jill biden. -- joe biden. >> tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. this year, i am testing my first presidential vote for joe biden. we will replace donald trump with a president who respects us tennessee casts 50 votes for our josephesident, mr. biden. ago, we were targeted by an arsonist and it devastated all of us. in the face of he, we choose love. in the face of continued gun violence in america, we demand change. the time,. nextst 161 vote for our president, joe biden. had mail-inwe have voting for years. he automatically get sent a ballot. it is fast. we had turn out well over 80%. this year, we are expecting even higher. mail-in voting strengthens our democracy. utah cost 17 votes for bernie .anders >> the state of vermont strongly believing an economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice, probably. imminently opposed to authoritarianism is proud to cast 15 votes for vermont senator bernie sanders and nine votes for joe biden. recognition, i will .edicate [indiscernible] mites and beaches and friendly people. >> virginia. >> charlottesville, virginia was attacked by whites ass

jill biden. -- joe biden. >> tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. this year, i am testing my first presidential vote for joe biden. we will replace donald trump with a president who respects us tennessee casts 50 votes for our josephesident, mr. biden. ago, we were targeted by an arsonist and it devastated all of us. in the face of he, we choose love. in the face of continued gun violence in america, we demand change. the time,. nextst 161 vote for our president, joe biden. had mail-inwe have voting for years. he automatically get sent a ballot. it is fast. we had turn out well over 80%. this year, we are expecting even higher. mail-in voting strengthens our democracy. utah cost 17 votes for bernie .anders >> the state of vermont strongly believing an economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice, probably. imminently opposed to authoritarianism is proud to cast 15 votes for vermont senator bernie sanders and nine votes for joe biden. recognition, i will .edicate [indiscernible] mites and beaches and friendly people. >> virginia. >> charlottesville, virginia was attacked by whites ass

president biden. >> he knows exactly what is at troopshen he sends our overseas. >> biden understands how important it is to have allies standing with us. they are force multipliers. >> joe bidenque apology to connect to people. he knows leaders and he knows what makes them tick. >> they trust his judgment and they know that his word is good. >> i know that bidens personal diplomacy will save american lives. >> to build these relationships takes decades, and to tear them tweet.ll it takes is a >> thanks to donald trump, our adversaries are stronger and bolder. not been trump has the standing up to the dictators in china and russia. >> i served for 36 years. i have led space corps drones, nuclear missile quadrants and i never thought we would have a president who is a danger to national security. >> president trump has degraded and do based the presidency and our country in the eyes of the world. >> them bounties on the u.s. soldiers, i was shocked when i read that. but the president did not even ask president putin about it. >> that is un-american. that is a dereliction of duty. you are feeling the troops and the country. >> first being the president's to do is find out what t

. >> joe biden. >> joe biden. >> kala march ri come back state of joe biden casts one vote for bernie sanders and 34 votes for the next president, joe biden. >> joseph biden. >> joe biden. >> joe biden. >> joseph r. biden! >> i'll be proud to carry the banner of our party to the general election so it's a great honor and humility i accept this nomination for president of the united states of america. >> all right. that was the democrats. next up, the republicans so stay with cnn for our coverage of the republican national convention. that starts on monday. >>> that's it. that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. "early start" up next. stay with us. hike! simon pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. they're off... in the kentucky derby. rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. he scores! stanley cup champions! touchdown! only mahomes. the big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. >>> make no mistake, united we can and will overcome this season of darkn

bidens are as excited being there. you can see their children, their grandchildren. joe biden and jill biden are as would be to be on the floor. here he comes. >> has officially been nominated by the democratic party as our candidate for president of the united states. vice president biden is hereby invited to deliver an acceptance speech. >> well, thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart. thank you all. it means the world to me and my family, and i'll see you on thursday. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> might be the shortest speech vice president biden has ever given because he's got a big one coming up on thursday night. >> so does his wife, dr. jill. we'll be hearing from her shortly. chuck todd, walk back for a minute. south carolina, before south carolina it was he's fighting for his political life, his last chance, his last shot. and tonight he accepts the nomination. >> lester, i'm old enough to remember when we thought we were going to be covering a contested convention in milwaukee. remember that? there's just no way this is all going to happen. can we take a step b

