this way, if you take kasich, meg whitman and susan molinari, they're not the speeches that are going to generate headlines or sound bites. but if you peel off and you remember that everybody's home, and fox news dipped in and out, but they did take john kasich. i'm pretty sure they did take michelle obama. and if you look at what they're saying, you take the substance of what she said and you play that in every living room in america, i'm not sure we know what we don't know about what happens next. >> joy reid. >> yeah, i mean hear hear. i just second and third everything that has been said here. riveting. michelle obama is riveting, was riveting. one of the best speeches i've heard her give, and i've heard her give many speeches. it was brilliant in that it wasn't really personal about donald trump. it was simply saying this is a really difficult job being president. it's hard, and he's just not capable of doing it. he's just not up to the job. it is what it is, right? i mean she literally said this

. >> susan molinari and john kasich being used as ponds. it is a sad, desperate reach for relevancy which they didn't have a voice in the republican party. nobody wanted him. he didn't come to the convention. >> reporter: the president's son eric lashing out republicans are crossing party lines. >> washtub republicans that got 0% of the vote in 2016 and still bitter that my father beat them so badly but there is no specificity or anything. >> reporter: donald trump heading out of the former vice president in his speech in wisconsin. >> biden is just a trojan horse for socialism. a trojan horse. he has no clue but the people around him are tough, and smart but we disagree with them very strongly. they are mean and angry. >> reporter: in minnesota he made sure to differentiate himself from his opponents. >> we will revitalize police department, protect religious liberty, defend the lives of our beautiful unborn children, appoint conservative judges, uphold free speech on college campuses, safeguard the second amendment, the right to keep and

live stream coming in from the democratic national convention at the moment forma representative susan molinari republican from new york they're actually going through a bunch of republicans who are speaking in support of joe biden at the moment and we will bring you that speech as i said from bernie sanders and michelle obama when they happen. for now we will look at well an election that's already happened actually this is in belarus where the president has told striking workers they won't be new elections unless his opponents tell him protesters across the country have made it clear they want alexander lukashenko out of the main opposition leaders fight on and take on a sky has said she's ready to lead a transition and is calling on security forces to switch sides a unit is will hold an emergency meeting on the issue on wednesday stefan with more from minsk. strikes are now snowballing around better loose one after the other factory workers joining in truck tractor a matter of fact with most of the country strategic industries are now experiencing large scale strikes by what. we don't agree

john kasich, susan molinari. and meg whitman and colin powell.hat you see the biden campaign making a conservative evidence is to rein in the republicans and what republicans call a permission slip to vote for joe biden, to vote against their party tours choose country over partisan or ideological attachments. that being said, you know, there was a lot of drama within the party, especially on the progressive side, about some of these republican speakers. you know, questions about how you could have someone who is a proponent of the iraq war take such a prime time slot and get more speaking time than somebody like alexandria ocasio-cortez, the future of the democratic party. >> yeah. i want to turn back now to the senate bipartisan report on interference in the 2016 election. so, one of the main take a whats fr takeaways from the whole thing, in this report, it is stated that the trump campaign, it seems, eagerly embraced russia's help in the 2016 election. what stood out to you, in this report? >> well, i think the most important thing that lawma

susan molinari, knew her as well. on the front lines fighting just as hard for the conservative values that the republican party used to stand for. yesterday we had george will and ann applebalm and david frum on the show talking about balancing the budget, small government, returning power and authority back to the states. challenging the imperial presidency, trying to make sure that article 1 powers were protected and preserved, all of the things that donald trump has worked hard against, even before this pandemic, running up the biggest deficits ever, the biggest federal debt ever, running up year after year the biggest budget ever, taking more power away unkons fusiconstitut from article i branch of government. this is -- again, it's you have people that have been considered conservatives their entire life, who will only be considered useful pawns of the radical left by people who have become members of a personality cult, who valued more power and the acceptance of donald trump than conservative values, again, th

it was susan molinari. so it's not just kasich, but it is so extraordinary and unusual to have that many members of the opposition party line up to say that they cannot support the incumbent president of their own party. meg whitman said he's bad in business. john kasich said he's bad. there are a large number showing major signs of dissent. it's very difficult to find folks who voted for hillary last time who are going to vote for donald trump this time. it is not as difficult to find folks who voted for donald trump who aren't going to do it a second time. it's impossible to imagine republicans pulling off anything similar in their convention. >> historically, how often has a convention speech moved the needle in any significant way? >> look, candidates can get a big bump out of their conventions. john mccain got a bump out of his with a very strong speech. it's classic. a new coveted convention speak. barack obama, using ray porter. those moments matter. they can create real bumps. it's about tying the p

