to open the doors of opportunity to all americans. to save our democrats, to be a light to the world once again and finally to live up to and make real the words written in the sacred documents that founded this nation. that all men and women are created equal. endowed by their creator with certain enalienable rights. life, you know, my dad was a honorable and decent man. he got knocked down a few times pretty hard. he always got back out. he worked hard, and he built the great middle-class life for our family. he is to say, "joey, i don't expect the government to solve my problems but i sure as heck expect them to understand them." and then he said, "joey, the job is a lot more about the paycheck and it's about your dignity. it's about respect.

it's about you placing the community, it's about saying hey, it's going to be okay. and mean it." i've never forgotten those lessons. that's why my economic plan is all about jobs. dignity, respect and community. together, we can and rebuild our country and when we do, will not only filled the back, will build back better. with modern roads, bridges, broadband, ports, airports, a new foundation for economic growth with transports, clean water, to every community. 5 million new manufacturing and technology jobs of the future is made in america. the health care system in all its premiums, deductibles, drug prices, by building on the affordable care act he is trying to rip away. in the education system that trains are people for the best

jobs of the 21st century is not a single thing. american workers can do. it does not prevent young people from going to college and student that doesn't crush them. when they get out. for the child care and eldercare system that makes it possible for parents to go to work and for the elder to stay in their home with dignity. with immigration systems that powers our economy and reflects our values, and with the newly empowered labor unions. they're the ones that built the middle class. point demand equal pay for wom women, you can raise her children and a family on and yes, we're going to do more than praise our essential workers. were finally going to pay them, pay them. we can and we will do a climate change and it's not only a crisis, it's an enormous

opportunity. it's an opportunity for america to lead the world in clean energy and create millions of good paying jobs in the process. and we can pay for these investments by ending loophole and unnecessary loopholes in the president's $1.000000000000 and most pop demand profitable corporations some of what you don't pay any tax at all. because we don't need a tax code the rewards wealth more than it rewards work. i'm not looking to punish anyone. far from it. but the wealthiest people in the biggest corporations of this country for the long time pay their fair share and for our seniors, social security is a sacred obligation, i sacred promise made. they paid for.

the current president is threatening to break the promise and eliminating attacks that pays pays for almost half the social security without any way of making up for that lost revenue. resulting in cuts. i will not let that happen. if i'm your president, we are going to protect social security and medicare. you have my word. one of the most powerful voices we hear in the country today is from our young people. they are speaking to the inequity injustices, economic injustice, racial injustice, environmental injustices. i hear their voices and if you can hea listen, you can hear th. the existential threat posed by climate change, the daily fear of being gunned down in school. the inability to get started in their first job.

it will be the work of the next president to restore the promise of america to everyone. and i'm not going to have to do it alone. because i'll have a great vice president at my side. senator kamala harris, she is a powerful voice for this nation. her story is the american story. she knows about all the obstacles thrown in the way of so many in our country, women, black women, black americans, south asian-americans, immigrants, left out and left behind. but she has overcome every obstacle she has ever faced. no one has been tougher on the big banks and the gun lobby, no one has been tougher in calling out the current administration for its extremism is a failure to follow the law and its failure to simply tell the tru truth. kamala and i draw from the strength of our families,

kamala, doug, their families. for me, it is jill and ours. i've said many times, no man deserves one great love in his life let alone too but i have known to go. after losing my first wife in the car accident, jill came into my life. she's an educator, a mom, a military mom. an unstoppable force. if she puts her mind to it, just get out of the way. she's going to get it done. she was a great second lady and i know she will make a great first lady for this nation. she loves this country so much. and i will always have the strength that can only come from family. hunter, ashley, all our grandchildren. my brothers, my sister, they gave me courage, they lift me up. no longer with us, bo inspires