biden last year in an elevator at the "new york times" building. a clip of jackelyn went viral when she said i love you to biden. bidenn't earn "the new york times" editorial endorsement but the campaign continuously toted jackelyn's endorsement of joe biden. tonight she will be the first person offering that nominating speech of biden at the convention and this is just another everyday american that the convention organizers are trying to highlight. yesterday, we heard direct personal encounters that amtrak workers had with jill biden. today we'll hear from jackelyn, the security guard from "the new york times" that biden can connect to people across the country. >> stand by. the convention is playing out after the firestorm of mail in voting is heating up. john king has more. the fears of voter suppression, what it could all mean in key battle grounds. what are you learning? >> wolf, the president says mail in voting is full of fraud. it is not. democrats say they have questions for the postmaster general that threatened maybe we can't deliver the ballots to the people on time. let walk through this in a couple diff

biden and biden's super pac's. during the convention this week, biden and his allies will have the opportunity to present a positive message from him. that is what i am looking for, how do they balance that anti-trump messaging which has brought the party together versus biden presenting a positive vision for the country, which, while he has spent several weeks outlining his economic recovery plans, i do not think that has broken through in the same way then his really antitrust messaging has broken through. we will see if this we will see if this would changes that. host: do you think medicare fall gets elaborated on, considering, also, senator harris' posi tioning on it? guest: i doubt it. there is a very good chance bernie sanders will bring it up come of course. he has been giving basically the same speech for dozens of years. and medicare for all has long been a big part of it. so you may hear that from him, potentially. but i do not think you will hear -- perhaps speakers aoc and folks like that -- but that is about it. primary,, during the opposed medicare for all. that was one of the biggest fights within t

biden campaign. why can doctor jill biden go to sit down interviews at length with joe biden can't? y is a candidate refusing to sit down for 20, 30 minutes at length, the president gets unfairly treated by the media but at least he sits down with the adversarial media. i want a president that can look the media in the eye and give clear answers to tough questions. this is a losing issue for the biden campaign. they know he has defining mental faculties and know he does not have the ability to have conversation with any journalists in the 20 or 30 minutes and have it be a favorable result and the president to talk about it daily. he should force the issue and say i said there were tough journalists but joe biden won't. i can handle it, he can't. that radical california senator is more running like copresident then vice president. this is a winning issue for the president that will soon be reflected in the polls. steve: i agree with that actually. the closer we get the more this will be an issue. that's all we have time for tonight. bret baier and martha maccallum are up next when the

biden ready for final confrontation. and also a german paper which says team against trump with joe paper which says team against trump withjoe biden paper which says team against trump with joe bidenhich says team against trump withjoe biden and kamala harris picture talking online. i'm sure you all soft kamala harris picking there. what did you make of that? about you came across very well. public speaking is certainly one of her major attributes. in many ways they are a team that makes sense. we already see that kamala harris is bringing together different batches of the democratic party and some of the moderates and more of the radical left. they might think she is not quite as regressive as we will like and the moderate left say she may be a bit more progressive than but she will do. taking those prejudicial candidates is not interested in appealing more to independence and even republican voters who are just sick and tired of donald trump. this is definitely a selection thatjoe biden wants to woo a selection thatjoe biden wants to woo voters like that and potentially this week was going to reach out to them but he has gone for one more about uniting the democratic party in ma

biden. they will appear with their children to talk about biden, the state of america, and keeping the faith. biden'support for the u.s. military also a big focus tonight. senator and wounded warrior tammy duckworth and other veterans will vouch for biden's commitment to the troops and their families. we're covering the convention finale with our political team with jake tapper, dana bash and abby phillips. jake, what more do we know? >> we're told that joe biden will use his speech to attempt to look to the future, to try to give americans hope. a campaign adviser telling us the former vice president understands the gravity of this moment, and he sees it frankly as bigger than president trump. we're told that biden will have sharp words about president trump, especially about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. and about america's place in the world currently. but overall, aides say that biden will lay out a positive vision for the u.s. we've heard some forceful, even historic speeches throughout this convention. tonight, biden hopes to build on that, knowing of course, the enormity of this mo

