take a look. >> i lost my voice cheering for jesse jackson and mario cuomo. made primetime. >> i accept your nomination to run and serve with barack obama, the next president of the united states of america. >> we know jesse jackson is in attendance. we know about obama, and as we are speaking here, i'll tell you and viewers we expect to hear in a matter of moments the chair of the democratic party. jamie harris. but you look at that history, and now, joe biden has a big speech to give. and there may be other speeches obviously. he's the president of the united states. there's other events on the world spaj, but they may not be as big of a political audience as tonight. >> that's an important point and a very important distinction to make. this is, for the political speeches that he will have to give, the biggest he will give. it's a capstone on a political career. he is still the president of the united states, folks. so there will be other moments where he will have to talk to the nation. he will address big issues, maybe deal with something crazy that putin

i covered the 1984 jesse jackson campaign were on the road for 13 months and i consider for his family, friends. i've known jonathan jackson now congressman since he was in high school, was when i first met them that campaign went to towns and cities and churches that no politician ever went to when we won, said politicians visited churches. jesse jackson live in them and to your point, there is a whole generation of not just elected officials, but people who worked behind the scenes because of reverend jackson let's go to john berman, who is on the floor and you were there john watching and witnessing that moment. >> and i know now you're joined by the governor of illinois, jb pritzker. >> yeah, i am here with governor jb pritzker of illinois. and are they say, you know, if you build it, they will come governor, i think a lot of people think that you are responsible for helping build this convention. what's it feel like now that it's getting underway? >> well, we fought hard to win the convention for chicago and now you can see that not only have we put together a beautiful convention

bring on the good stuff. >>> before kamala harris there was the reverend jesse jackson paving the waylitics. last night democrats honored jackson whose activism and ground-breaking presidential campaigns in 1984 and '88 inspired generations of black political leaders. the "l.a. times" puts it this way, ardent followers say jesse jackson made a world where kamala harris could rise. reverend al sharpton was at his side on stage last night, he joins us now. he is president of national action network and host of msnbc's "politics nation." michael hardaway is back with us. reverend, i honestly don't remember whether it was '84 or '88 but i did go to a rally when jesse jackson was running for president. he gave a speech that was i guess his standard stump speech. it was one of the greatest speeches i have ever heard in my life. the man was gifted. but what's his role in what we see today in the democratic party? >> well, i think in many ways he laid the foundation. i knew reverend jackson since i was 12 years old, my mother brought me to the movement in brooklyn, new york, and i became one

. ♪♪ >>> in 1984, the reverend jesse jackson made his first run for president, a seemingly unlikely bidmocratic no, ma'am nation. he won four primaries and brought delegates to the national convention that year in san francisco. jackson tried again in 1988, this time winning 13 states and 1,023 delegates, nearly enough to take the nomination from michael dukakis. the people working behind the scenes including minyon moore, donna brazil -- they called themselves the colored girls. 40 years later in jackson's hometown of chicago, we've come full circle with reverend jackson receiving his flowers surrounded by fellow civil rights leaders. and the colored girls, now veteran democratic strategists, still behind the scenes. tina was chief of staff to vp kamala harris from 2021 to 2022. bishop leah doherty is presiding prow let of the house of the lord churches and cofounder of black church pac. donna bra zil is the former chair of the dnc. and minyon moore is the chair of this year's democratic national convention. i got to talk to all five of the colored girls at the dnc in chicago about the

this saturday, jesse jackson calls for party unity after losing the 1988 democratic presidential nomination to governor michael dukakis. >> when we divide, we cannot win. we must find common ground as the basis for survival and development, and change and growth. >> watch historic convention speeches saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two. watch c-span's live campaign 20 24 coverage of the democratic national committee in gust 19 through the 22nd. you go wash it republican national convention any time our website. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer held a news conference and talked about senate republicans blocking a bipartisan tax bill that would've expanded the child tax care at it, added tax breaks for small businesses and helps communities affected by natural disasters. he also talked about the 2020 four presidential election and proposed changes to the supreme court. >> thanks for waiting. >> okay thank you for being here. thanks for your good work. it's part of our congressional session and the few minutes ago something very disappointing and stunning

