the south asian woman, but for her as a woman in general, for the united states to finally meet that mouth. >> the fact that she was in wisconsin jake? >> yeah. >> this one of the states that they asked desperately need and also going back to 20161, that hillary clinton didn't visit it's really telling reporting strategically now, absolutely.

>> they're certainly paying a attention to the blue wall states. michigan and pennsylvania, and wisconsin. of course, let's listen in. senate majority leader chuck schumer, democrat from new york. >> speaking now everybody wasn't that a great role now, just left let me hear you. if you're ready for president kamala harris we're here to talk about one thing tomorrow. and building a better tomorrow for all americans. this november. we can choose a brighter a fairer, freer future

or we can relive that dark night of trump's american carnage only one candidate will move america forward. kamala harris vice president harris has been the best partners senate democrats, could ever have asked for under her under her and president biden's leadership senate democrats lowered prescription drug prices and created millions, millions of good paying american jobs i worked with kamala harris it's when she was senator harris. i saw leader who is fearless who stood up for middle-class families like the one she was raised in who focused on things that really mattered helping parents raised their kids safe

neighborhoods safe schools and building an opportunity economy that gives everyone a shot at the american dream she will lead america forward into a brighter future but she can't do it alone. she needs that democratic majority in the senate it of the united states now, my friends two years ago two years ago? the naysayers said senate democrats should stood no chance in the midterms i told them just you wait we're going to pick keep the senate and maybe pick up a seat or two. and that's exactly what happened well, ladies and gentlemen, my good friends at this convention i am telling

all of you now, we're going to hold the senate again and we're poised to pick up seats a democratic majority to create good paying jobs and lower costs to defend a woman's right to choose deliver for communities back home are senators who are doing it. like jacky rosen, delivering high-speed real for nevada jon tester, bringing high cec jobs to montana and bobby chacon you see in sherrod brown and tammy baldwin and martin heinrich fixing bridges in pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin and cnn, new mexico we also have amazing candidates ruben gallego angelo

also brooks andy kim alyssa slotkin lisa blunt, rochester carlin, all read debby moved car, mucarsel-powell and folks listen to this war than half of our candidates are candidates of color we're making the senate looked like america now, let's compare that with senate republicans. senate republicans retain to care about middle-class families but they voted no on expanding the child tax stranded and j.d. vance didn't even show up to vote senate republicans, chips pretend to care about the border. but they voted no on the strongest border bill in a decade republicans tend take

care about freedom but they voted no on a woman's right to choose know to safeguard ivf no to birth control that is just a taste of their extreme agenda is that what we want for america? do we want a republican senate that assaults reproductive freedoms do we want a republican senate? it, that cuts taxes for the rich rigs, the game for big oil and big pharma well folks, the choice is out now, let me close let me close on a personal note as the highest ranking jewish elected official in american

history i want my grandkids and all grandkids to never, never face discrimination because of who they are but donald trump this is a guy who pedals anti-semitic stereotypes he even invited a white supremacist to mar a-lago and unfortunately, his prejudice goes in all directions he fuels islamophobia, an issued a muslim ban as president tonight, folks i am wearing this blue square to stand up to anti-semitism to stand up to all, hey our children grandchildren no matter their race, no matter their pre, their gender or family. >> does deserve better than

donald trump's american carnage so are you ready make sure donald trump never, ever gets near the white house? again so let's elect kamala harris, tim walz, and a democratic majority in the senate the. cave, the torch of freedom, burning bright for generations to come on to victory in november thompson heard, chuck schumer, senator bernie sanders, is coming up next. van jones there's a lot of republicans in the trump campaign he'd been trying to say that harris is to the left of bernie sanders. well she's not by the way, bernie sanders laughs exactly those everybody else so i just want to say kamala harris has put the party back in a democratic party. >> this was an extraordinary moment in terms of just the

people needed to get some release. and i've never seen who had on their bingo card that the biggest dance party of the summer would be the dnc. i don't think anybody had been guard bingo card. look, bernie sanders is leading an important movement in this party, but is not kamala harris movement and that will be clear tonight. is there a danger, david, i shot him having bernie sanders no, i don't think look, the truth is that bernie sanders is going to get up there and he's going to talk about economic issues. >> i'm sure that are very, very central to people in their lives. and that is his wheelhouse. and that's really what she's she you know, you can say and i'm sure scott will wash. she is running on bernie sanders platform if you know, raising the minimum wage and family leave and you know, child care tax credits and so on are that i think that's fine. i think that's going to be a real help to her and that's the focus she wants one of the takeaways from the trump years though, is that the

republican party instead? >> they've been looking at their autopsy and saying, here's how we need to change, here's how we appeal to the middle they ushered in the era of trump. and the idea was like, let's stick to our guns about what we believe. and that energy is going to draw more people in. this is a view of a democratic party that might be approaching things the same way that saying instead of being like, oh no, someone called me a liberal, you just say great, i'm going to own it. i'm gonna make it a party and maybe that will draw more people in. and that's a different posture from so many years of kind of like we need to compromise, we need to appeal. we need to move to the middle. it'll be interesting to see mean sanders being here is another affirmation of what republicans already think about her because of the way she ran for president before medicare for all friendly with defund the police permissive immigration restructure. >> the she ran on a lot of very, very progressive things. now, anonymous campaign sources. now say she's no longer for any of that, but for republicans. that's not going to be good enough it'll be

interesting to see them on the same debate stage. >> yeah, go have a conversation about this. sure thank you. fellow americans is on it is an honor to be with you tonight we go swelled, laying the groundwork become law howrah, to become our next president let me let me tell you why that is so important our watch all to remember where we were 3.5

years ago we are in the midst of the worst public health crisis in 100 years and the worst economic downturn since the great depression 3,000 americans were dying every today and our hospitals were overwhelmed with covid patients all across the country. >> businesses were shutting down unemployment was soaring workers were losing their health sure schools were closing state and city budgets. we're running out of money people were being evicted from from their homes children in

america, we're going hungry that was the reality. the biden-harris administration face as they entered the oval office a nation suffering a nation frightened and people looking to their government for support and within two months of taking office our government did respond we passed the american rescue plan, which provided $1,400 for every man, woman, and child in the working class we extended an expanded benefits for unemployment where

he provided emergency assistance for small businesses to stay open we guaranteed health care coverage to tens of millions of americans through one of the largest expansion of medicaid in history we've provided rent relief and mortgage assistance which prevented tenants and homeowners from being evicted we established emergency food programs for hungry children so drin and the elderly and protected the pensions of millions of union workers and retirees from being slashed by up to 60 65% oh, and by the

way, we cut childhood poverty by over 40% through it expanded child tax credit thank you, president biden thank you, vice president harris. thank you democratic congress now i, say all of this not to relive that difficult moment. but to make one simple point when the political will is there amid can effectively deliver for the people of our country and now we need to summon that rail again because too many of our

fellow americans are struggling every day to just get by to put food on the table to pay the rent. and to get the health they need brothers and sisters bottom line we need an economy that works for all but not jost the billionaire class my fellow when 60% about people live paycheck to paycheck the top 1% i have never, ever had it. so good at the oligarch's these oligarchs tell us we shouldn't tax the rich the oligarch's told us, we shouldn't take on

price gouging we shouldn't expand medicare to cover dental hearing and vision and we shouldn't increase social security benefits for struggling seniors well i've got some bad news for them that, is precisely what we are going to do and we're going to win this struggle because this is precisely what the american he people want from their government and my friends at the very top of that i had to do less is the need to get big