biden. i think the biden folks are eager to have that contrast. they want to draw and say that's exactly the difference between trump and biden. biden is somebody who can take a punch on a debate stage from a competitor and turn that around and understand that they can fight for common cause to defeat president trump, where as president trump seems to think that would be kdisqualifying. he laid out a character contrast that the biden folks are eager about. >> there was no indication that president trump is thinking about dumping mike pence from the ticket even though there's been speculation arising time and again that that may happen. i've talked to trump campaign sources, jason merrill ovmiller over the weekend, who denied that was going to take place. i talk today a trump campaign adviser no long ago, earlier this afternoon after the harris news was announced, who said it is believed by some close to the trump campaign that this biden harris ticket is going to be tougher than hillary clinton and tim kaine. what do you think of the cha challenge that kamala harris poses for the trump campaign being a part of this ticket now?

you agree, text "more" to 30330 to elect joe biden, a leader who actually cares enough about america to lead. >> good evening. i'm beau biden. and joe biden is my dad. >> some voices are never silenced. >> some work never ceases to change lives. some people never stop inspiring even after they're gone. beau biden was a husband, father, brother, son, soldier, attorney general. he was given just 46 years on this earth. >> he did in 46 years what most of us couldn't do in 146. think about the day that dawns for children who are safer because of beau, whose lives are fuller because of him. think about the day that dawns for parents who rest easier and families who are freer because of him. some folks may never know that their lives are better because of beau biden, but that's okay. certainly for beau, a claim was never the point of public service. >> if you knew beau, you knew he lived by the strictest code of honor, duty, service, country. you never had to ask if he would do something the right way. he didn't know any other way. >> beau didn't cut corners. he turned down an i the payment to be delaware's attorney general so he could win it f

biden is not moving in. biden canat dr. jill help the campaign make their argument. bidena teacher, has actual experience and authority to speak about this issue. in her remarks, it was not clinical, it was not just the facts and science, she talked a lot about the intangibles. the atmosphere of being at a school, the colors, the feeling, these things that parents are of course missing, but students are missing out on as we are debating the right way to move forward. >> here's one of those moments you are referring to. he will do for your family what he did for ours, bring us together and make us whole, carry us forward in our time of need, keep the promise of america for all of us. [laughter] mr. biden: great. i love you. how are you? i am jill biden's husband. you can see why she is a love of my life, the rock of our family. she never gives herself much credit, but the truth is, she is the strongest person i know. she loves fiercely, cares deeply. nothing stops her when she sets her mind to getting something right. >> that from wilmington, delaware earlier tonight. contr

big old rallies the same people go to these rallies let's be honest i like joe biden not more to my tail off for biden biden can't put 5000 people in an arena so i think the fact that there won't be a lot of people the people campaigning i think it helps biden because in here's the other thing larry most everybody their minds are pretty well they're well made up on this thing i don't think we need a lot of campaign. in other words if you're undecided something's wrong with you. you're an idiot you're an absolute ringback idiot over over it you're just not paying attention but i'll tell you what larry this period a lot of people didn't pay attention to. you and i did because it's our game before the pandemic but this printout medicare has wiped out so many americans and its product to the fore the fact that the guy sounds as you say all the time larry donald trump doesn't care about anyone but himself i've heard you say he's incapable of even. caring about anyone i think that's really coming home to a lot of the american people now in a recent new york times opinion piece elizabeth drew said the debates neve

presidential candidate andrew yang predicted than joe biden would clean trump's clock in a debate you agree with that i really really do biden even though biden's up there in years he's not a young spring chicken like you are biden has lost a step but joe biden larry has always been a really strong debater especially want to. give him trump is a lousy debater so i don't know if we need 4 debates but i think 2 to 3 it would be clear to the american people it would seal the deal for bite nice and a reason having been posed you gov survey shows a plurality of americans 46 percent now say the united states is handling the cold pandemic worse than any other country in the world. when i think about you how about that larry think about this we're the biggest most powerful wealthiest nation in the oral and yet we've had the worst response to this virus it's incredible but it's not because it's all trauma from the beginning troop didn't give a damn about it from the beginning here nor the experts from the beginning. to the american people about it it's not this is not a shell shock larry there is no plan in america to deal with the virus there's no plan