the mayor at that time, mayor daily was criticized as being a racist and he was by jesse jackson and b others. i stood with some of gene mccoffey. >> i walked with paul and the progressive movement. the progre movement to grand park. and i still can visualize the blood on the grass. >> i visualize the boo'd on the grass. i remember them getting up and telling us delegates there was connecticut liberals what was going on. i was supset and infuriated. we were told you cannot protest oran march the protest this past year since october 7th. they are different in the sense i feel that all lawful protests should be allowed. i have nothing against those who have family, friends ol palestinians, who like me, feel that there were tragedies on bothtr sides. i feel no pressure in my mind that hamas is a terrorist group. i definitely feel that prime minister netanyahu is doing things which should not be done and there is no reason for him toe berd murdering people in ga. >> why did you become a delegate and how did you becouple a delegate? >> i am well known i have been in the political party si

jesse jackson. is my third name. i'm adopted it when i had no name, my grandmother gave me her name. my name was jesse burned till i was 12 so i wouldn't have a blank space. she gave me a name, the whole me over on the stand for nobody knows your name. i understand when you have no name on the stand. i wasn't born in the hospital. mama didn't have insurance. i was born in the bad head house. i really do understand. born in the three room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop job by the bed. no hot and cold running water on the stand. wallpaper used for decoration? no, but windbreaker. on the stand. i'm a working person's person. that's why on the send you whether you are black or white on the stand work. i was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. i had the civil program for my hand. my mother, a working woman. so in the day she went to work early, my riding in the stockings she no better mesirow i'd rather have stockings so that my brother not could have met and sucked and not be laughed at his school. on the st

jesse jackson. is my third name. i'm adopted it when i had no name, my grandmother gave me her name. my name was jesse burned till i was 12 so i wouldn't have a blank space. she gave me a name, the whole me over on the stand for nobody knows your name. i understand when you have no name on the stand. i wasn't born in the hospital. mama didn't have insurance. i was born in the bad head house. i really do understand. born in the three room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop job by the bed. no hot and cold running water on the stand. wallpaper used for decoration? no, but windbreaker. on the stand. i'm a working person's person. that's why on the send you whether you are black or white on the stand work. i was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. i had the civil program for my hand. my mother, a working woman. so in the day she went to work early, my riding in the stockings she no better mesirow i'd rather have stockings so that my brother not could have met and sucked and not be laughed at his school. on the st

what if reverend jesse jackson didn't mobilize.'t have been able to say yes to canada if reverend jackson failed that would argue he was more successful and in fact this convention the lungs to reverend jesse jackson because absent his work we are not where we are today. [applause] and we heard a lot about representation how it matters. i wonder for you what that means. how does it mattered how do you see the impact of your activity? >> the humbling part about this is that i'm the first mayor in modern history that did not have ties to the -- all the other mayors of up to richard j. daley had ties and for some people there was a benefit to that. for others not so much. representation is not just about complexion. representation is about complexion and direction. i'd just did the reverend jesse jackson, didn't i? who we are providing a new pathway to how we do government in this country. as i said we are building affordable homes in chicago. in fact as i've said before $1.25 billion of investments for economic development and commun

the exonerated five, invoking the future of social justice, and honoring my mentor, the reverend jesse jackson. we will talk about everything that happened at the democratic convention, as well as what comes next ahead on politicsnation. plus , we will celebrate the life of a trailblazer who passed just a few days too soon to see the first african american woman ascent to the top of the democratic ticket. the daughter of congresswoman sheila jackson lee joins us to talk about her campaign to serve out the rest of her late mother's final term alongside former houston mayor sylvester turner, who is seeking to carry on the congresswoman's legacy for years to come. joining me now is congresswoman williams. my friend and a democrat from georgia. the congresswoman, it's great to see you again. you know we will get to george's moment during the dnc call this week, but, first, for my audience, i want to play more of the vice president's call to action thursday night. take a listen. >> america, we are not going back. but we never gave up because the future is always worth fighting for. and that's the f

[cheers and applause] i want -- since i was a teenager, i was meant toward by reverend jesse jackson. want to bring out some young men that i fought for. i referred to them then. they were known as the central park five. now they are the exonerated five. raymond santana, kevin richardson, cory white, others, the exonerated five. ♪ >> we won't go back. [cheers and applause] >> good, people -- good evening, people. my friends and i were imprisoned for a crime we did not commit. every day as we walked into the courtroom, people screamed at us, threatened us, because of donald trump. he spent $85,000 on a full-page ad in the new york times calling for our execution. [booing] we were innocent kids, but we served a total of 41 years in prison. rev. al sharpton still with us -- stood with us. now i'm proud to stand with him today. [cheers and applause] vice president kamala harris has also worked to make things fairer. i know she will do the same. i approve that message. [cheers and applause] >> i love these guys. these are my brothers. these are my brothers. yes indeed. america, i am use of