money out about political process billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections including primary elections for the sake of our democracy we must overturn the disastrous citizens united free quarter surgeon and move toward public funding of elections let me tell you what else we must do. we need to join the rest of the industrialized world and

guarantee health care to all people as a human right, not a prevalence we need we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage we need to pass the pro. so their work can organize again the decent pay and benefits they deserve we need to strengthen public education raise, teachers salaries and make sure that every american in regardless of income receives the higher-education he or she needs we need to take

on big pharma and caught our prescription drug costs in half though we no longer pay anymore than other countries. joe and kamala made sure that no senior in america pays over $35 a month for insulin we need to make sure that reality is true for every american i look forward to working with com lends him to pass this agenda and let us let's be very clear this is not a radical agenda but let me tell you what a

radical agenda is and that is trump's project 2025 at a time of mass civilian income and wealth inequality, giving more tax breaks to billionaires is radical putting forth budgets to cut social security, medicare, and medicaid is radical letting polluters to shry our planet is radical and my friends we won't let that at happened fellow americans in the last three-and-a-half years working together we have a accomplished more than any government since fdr what much,

much more remains to be done we must summon the courage to stand up to wealth and power and deliver justice for people at home and the abroad broad we must end this horrific war in gaza bring home the hostages and demand that immediate it's

fine at home, right here where you must take on big pharma big oil big big tech and all the other corporate monitor monopolists who is greed? he is denying progress for working people on november 5 let us sele, comeaw hris, as how president and let us go forward to create the nation. >> we know, we can become thank you all very much please welcome illinois governor jb

pritzker denmark welcome torshi american city in a proud blue state or patriotism was formed in frost and him fire in the still weak you forged to survive both our love of country has been a tapestry of faye that weaves from abraham lincoln reuniting a house divided. >> took barack obama declaring blue states and red states one

united states now, illinois presidential pedigree is on match and given that vice president kamala harris spent some of her early life right here, i speak for the entire illinois delegation when i say we claim to now. >> one precedent. we will never claim is the con artist, the republicans dominated in milwaukee last month donald trump once called chicago embarrassing check quota, great chicagoan, one sick world championships on these fairy grounds. we take that personally i had to govern for

two years while trump was president. let me tell you what's embarrassing in illinois, we passed a massive bill to fix our roads and bridges when donald trump proposed his own plan he turned right around and called it stupid we eliminated the grocery tax donald hasn't finished the grocery stores since his first bankruptcy illinois invested in clean energy in the job upset brings donald claim that windmills in the ocean made the whales a little baddie during covid covid, we supported small businesses and jobs. >> and donald well, donald told us to inject bleach donald

trump thinks that we should trust him on the economy because he claims to be very rich. but take it from an actual billionaire it's rich in only one thing stupidity meet with business leaders all the time and there's one universal thing they all need people. >> they need more workers to fill all the jobs they have but the anti-freedom, anti-family policies of maga republicans are driving workers away here's the thing americans don't want to be forced to drive 100 miles to deliver a baby because a draconian abortion law shut down the maternity city ward americans

what the hope of giving birth through ivf, not the fear that it might be taken can away americans with lgbtq kids don't want them facing discrimination at school because the state sanctioned dead americans want to go to their neighborhood grocery store and not have to worry about some random guy hi open carrying an ar 15 americans don't want there kids to be taught in history class that slavery was a jobs program and if americans are black or brown, they want to get promoted at work without being derided as a dei hire for the sin of being successful while not white let's be clear.

>> it's not woke that limits economic growth it's weird and these guys aren't just weird, they're dangerous democrats are for lower taxes the higher wages, less inflation and more business growth we just think it's wrong to craft those policies for elon musk and not forever three day working people that includes a secure retirement and good health care we think the government should help you prosper not police who you're sleeping with more than anything. democrats want economic policies that are kind, not a cruel but trump chooses cruelty every time

after all, everything he's achieved in his own life has been by hurting someone else kamala harris and tim walz. >> well, they've spent their lives lifting people up, not pushing them down they know that a white house smith leads with kindness, looks at someone who has struggling and seize, not what they might cost society but what they might create for it americans want policies that give him every american a chance so make it to the middle-class. they want to grow small businesses and democrats want to cut taxes for everyday people more than anything. kamala harris and tim walz want a country where we can all live with a little serenity the serenity that

comes with a balanced checkbook an affordable grocery bill, and a housing market that has room for everyone and if there's one thing i know about donald trump, he's not bringing anyone any kind of serenity we have a choice. america between the man who left our country a total mess and the woman who has spent four years there's cleaning it up and i think it's time we stop expecting women to clean masters without the authority and the tidal to match vice president was a good title for kamala harris, but, you know, an even better one president stay tough governor

of illinois, jb pritzker, we're heading into what may be an emotional high point in the night. >> second gentleman, doug emhoff, sharing his personal insights into kamala harris's his wife and stepmother in their blended family. and then the more key events, speeches by former first lady michelle obama, former president barack obama, stay right? right here. >> you see it all live. we'll be right back this fall comedy is coming cnn what could go wrong i got news for you. for me or saturday, september 14th at nine on cnn i.

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sharply done, there was a huge muscle flex of when the roll call was done going live to the arena where the republicans mentioned had taken place, where vice president harris and governor walz smoke? >> yeah, whatever the hiccups were last night, they've certainly addressed it here but this is the second consecutive convention where they've done really creative things with a roll call, which was it's usually buzzkill for viewers and so on the republicans threw it away and they're convention. so and the speeches are moving along. it seems like they're moving along in time which they didn't last night. and it's a well-conceived mix. it's interesting to hear the former chairman of american express and ceo following bernie sanders. >> well, you left out pritzker. i mean, that was that was what was the most amazing admitted. he goes to the ad sanders was out here trying to defenestrate all the billionaires and it's ladies and gentlemen, here it comes three-and-a-half billion

dollars. >> but of course he, he made the point and i'm a billionaire who understands what the proper role of government should be out. >> the duality of take it from a real billionaire, which was a pretty good line act. a broad party yet you had yet bernie sanders is view you've got one of the great titans of industry here. pritzker this the party that has room for you. if you want government to be strong and good, one business to be strong and good, one community be strong and good if you want faith to be strong and good, if you want strong and good, you're welcome here. and that's what you're seeing at night. but does sanders doesn't want i mean, he literally doesn't want the billionaires to this though. you know, we have a broad party reverberate in terms of what the obamas are going to do tonight. >> what do you attract? >> well, i think that they are going to in some subtle ways talking about the prospect of getting back to a positive people based sort of politics that unifies them instead of divides so i think that's going to be a lot of what they're

going to talk about. and i think they are going to talk a lot about middle-class economics. and michelle obama's father worked at the water filtration plant here for 37 years. she comes from the solid working class family and that's something that's in her bones. and she talks about a very persuasively barack obama as well from his own family experience. i think you're going to hear a lot about that, but i think you're going to hear about a coming together as a country. and instead of being torn apart, which i think is a hidden but important issue in this campaign. >> let's listen into the governor of new mexico, michelle lujan evening america and michelle lujan grisham, governor, the great state of new mexico and in. >> my state, we like things

spicy. >> a little chilly on everything, a little kick in our campus kane's. >> and let me tell you. we are feeling and foil ago right now we. >> are fired up to elect kamala harris, president of the united states this election is about protecting our democracy on securing our freedoms including the right two affordable quality, health care now this issue is personal to vice president harris, whose mom passed away after a battle with cole and cancer. >> and it's personal to me at two 2-years-old my sister was diagnosed with the tumor that was incurable and made her