me every day. he served our nation in uniform here in iraq, decorated iraqi war veteran. i take very personally and a profound responsibility who served as commander in chief. i will be a president who will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries, the day of closing out the dictators is over. under president biden, america will not turn a blind eye to russia bounties on the heads of american soldiers. or put up with foreign interference interference on the most sacred democratic exercise, voting! and i will always stand for our values of human rights and dignity. a work in common purpose for a more secure, peaceful, and

prosperous world. history, history has thrust one more urgent task on us. will we be the generation that finally wipes out the stain of racism from our national character? i believe we are up to it. i believe we are ready. just a week ago yesterday, was the third anniversary of the night in charlottesville. close your eyes, remember what you saw on television, remember seeing the neo-nazis and the clansmen and white supremacist coming onto the field with lighted torches, veins bulging, spewing the same anti-semitic file heard across the country. remember that a violent clash that ensued between those spreading needs and those with the courage to stand against it. remember what the president said, they said there were "very

fine people" on both sides. that's a battle for the souls gma nation. one of the most conversation imt conversations with someone who is much too young to vote. i met with 6-year-old giannageo. she's an incredibly brave young girl. i will never forget when i leaned down to speak to her, she looked in my eyes and i say "daddy change the world." "daddy changed the world." her words burrowed deep into my heart. maybe george floyd's murder was a breaking point. maybe john lewis is passing was information but however it has come to be, however it has happened, america is ready and

john's words to lay down "the heavy burden at last." and then the hard work of rudy now, our systemic racism. american history tells us that it's been in our darkest moments that we've made our greatest progress. that we have found the light. and in this dark moments, i believe we are poised to make great progress again and that we can find the light once more. you know, many people have heard me say this, but i was believe you can define america in one word. possibilities. the defining feature of america, everything is possible. that in america, everyone, and i mean everyone, should be given an opportunity to go as far as their dreams and god-given ability will take them.

we can never lose that. in times, as challenging as it is, i believe that there is only one way forward. as a united america, a united america, united in our pursuit of a more perfect union. united in our dreams of a better future for us and for our children. united in our determination to make the coming year is bright. are you ready? i believe we are. this is a great nation, we are good and decent people. for lord's sake, this is the united states of america! there is never been anything that we have been able to accomplish when we have done it together. the poet once wrote history says don't hope on this side of the grave. but then once-in-a-lifetime the

long tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope in history rhyme. this is our moment to make hope and history rhyme. with passion and purpose, let us begin, you and i together, one nation, under god, united and our love for america, united in our love to each other! for love is more powerful than hate, hope is more powerful than fear, and light is more powerful than dark! this is our moment, this is our mission! history will be able to say that the end of this chapter of american darkness began here, tonight! as love and hope, light, joined in the battle for the soul of the nation! and this is a battle that we will win and we will do it together. i promise you. thank you, and may god bless you and may god protect our troops!

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>> former vice president joe biden officially accepting accepting the nomination of the democratic party, 33 years after he first ran for president. he is not known for his public speaking, but this, having seen him speak on the stump many, many times, was the best he has been as far as his delivery. he obviously started off very pointed against president trump, something that people didn't know whether he was going to do are not saying that the characters on the ballot, compassions on the balance, decency, science, democracy all on the balance and you can see all the folks around the country streaming in and they have more streams tonight for them to point at and then he will make his way out here to the parking lot and all the cars

from the appearance on the stage behind us. this is what he needed to do with this crowd and the crowd around the country but the question was was it enough to affect this race and give in a bounce? >> use the word hope of about seven times in the early part of the speech and he started by quoting a civil rights leader saying give people life and he made a lot of references to george floyd and what happened in charlotte and how that inspired him what the president said about happened in charlotte and that was my moment and i had to get in. talk about john lewis rooting out systemic racism and that was one of the bigger themes of this beat and they tried to do something that really didn't happen last night with, harris. people involved, cars parked on here, trying to get music going and a little bit of energy into this thing which has been a little tough to deal in the virtual situation.