bush, michael doukahis and jesse jackson complained that japan was winning the united states said that, although he does not plan run for president, he hasn't ruled it out, and he probably would have won if he had run. i'm really tired of seeing what's happening to this country. because of us, other people live like kings, and we don't. by the way. real estate, trump is a descendant of self-made immigrants, he's the personification of the so-called american dream, when they arrived on the continent, they built some business, they pass it on to their descendants, he really, he has money, he has women, he has a large number of children, he has a large number of some adventures, he is quite a public person, so for a... a classic american, who wears a hat, who has the right to bear arms, who sees his country as such a great one, a great creation of their founding fathers, for him trump really, his candidate is the personification of his dream, but trump had no shortage of talent, by the mid -eighties, the businessman had become the owner of a good half of manhattan, bought a football team,

she got that from reverend jesse jackson. you more -- that is amazing. >> i will go with a similar vein. talking about shirley chisholm. the first black woman to run for president, for a major party ticket. back in 1972. we do not have to be able to see things that exist to see things that could actually happen. she was somebody who had a vision. young kamala harris, about seven or eight years old at that time in a politically active place like oakland. there was a ton of support for shirley. she could see herself as potentially president of the united states. of course, a lot of other people to name in that lineage. the senator from maine, pat schroeder, also ran for president. the senator from illinois. of course, hillary clinton, who gave one of the best speeches of the convention. one of the best of her career. shirley chisholm, an educator who became the first black female elected member of congress. in 1968. she was tireless. she never rested. when you look at, harris, you can trace that back to 1972. >> when there was

this saturday, jesse jackson calls for party unity after losing the 1988 democratic presidential nomination to governor michael dukakis. >> when we divide, we cannot win. we must find common ground as the basis for survival and development, and change and growth. >> watch historic convention speeches saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two. watch c-span's live campaign 20 24 coverage of the democratic national committee in gust 19 through the 22nd. you go wash it republican national convention any time our website. >>

bush, michael doukahis and jesse jackson complained that japan was winning the united states said that, although he does not plan to run for president, he hasn't ruled it out, and he probably would have won if he had run. i'm really tired of seeing what's happening to this country. because of us, others live like kings. and we don't. by the way, trump is a descendant of german immigrants who came to new york in the late 19th century. and donald was born, basically, with a silver spoon in his mouth. his father was a successful businessman, involved in real estate. trump is a descendant of immigrants who made themselves, he is a person who embodies the so-called the american dream, when they arrived on the continent, they built some kind of business, they pass it on by inheritance. he really has money, he has women, he has a large number of children, he has a large number of some adventures, he is quite a public person, so for the classic american, who is in a hat, who has the right to wear a gun, and who sees his country as such a great, a great creation of their founding fathers, for h

jesse jackson call for party unity after losing the 1988 nomination to michael dukakis. >> we must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change and growth. >> watch historic convention speeches, saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on america history tv an watch live campaign 2024 coverage of the democratic national convention august 19-22 and you can watch the republican national convention anytime on our website. >> welcome into a great national crusade to make america great again. >> taxes will go up. and anyone who says they won't is not telling the truth. >> we are in the midst of a spring time hope for america. >> because we are the party that believes in the american dream. >> read my lips. >> i still believe in a place called hope. >> here's the question for the american people. who do you trust in this election? >> the real choice is whether we will build a bridge to the future or a bridge to the past. >> i have unlimited confidence of the wisdom of our people in the future of our country. >> i stand here tonight as my own man and i want you to know me for

it is forever reverend jesse jackson. >> oh.uld not like you more, that is amazing. >> john, who do you have? >> i think i will go with a similar vain here, shirley chisholm. the first black woman to win for president, to run for president for a major party's ticket back in 1972. we don't have to be able to see things that exist to see things that could actually happen some day. i think she was somebody who had a vision. a young kamala harris about seven or eight years old at that time in a politically active place like oakland where there was a ton of support for shirley chisholm could see herself as president of the united states. a lot of other people to name in that lineage, margaret chase smith, senator from maine, senator from illinois brahm and hillary clinton who gave one of the best speeches of the convention and one of the best speeches of her career. but shirley chisholm educator, first black member of congress in 1968, i believe. she was tireless, never rested. and, you know, now she rests eternally in power and when