uninsurable by the time she was three and it's personal to americans across the country who know what it's like when someone they love get sick. >> donald trump and j.d. vance want to dismantle our health care system repeal the affordable care act, and eliminate protect actions for bri existing conditions either these guys don't get it, or they just don't you know who gets it. >> kamala harris gets it. and she cares as the attorney general she took on drug companies that jacked up prices and hamas that overcharge patients and when republicans

dry, dick killed the affordable care act, she stood up in the senate voting not just no, but hell, no and harris hasn't just stopped republicans from making our health care system worse. she fights every day to make it better and i know i spent 20 years working to get medicare, the ability to negotiate lower drug prices as vice president, kamala harris delivered it you know like donald trump delivered junk plans, higher premiums, and abortion bans and if you don't think a second

term would be worse than i've got a box of trump stakes to sell oh, you we have not just a better choice america. we have the best choice yes, we do kamala harris will protect your right. take care she'll kept drug costs she'll go after corporate price gouging and ensure every woman who needs it can access reproductive health care that's the president. i want and that's the president america needs and with your help, that's the next president of the united states

president kamala harris the governor of new mexico, saying divided the crowd here it is now 10:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 p.m. central here in chicago. the prime time speech by second gentleman doug emhoff, is just a few minutes at the way and then closing out the convention tonight. former more first lady michelle obama, who will be followed by the former president barack obama, delivering the headliner address. let's go to kaitlan collins on the floor right now. she has some new reporting on the speeches so it will be given a buying mr. and mrs. obama, kaitlan, tell us what you're learning. >> yeah. jake, obviously, everyone is waiting for the obama's to take the stage. i am told they have arrived here after united center. they are preparing to go on stage back-to-back. and what i'm told is that leading up to them delivering these speeches tonight is they have been looking over each other's drafts, sharing them with one another, giving each other

digestion of what those speeches should look like tonight. obviously, we are going to see the former first lady who gave a very memorable speech at the last full in-person democratic convention in 2016 without memorable line when they go low, we go high. we'll see what she says tonight and then she will be followed by her husband, former president barak obama. they've been sharing drafts of those speeches with one on another as they prepare for this moment tonight. and obviously they've been closely involved with vice president harris since she became the top of the ticket in a very dramatic exit, of course, in prison isn't a biden from the ticket, just over a month ago, so we'll see how they make the case for her and her election here tonight. >> jake curricula collins, thanks so much. >> and, you know, they have known kamala harris since she was i think she was a san francisco district attorney in 2004 they have been friends and supportive of her. >> she has been supportive of the obamas specifically, then senator barak obama. she was door-knocking for him when he was running the president in 2008. this is a relationship

that's gone on for quite some time absolutely. >> i should say that i was told that his speech is net right now, clocking in at under 30 minutes. so for president obama, that's i pretty short speech. i think we went to listen to this video. >> okay. with his watch this video. it's called the fighter enough and i just had to laugh because i'm like you don't know my sister kamala had been a hard and tough prosecutor in let me to county prosecuting men who were pimping younger girls and raped this calmer wanted to make sure that murderers and child although abusers face meaningful accountability and consequences for those actions. >> one of the cases that she had early in her career here was wear a man had scalped his girlfriend and see ended up getting a conviction, getting justice for that woman she came

san francisco to protect victims and she was elected to be district attorney of san francisco comme la knew that we needed to be smart on crime and have hell no one else was going to do it that she was going to do it. i'm going to keep my promise to you to keep you safe. bet to talk with you about what i'm doing in terms of crime prevention investing in people coming out of prisons is the smart thing to do for law enforcement. forget that it's just the right thing that he was a young i'm kamala harris. she's only gotten more fierce i've never seen her backed down from a fight. and when she fights, she wins. >> when kamala became attorney general she wanted to protect people but also to fundamentally pursue justice being smart on crime stark with being tough on violent crime. in the statewide perspective, i think we were concerned about the rise of gang violence in

san joaquin county who saw this tremendous change in our community and it hit us like a wave. >> we saw an increase in human trafficking, narcotics, and guns. let it be clear here to anyone who had menace the state with violence to those who prey on the weak and the vulnerable. justice will be swift and certainly in the state of california, she was always hunting the kingpin's, but we didn't have partnerships with doj or fbi or dea or any of those law enforcement agencies. now, we all work collaboratively to help all the counties in california because of her destabilized organized crime disrupt these flows of guns. we human beings and narcotics. >> we're here this afternoon to announce the he shutting down of one of the biggest and most organized threats to the safety of the central valley. >> we think of her as fearless

fighter kamala just perseveres and mommy would say is too hard, is never an excuse, making excuses is a failure to not only take responsibility, but to take action. if you no c insurmountable please welcome the democratic nominee for senate in maryland angela also li me thank you people like usually make it to the united

states senate but they shoot am the proud granddaughter of a housekeeper, sara daisy raised her three children in a one-bedroom apartment it was her dream to work in government to help people that meant taking a typing test. >> but she didn't know how to type and she couldn't afford a tight rein so she put a white piece of paper on the refrigerator and drew a keyboard on it and every night she's so it in front of that refrigerator and taught herself to tie she took the test passed and got the job. she dreamed of her legacy and tonight i am a

candidate for united states senate from the great state of maryland i've always, been inspired by women like my grandmother women who imagine a better so future and then have the grit to make it a reality one of those women is a friend a mentor in a role model that woman is kamala harris let me tell you about kamala. >> i've known for 14 years i first heard about her in 2009 when i was running for state attorney in prince george's county maryland story in essence magazine about a district attorney in san

francisco using new ideas to keep her community safe few had a better record prosecuting violent crime. she put rapist child molesters, and murderers behind bars. >> but what she knew was that violent crime accounts for about 30% of all crimes. >> for the 70% that are nonviolent. >> she created a first of its program called back on track after serving time. >> and pleading guilty these low level offenders will get the job training ged, help in a apprenticeships they needed to find a job the result the recidivism rate plummeting now after reading about this super bad district attorney i talked non-stop

back on track two maryland and wouldn't you know, it crime went down an economic growth went up back on track, is now a national model cartels she bust big oil companies >> may pay for polluting. >> the big banks that she made. page

with your help she'll keep one out of the oval office ever since donald trump rode down that ridiculous escalator we, as a nation have felt trapped every national decision has been made in reaction to this one man

>> after ten years of struggling with infertility i was only able to have them through the miracle of ivf but now trump's anti woman crusade has put other americans right to have their own families at risk. because if they win republicans will not stop at banning abortion they will come for ivf next they'll prosecute doctors. they all shame and spy on women and if you that's far far-fetched, just looked up what happened in alabama last

year so let me say to every would be parent i see you i'm with you and together in november we'll set doctor's offices and work out of the oval office to my struggle with infertility was more painful than any wound. i earned on the battlefield. so, uh how dare a convicted felon like donald trump treat women seeking health care like they're the ones breaking the law how dare j.d,. vance criticized childless women on cable news

then then vote against legislation that would have actually helped americans to start families dare that gop endangered the dreams of countless veterans whose combat wounds prevent them from having kids without ivf punishing our heroes for their willingness to serve it's simple every american deserves the right to be called mommy or daddy without being treated like a criminal kamala harris believes that so let's make some history and her lecture in november, god bless america

this is my. >> dad he was raised and jersey moved to l.a. when he was 16 these are his parents are urban mic they think he walks on water this is what he wore. >> do his prime, it's fine here's him at summer camp. they voted him most athletic. >> so he says this is a photo mcdonald's years to when he was employee of the month and having on our wall for years i'd add as a lawyer a really good one imam called him the crisis guy because he was everyone's first call. my parents split when i was in middle school and that wasn't easy that's not easy for any kid but it helped them.