>> bret: as they're walking out here, you can see joe biden, joe biden making their way onto the back parking lot here. chris wallace bringing you and, one of the things is the energy, he did deliver the energy at the end there. at times it felt like a state of the union but then he kind of hit the dismount. >> all, i thought it was enormously effective remember donald trump has been talking for months about joe biden as a captive of the left and biden was reading from the teleprompter and a prepared speech but i thought that he blew a hole, a big hole in the characterization. you talk about the line the character is on the ballot, decency is on the ballot and talked about the different paths for the country. if not in a deep diplomatic sense but he did talk about the plans for the virus in the economy. for the climate change, race,

foreign policy, and he talked about what united america can do to accomplish all of those things. it seems to me that after tonight, donald trump will have to run against a candidate, not a character tour of the democrats having a good convention. now, it is the republicans turn. >> bret: let's listen in here, this is the parking lot right behind us. the horns around, and let's take a moment. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> bret: i tell you what, this is a different time with masks, with cars, socially distance, but there's fireworks here. i can see you blowing the whistle there. what are your thoughts on this night? >> well, first of all, a good sermon is sit yourself down, and that was a good sermon! let the church say amen! no, he did what he was supposed to do. he connected with the american people, he shared his values and outlined his vision and most

importantly he spoke from the heart and people want to hear that. all i can say, a+. i'm going to church this sunday. that was a hail mary, thank you lord. thank you. >> bret: brit hume, your thoughts? >> it's a very good speech, the delivery was full of clarity and no shine of the goalies and sometimes his memory seems faint and grassed week, though you would not expect that in a prepd speech but he blew out all sort of possibilities as he did with bernie sanders and the way of debate that he could be strong on debate nights here and there as well. good start for him it seems to me. there's a lot of democratic parties and we heard many times and many cycles, but nonetheless great for the audience and i would have liked to hear him say something about his plans about china and would you like to do about that. or the terrible trouble in the

city's streak and learnedly unmentioned as far as i can see, as far as i could tell. nonetheless, all in all a very good speech and i'm sure it will give you a boost and i think we can simply expect he will get a bump in the polls in the performance. >> martha: i was so struck by watching the whole scene and if you had dropped someone into this, one year ago, and said what is going on and everybody is wearing masks on the stage and this is joe biden accepting his nomination as president of united states and you know, dana, this is such a unique moment as a country and you see people behind us as the americans have been doing throughout to make this thing work. they are trying to make it their best shot. >> what a beautiful sentiment, martha, wonderful to see americans and it might take us a few months to figure out how to have fun and do these things in a different way but we did it. look, the other night i said

that michelle obama stuck the landing and i think keeping with the same joe biden just hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth which i got that right in terms of the sports. he has taste, rhythm, energy, emotion, and delivery. i think if you look back at you can say that's probably the best speech of his life and he really just hit the moment and i love that. on the policy side of things, a little bit of income incoherence, and at $0.03 and stanza he's going to create millions of dogs jobs.but i'm not exactly sure hw that works, but this was a speech that was 80% appealing from the heart and 20% policy and now turning it over to the republicans. congratulations who put on the first unconventional convention and turned out to be a pretty good one. >> bret: the finale, the finale right there, --

>> balloons, balloons. >> bret: karl rove, your thoughts on this convention? >> i thought it was an excellent end and it was a very good speech. he had a balancing act here tonight, he was trying to balance and one was the image portraying himself as a unifier who would bring the country together. he did i thought so very effectively and if i were a republican strategist in the trump campaign, i would be worried about how long and how effectively he carries that forward to. because that is the thing that will keep the swing voters in his camp if they are. on the other hand, the other part of the balance was that he wanted to talk to the base and we saw a lot of policy in here fleetingly mentioned like for example when he talked about the economy i counted 11 items that he rattled off when he talked about covid. he had six things he was going to do and most of those are to the left of his party. but again, it's a balancing act

and that's for the progressives and at the same time that he was appealing for the swing voters. like brit, i was taken aback where we didn't hear anything about china, the big issues and obviously this is something that he and his people have decided that they will never talk about. i have looked back and i found forwards in which he condemned the violence one time but other than that that they have been silent on it. finally, you know, 1960 we had the nixon-kennedy debate and if you listen to weights on radio, you thought that nixon won and if you watched on television you thought that kennedy won. while it's a strong performance tonight reading off the teleprompter, i wonder though if you looked at and ended fit reminded you that he really is 77 years old. granted, he didn't do a mistake or lose words and news flow was pretty good but if you look at him and you said that's an old guy and he's doing his best.