if i don't know any better you sound like reverend jesse jackson. >> jeanine: just last week, biden claimedred the economy and that's what his legacy should be. even kamala talks about the fact that bidenomics is working, i got at 23, july, august, august 23, bidenomics is working. this is all kamala harris, don't tell me she's not a part of it, she's promoting bidenomics and when they asked whether or not she's spending that she broke the tie vote with the american rescue plan. within one month the inflation went up i think it was 1.4%. it was under three for 111 months straight. they signed the american rescue plan, inflation one month went up to 4.2%. she's asked whether or not this biden's spending is going to cause problems -- prices have gone up, bread cost more but we have to understand what that means, gas costs more and we take it very seriously, very seriously, that's your answer. at the end of the day what they want to do, they want to double the capital gains tax, they want to reregulate everything trump deregulated and she wants to tax unrealized capital gains. they don't have

chisholm's campaign as a teenager and then one involved with your father's campaign, reverend jesse jackson who helped when i was a 12, i take pride in being part of this convention this week to see a black woman, shirley's dream, come true, becomes the nominee and possibly, according to the polls, can become president and certainly your father helping to pave the way and it will have great meaning and i am coming into chicago tonight and i will be there all week because it will have a great meaning in chicago. you hold an historic congressional seat and being the son of reverend jackson who helped pave the way for many of us and certainly me. >> first of all, i think god for that and in 1964 it was a drive for the freedom caucus, freedom housing, registering people to vote and i would say my father the, the reverend jesse jackson, he carried the baton around that level for that lap of the field and they started that massive voter registration drive and increased our positioning in the party and out of that fruit today you will see the next speaker of the house and he owes a tremendous grad

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there were pictures, jesse jackson, who ran for president and there were pictures jesse jackson earlier in the address as he stood and applauded for obama. and, of course, there are many groups who've been discriminated against to the united states as a country is treated badly. but when you single out groups rhetorically there tends to be a negative reaction from people not in those groups. so obama a different approach he is saying we need to help the people in central cities. he's saying we need to help the people in small towns. but he's saying that we need to help them not because they're different but because they're the same as all of us. they're americans just us. e pluribus unum, he says out many one. and that strategy of emphasizing our commonality, not our differences as a way of of supporting liberal policies and us be honest there are many communities representing, every possible race, every ethnic group, every gender that have been left behind. that's his. that's the strategy that gets developed. one of the two that in that section along with the american dream and along w

what if reverend jesse jackson didn't mobilize.'t have been able to say yes to canada if reverend jackson failed that would argue he was more successful and in fact this convention the lungs to reverend jesse jackson because absent his work we are not where we are today. [applause] and we heard a lot about representation how it matters. i wonder for you what that means. how does it mattered how do you see the impact of your activity? >> the humbling part about this is that i'm the first mayor in modern history that did not have ties to the -- all the other mayors of up to richard j. daley had ties and for some people there was a benefit to that. for others not so much. representation is not just about complexion. representation is about complexion and direction. i'd just did the reverend jesse jackson, didn't i? who we are providing a new pathway to how we do government in this country. as i said we are building affordable homes in chicago. in fact as i've said before $1.25 billion of investments for economic development and commun

peter: jesse jackson, george w.ush, hillary clinton, cornel west, french president nicholas are cozy, dick gregory, and in january of 2009, you had a special guest come in here unexpectedly. who was that? ms. ali: former president obama. his very first outing in washgton after he was elected president. and just a short time before his inauguration. he came to eat out in wasn right here. you see the sea that is the picture. he came with the mayor at that time and it was a delightful surprise. peter: you did not know in advance? ms. ali: no. peter: were you working that day? ms. ali: yes, i was here. but the way they do it, the secret service comes in first. we are not paying any attention to secret service. the secret service comes in first and a look around and make sure everything is just fine. and then he and the mayor walked in, and they lo door. it was on a saturday. saturday is always our busiest day. then they clsoed t -- closed the entire street, the whole block. you could not drive through the block at that