>> my parents stayed friends and we all kept hanging together meager, closer than ever and then he met kamala to blind date, that would dramatically change all of our lives forever. it was my senior year of high school. ella and i would laugh watching them fall in love acting like teenagers in 2014, kamala became momala she took over sunday night dinners and taught doug how to actually cook our blended family wasn't use to politics or the spotlight. but when kamala became senator we were all excited to step up, especially my dad. then comma became vice president it felt like dead was a bit out of place on capitol hill i thought what is my goofy dad doing here he embraced it he left his practice after being a lawyer for 30 years. that was tough i

was so proud to watch him do it to stand by her side. an example of true partnership i just gotten married myself, and he's inspired me as a new husband. anyone who really gets close to him knows he's kind loving and fiercely protective. i mean, just look at this this is my dad the first second gentleman in the history of this nation found his voice you have no choice but to speak up and speak out. there is an epidemic of hate including a crisis of anti-semitism in our country and around the world. but they are doing on reproductive freedom and freedom in general is just outrageous. >> and next, he's going to make history again. the first, first gentleman i can't wait for

everyone to get to know why we love the glue keeps this family together we might not look like other families in the white house but we are ready to represent all families in america please welcome. >> my dad the second gentleman of the united states doug emhoff i guess he didn't want

me to give this speech. >> she's thank you. thank you so much. >> hello. >> thank you hello to my big, beautiful blended family up there. i love you so much. aren't you proud of coal? wow special shout out to my mother i see my mother is the only person in the whole world who thinks kamala's the lucky one for marrying me and two comma who well, we just saw where she is. >> she's out on the trail listening to and talking with

voters jaime. i can't wait for you to come back to chicago because we're having a

>> and thanks to thanks to a partial scholarship student loans and a little help from my dad, i got myself through law school and i got my first time as a lawyer which is also where

i met the guys in my fantasy football league and a lot has changed in our lives since the early 90s. but my team name is still nirvana yes. after the ban i worked hard and i love being a lawyer. and by the way, i still get to be part of the profession by teaching stored students at georgetown law school i got married became a dad to colon, ella unfortunately, went through a divorce, but eventually started worrying about how i would make it all work and that's when something unexpected happened in 2013, i walked into a contentious client meeting we worked through the issue and by the end of the meeting, the now happy pirate offered to set me up on a blind date which is how

i ended up with kamala harris is phone number now for generations people have debated when to call the person you're being set up with and never in history as anyone suggested

>> or maybe it was that

saturday night when i picked her up and told her buckle up, i'm a really bad driver you can't hide anything from camila harris, so you might as well own it and as i got to know her better and just fell in love fast i learned what drives comma and it's what you've seen over these past four years. >> and especially these past four weeks she finds joy and pursuing justice she stands up to bullies just like my parents taught me to she likes to see people do well. but hates when they're treated unfairly she believes this work requires a basic curiosity and just how people are doing her empathy is her strength over the past decade comma has connected me

more deeply to my faith. even though it's not the same as hers she comes to synagogue with me for high holiday services and i go to church with her for easter i get to enjoy her mom's chile reno recipe every christmas. and she makes a mean brisket for passover it brings me right back to my grandmother's apartment in brooklyn. you know, the one with the plastic covered couches oh career she's the one who encouraged me. >> a second gentleman it take up that fight, which is so personal to me. those of you who belong to blended families know that they can be a little complicated. but as soon as our kids started calling her mom, ola i knew we'd be okay ella.

ella fossa say three headed parenting machine comma and kirsten. thank you both thank you both for always putting your family and the kids first now, colon ellis, friends knew that when they come over for sunday dinner with mama it was gonna be real time in-between taking cooking instructions, they'd have to answer questions about what problem they wanted to solve in the world they learned that you've always got to be prepared because comma is going to prosecute the case and in the same breath that colon greenlee told us that they were engaged. they asked kamala to officiate their wedding and in the same way that she always steps up when it matters, kamala put so much time into those remarks and she bound them in a book. that matched her dark red

dress. and then turn that into a gift for the happy couple a few days ago during this incredible time, we're going through, there was a brief window when camo was back at home and i saw her sitting on her favorite chair and in the middle of a wild month, i just hope that she was having a quiet moment to herself. >> but then i realized she was on the phone. and of course, my met my mind went to all the potential crises that the vice president could be dealing with. was it domestic? was it foreign? was a campaign. i could see she was focused and all i knew was that it must be something important and it turns out it was ella had called? her that's kamala that's kamala those kids are her priorities. and that scene was a perfect map of her heart

she's always been there for our children. and i know she'll always be there for yours too comma is a joyful warrior. it's doing for her country what she has always done for the people that she loves. her passion will benefit all of us when she's our president and here's the thing about joyful warriors. there are still warriors and kamala is as tough as it comes just asked the criminals are global gangsters and the witnesses before the senate judiciary committee she never runs from a fight and she knows the best way to deal with a coward is to take him head on because we all know cowers are week and kamala harris can smell weakness she doesn't

tolerate any bs you've all seen that look, and you know that look, i'm talking about that look is not just a meme. it reflects our true belief in honest and direct leadership. and it's also why she will not be distracted by nonsense

because. halfway through something true. something you all.

>> this election is going to be close in some states. just a handful. listen to me. a handful of votes in every precinct could decide the winner. so we need to vote in numbers that erase any doubt. we need to overwhelm any effort to suppress us. our fate is in our hands. >> in 77 days, we have the power to turn our country away from the fear and division and smallness of the past. >> we have the power to marry our hope with our action. we have the power to pay forward the love, sweat, and sacrifice of our mothers and fathers and all those who came before us. we did it before y'all, and we sure can do it again. let us work like our lives depend on it, and

let us keep moving our country forward and go higher. >> yes, always higher than we've ever gone before. >> as we elect the next president and vice president of the united states, kamala harris and tim walz, thank you all. >> god bless. now before i go, i have one more job tonight. yeah one more job. >> you all. thank you for all the love. but it is now my honor to introduce somebody who knows

a whole lot about hope. someone who has spent his life strengthening our democracy. and let me tell you, as someone who lives with him, he wakes up every day. every day and thinks about what's best for this country. please welcome america's 44th president and the love of my life, barack obama. >> we see the less you know.

hello, chicago. oh and as you might. we are watching the lights. thank you. the fireflies. that looks rising in the skies. thank you, thank you. thank you everybody. thank you. thank you, thank you. all right, all right, all right. that's enough. thank you, thank you. chicago it's good to be home. it is good to be home, and i. i

don't know about you, but i'm feeling fired up. >> i, i am feeling ready to go. >> even if even if i am the only person stupid enough to speak after michelle obama. >> i am feeling hopeful because this convention has always been pretty good to kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible. because we have a chance to elect someone who has spent her entire life trying to give

people the same chances america gave her. someone who sees you and hears you. and we'll get up every single day and fight for you. the next president of the united states of america, kamala harris. it's been 16 years since i had the honor of accepting this party's nomination for president. and i know that's hard to believe because i have not aged a bit. but it's true. and looking back, i can say without question that my first big decision as your nominee turned out to be one of my best.

and that was asking joe biden to serve by my side as vice president. >> now, other other than some common irish blood, joe and i come from different backgrounds, but we became brothers and as we worked together for eight, sometimes pretty tough years, what i came to admire most about joe wasn't just his smarts, his experience. >> it was his empathy and his decency and his hard earned resilience, his unshakable belief that everyone in this country deserves a fair shot.

