joining me now amy mcgrath. thank you very much for being with us.ant to ask you about the stalemate in congress, if you were in the senate, i'm pretty sure i know what you would do, but mitch mcconnell is almost single handedly because he's not part of the negotiations and isn't able to deliver republican votes holding up any real agreement. right now there are only three sides in the room. >> well, it's really just a dereliction of duty. i mean, he is missing in action right now, and this really hurts kentucky. we have 100 or a million unemployed right now. we have 300,000 kentucky ians without health insurance. the house passed this bill in may to provide more relief for americans. mitch mcconnell does nothing over the summer, waits until the last minute and puts up a bill that is woefully inadequate and walks away. it's dereliction of duty. that is just one of the reasons we have got to get rid of him. >> i mean, the race is close. you had a very tough primary, but he is going for his seventh term. he's a republican leader. he's got the republica

back, i will say i do believe that amy mcgrath has the exact kind of profile that is someone who will be able to take down mitch mcconnell in kentucky, it is no easy task. let's face it -- he is a tough candidate. but she has the right persona, particularly as a veteran in this country. we have got a ways to go yet in that campaign. i think she is our best chance at beating mitch mcconnell. one way or another, we are going to make sure mitch mcconnell is not the leader of the senate. but it sure would be nice if you were not in the senate. host: from madeleine in west virginia, republican line. sayer: i would just like to i am all for women's rights. but women need to follow the bible. speak --f them that realize we kill our babies by the hundreds. right.en, that's their it's their body. no, it isn't their body. god, and we are ,o recognize and protect life see the convention does not even mention the stuff that is going on. democrats, they kill -- they knock a man unconscious. you don't hear that from the democrats. why? host: ok, madeleine. thank you. guest: i think, madeleine, i ap

speaker of the house nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell's senator challenger amy mcgrath will be here. stick around. >>> i think there's 15 or 20 of my guys that are not going to vote for anything and i think their argument is not irrational. it's that we have a massive debt now and they don't think we ought to pass it in one of the bills. i don't agree with that. but it's a statement of the obvious we won't have everybody on our side. >> mitch mcconnell essentially admitted a third of his gop colleagues will not vote for any coronavirus relief package. stuck in the deadlock, the senate adjourned for the weekend, allowing both the supplemental $600 weekly unemployment insurance checks and the moratorium on evictions to expire. against that back drop, mcconnell's democratic challenger, fighter pilot amy mcgrath is making this pitch to voters. >> over a million kentuckians have filed for unemployment. but mitch mcconnell has only used his power to save the special interests and big corporations and they didn't have to stand in any line. the rest of us, he says kentucky should file for ba

. >> amy mcgrath, who is running for the senate in kentucky, has been back and forth with the attorneyeeted the other day, today marks 100 days since kentucky attorney general took on the breonna taylor case and still no report released the findings or handed over to an independent counsel who could ensure a fair and timely process. the district attorney responded amy mcgrath has demonstrated fundamental misunderstanding of the criminal justice system, the investigation process and even the size of our office. i hope she will stop disrespecting the men and whom who make up the office of the attorney general and are working hard on this investigation. so it just sits there, and is there some hope in the congressional office that it will just stop, that people will forget? >> people historically have tried to wait processes out for so long that people give up. but both breonna taylor's family and local activists in kentucky and in louisville have been very, very clear that they have been working on this before breonna taylor was killed, and they are going to be in this for the long haul.

i'm amy mcgrath. now i'm running for senate in kentucky against mitch mcconnell. can win, but i need your help. with your contribution, we can finally remove mitch mcconnell from office and start repairing the damage he's done to our country. i approved this message... because this is gonna take all of us. thinking about your fi...so are we... prudential helps 25 million people with their financial needs. with over 90 years' of investment experience, our thousands of financial professionals can help. go to prudential.com or talk to an advisor. first night of the republican national convention. a lot of it will play out in washington d.c. at the historic and beautiful auditorium instead of charlotte, north carolina. this event was reimagined. the democratic national convention last week and he's giving himself star billing each and every night. jake, it begins only a few minutes from now. >> that's right. wolf. i can't help but think about the fact trump aids and campaign aids talked about how the president was going to project a hopeful and optimistic vision for t

amy mcgrath has a lot of money. she's running a big race and trying to kind of bring all democrats back under the same tent especially after a big competitive primary election against a progresse democr primary rival, charles booker that made a late run in that race. so it's up to amy mcgrath -- she's trying to unite democratic party and pick-off more conservative voters that have tibeen for trump in the past election as w >> ryland, we heard about how en prestrump and the republicans seem to be messaging to his base in the rnc. what are people on the ground tesaing you about the mge and how they're receiving it there? >> i think what republicans are excited for is tryi to -- so much of is based on opposition mocrats and keeping enacted.ic policies from being s goes down to mcconnell as well. you know, over the last couple years, keeping democratic policies in the house from passing out of congress because of the republican-led senate. people in kentucky are still excited about theresident and at least republicans i