bush, michael doukahis, and jesse jackson complained that japan was beating the united states.ush said that while he had no plans to run for president, he hadn't ruled it out, and would probably win if he did. i'm really tired of seeing what's happening to this country, because of us, other people are living like kings and we're not. trump, by the way, is a descendant of german immigrants who came to new york at the end of the 19th century and donald was born , basically a gold spoon in his mouth, his father was a successful businessman, he was involved in real estate. trump is a descendant of immigrants who made themselves, he is a person who personifies the so-called american dream, when they arrived on the continent, they built some kind of business, they pass it on by inheritance, he really has, he has money, he has women, he has a large number of children, he... his candidate is the personification of his dream, but trump had no shortage of talent, by the mid-eighties, the businessman became the owner. half of manhattan, bought a football team, began producing alcohol, bui

jesse jackson hugged him. andy young hugged him. he made a change.n people make changes, the question you're getting, and i take you seriously when you talk about these things, she's got to prove she's not just ambitious. she's got to prove that she's authentic. i think people can change. you've got to give people the space to children. that's how mandela became president is because people changed. i hope people in the middle east can change. the jury's still out on a lot of those issues. in our political system, people jump from being democrat to republican just as president trump did and people believe he is more republican than he is democrat if he's not an all-together republican but i don't dismiss your point lightly. >> but george wallace didn't change his opinion on everything when he was running for president the next time. it was on his deathbed. >> it was before he died. >> so kamala harris is not on her death bed. >> i'm a christian. maybe he was changing sooner. when he died, the question is do you believe in those things and he believed

. >> jesse jackson. >> tony goldwyn. >> steve kerr. >> shawn fain. >> in the words of the great americangetting hot in here." [cheers and applause] >> desi: okay, yeah, i guess we had time for a dad bod strip tease. guys, it's really getting late now, so let's wrap up the other speakers and bring out joe! please welcome congressman jim clyburn. >> raphael warnock. >> kathy hochul. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> jaime raskin. >> jasmine crockett. >> chris coons. >> and i want to talk with you for just a few minutes. [laughter and applause] >> desi: jesus christ! is this still going on?? no disrespect to chris coons, but [bleep] chris coons. it's almost midnight! mama's got to get to bed. and you know who else has to get to bed? joe biden! for the love of god, let's hear from biden! >> please welcome ashley biden. >> desi: not that biden! it is 11:00. you can't be introducing new bidens right now! do we have to go through the whole family? is commander biden going to come out after this? [cheers and applause] it was so late by the time biden actually got on the stage, even the right-wing

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. >> there was a pause between speeches to honor the reverend jesse jackson, who went on stage in a wheelchair and did not speak, but waved to the crowd. they were excited to see him. jackson had some of the most electrifying speeches in democratic convention history over the decades. later tonight, delegates will hear from president joe biden, who will officially hand over the future of the party to his vice president, kamala harris. now, in addition to all of the excitement, and there has been a great deal of that, there have also been protests over the very latest. >> let's go to abc seven news reporter julian glover, who is in chicago and joins us live tonight. hi, julian. >> hey there. good evening, dan and ama. we are live here inside of the united center where the dnc is happening. and as you can hear by the applause happening right now, the energy is absolutely electric. just moments ago, we heard chants of union. yes, union. yes. as yet another union leader took the stage. we'll step out of the way here and you can see people still trying to make their way to their seats. it's kind of

but folks, when reverend jesse jackson came on, i paid attention.south carolina raised by a single mother. that was me. and as long as i live, i will never forget what he said. he challenged young people to hope and to dream. so that is exactly what i did. i dreamed big. i worked hard. and i never lost hope. [applause] when our power was cut off. when there was nothing in the fridge. when we lost our home to a con man, i never lost hope. and now, my friends, i am standing on the same convention stage that inspired me and i am the chair of the democratic party, the world's oldest political party. folks, only in america! and that is a beautiful thing about this country that i love so much. hope and hard work can take you anywhere. you can go to college. you can start your own business. you can even win the olympics. that is the america democrats believe in and that is the america that democrats are fighting for. [applause] so, four years ago, my friends, we were a country divided by fear. and we were stuck under a man who preached bigotry and hatred.