and over the last four years, those are the values america has needed most at a time when millions of our fellow citizens were sick and dying, we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right. at a time when our economy was reeling, we needed a leader with the determination to drive what would become the world's strongest recovery. 15 million jobs, higher wages, lower health care costs at a time when the other party had turned into a cult of personality. we needed a leader who was steady and brought people together and was selfless enough to do the rarest thing there is in politics, putting his own ambition aside for the sake of the country. history

will remember joe biden as an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger, and i am proud to call him my president. but i am even prouder to call him my friend. thank you brother. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you. now >> the torch has been passed. now it is up to all of us to fight for the america we believe in. and make no mistake, it will be a fight for all the

incredible energy we've been able to generate over the last few weeks. for all the rallies and the memes. this will still be a tight race in a closely divided country, a country where too many americans are still struggling, where a lot of americans don't believe government can help. and as we gather here tonight, the people who will decide this election are asking a very simple question who will fight for me? who's thinking about my future, about my children's future? about our future together? one thing is >> one thing is for certain donald trump is not losing sleep over that question

here's a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he wrote down his golden escalator nine years ago it has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that's actually been getting worse now that he's afraid of losing the comma there's the childish nicknames the crazy conspiracy theories this weird obsession with crowd sizes just go the other day i heard someone can

prepare trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day? now, from a neighbor that's exhausting from, a president it's just dangerous but the truth is, donald trump sees power as nothing more than it means to his ends he wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help him. and his rich friends he killed a bipartisan immigration deal written in part by one of the most conservative republicans in congress that would've helped secure our southern border because he thought trying to actually solve the problem. what hurt his campaign? he doesn't do not

boot he doesn't seem to care if women lose their reproductive freedom since it won't affect his life and most of all, donald trump wants us to think that this country is hopelessly divided between us egn them between the real americans, who of course support him me outsiders who don't any wants you to think that you'll be richer and safer if you will, just give him the power to put those other people back in their place. it is one of the oldest tricks and politics from a guy

who's act has. let's face the gotten pretty stale we do not need four more years of bluster. and bumbling and chaos we have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse america is wanted for a new chapter america is much better story we are ready for president kamala harris and camila harris is ready for the job this is a person who has spent her life fighting on behalf of people who need a voice and a champion

as you heard from michelle, common law is not born into privilege she had to work for what she's gotten and she actually cares about what other people are going through she's not the neighbor running the leaf blower. she's the neighbor rushing over to help when you need a hand as a prosecutor, camila stood up for children who had been victims of sexual abuse as an attorney general of the most populous state in the country big banks and for profit colleges securing billions of dollars for the people they had scanned after the home mortgage crisis, she pushed me and my administration hard to make sure homeowners got a fair settlement then matter that i was a democrat, didn't matter that she had not done doors for my campaign and she was going to fight to get

as much relief as possible for the families who deserved it as vice president xi help take on the drug companies to cap the cost of insulin. lower the cost of health care get families with kids, a tax cut and she is running for president with real plans to lower costs even more on protecting medicare and medicaid. and signed a law to guarantee every woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions in other words, camila harris won't be focused on her problems she'll be focused on yours as president xi won't just cater to her own

supporters and punish those who refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee show work on behalf of every american that's who camila is and then the white house. >> she will have an outstanding partner and governor tim walz let me tell you. >> something oh, love, love, love, love. >> let me tell you something. i love this guy tim is the kind of person who should be in politics born in a small town served his country, taught kids, coach football took care of his neighbors he knows who he is and he knows what's important you can tell those flannel shirt she wears, don't come from some political

consultant. they come from his closet and they have been through some stuff together common law and tim i. have kept faith with america central story a story that says, we are all created equal all. of us and dad was certainly any animal rights. but everyone deserves a chance, that even when we don't agree with each other we. can find a way to live with each other that's camilla's vision that's tim's vision. that's the democratic party's vision. and our job over the next 11 weeks

is to convince as many people as possible to vote for that vision now it won't be easy the other side knows it's easier to play on people's fears and cynicism always has been they will tell you that government is inherently corrupt. that sacrifice and generosity are for suckers since the game is rigged. that's okay to take what you want and just look after your own that's the easy path we have a different test our job is to convince people that democracy can actually deliver and in doing that, we can just point to what we've already accomplished we can't just rely on the ideas of the past. >> we need to chart a new way forward to meet the challenges

of today. >> and camila understands this she knows for example, that if we want to make it easier for more young people to buy a home, we need to build more units and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people. >> in this country. that is a priority and she's put out a bold new plan to do just that on healthcare, we should all be proud of the enormous progress that we've made through the affordable care act provided millions of people access to affordable coverage, protected millions more from unscrupulous insurance practices and i've noticed by the way that since it's become popular, they don't call it obamacare normal but camila those we can stop

there which is why shall keep working to limit out of pocket costs camila knows that if we want to help people get ahead we need to put a college degree within reach of more americans. >> but but she also knows college shouldn't be the only ticket to the middle-class we need to follow the lead of governors like tim walz, who said, if you've got the skills and the dr you shouldn't need a degree to work for state government and in this new economy we need a president who actually cares about the millions of people all across this country who wake up every single day to do the essential often thankless work to care for our sick, to clean our

streets, to deliver our packages. >> we need a president who will stand up for their rights. to bargain for better wages and working conditions will be that president yes, she can wall took ministration can help us move past some of the tired old debates good keeps stifling progress because of their core. camila, i'm tim understand that when everybody gets a fair shot we are all better off they

understand that when every child gets a good education, the whole economy gets stronger when women are paid. the same as men for doing the same job family's benefit they understand that we can secure our borders without tearing kids away from their parents just like we can keep our streets safe while also building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve and eliminating bias that will make it better for everybody donald trump in this. well, he'll donors, they don't see the world that way. for them. one group's gains is necessarily another groups, los

for them. freedom means that the powerful can do pretty much what they please whether it's fire workers trying to organize a union or good poison in our rivers are avoid paying taxes like everybody else has to do well we have a broader idea of free we believe in the freedom to provide for your family. if you're willing to work hard the freedom to breathe, clean air, and drink clean water, and send your kids to school without worrying if they'll come home we believe that true freedom gives each of us the right to make decisions about our own life. how we worship, what our family looks like, how many kids we have who we married and we believe that freedom requires us to

recognize that other people have the freedom to make choices that are different than ours. that's okay. that's the america camilla harrison, tim walz believe in an america where we, the people includes everyone because that's the only way this american experiment works. and despite what our politics might suggest i think most americans understand that democracy isn't just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty laws. and in some books somewhere if the values we live by it's the way we treat each other including those who don't look like us or pray like us, or see the

world exactly like we do that sense of mutual respect has to be part of our message or politics have become so polarized these days that all of us across the political spectrum seems so quick to assume the worst in others, unless they agree with us on every single issue we start thinking that the only way to win is to scold and shame and out yell to the other side and after a wild, regular folks just tune out or they don't bother to vote now that approach may work for the politicians who just want attention and thrive on division but it won't work for

us to make progress on the things we care about. the things that really affect people's lives we, we need to remember that we've all got are blind spots and contradictions and prejudices and that if we want to win over those who aren't yet ready to support our candidates. >> we need to listen to their concerns and maybe learn something in the process. >> after all if a parent or grandparent occasionally says something that makes us cringe we don't automatically assume they're bad people we recognize that the world is moving fast they need time and maybe a little encouragements catch up our fellow citizens deserve the same grace.