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even in kentucky, mitch mcconnell in this latest polling has only a five point lead over democrat amy mcgrath. these are not the races the democrats need necessarily to win to take back the senate. those are the ones they are not supposed to win. but here we are. look, it's a big country. 350 million people. we disagree about a lot of things, nearly everything. but the thing is there is still actually a lot of unity out there. the polling shows most of us, most of us understand the importance of things like wearing masks to combat the pandemic, for one thing. and while it is not an overwhelming majority, 55% of the country does realize that the guy running for the country is doing a terrible job. and right now with, you know, 90 plus days until election day, the only way out is to flex our democratic muscles and for everyone to come together across all sorts of lines in american life. i mean, people that don't necessarily agree with each other, right, to deliver the same verdict that americans delivered to president herbert hoover way back in 1932. for some historical perspective on this race

something i will say that the person who very narrowly defeated you in that democratic primary amy mcgrathwonder what that's going to do in her general election results. but i wonder if you could just comment on, you know, black lives matter started not with a police killing but with the killing of trayvon martin, a civilian versus civilian. do you think this will resonate with young people the way that gun violence has in november? >> i know it is. while we're saying breonna taylor's name, we're talking about so much more. people are focussing in on the structural issues and the fact that so many of our communities are broken by this public health crisis. we're actually how do things become better? that's why hood to the holler is so important. all these people that are standing up, we see you. and we know that together we can redefine politics, put a new wave of leaders in place and, yes, we could have a new southern strategy. we will take that through november and stream roll into our future because we're not turning back. >> what do you think is the reason, jaime, that your campaign is

i'm amy mcgrath. now i'm running for senate in kentucky against mitch mcconnell. can win, but i need your help. with your contribution, we can finally remove mitch mcconnell from office and start repairing the damage he's done to our country. i approved this message... because this is gonna take all of us. >>> the big finish at the democratic national convention begins soon. joe biden on the brink of his acceptance speech. also ahead, a star endorsement from the nba's steph curry. we'll hear more from how joe biden relies on his faith through the best and the worst times. in a new cnn documentary, gloria borger talks to senator chris coons about the dark days when biden's son, beau, was dying. >> i don't know how joe biden had the strength to be vice president and to keep a full schedule and be present for his son, beau. >> did you see a change in him? >> on occasion, you could see in his eyes this -- so. he, umm -- i would see him in meetings fingering his rosary beads. i knew he was praying for him. joe, on occasion, would come into st. ann's or st. patrick's. h

if he wants to give his opponent an issue, he couldn't give her a better issue amy mcgrath to just sayill promise you i will make sure that we save the post office, that we save social security, that we save medicare. and i won't cower in the corner from this president. so i think he's in some kind of trouble. and i would bet you'll see some money going to the post office. that's a bold prediction. >> well, she's also a military veteran, 15% of the staff of the post office are military. there are already signs that trump is already prethrowing dejoy under the bus. he said i don't know what he's doing. he's already kind of set the table that he's going to throw him under the bus. is dejoy about to find out what happens when you get limelight when donald trump doesn't think you're helpful to him? >> well, that is his standard play when there's someone in trump's orbit that runs afoul of the media coverage, let's say, and runs into some trouble, the president is quick to distance himself from that person. we certainly are starting to see some signs of that now. it's not clear exactly how

amy mcgrath, only five points in that poll behind mitch mb connell. this is a state trump won by 36 points. that's a shocking result. one thing to keep in mind here, there's another poll in the last couple days that also came out in kentucky. let's match them up here and see if they're both finding the same thing. this is from morning concelt. you see they're finding something different. they're finding mitch mcconnell ahead by 17 points. you have five in this one and 17 in that one. and what that makes me say is let's hold our horses here before we say battleground kentucky. let's see if there are more polls that come out that look like this quinnipiac one because it could be an outlier when you have other polls out there that show a dramatically different result. that's the story on kentucky. let's look at another one here. this one getting attention, too. south carolina. here's lindsey graham, he's been there since 2002, in the united states senate, being challenged by democrat jaime harrison. again, south carolina, a very red state. not as red whe

back, i will say i do believe that amy mcgrath has the exact kind of profile that is someone who willo take down mitch mcconnell in kentucky, it is no easy task. let's face it -- he is a tough candidate. but she has the right persona, particularly as a veteran in this country. we have got a ways to go yet in that campaign. i think she is our best chance at beating mitch mcconnell. one way or another, we are going to make sure mitch mcconnell is not the leader of the senate. but it sure would be nice if you were not in the senate. host: from madeleine in west virginia, republican line. sayer: i would just like to i am all for women's rights. but women need to follow the bible. speak --f them that realize we kill our babies by the hundreds. right.en, that's their it's their body. no, it isn't their body. god, and we are ,o recognize and protect life see the convention does not even mention the stuff that is going on. democrats, they kill -- they knock a man unconscious. you don't hear that from the democrats. why? host: ok, madeleine. thank you. guest: i think, madeleine, i appreciate y

i'm amy mcgrath. now i'm running for senate in kentucky against mitch mcconnell.ed your help. with your contribution, we can finally remove mitch mcconnell from office and start repairing the damage he's done to our country. i approved this message... because this is gonna take all of us. >>> live pictures of the white house, a beautiful shot of washington, d.c.. a lot of the events taking place at the white house, during this, the second night of the republican national convention. we'll be hearing from melania trump, secretary of state pompeo. here is jason joyce. >> i'm an eighth generation lobster fisherman from maine. i have to confess i didn't support trump in 2016, skeptical that he shared my conservative views, i expected him to flip-flop on his campaign promises, but he has followed through on his promises including last week when he brokered a deal to end a tariff of 8% on maine lobsters. i live on an island with 370 residents lobstering is how we provide for our families. we practice conservation every day. if we didn't, we would be putting ourselves ou