biden. >> joe biden may claim he is an ally of the light, but when it comes to his agenda, biden wants to keep us completely in the dark. >> and presenting his vision for a country facing unprecedented crisis. a pandemic, a recession. and a racial divide. this special edition of "nightline," your voice, your vote, starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone, thanks so much for joining us. tonight, the grand finale for the gop convention. the president making his prime time pitch for a second term. did his message stick the landing? for the latest we go to abc's terry moran. >> linsey, what a night. i think the most important thing i take away from it was the backdrop, the use of the white house as a political prop in a way no president could have imagined. donald trump doing it boldly and defiantly and it looked great. the speech itself he gave went on a long time, and he is an excellent communicator, extemporaneously when he's riffing and kind of lacerating his opponents, reading the crowd, throwing out the red meat, reading a 75 minute kind of meandering speech off a teleprompter is not

first thing he needs to do is, a lot of the people who are voting forjoe biden are not voting forjoe biden are not voting forjoe bidenforjoe biden, they are voting against donald trump and i thinkjoe biden has to reinforce his vote by making his case. there is a lot of temptation among democrats, myself included, to spend all oui’ myself included, to spend all ourtime myself included, to spend all our time beating up against the president but the reality is, ifjoe biden is going to when it is, it has to be on his own credit, he has to convince americans it will make a better president than donald trump would instead of just president than donald trump would instead ofjust bashing donald trump. he would have to explain how to invigorate the economy because if donald trump has any milage, it is that. if you look yesterday, nbc news and wall street journal released a national poll and joe biden had a 20% advantage over the president on fighting the pandemic, he also had an advantage on race relations, infighting global warming but when it came to the economy, the president had a slight edge, ahead ofjoe biden by a few p

hillary clinton who lost the election joe biden is not such a polarizing figure as hillary clinton but still sure there are concerns if coming here isn't joe biden biden really will make it and it's a far away from already been decided in his thanks very much for that from wilmington delaware where joe biden has given his acceptance speech thanks a lot. let's get you briefed on some of the other stories making the news this hour at least 3 people have been killed as dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning rage in california tens of thousands have been evacuated from their homes in the san francisco bay area already say at least 175 buildings have been destroyed including a number of homes. days after mali's president was ousted in a military coup neighboring governments are pressuring leaders to return it to him but a car to power west african countries fear the political upheaval could allow is the most extremist to again gain ground in the region. the trumpet ministration has written to the un security council requesting that un sanctions be reimposed on iran washington says tehran is in violation of the 2050 nuclear deal president abandoned that a

the democrats have a case to make withjoe biden democrats have a case to make with joe biden on democrats have a case to make withjoe bidene to make with joe biden on two fronts don't they, just in terms of governing because when he was 0bama's vice president, he did work on helping to make sure that ebola did not become a massive pandemic in this country and he did work on the economic recovery. the two big issues facing america at the moment are covid and the economic crisis that has come out of that. the democrats can make the case for biden as a governor on the two big issues facing the country today. that evening to you. certainly, if i we re evening to you. certainly, if i were a democratic strategist, that would be the theme that i would be circling around this evening. the vice president has beenin evening. the vice president has been in politics for 50 years and he can say that i am a steady hand on the teller, i can be anyone who can write the ship if you well. the question is whether people will believe him. ithink is whether people will believe him. i think his greatest strength is also his greatest liability.

biden created and made our system more fair for all americans. joe biden failed our nation's historically black colleges and universities, keeping blame on our young folks have access to higher education. the cleanup joe biden's mess, president trump signed into law historically high funding for hbcu's as well as a bill to give them permanent funding, for the first time ever. now joe biden wants to come for your pocketbooks, unless of course, you are a blue state millionaire. that is one of their solutions for the pandemic. they want to take more money from your pocket and give it to manhattan elites and hollywood moguls, so they get a tax break. republicans, however, past president trump's once in a generation tax reform bill that lowered taxes for single moms, working families and those in need. when it comes to what joe biden says he will do, look at his actions. look at his policies. look at what he already did and what he didn't do while he has been in washington for 47 years. ladies and gentlemen, people don't always see those failures, because they think we are having a policy debate on different sides of an issue. that is not what is happening. our side is working on policy, while joe biden's radical