and among them former congresswoman susan molinari.t for russia, former ohio governor john kasich also making a sad appearance. in that appearance -- there he is -- he claimed china joe's politics won't make a harp turn to the left -- sharp turn to the left. by the way, many of these must be t the same people who bring u the oscars. just less than a half hour later in their production, socialist senator bernie sanders had this to say. here he is. >> our campaign ended several months ago, but our movement continues and is getting stronger everyet day. many of the ideas we fought for that just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream. lou: mainstream, by gold lu are. well, let's talk about that. we're joined tonight by bill hagerty, republican senate candidate from tennessee. he won his primary last week. he's also former u.s. board -- u.s. ambassador to japan. and it is great to have you with us, bill. i want to ask you, first of all, about thehe sharp turn to the left. tlnow, i'm a little confused by the democrats --

so will susan molinari, rising star in the g.o.p. in the 1990s. she'll be speaking.eft side of the party and that is the message they want to portray. i think they will be some tripping online from progressives who think they didn't get enough. >> melissa: yeah. but martha, the message is clear. they are doing some very good jobs of honing it. we are all coming together as one, from far left of center, to even some republicans come because we are unified in this idea of beating president trump. that is a message they are putting out. is it effective? >> martha: my mind goes back to new hampshire, when we were up there right before covid-19 really settled in and changed everything. bernie sanders was expected to be the person who would win this nomination. once again, he finds himself on the back burner. a couple of the issues he pushed so hard for, medicare for all, for example, green new deal, elimination of fracking, you see the biden harris team already starting to move to the center on that. bernie sees as big as, no matter how much momentum he might have in some

you have christie todd whitman, susan molinari, and john kasich coming out again trump. >> greg: talk really there's one tent and it's full and that is never-trump-ism. at the moment you veer from that belief they're going to throw you out in the street where you belong. look, i love john kasich because he did that thing literally in a fork in the road, and it was such a stupid idea. he was like creating an editorial cartoon. you know the big her blocked cartoons and a guy would be standing in a fork in their road and he would write "fork in the road." and then there would be a donkey and an elephant on a seesaw and he'd be like, politics hanging in the balance. and then there would be a cloud ended with a "ominous cloud." it was like he was trying to create his own editorial cartoon, and it was so funny. but at least approximate air into the show. at least he was outside. >> juan: yeah. all right, president trump continues to counter the democratic message. that is next for you on "the five." ♪ all otc pain relievers including voltaren have one thing in common none are proven stronge

it was susan molinari who spoke in the '96 republican convention. so it's not just kasich, but it is so extraordinary and unusual to have that many members of the opposition party line up to say that they cannot support the incumbent president of their own party. as meg whitman said he is bad at business. john kasich said he is bad for the soul of america. look, donald trump is very popular among republicans, to the tune of 85 plus percent, but there are a large number of influential republicans showing major signs of dissent. and it's very difficult to find folks who voted for hillary last time who are going to vote for donald trump this time. it is not as difficult to find folks who voted for donald trump who aren't going to do it a second time. and it's almost impossible to imagine that republicans pulling off anything similar at their convention with this president. >> interesting. and just very quickly, historically, how often has a convention speech moved the needle in any significant way? >> look, candidates can get a big bump out of their co

state colin powell, former ohio and new jersey governors john kasich and christine todd whitman, susan molinari of new york, meg whitman who ran for governor of california in 2010 and carly fiorina. and former republican congressman charlie dent from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. congressman dent, thank you so much. you've been a lifelong republican. why are you supporting joe biden? >> well, jake, i'm doing this because, one, i did not support president trump in 2016. i did not vote for him. i'm not going to do it in 2020. but at the end of the day, this really isn't about right or left. it's not about ideology. for me it's about right or wrong. stability versus instability, security versus insecurity. normal versus abnormal. that's why i'm doing this because i feel that we need to return some sense of normalcy to the function of government. we simply don't have that now. and that's why i'm going to be voting for joe biden for president. >> so, i'm sure you are going to hear from a lot of republican colleagues, current and former republican congress men who say joe biden is a democra

am susan molinari, former republican member of congress from york city and i have known donald trumpo disturbing. i have also got to know and work with joe biden on issues related to women that are so important to all of us. women in business, violence against women. that is why i'm so proud to call him my friend. and honored to join in support his candidacy for president. he is a really good man. and he is exactly what this nation needs at this time. now i am delighted and honored to introduce a former colleague of mine. the former congressman from ohio, the former governor of ohio, john kasich. america's crossroads. -- which path we want to take when it comes to challenging times. americas at that crossroads today. the stakes in this election are greater than any in modern times. many of us have been deeply concerned about the current path we have been following for the past four years. it is a path that has led to division, dysfunction, irresponsibility, and growing vitriol between our citizens. continuing to follow that path will have terrible consequences for america's soul, bec