>> we hope they'll extend to us that's how we can build a true democratic majority. one that can get things done and by the way that does not just matter to the people in this country the rest of the world is watching to see if we can actually pull this off no nation no society has ever tried to build a democracy as big and as diverse as ours before. one that includes people that over decades have come from every corner of the globe one where our allegiances and our community are defined not by race or blood but by a

common creed and that's why when we uphold our values, the world's know brighter when we don't the world's a little dimmer and dictators and autocrats feel emboldened and over time, we become less safe we shouldn't be the world's policeman and we can't eradicate every cruelty and injustice in the world but america can be and must be a force for good the scourge and conflict fighting disease, promoting human rights protecting the planet from climate change, defending freedom brokering peace that's what kamala harris believed and soda most americans i know

these ideas can feel pretty naive right now we live in a time of such confusion and rancor with a culture that puts a premium on things that don't last money fame status likes we chase the approval of strangers on our phones we build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves and then we wonder why we feel so alone we don't trust each other as much because we don't take the time to know each other and in that space between us politicians and algorithms teach us to caricature each other and troll

each other and fear each other but here's the good news. chicago all across america in big cities and small towns away from all the noise the ties that bind us together are still there we still coach little league and look out for are elderly neighbors we still feed the hungry and churches and mosques and synagogues and tattle we share the same pride when our olympic athletes compete for the goal because the vast majority of us do not want to live in a country that's bitter end divided we want something better we want to be better the joy and the

excitement that we're seeing around this campaign tells us we're not alone you know, i've spent a lot of time thinking about this, these past few months because as michelle mentioned, the summer we lost her mom, ms marian robinson and i don't know that anybody has ever loved their mother-in-law any more than i love mine. >> i'm mostly it's because she was funny and wise and the least pretentious person i knew that and she always defended me with michelle when i messed up i'd hide behind her but i also

think one of the reasons marion i became so close. was she reminded me of my grandmother the woman who helped raise me as a child and on the surface, the two of them did not have a lot in common one was a black woman from right here, south side of chicago. my dom away once a angle would, high school the other was a little white lady born in a tiny town called p r2, kansas i know there aren't that many people from people and yet they shared a basic outlook on life there were strong smart, resourceful women full of common sense who, regardless of the barriers they

encountered women grown up in the 40s and 50s and sick. they encountered barriers they still went about their business without fuss or complaint. and provided an unshakable foundation of love for their children and their grandchildren in that sense, they both represented an entire generation of working people who threw war and depression discrimination, and limited opportunity helped build this country a lot of toil the everyday of jobs there were often too small for them and then pay a lot they willingly went without just to keep a roof over the families heads, just to give their children something better. but they knew

what was true they knew what matters things like honesty and integrity and kindness, and hard work they weren't they weren't impressed with braggart or bullies they didn't think putting other people down, lifted you up or made you strong? >> they didn't spend a lot of time obsessing about what they didn't have instead, they appreciated what they did they found pleasure in simple things. >> a car game with friends a good meal and laughter around the kitchen table helping others and most of all, seeing their children do things and go places that they would have

never imagined for themselves. whether you are a democrat or a republican somewhere in between we have all had people like that in our lives people like camilla's parents, who crossed oceans because they believed in the promise of america people like tim's parents, who taught him about the importance of service good, hardworking people who weren't famous or powerful but who managed in countless ways to lead this country. just a little bit better than they found it as much as any policy or program i believe that's what we yearn for a return to an america

where we work together and look out for each other a restoration of what lincoln called on the eve of civil war are bonds of affection an america, the taps what he called the better angels of our nature that is what this election is about and i believe that's why if we each do our part over the next 77 days, if we knock on doors, if we make phone calls if we talk to our friends if we listen to our neighbors if we work like we've never worked before if we hold on to our convictions we will

elect kamala harris as the next president, united states president of the united states we will leaders up and down the ballot for the hope. was looking america. we all believe in it together, we will build a country that is more secure and more just more equal and more free so let's get to work god bless you. and god bless the united states the 44th

president of the united states morocco obama 20 years in three weeks since he burst onto the national scene with the 2004 democratic convention speech. >> or john kerry was being nominated this was almost a book end of that speech in which you talked about the dream. >> one united states of america also was speech about the promise of the united but it's states of america you can see why the crowd here loves him so much obviously, a successful democratic president, but also a once in a generation, a little the whole talent and one of the most gifted orders to have ever held the office he testified in favor of the election of vice president kamala harris is his friend of 20 years made a plea to the democratic voters to be patient with those voters that he's going to, they're going to be talking to in the next 77 days to not just reject them to

speak to them, to hear them, to listen to them. >> he had the enviable task we're following his wife, first lady michelle obama, who also gave perhaps even a more fulsome discussion of why camila harris is the best choice for november. >> and also had quite a few zingers related to her republican opponent donald trump and dana and abby, one of the things that was so interesting is amidst all of that, both of them were giving the unmistakable message to the crowd yes. >> this is fun. we're having a great time this is very exciting but this is not what the next 77 days are going to be like. it's going to be tough. you're candidates are going to make mistakes the other side is going to fight like hell and they're both of them said in different ways, let's get to work because this is not going to be easy even if

we're all having a good time right now. >> yeah. and they were both clearly trying to speak to the base to speak to the energized grassroots, and to keep them completely energized but there were so many points in both of their speeches, particularly as you said, president obama's speech, where they were talking to the swing voters. they were talking to the undecided voters. they were even talking to the voters in president obama's case that came over to his side. we're you know, republicans are reagan republicans before dependent depending on where they lived and people who allowed him to win indiana exactly what happened. kids you can google me, not to mention north carolina. >> we were talking to the nurse. >> what right. >> and so but it is that kind of state that they are reaching out to i do have to say, i mean, he president obama is an

unmistakable, extraordinary, as you said, an order, there's no republican who would say anything different? but when michelle obama was speaking, we were talking about, we couldn't hear that. >> that was the loudest this arena had gotten this place. >> if it was going absolutely nuts, particularly the one line when she went at i mean, so much for when they go when they go high. but she talked about the fact that he dislikes them effectively for one reason, and that is because they are black. i mean, that's effectively what she said. and then she had she twisted the knife and said that they have the black jobs tonight. >> you heard from two of the best players in politics right now. i mean, two people who can speak in ways that almost no one else in the party can speak and particularly michelle obama, that speech really

electrified this arena. i don't even think brock obama, no offense to him as his speech was excellent. it was not received. and the way i think we just have to be honest by that and also gave more of a red meat speech. we have to say he was appealing to better angels, talking off the lead about work to win over people to your side who you might not agree with. i didn't. they had different jobs. they were doing different things. i also think michelle obama, what she often does so well, is defined. america in a way that, that she thinks that people relate to, in a way that is in contrast with donald trump she's been actually both of them have been doing this now since they left office, they were they were in this position in 2016, making this case for hillary clinton. and they experienced what it was like to make that case. and then be there on election night when donald trump won i heard that in their speeches tonight. the admonition to not take it for granted that this is really hard, that it's going to take

a lot of work to talk to people that you disagree with to insist on american values. i think they feel burned by their own experiences, trying to convince this country to seek their better angels. they're doing it again. but they're doing it again with i think a kind of edge to it that was not there before. >> it's interesting, you say that you just remind me as something which is after trump's convention speech in 2016, which described a very bleak american president obama. i believe the next day said something along the lines of, you know, the sun is shining, the birds are singing. it was kind of dismissive of the picture that trump had painted. and i remember getting an argument in an argument with one of obama's speech writers about the fact that forget what trump said. there are americans who were feeling the pain, even