biden. he likesjoe more invested in ajoe biden. he likes joe biden more invested in ajoe biden. den and they work for years together in the senate. they know each other and they are friends. he and hillary clinton didn't get on particularly well and that is a good sign for democrats going to the selection that they have the possibility of bringing in those young, bernie sanders, more liberal voters on board and there just isn't the antipathy in the party or indeedin antipathy in the party or indeed in the country towards joe biden that there was in 2016 it was hillary clinton. it is worth remembering that in some ways, hillary clinton lost in 2016 because voters, for whatever reason, just didn't like her personally. that is not true ofjoe biden. and i think what we have had this way time and again is thatjoe biden is a decent guy. i've had a few interactions with him, i know a lot of people who know him very well and time and again what you hear is he is a good guy, he's a decent guy. that makes it hard to demonise him. very interesting stuff. stay there, let's chat to maryanne m

that has been covered a lot but we haven't heard about lately, hunter biden was featured prominently. hunter biden, one of joe biden's sons took a 50,$000 per month role with burisma, ukrainian company and while that seems interesting on its own merit because he never worked in energy before at the same time joe biden started to go after the top prosecutor in ukraine, prosecuting the guy who ran berries lower hunter biden was serving on the board. there are big ethical questions the president's team will be attacking all day. shannon: let's bring in democratic strategists to join this conversation. as we bring you both in let's take a listen to one of the swipes joe biden took at donald trump last night. >> i will be a democratic candidate, i will be an american president. i will work hard for those who didn't support me and that is the job of a president, to represent all of us, not just our base or our party. >> numbers also tell an interesting story. polls can change. this is during the nbc, trump and biden now tides in minnesota which is a battleground state. the interesting thing is three weeks ago joe biden was

biden. we are expecting to hearfrom pete buttigieg, michael bloomberg, the former mayor of new york also into the race. not too far away there from the space from joe biden. before we hearfrom joe bidenhearfrom joe biden, let's hearfrom katty kay who is in washington. not long to wait now forjoe biden. what does this all mean for him? before him and we have got senator tammy duckworth who is one of the vp candidates, could have been one of the candidates. she'll be speaking and then we'll havejoe biden‘s kids and grandkids also introducing him as well. the whole thing is this all about biden and boosting biden‘s biography. this is why we will have the grandkids onstage of him. he is the family man, the patriarch of his family. it's all designed really to show two things. but he is a decent man who has experience. i think thatis who has experience. i think that is what, if democrats are to say that this has been a success , to say that this has been a success, they will feel that they have put those two m essa 9 es they have put those two messages gci’oss, they have put those two messages across, that this is somebody who keeps his word, who has faith who you can trust, who is reliabl

biden. joe biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black. joe bidens black people are a monolithic community. it was joe biden that said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids. while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level. in 1994, biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of black americans behind bars. president trump's criminal justice reform law fixed the disparities that biden created and made our system more fair and just for all americans. joe biden failed our nation's historically black colleges and universities. heaping blame on them as they fought to ensure our young folks had access to higher education. once again, to clean up joe biden's mess, president trump sign in to law historically high funding for hbcus as well as a bill to give them permanent funding for the first time ever. and now joe biden wants to come for your pocket books. unless, of course, you're a blue state millionaire. that's one of the solutions for the pandemic. they want to take more money from your pocket and give it to ma

biden's support. what joe biden has which is a big advantage is this major slate of women who have already been pretty heavily vetted and that's because a lot of them ran for president. and people like senator kamla harris was once seen as a frontrunner it seems like forever ago but was once seen as a frontrunner for the democratic presidential nomination and she's gone through the gauntlet in terms of media scrutiny and opposition research and she's been on the small stage. in a lot of ways she's a really safe choice. voters tend to know her a little better than they might know a member of congress he might choose. host: let me get a snapshot of polls from real clear politics, this is what they do in amalgamating polls together but some of the states, their latest north carolina trump v. biden show biden up by four and in georgia up by one and the latest on the general election is up by friday from real clear politics and shows biden up by four. what in general is your take of polls at this date three months out? guest: stake inicans of more the presidential race and the governors race. inse are really high stakes november. before we get to calls, let's turn to a senate race. primaries coming up tomorrow, one of two primaries. let's focus on kansas in the race between roger marshall facing off against the secretary of state in that state, kris kobach, who served for a brief period of time in the trunk administration. tells about the dynamics at play. republicans are concerned about nominating kovach. candidates,her meeting that kris kobach could win the nominee -- nomination. they are concerned because he lost a governor race in 2018 to a democrat. in addition to this with two and then north carolina, the ideas republicans would have to invest in kansas would be a major blo