they include the former governor of new jersey, christine todd whitman, meg whitman, as well as susan molinari. she was the keynote speaker at the 1996 republican national convention, but capping things off and a big message will be michelle obama, probably the most broadly popular person in the entire country at this point. we haven't heard her talk about joe biden much. her husband is all in, but it will be interesting to hear michelle obama's message, speaking not just to democrats but to the entire american audience. >> trying to animate the democratic party. thank you very much. in 2016, donald trump showed that he was not going to abide by the unspoken courtesy of laying low during the other party's nominating convention. remember, it was during the 2016 dnc that he infamously said russia, if you're listening. this time is no different. while the democrats are holding an entirely virtual convention because of the pandemic, the president will be holding two in-person events in two states he wants to win. he just arrived in minnesota, as you can see. holding a usa hat, where he'll be meeti

what about the effect of having republicans up on the stage, you know, john kasich, meg whitman, susan molinari? how effective do you think that was? how hard do you think it was to lasso some republicans to come to the dnc? >> reporter: you know, we had every expectation heading into last night. the theme of the evening was "we the people." we know that the democratic party wants to use this week to feature sort of the diversity that they feel like is key to them winning november. we saw that in terms of the racial diversity that we saw on screen, but so much of last night was about political diversity and reassuring people, you know, if you voted for donald trump in 2016, or if you are not a traditional democratic voter, perhaps you have never voted for a democrat in the past, it is okay if you are currently thinking about voting for joe biden come november. you know, whether it is the man who said he had never voted for a democrat in the past but he is planning on voting for joe biden, democrat for the first time, or the woman who told the story about her father's death. her father died beca

challenge you on that, wasn't the addition of some high-profile republicans, the john kasiches, susan molinari, people like that into the d.c., wasn't that an attempt to get the swing voters? >> it certainly may have been an effort to say to republicans, hey, you don't like this guy, don't hold your nose and vote for him. you're welcome over here. but i don't think that was the main thrust of the message of the four nights that i watched. nor do i think that the trump campaign will be looking for any new voters in the next four nights. >> it is a little bit of a kick in the you know what to see this list of republicans, jeff flake, charlie dent, who's on our show, jim leetch, this list of republicans coming out this morning and saying they're voting for joe biden. i know no one on this list is a member of the freedom caucus, exactly, but it is something on the morning of the republican convention to see a group of republicans endorsing your opponent. >> right, it's not a great story line for him, but i think as michael points out, if you're going for the base, his appeal was, i am not one of t

susan molinari of showing it's okay to be a republican who is not on board trump.nd so, yeah, i thought it was incrementally better. but the big weapon was michelle obama. a pop culture figure. >> no doubt. >> she has a real grip, and she cashed it in. she really did well. >> cornell, did they stretch the tent without ripping the middle? >> mike stole all my talking points. the kasich thing was a permission structure. clearly from a strategic standpoint, they were trying to get republicans who are uncomfortable with donald trump permission to land on the democratic party. and i think when you look at the midwestern battleground states. also look at where we're trying to stretch the map. arizona, you know, in 2012, we weren't spending money in arizona in 2008 either. and look at georgia. they are actually talking about spending money in georgia. on the biden campaign. so when you start talking about stretching the map and being able to bring in more of these uncomfortable republicans, give them permission to land softly on joe biden, i think from a strategic standpo

the four who are speaking, kristy todd whitman, john kasich, meg whitman, and susan molinari, formerngresswoman from new york are speaking. you know, former john kasich is not exactly progressive when it comes to women's issues. meg whitman stop and frisk is part of her kind of background and support for it. what should progressives make of that? >> i would hope progressives will do as the rest of us progressives do. and that is recognize the fact that this is a country made up of a plethora of people who sometimes disagree. the fact of the matter is we have to find common ground. and i often talk about the 58 years i spent in marriage with my late wife. we often disagreed. but the fact of the matter is we looked for common ground to make that marriage successful. and i think that that's what we need to recognize as a country. seek and find there are times when i agree with my progressive friends. sometimes i may disagree. it's not on the go. it's about how best be getting there. and i would hope that we would come together as a party, pull ourselves out, unify as a party. that way w

publican governor of ohio who ran against donald trump and this was a big surprise to a lot of us susan molinari who was a republican congresswoman who was the keynote speaker at the 1996 republican convention they're all speaking at the democratic convention tonight on behalf of the biden arris ticket that shows you how much disaffection there has been. long republicans under donald trump's presence and let me ask you briefly about the virtual convention that's going to be held obviously we're used from the outside to saying that the big spectacle of the conventions with the falling balloons the chairs and the signs and so on let me ask you how you feel this virtual convention is going to resonate with voters given the fight that that it's it's almost like a a town hall a virtual town hall that's going to be held with people actually up without appeal to people. we have no idea that is the big unknown going into this convention look there has been a tradition. for you know many many years now that each party gets a bump in the polls after its convention and a lot of that is because of the hoopl