>> your thoughts? >> it's a very good speech and you know, martha, you and i were talking about the coronavirus going in. you know, exactly what role that might play in november. but this speech, i thought that he did as best as they number one issue on the minds of america's voters right now and i sense that he expects it will be the number one issue on novembe. then he was very clear in saying here is my plan, here is how i would deal with it, this is what we should have been doing from the start. he said that we had 50 million infected, 200,000 dead, jobs lost, he made the bird and clear. on that point, i think that anybody who is listening tonight to that speech would come away saying i understand how joe biden stands on dealing with the number one issue in america right now.

it was poetry though, the whole notion of light and people will find their way. coming all the way back and then when he was talking about the idea that we can rise and be hopeful, that there is so much reason for people right now to give up hope. when he is saying don't give into the politics of hatred, division. to me, this was poetic because so much of that is that's what's at stake in the country. when he said that line about laying down the burden of hate that america is at this point where we can lay down the burden of hate, i think it spoke to way more people than black lives matter. i think it spoke to americans in the suburbs, it spoke to americans and rural america, as well as americans in the city. you know what, we can move forward. we can overcome.

in that sense, i thought it was a terrific speech. >> bret: katie, let's hear your thoughts and look forward. at the marker has now been thrown in the republicans are next to take up the baton. speak other races on, president trump in pennsylvania today taking on joe biden in his hometown. at a time when the biden campaign is not engaged in the grassroots effort, he did make it feel like tonight he was talking to you as a individual. it was a good speech until he gets fact tracked and scrutinized and joe biden claims that he wants to unify the country, but the truth is on the campaign trail as we saw in the democratic primary and previously in the political race he has a temper. he will have to answer some of the questions about his policies and conditions and when he would have done differently on the coronavirus and if that shouldn't be this way okay, what does that mean and what would you do differently to make american lives better on that front? should give an interview now

that they've gotten the speech off the ground and maybe get them involved to answer some real questions about what the plan is moving forward. >> bret: all right, panel, it's been a lot of fun we did not know what it's going to look like and now we do. we have one under our belt but next week as a whole new ball game. we will be back tomorrow. i think you are watching. >> martha: great having a privity with us this week and we will see you back tomorrow. "the ingraham angle" is up next. good night, everybody, from bloomington delaware. good night. ♪ >> laura: on laura ingraham, this is this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight, that's a wrap on dnc for four days, politicians depressing big net about america that doesn't sound like the one that i remember. donald trump jr. will be here in just a few moments with exclusive reaction to biden speech, but first, and what felt at sometimes like an never

ending zoom call with professional the 2020 virtual dnc finally, mercifully wraps. after all the democrats and gauzy tributes to joe and the shameless lies about trauma, while we are left with is a recognition that this is a party that has nothing since 2016. think about it, to answer trump's popular appeal, they nominated a guy first ran for president 33 years ago. i guy that has been hanging around washington since the early 70s. it a man whose grandfather appeal, notwithstanding, it epitomizes the word trump. then adding insult to injury, they think you are so stupid that you will vote for them even if you have no idea what he is actually doing to tackle our toughest challenges. >> they will get this pandemic under control. like joe did when he help me