biden-harris ticket. last night information president bill clinton gave biden a political boost and biden's wife dr. jill biden assured voters that biden can heal a divided nation. we get more now from cnn's jeff zeleny in wilmington. >> reporter: the second night of the democratic national convention settled under the virtual convention mode in a much easier way. some of the old school methods, the roll call vote, for example, really came to life on the screen in ways that they had not in years before. democratic officials expressed to me afterwards, really excitement about this. seeing it come to life on social media on twitter, even engagement, just watching the state by state roll call. largely this is a proforma exercise that's happened inside the convention wall. because of the realities of the pandemic it was taken outside the hall and showed tapestry of america, americans that are indeed democrats will vote for joe biden. so that was viewed by democratic officials as actually somewhat of a surprising success but it was overall the humanizing of joe biden. really in speech after speech, even i

biden. he saw biden has the toughest challenger. we know how difficult it is to beat an incumbent president. joe bidenabout this being a battle for the soul of the nation. this made joe biden the one guy with the potential to trudge up ilagainst an incumbent. black voters in south carolina had black candidates to choose from and they chose joe biden because they had one priority: beating donald trump. they saw biden as capable of to attack right workers. they saw potential in him. that's why they set the model for what other democrats across the country came to realize that biden should be the nominee. tonight it's not about biden coming up with any wonderful amazing policies. it's about biden saying to democrats at the democratic national convention, i am a tough guy. i will stand up and fight donald trump for the soul of this nation. i won't back down. when he talks about delaying the election, i won't back down on foreign affairs or when dirty tricks come now and november 3rd. i will fight and punch him in the nose. that's what democrats want to hear. they have a fighter and that's what biden has t

biden's life and family. a biden's grandchildren and children are expected to make remarks and then joe biden himself makes his acceptance speech from the chase center there in wilmington, delaware. that's where >> and greg, what are we expecting from joe tonight? >> what we are seeing right now is speaking about joe biden's efforts within the organization. obviously, he had a son who was in the military and all of this is really to tell the personal story of joe biden that will eventually culminate in and wreaking to the nation. and really, the issue is, can joe biden deliver tonight? we know he has been prone to gaffes previously as he gave speeches off the cuff, but can he appear presidential tonight? a lot of the set up to him over the last three days has focused gone after president trump and spoken about the humanity, indecency and character of joe biden and now, it is joe biden's place in center stage. we should say, while all of this is happening, president trump was in pennsylvania campaigning today very near where joe biden was born. is also doing an at length interview with sean hannity this evening

biden in a virtual tie. biden, 46% support. president trump, 45%. biden'sous democratic national convention. president trump's rising in the polls, correlating with a strong and resounding message this week from his party. unlike joe biden, this president stands with the

biden is not moving in. biden canat dr. jill help the campaign make their argument. bidenas a teacher, has actual experience and authority to speak about this issue. in her remarks, it was not clinical, it was not just the facts and science, she talked a lot about the intangibles. the atmosphere of being at a school, the colors, the feeling, these things that parents are of course missing, but students are missing out on as we are debating the right way to move forward. >> here's one of those moments you are referring to. he will do for your family what he did for ours, bring us together and make us whole, carry us forward in our time of need, keep the promise of america for all of us. [laughter] mr. biden: great. i love you. how are you? i am jill biden's husband. you can see why she is a love of my life, the rock of our family. she never gives herself much credit, but the truth is, she is the strongest person i know. she loves fiercely, cares deeply. nothing stops her when she sets her mind to getting something right. >> that from wilmington, delaware earlier tonight. co

biden is tonight. arlette, what can we expect? this is one of the most important speeches of joe biden's career, one he's been hoping for decades to make. >> joe bidennt 33 years ago, and tonight he will finally accept that democratic presidential nomination. while the focus a lot earlier in the week had been focus on president trump, we don't expect joe biden to really make president trump the central figure of his speech tonight. instead, the former vice president is expected to operate a more forward-looking vision of where he believes he can lead the country. from the beginning of his campaign, he has framed this for a battle of the soul of the nation. tonight there will be a video of his grandchildren. he will be introduced by his son hunter and daughter ashley. as you can see behind me, there are some cars that have assembled here. we spoke to some of those people who were promised some type of surprise. we'll see what the surprise is later this evening. biden's speech is incredibly different than most typical convention speeches as there is no audience, no one to offer applause. so, he's working with a different dynamic than the previous pres