you had susan molinari, very, very effective. you saw the lady who founded ebay. she's very effective. christy todd whitman, she's a powerhouse. she's so impressing. meg whitman, she's another one. you're going to see others who are going to come out and say this is not the way to fix america. it doesn't mean they're abandoning their party. look, we have to see where the party goes. the party is just -- i'm very disappointed in them. i'm disappointed in their silence and i'm disappointed in an agenda that doesn't seem to be very positive. for example, how do you take away health care from 20 million people and you don't have a replacement? that's absurd. so, look, call it like you see it, the democrats, my criticism for them, sometimes they get too extreme. they punish, some in party want to punish success. they want to say because somebody has built a great company, we ought to get rid of it. i don't buy that. we'll see where it goes. i've always sort of felt, abby, that if the situation is that if there's not the support in the republican party or the democratic

sanders and the other democratic presidential candidates, christie todd whitman, meg whitman, susan molinari, and former ohio governor john kasich. one of the things former governor kasich said was that america is at a crossroads. we want to get your reaction to that sentiment. you can see the phone numbers on the screen. 202 is the area code, democrats.0 four for republicans. 202-748-8922 for others. we want to hear from you and you can call we will take the calls in just a minute. we want to replay what john kasich had to stay. >> americas at a crossroads. a choice we make as individuals and a nation about which path we want to take when we come to challenging times. america is at that crossroads today. the stakes in this election are greater then any in modern times. many of us have been deeply concerned about the current path we have been following for the past four years. tois a path that has led division, dysfunction, irresponsibility, and growing vitriol between our citizens. pathnuing to follow that will have terrible consequences for america's soul because we are being taken down th

republicans, yesterday obviously represented by former ohio governor kasich but also by meg whitman, susan molinarithey can't support trump. then you see that's the sort of anti-trump base on the right. but then you saw the anti-trump base on the left. i think what joins them, sandra, is often a very populist edge that says you know what? we are here to stand for the average guy, for the average american. and by the way, i think everything from "the star spangled banner" through interviews with people yesterday, that seemed to be the message that the democrats wanted to convey, they're standing there with ordinary americans saying you know what? this is not the country that we envision and we're not getting the kind of help and leadership that we deserve. >> sandra: at the same time, isn't it ironic next to you is video of the entire convention launched by a celebrity? is that the way to reach out to everyday americans, many of which are still unemployed and struggling due to a pandemic? >> well now, you know, sandra, i think we live in an era of celebrities and it's often said that culture dictate

susan molinari of a different era.sonating in this campaign just as it was in the 1960s. >> woodruff: david brooks, very powerful images we've been looking at. i think we never get tired of watching john lewis march across the bridge, even though of course 40, 50 years ago he confronted a terrible adversary. but how much is this -- how important is this right now to the democratic party message? >> first i've never performed with common before, i hope i can do this every friday night. it's central, you know, it's funny that george floyd thing galvanized the nation. what was striking about the mars that came after how diverse they were in atlanta, minneapolis, 70-80% of the marchers were white. i think there was a sense first that we've had enough. second, that the african american experience over the course of 400 years was somehow representative and extreme version of the that is right people were feeling. the country is not going to healed unless that rift is not healing. the attempt to heal that rift is in a way the

also spoke at last night's first night of the convention, john kasich, former ohio governor, susan molinari, 1-time vice chairman of the republican caucus 1990-1997, former new jersey governor christine dodd whitman, administrator of the epa under the george w. bush administration 2001-2003 and the former ceo of hewlett-packard, meg whitman, republican candidate for california governor and co-chairwoman of the presidential campaign, couple highlights, we start with curtis in baltimore, maryland, joe biden on the first night. >> we have to leave this program. you can watch our programs online, c-span.org. the u.s. senate is about to come in, part of our long-time commitment to bring gavel to gavel coverage of congress and now live to the floor of the u.s. senate on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the parliament will read a communication to the senate. the parliamentarian: washington, d.c., august 18, 2020. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable ted cruz, a senator from the

also spoke at last night's first night of the convention, john kasich, former ohio governor, susan molinari, 1-time vice chairman of the republican caucus 1990-1997, former new jersey governor christine dodd whitman, administrator of the epa under the george w. bush administration 2001-2003 and the former ceo of hewlett-packard, meg whitman, republican candidate for california governor and co-chairwoman of the presidential campaign, couple highlights, we start with curtis in baltimore, maryland, joe biden on the first night. >> we have to leave this program.