manage h1n1. and prevent an ebola outbreak from reaching our shores. >> joe will bring us together to end pandemic and make sure that we are prepared for the next one. >> convenience, you've got to go and deal with the facts and go to work. our parties united in offering you a very different choice. >> laura: chose only covid strategy is to lock you down and mask you up, he said as much tonight. as we are seeing with the current case urging europe, that doesn't work! the truth is, joe's messaging is ignoring the actual signs. after being demonized by the left for opening up too soon, arizona and texas have already emerged from the worst of it. they of course our far better off than the democratic run new york and new jersey. not many are even watching the democrat telethon oriented. if some not sure they're going to get the usual bump from it,

joe's good delivery notwithstanding. now, not good for joe when in the key battleground state of pennsylvania, biden's lead has gone from double digits to a measly four points today. so why the tightening with all the excitement of the virtual dnc? today, joe was all about practicing the prompter. trump was back on the stump. >> joe biden is no friend of pennsylvania. biden supported every globalist attack on pennsylvania workers. of my first week in office i was from the trans-pacific partnership which would been district if your job a horror show. i withdrew from the one-sided paris climate accord which would have cost us so many billions of dollars. >> laura: it's about making america safe again. >> there is a certain sense four years ago and these people have gone insane. if you want a vision of your

life under joe biden presidency, think of this smoldering ruins in minneapolis, the violent anarchy of portland. the bloodstained sidewalks of chicago. and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in america. >> laura: of course, the democrats mentioned none of this tonight. well, they couldn't, could they? americans aren't stupid. no matter how much team biden chides to hide the ball, they know that he will kill the fracking industry, he will destroy what's left of the steel industry when he lifts the trade tariffs on china, they know that biden presidency import more crime and cheap labor. when you wrap your mind around that, sunlight joe 45 year love affair becomes a lot less endearing or less relevant. they throw the word dignity around a lot tonight and over the past four nights.

tonight, i will ask you, where's the dignity and taking in the american job and shipping it to china? where's the dignity and rewarding the lawlessness and sanctuary cities? where is the dignity americans left defenseless when police are defunded? where's the dignity and the empathy and keeping our kids out of the classroom in order to placate the teachers union? where's all that compassion and remaining silent as our cities are level by the democrats most violent and cruel supporters? answer? there is zero dignity, zero compassion, there is zero empathy in any of that. here with exclusive reaction, tonight for the dnc, donald trump jr. executive vice president of the trump organization. don, i went to play this moment from joe biden tonight. >> this is a life-changing

election. this will determine what america will look like for a long, long time. characters on the ballot, compassion is on the ballots, decency, science, democracy, they are all on the ballot. >> laura: that sounds like a plan. that was really the theme of the week, no policy, just decency overloaded. meaning is that your dad doesn't have any of the decency or compassion thing. >> laura: you know, i don't think so the american people expect results from their politicians. joe biden has been a 50 year slump creature and he was elected into the d.c. office in his 20s. now, half a century later, lau laura, he managed to read a speech on the teleprompter, he refuses to answer questions from the american people were journalist. he has been hiding in a basement but now he's also going to change things. i really don't think anyone believes that i don't think that joe biden has ever been

inspiring in his career and i don't think any night was different. if you can read a speech on the teleprompter you would think he would be able to get to the american people that he would be able to do an interview with a real journalist where they are not giving him prescripted answers and reading the answers off the teleprompter. we think it would be able to do that after half a century in washington, d.c. but he can't. the reality that you've seen this week, they heard joe biden, michelle obama, maybe that person should be running for president. they're not inspired by joe biden because he hasn't done anything to disserve inspiration through a very long and very swampy career. >> laura: for the last four days, too bad they were not in charge for eight years because he might might have done all the cool stuff. when he did beat the expectations and that people were expecting him to flub every line and have a senior moment. just the delivery and devoid of any policy other than universal masking, but he delivered a good

speech and for what he was doing, very emotional. but emotional stuff, walk down memory lane and so forth. >> he also lied, he brings back the democrats only -- easy button going back to the line about charlottesville, talked about being tough on china. you're going to be tough on china now? when joe started pushing and shoveling for them to get permanent status in the world trade organization, china had an economy the size of the netherlands. hunter biden, he didn't talk too much about hunter strange enough, he took a $1.9 billion from the china government and the average person, that's $30 million a year in fees. in fees! $30 million a year annually and you think is going to be tough on china now? joe five for nafta, joe fought for tpp, all of the deals that really destroyed the american