if you don't think donald trump is secure and they acknowledged that that that tone that obama took, that morning when he kind of was dismissive of what trump was trying to appeal to is very different from what trump said. >> yeah. >> i think they understand. yeah, definitely now better and look, i want to say not the right i mean, the whole country does. now they understand the challenge that that is there. i mean, there no less optimistic or, or idealistic about what the country ought to be. but i think they understand that trump is appealing to so many americans that the pitfall of democrats, you know, eight years ago was not understanding that. >> so anderson, one of the things that's interesting i asked maggie haberman of the new york times the other day about the more blatantly racist social media posts that have come from the trump campaign painting contrasting pictures

of the world that trump had wants to refine americans in the world that the kamal harris does. and the one that kamala harris does is full of people of color who are either homeless migrants or murderous thugs. it's cetera cetera and haberman's response was that she thought there was actually strategy to it that donald trump had been trying to bait camila harris and the camp common harris campaign into an argument about race that that there actually was reimann reason a method to the madness, if you will it was interesting tonight, the particular zingers that both first lady, michelle obama and former president barak obama made at donald trump because they seemed quite targeted and aimed at things that donald trump might be insecure about. and i am specifically referring to his hand gestures when discussing

crowd sizes. over to you i want to go actually just straight to van jones because van i mean, i think michelle obama's speech was probably the most effective powerful political speech. >> i've ever heard rather remarkable i didn't know how much i miss, miss them i, miss them. >> i miss that. i'm this hearing hearing that you know, biden did something important last night in the heat transferred the machinery of the party to camila harris the obamas renewed the magic of the movement. that's what they were transferring. and they did it beautifully. they did it powerfully i'm obama used nostalgia in a beautiful way. he didn't say make america great again, we're going to go back he reminded everybody of the best things about our

families, about our neighborhoods. that was beautiful. and then michelle, she wasn't doing the minister role. she was really doing the coaching world what role in that she called the ride out? she said, you guys just talked about the affirmative action of generational wealth. she talked about the luxury of widening and shooting that other people don't have. but she didn't stop there she also called the left up and she said the winding on the left needs to stop. the goldilocks. they're not perfect. all this was a masterful active leadership. it was a sacred task. they took it on well, it was like an oasis i didn't realize i had been in a spiritual desert until they create that oasis on that stage. and they did a beautiful job tonight. >> david look campaigns operate on different levels and one of them is on the level of issues and certainly they engaged in some of that president in

particular. but they also operate on on a plane of values and, these were value laden speeches and the message was and it's something that kamala harris has been saying. there's so much that we share and, you know, polish democracy is in many ways an ongoing battle between cynicism and hope and the goal of the cynics is to divide us and appeal to our worst instincts. and the goal of the of the optimist is too inspire us to hope when she said right at the beginning of her speech, that there was something wonderfully magical in the air. and she said it's the contagious power of hope. and so what they're trying to do here, and i think what kamala harris has been doing in her speeches is to set up a counterpoint to this relentlessly negative, divisive

grinding quality to donald trump in the donald trump campaign and his reaction to the camila harris challenge has been, has been to become more grindingly negative more divisive for appealing to people's sense of fear. and i think they are setting up a conscious and what they're saying, not just to the base of the democratic party, but to every american we're better than this. think about the values that you grew up with that you teach your children that you want your children to adhere to that we benefited from our parents. we should want that in our leaders. we should want that in our government. and i think it's, you know, i think it's a very powerful, powerful thing. i've seen it i've seen it at work. i've seen it move a country. i think it can move a country again i'm like the sort of dialogue with the current culture.

>> they were kind of calling out to memes and ideas and jokes, the escalator. there were certain the hand gestures that the former president did talking about crime sizes, kind of breaking the fourth wall, saying things we've seen this movie before. the sequels not so good and even the way michelle obama talked rebranding, that they go low to going small. >> and i thought that was a really fascinating way to put it because then comparing it to the rnc, which we were at, there was something about it that was quite cloistered. >> i mean, not to compare the enthusiasm because it was after assassination attempt, but it felt small. and it was so hyper focus that it had a way of shutting out the world and there is a way that these speeches tonight, we're trying to make the world of democrats bigger somehow. i don't know if that makes sense. gun, but, you know, this line, it's to your point, this one was one i underline going small is petty. >> it's unhealthy. and quite frankly, it's unpresidential

and i think that's what people know. donald trump is not a popular person but they're no longer talking about him as an existential threat between the weird, between this kind of language. there's a kind of deflating of this boogeyman that they've been talking about, which is remarkable because no one until i don't know if it's kamala harris i don't know if it was tim walz with the weird, but no one i mean, marco rubio tried talking about little hands in 2016. no one has figured out a way to do that to donald trump until now. >> time comes for us all i mean, you know what i mean he has him being tried to compete with him insult for insult, anger for anger, and what they're saying is we can do better than that's not who we are. >> that's not who we should want the president of the united states to be. >> scott. >> well, first of all, i think the democrats should be congratulated for this night. it was well produced the music, the obamas, the whole thing

work for them tonight. i think the contrast that i see, and i don't know which is going to win but we're seeing the contrast of the politics of combat versus the politics of compassion. that's what the obamas were trying to set up tonight in my judgement i should warn my fellow republicans that we heard two of the greatest political communicators in the country tonight, and we had holcomb mania the democrats have obama mania they ripped the roof off of this place tonight. these democrats are fired up. they're not playing okay yes, they say things that are exaggerations. they do say things about trump and the republicans that are outright lies. but the convention is working for harris at least as of today, the gap that i still see in all these speeches as good as they were. is that she's in the white house right now democrats have controlled the white house for 12 of the last 16 years, and for all of the talk about

division and the problems in the country and people are hurting democrats have mostly controlled this country trump had it for four the obamas and biden had it for the rest of the time and somehow it's still all trump's fault in somehow she hasn't been at the center of it. so to me that's still the glaring hole in this campaign that hasn't yet been solved at the convention how do you explain all of the problems that will be solved by the person who is currently in there for the last three-and-a-half years, who is supposed to already be working on solving it, but bottom line tonight this convention is working for them. michelle obama is. i mean, she's an incredible speaker and you cannot deny the power of what happened in the hall tonight. >> scott, i'm sorry, john king. i want to hear from you i anderson, i think you guys have covered the power of the words from the obamas very well certainly to rally the base. >> but i want to focus on something else because also

very powerful tonight is just the optics of obama and michelle obama, president obama, michelle obama coming on stage, the big embrace then, both speeches, what is donald trump doing? he mispronounces her name he says, is she black or is she asian? she's a radical. he's trying to disqualify common the harris is somehow makers scary to somehow make her unacceptable and there you had our first black president or first black late first lady up on the stage. they didn't say these words, but essentially we had this for eight years here's i was president she was first lady. i was re-elected. she was with me. we had a pretty booming economy that we handed it off to donald trump. this is not weird, this is not strange. we had this for eight years and i'll tell you from my travels, you have first the first thing democrats have to do is turn out their base and if camilla harrison get the historic or near historic black turnout that barak obama got in his two election campaigns. then that puts her in good stead. it's not enough though. you have to compete and win, or at least breakeven in the american suburbs, brock obama did that

twice. in my travels, you meet a lot of people, a lot of republicans, who maybe didn't vote for brock obama, or maybe who did once who remember the obamas in the white house, that would dignify, they were respectful, they had those cute girls who became beautiful young women in the family. so i think the optics tonight, given how donald trump is campaigning against harris, i think the optics of oh yeah, we did that for eight years it was pretty good for the country, even if he didn't like it, even if you're republican, i didn't vote for it. we're all still here. right? we weren't in any big wars at the time. the optics to me, given how donald trump is campaigning against the vice president for almost as important as the very powerful works yeah we're gonna be playing you a lot of the comments from michelle obama as well as the former prison brock obama and also doug emhoff, who gave a really nuanced, really fascinating beach, like we have not heard from the spouse of any candidate really stay with us as we dig deeper into tonight's beaches and talk to the keynote speaker at the convention neither live coverage continues after this break everything you want is