but folks, when reverend jesse jackson came on, i paid attention.uth carolina raised by a single mother. that was me. and as long as i live, i will never forget what he said. he challenged young people to hope and to dream. so that is exactly what i did. i dreamed big. i worked hard. and i never lost hope. [applause] when our power was cut off. when there was nothing in the fridge. when we lost our home to a con man, i never lost hope. and now, my friends, i am standing on the same convention stage that inspired me and i am the chair of the democratic party, the world's oldest political party. folks, only in america! and that is a beautiful thing about this country that i love so much. hope and hard work can take you anywhere. you can go to college. you can start your own business. you can even win the olympics. that is the america democrats believe in and that is the america that democrats are fighting for. [applause] so, four years ago, my friends, we were a country divided by fear. and we were stuck under a man who preached bigotry and hatred. ho

from fannie lou hamer, who in 1964 was denied a seat at the democratic convention right through jesse jackson, who in 1984 who's 1984 campaign opened the door really for so many of the gains and brought so many of us women to the table, including me and maxine waters. you name it. and so now here we are all these years later seeing the fruit that was born out of the seeds of fannie lou hamer of surely chisholm, of jesse jackson's campaign i'm so glad you mentioned fannie lou hamer, who of course, was blocked from being a delegate. >> we actually have a moment from that democratic now but mom of a pretty of the half of the break, we have to about a phone back but we human being it's incredible to hear oratory from that time of what do you think this moment means for women in the party, black women in the democratic party? you know, we stand on the shoulders of fannie lou hamer, who gave us the example of challenging this party of pushing this party while we champion unit. and so it's quite a different party than it was in 1964. but look where we are today and we continue in that legacy too. pu

. >> i am 73 years old, born in the bay area of california but jesse jackson was my hero in the 80's and he really brought the rainbow coalition together. we need to get rid of the electoral college. all of these logicians in the past need to retire and let kamala harris take the ball. all these old-timers need to sit back and let the younger generation take over. i think that is what we need to heal the government. if you subtract the money is used in corporate america for bombs and the defense industry and wall street, we will be in big trouble when this ai starts to happen and we will have a snowball of more fraud unless we clean up our internet. susan: thanks. a text from marilyn in texas who said tonight felt like a big release from a bad relationship. secretary clinton had poised style stating dreams are possible yet not guaranteed. all speakers provided encouragement and support to a more healthy relationship. i believe we might get healthier after a troubled time. next to a caller, sophie, an independent in indiana. what town is your estate in? >> connecticut. susan: your rea

of course, honoring civil rights icon reverend jesse jackson. and that we expect will be really powerful, especially in this packed arena. and something notable, too, is the opening remarks will be delivered by minnesota lieutenant governor peggy flanagan, who, if harris and walz win in november, would become the first female native american governor to serve in our country. and so that's something that will kind of set the tone. and then throughout the night, we expect other really big names. hillary clinton, for example, senator raphael warnock and first lady jill biden as well. >> yeah. no doubt. i'm thinking they're all going to be pretty powerful, especially hillary clinton. there's that factor of her having run for president didn't quite make it there. and of course, hoping she is hoping that kamala harris will finally shatter that glass ceiling. but i want to focus on president biden's speech. this is not the convention speech he expected to give a month ago. can you talk about what we expect to hear him say tonight as he passes the torch

jesse jackson calls for party unity after losing the democratic nomination. >> when we divide, we cannot win. we must find common ground as a basis for survival and development and change and growth. speeches saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern oamerican history tv on c-span two and watch c-span's life campaign 20 24 coverage of the democratic national convention august 19 through the 22nd. you can watch the republican national convention any on our website -- anytime on our website. ♪ >> this week, 2024 campaign trail is on the road with presidential and vice presidential candidates as they spoke in nashville, houston and atlanta. also, a look at the latest ads in the race and a closer look with a reporter in the u.s. senate race in texas. first, former president trump was on wednesday a guest at this years's national association of black journalists conference in chicago where he was interviewed by reporters from abc, fox and semaphore. this exchange with abc's rachel scott made headlines as the former president president questioned his democratic rivals heritage. >> some of your own suppor

the first woman of color to lead a presidential ticket. >> the party plans to honor reverend jesse jackson'slegacy here in chicago and across the country that could help lead kamala harris first back to the white house as president. tonight, jackson will be honored on stage here in the united center marketing 40 years since his first presidential campaign, historic one back in 1984 alongside him will be a son and fellow delegate democratic congressman jonathan jackson. he joins me here, live. >> congressman. thank you so much for being here. and we were just talking about this during the break, your father gave this historic speech just lifted the roof off of the building in atlanta at the dnc, giving his rousing keep hope alive message in atlanta. all all those years ago, let's listen to part of that talk it aside not bring greece in the faithful, not to support not surrender, may or may not get that projects know that qualified when you go. >> hold never surrender look, get better and better keep hope alive. just a powerful moment. and congressman what's that going to be like tonight when