dream. our only experts under joe biden's 50 year tenure has been the american dream the countries that hate our guts and have been manipulating us for decades. donald trump is the first guy to stand up to those people he's the first guy to actually get the deal done whether it's with china, whether a peace deal in the middle east, where is joe biden and where he has he been? he was in control for eight years with barack obama, why did they not do any of these things? and joe biden knew how to fix anything, why didn't he tell a barack obama how to do it? >> laura: or barack obama was keeping it secret to give to joe for later use when he was running. >> it's going to be their secret so now. at eight years of failure, eight years of stagnation, you know, you're going to listen to michael bloomberg who has spent a million dollars to win a american samoa, probably not going to take his advice either. >> laura: the elusive hunter biden since he mentioned him, don, he made the appearance tonight. and take a look.

>> i'm hunter biden. and i'm actuall ashley biden. >> we want to tell you what kind of president are dead will be. >> he will be tough. >> and honest. >> laura: do you know how they were trading words until the end until ashley said caring and principled? did they not 100 to say that? >> i don't think hunter after hiding for spousal support, child payments, et cetera, et cetera, again, not to mention the crooked ukraine deal, the politician, chinese government $1.5 million, not actually an investor before. i do not think that hunter will talk much about characters in these things but the reality whether it's hunter, joe biden's brother, whether it is his sister, they have all spent their entire lives profiting off joe biden, taxpayer-funded offices. that is all they know and that's honestly why they haven't had the decency to step in and say

hey, maybe not your turn, maybe it should not be you. they should have done that during the primary but they have nothing else. it's the epitome of the swamp and that's what the election will come down to. it's going to be the swamp versus freedom in america, it's going to be socialism as you have seen with the bernie sanders joint unity platform on joe biden's website. it will be socialism versus freedom. worse than the constitution and all of those things that the democrats don't believe so much in and you also did not hear and again, they brought up the hoax, the nonsense "they've been able he did the media" for months about charlottesville. it knows they did not talk about the crime and democrat run cities, burning, looting, beating people in the streets. joe is never even announce that and the democrats have never even to announce that it seems that they are allowing of it, laura. they're all democrats cities in over a century. >> laura: instead, the

references to the city was always in terms of what's in it inspiring that these new versions of john lewis were out. >> peaceful protesters. they don't burn down cars, housing projects, they don't loot who to stores to get a new handbag or purse or a belt, that is not peaceful protesting. and yet between the dnc and their marketing with the mainstream media, i heard a lot about peaceful protesting and i believe people called it the summer of love. to give me a break. i hope a good god-fearing american people see through this nonsense because that is the problem that we face. we are in a uphill battle in the sense that it is so biased, it is so flagrant, that the media has totally just advocated their responsibility to be arbiters of truth. without bias to be activists for the left and that regular people aren't consuming that sort of news. joe biden getting tough on china, i mean, it is laughable.

>> laura: it's beyond laughable. it's the china question alone. >> he should be able to do an interview like someone with yourself or someone who is not going to spoon-feed him questions that he already has the answer to that he is miraculously leading off the teleprompter. i don't think they will and nobody will push for it. >> laura: don, yes-or-no answer, do you think he is going to debate your dad, yes or no? >> i think he will try to get out of it however he can. laura: don, great to see oak. it turned me now karl rove and charlie hurt's, washing times opinion editor and both are fox news contributor's. is it enough to deliver a well-written speech and he lit ning demand delivered it well, he really didn't, he delivered it well. but the void of policies beyond the universal masking's for the most part. >> i read a lot more policy and