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coming to cnn what could go wrong i got news for you from saturday, september 14th at nine on cnn we're back live in chicago, the 312 so were democrats are heading into the third night of their convention after hearing some powerful advocates for the election of vice president kamala harris is the next president of the united states we heard just minutes ago from former first lady michelle obama. and of course then from her husband, former president barak obama firing up delegates tonight as they both spoke about i hope they believe harris is giving to voters and the fears that they have about donald trump potentially returning to the white house what we've seen from camila harris the steal of

her spine. >> the steadiness of her upbringing, the honesty of her example, and yes, the joy of her laughter and her lights we do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and we have seen that movie before. and we all know that the sequel is usually worse the harris camp recruited the vice president's husband, doug emhoff to give her highly personal speech about his life and his wife and the love and strength he says, she brings to their blended family camila harris was exactly the right person for me at an important moment in my life and at this moment in our nation's history, she is exactly the right president vice president

harris spoke to delegates from a campaign rally in nearby milwaukee, wisconsin about 90 minutes away after we're very lively ceremonial roll-call, reaffirming her presidential nomination. kaitlan collins was watching it all from her position on the convention floor and kaitlan, you're getting some reaction from delegates. >> yeah. jake, i mean, we were in the heart of this as we're watching these speeches from the obamas tonight, making the case for vice president harris and minnesota governor tim walz and i did not know that latanya raise is from minnesota and is a minnesota delegate, but i saw her during michelle obama's speech as she was on-stage speaking. and you are standing right over there and you just had tears coming out of your eyes what made you so emotional while you were listening to her? >> first of all, she's a wonderful, beautiful spirit. the words that she said tonight, let us know. we have work to do we had to go back into our community and we had to organize people to vote. we don't have the opportunity to sit on the sidelines. is time for us to go. so let's go and i'm energized to go back. >> and what was it about the

speech that had you in tears? >> she talked about the experience of women. she talked about the experience of our vice president and how it has been challenging for her. but she said it's time to keep going, no matter what you don't give up, your keep pushing. and that's what i want to see how vice president do. a spoke to me because it's been difficult in terms of some things i've had to experience as well. so hit home and i think i mean, the crowd went wild when she came out on stage. >> i know this is your first time actually seeing her speak in person, but i think the loudest applause find that i could hear from, from standing over here in front of the minnesota delegation was when she was turning trump's comments back on him and saying that that his comment about black jobs, that the one he's seeking might very well, very well be a black job. what did you make of that? >> as she said, are black job is voting ice cream so loud and lost my voice. but when she said that, that is that's our job. our ancestors fought for us to be here. we don't have the opportunity to sit on the sidelines and not vote is time for us to get out and show are political power that we are a community that wants to be

heard, that we have a right to have a seat at the table is time for us to get up and let's go it's on your ribs. >> thank you very much. thank all of you for sticking around jake back to you. >> all right. let's go to mj lee right now and mj, you have some new information about what has been happening behind the scenes yeah, you know, the vice president was returning to chicago after having campaigned in milwaukee earlier in the day, and she was on air force to when her husband, doug doug emhoff, the second gentleman, began speaking at the convention. >> so the plane actually circled for an extra 15 minutes. we're told in the skies of cheek could finish watching his speech. of course half as we saw, leaned into this speech, the idea of this blended family that they have. and he said, what the vice president has done for their family is something that he believes she can now do for the country. you know, we were watching also the obama's speech from the floor. this is something that the vice president ended up watching from the osprey again she was returning from milwaukee, the level of energy, the kinds of things that were being said on

the floor completely different energy than i think what we would have seen a number of weeks ago that had to do with of course, the obamas in this celebrity that they bring. but clearly about the fact that this is now a convention that has to do with kamala harris again, there's just the energy that we saw tonight, just completely different than anything we could have imagined jake even a couple of weeks ago. >> alright, thank you so much. mj tonight, democrats gave a price speaking slot to maryland senate candidate angela alsobrooks sheets, delivered the keynote speech just as a then rising star. named barak obama did 20 years and three weeks ago when he was in illinois state senator. here is some of angela alsobrooks remarks kamala harris knows how to keep criminals off the streets in come november with your help she'll keep one out of the oval office angela alsobrooks is with cnn's abby philip on the convention floor. >> abby jake, i'm here with

angela alsobrooks, who by the way is from my home state of maryland, my home county of prince george's county as well. i want to get your take on what you heard here from the former president, former first lady barak, and michelle obama. how was it for you to experience that? >> oh my gosh, she was wonderful. it really was there was excitement and joy in this arena tonight, and i think that really was the message of the first lady and former president was that we're all ready to turn the page. that it is tied time, i think as a country that we should move forward and move out of this era that we've been in one way or the fear has really gripped the country in so many ways. and it really just explaining to us that we do have the opportunity to choose another path and move forward and that weekend experience joy again. and so this was a forward-looking message. i think one they said also we should take anything for granted. i think that was especially clear. is that the

democrats were reminded that we're going to have to work for it and we cannot take it for granted. >> so i'm gonna be honest. the state of maryland is not usually a place where we get a lot of political action it's a pretty democratic state, but you are running in one of the most closely watched and competitive senate races in this cycle, your opponent is republican former governor larry hogan, who called himself a man average. he has broken with trump, but first of all, does he deserve credit for that? and how do you run against someone who is not a garden variety republican? >> well, you know what i mean? i think the thing we can't forget when we talk about or maverick is mitch mcconnell is the person who invited my opponent into this race. and what he said was that it was his interests that he would flip the senate read and thought that maryland was one of the best opportunities that the republican party would have to gain a majority. and this is after larry hogan said, for many, many months that he had no interest whatsoever. i'm running for the senate at mitch mcconnell's invitation, he

came into the race and so we have to take it very seriously because we know that the majority whoever has the majority in the senate controls the agenda. maryland now is central to holding the majority i believe that that marylanders we'll look at this race and realize that the supreme court, the confirmation of supreme court justices, that committee chair, chairs like the judiciary committee where lindsey graham would be chair senate majority leader. these are all decisions that are made on really early on so it's going to be critically important that were camila harris who will be our next president, has to have a senate majority in order to get her agenda forward. and so this isn't in nobody knows that better than vice president harris because she was a senator and she's been breaking high, breaking votes for the last three years. you guys go back pretty far. you were both prosecutors she meant toward you as you talked about in your speech what has it been like for you to see her now suddenly the democratic nominee

and to be essentially on the ballot with her two black women in this election cycle. >> oh my god, it's been so powerful and so exciting to see a person that i've come to know who i know to be a very principled, a deeply principled person. i've had many, many conversations with her and so i feel that i know what her values are i know how hard she's worked at know about her record. i'm a former prosecutor one of her programs back on track is one of the programs are replicated in my county. but i know that she's been not all tough, but compassionate that she's a person who cares about the progress of every family she's demonstrated it not only as the the district attorney, but attorney general. she's been a senators. you've been a vice president. she's served our country in our families and she's going to continue to do so and we'll be an outstanding president of the united states