had the code words that would cause some of the on the left to say he's with us. no, one speech does not do it. one speech can open up opportunities for your opponent and tonight, he opened up some opportunities for president trump particularly on covid. he talked about and i thought it was interesting he open the section by saying i've been talking about this since march and then proceeded to outline the six things like rapid testing come up more ppe, so forth. i thought it was interesting. he knows he's got the vulnerability on this issue and the vulnerability is that he and his campaign were wrong on this issue almost from the start. it late january, remember, he has said in the china travel ban was hysteria and xenophobic, 31st of january. early february he sent out the campaign to say that this is less lethal than sars and is "probably not a serious

epidemic." that was his campaign. by mid-february, he said we don't have a covid-19 epidemic, we have a fear epidemic. late february, they're saying that it's difficult like the flu and it will dissipate with warmer weather moved to the southern hemisphere." "masks are not going to help." early march, he was still holding a rally in wisconsin and then he came out and opposed the european travel ban and then in mid-march, one of the few times he went on the records he said that "very early decision to close travel with china was we need to stop the xenophobic fearmongering. remember, he's a guy who presided over the obama-biden administration and over depleting the national stockpile of the ppe, the equipment that health professionals need and did not replenish it. the cupboard was bare when president trump had to go to the

cupboard. he's given the overprinting here tonight in several ways but i think this is the biggest one trying to pretend that since march. his plan was delivered in the interview two weeks ago and it was all six things and president trump and is an mensuration already done. >> laura: he will have 60 million rapid tests, charlie hurt's, like yeah, it must be really easy t to to roue 60 million rapid tests. since we talked about the word dignity, it used a lot over the last four days, hitting trump on the personality front. it is a dignified given what joe biden has said in the past? watch. >> the job is about a lot more than a paycheck, it's about your dignity. it's about respect. it's about your place in the community. it's about being able to say hey, it's going to be okay. and mean it.

i've never forgotten those lessons. that's why my economic plan is all about jobs and dignity, respect, and community. >> laura: of course he talks about taking people behind the woodshed and beating them up in the past. he's like hitting people left and right and suddenly he's a choir boy of politics and he's never buddy hi hit anybody hardn politics. >> this is a guy who has been given political speeches literally for 50 years. i've been here for a good 25-30 years and this is a fair to average speech from joe biden and he's a very garrulous kind of guy. going back to what karl rove just said it's a very important and we heard it from barack obama last night, heard it tonight, the idea that they are going to blame donald trump

for hundred and 70,000 deaths in america is so far beyond the payoff, it is so appalling, and it's not a far off thing. every american has been through this pandemic. they have felt it in some way in a very personal way. their lives have been up ended in a very personal way. this is not some far off debate club topic, this is something that has reached into their personal lives to varying degrees and affected them. and for them to sit there and listen to politicians squirming up the greasy hole talking about trying to blame 175,000 deaths on their opponents to reap some sort of personal, political reward at the end of it, i think it strikes people, especially in an emergency, is really, really gross. and so joe biden can talk about

light and help, try to give positive notes to his speech, but when the speech also contains that there's really nothing positive about it and i think that what comes through from the entire week. >> laura: a lot of use of personal tragedy for political ends and that's the way it fall to a lot of folks. >> it's disgusting. >> laura: gentlemen, good to see both of you tonight thank you so bunch. i'm next, raymond arroyo breaks don's the dnc flub and the democrats hope you didn't watch, but we did. don't go away. ♪ i am robert strickler.

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>> laura: to break down the final night of the dnc, some very revealing side events from earlier today, i want to bring back raymond arroyo, fox news contributor. rehman, last night of the dnc opened in the perfect way. >> she is fabulous. i cannot wait to see her debate our current vice president. is it paints? >> it's pronounced pontz, i believe. >> some weird flooring name? >> not very american sounding. >> this was so tone-deaf, the comedy here. this looks like a "veep" episode. remember, biden and

louis-dreyfus used to hang out? it's like a comedy. >> laura: a bad comedy. >> it felt like a disney attraction, complete with a set up film. watching this, i kept thinking you might call this thing strange moments with mr. bide mr. biden. >> stricken by disease, stricken by a virus. the undeniable -- just accelerating threats of climate change. this is the united states of america. there has never been anything we have been able to accomplish when we've done it together. >> you know, laura, everyone wasn't oozing about how fluid this was an beautiful. i found it labored, tortured, ever moments like this, gripping for dear life, hoping he didn't slip up. for many of those who watch these events, as i do daily, many of these lines are recycled and borrowed and bits of stories

strung together, so he was on familiar territory, but whether this broke through and whether his running mate of covid-19 will be enough to push him over the edge with swing voters, we'll see. i thought it was unsteady, particularly the end. >> laura: it seemed like he was really, really trying hard, and he didn't mess up a lot, so that's pretty good, for joe. >> you don't want an audience feeling sympathy. >> laura: raymond, i'm going to say what everyone else is thinking but not saying. >> okay. >> laura: there was a lot -- it seemed like there was a lot of airing of personal tragedy, which is horrible to go through, because we have all been through something. horrible. but that is not a reason to elect someone president because he has suffered enormously -- and he has suffered terribly. >> the covid suffering with his personal narrative, but i just don't think it is enough, and as expected, laura, religion took front and center stage here, including prayers from a controversial priest, and this next woman, a liberal activist

none. watch. >> stir our hearts and minds that we might fight for a vision that ends structural racism, bigotry, and sexism, immigrants are welcomed, bring out of this time of global and national chaos a new creation. a new community. >> joe biden will continue the progressive march toward justice. joe learned that from his parents. the nuns and priests in delaware taught him. more than anything, joe is a man of faith and conscience. >> laura, this is a narrative where clearly pushing tonight, trying to create a moral equivalence between joe biden support for abortion and his support for immigration, or climate change, and somehow, that balances things out. it doesn't. in the catholic teaching, abortion is a grave moral evil, and you are forbidden to vote for someone who supports it. they are trying to muddy the waters here, and when i heard jon meacham say "to save our souls, we have to vote for joe biden," that is quite a mouthful there, and biden sayi

saying, "faith sees best in darkness," no, this convention lived best in darkness. faith operates best in light. and that's where it should live, not in the darkness. a very curious invocation. >> laura: the invocation of john paul ii, love to talk about the light and life, so he uses that light analogy, and a lot of people online were saying, where is light in a million abortions a year in the united states? where is the light in not speaking for the most defenseless among us? where is the light there? there was a lot -- >> they talked about human dignity. you can't have human dignity if you don't have life, and we lament the 100,000 -- nearly 900,000 have been lost to abortion, that is at the heart of this party, and joe biden's agenda, it's got to be considered by all people. >> laura: raymond, was that actually a nun?

was she a nun? i wasn't even aware -- okay. >> they got rid of the habits a few years ago, some of these orders. she is an activist nun. she is mostly known for being on a bus, but -- >> laura: the nun on the bus. >> good night, laura. >> laura: raymond, thank you. a moment i got overshadowed by the msdnc. revisionist history. the last bite, moments away.

>> laura: msnbc spent the run-up to the big night by rewriting history. >> let's debunk the lie before it sits out there for even a second, there was no illegal spying, despite bill barr saying that that's what it was called. obama famously scandal free. >> no one in obama's inner circle was indicted. it was remarkably scandal free. >> laura: no irs scandal, no targeting the tea party scandal, no fast and furious scandal, none of it. it was all aboveboard -- sorry,

by the book. unfortunately, that's all the time we have. we'll see you back here at 10:00 p.m. tomorrow night. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team have all the analysis, and they take it all from here, and i will be watching. shannon, take it away. >> shannon: yes, and we will watch you come at 10:00 p.m., we return to our normal time for friday night. thank you, laura. >> laura: take care. >> shannon: breaking tonight, we're being told to expect a very different kind of convention next week. now the democrats have officially nominated joe biden, and now it's for the rnc. we are told to expect some live audiences, safely, and surprises