leadership of donald trump to say thatjoe biden would ring america back and she also use the tragic story of the death ofjoe biden's wife and daughter in a car crash and bidenne aged 26 and the way that she said biden made a broken family hole to draw a parallel with what he would do with america. she said, how to make a broken family hole? the same way you make a nation hole with love and understanding. so there we have the person closest to joe biden saying that the way she has witnessed him first—hand ring a broken family together, that this is what he could do for america. nothing there about policy specifics, all entirely an emotional appeal to americans who are fraught with anxiety around coronavirus and this is the pits from jill biden thatjoe biden will be a reassuring man who can unite us. reassuring man who can unite us. the question of course is, will this work? are people open to this approach? but she certainly was very powerful there for her husband. also hearing from john legend there, on the other side of the screen. an important political pitch therefore the democrats, with them saying we have empathy and president trump does not. exactly a

biden administratio. obama-biden left the military in a state of disarray when it comes to readiness. russia, obama-bidenve to the ukrainians to face up to the russians. trump did. y that was like leaving with your chin, that's the tone deafness we've seen from john kerry in the past. they are leading from behind whether you like it or not,ru president trump has made america's interests and america's role in the world and what american feels it ought to do to be the preeminent, not leading from behind and paying attention to what international organizations want us toen do. >> bret: getting ready to hear from jill biden. she's been around washington. but lately she's been talking about her roots, that she's a girl from philly, that she's a teacher, and we'll likely hear a lot about education in the speech coming up. speak about education, her life with joe biden >> about education, her life with joe biden, someone who cares deeply, about children, their health and well-being. as a democrat who's been involved in this party over the last 40 years, this is a party that's immensely diverse, a party that has

biden is the man with a plan here to restart the economy? so, the three issues are inextricably linked and i think the biden campaign needs to do think the bidenign needs todoa think the biden campaign needs to do a greatjob reminding people of that, that the pandemic led to the economic colla pse pandemic led to the economic collapse and it was the pandemic that revealed and laid bare all of the racialjustice issues that we have in this country. so they are inextricably linked. when you look at the polling however, while covid two — 21, the most important issue to everyone, biden does well on that and on racial justice but biden does well on that and on racialjustice but donald trump has an advantage on the economy. i think biden tonight and going forward as the opportunity to remind people going for that it was the obama biden team that brought the economy back from the breaking 2008 and built eight years of a great economic recovery that was led up right until the pandemic. and the same on racial justice and pandemic. and the same on racialjustice and the same on the economy and the pandemic with ebola and hini, biden had about. he has with

that has passion, integrity and strategic leadership skills. >> and his name is joe biden. >> joe biden. >> joe bidender. >> and he really wants the best for this country. >> he understand and respects our democracy, the rule of law, and the u.s. constitution. >> he will move toward creating a more perfect union. ♪ rise up ♪ >>> hi. hi, this is senator chuck schumer, democratic leader from my hometown, brooklyn, new york. behind me is a sight i see out of my window every night, the statue of liberty. the same sight that greeted hopeful immigrants like my grandparents. a symbol of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world. today donald trump has divided our country, diminished our greatness, and demeans everything that this statue represents. he even hid in a bunker as americans were teargassed and beaten. millions are jobless. 170,000 americans have died from covid. and donald trump says it is what it is. a president should never say "it is what it is." president lincoln, honoring the great sacrifice at gettysburg, didn't say "it is what it is." president roosevelt seeing a third of the nation ill-ho

who favor donald --m favor him more tensely more intensely, but those who favor joe biden favor mr. biden. joe biden has said often and will, don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. democrats are counting on donald trump's mere existence to solve their turnout problem. is enoughre joe biden of, i guess you could say, a fright figure, to turn out the applicant base. that was the president's job and i think he did it adequate. jonathan: henry? henry: i was very let down by the president's speech. he did many of the things he needed to do to excite the republican base. time-spaceit in a that was about twice as much as he should have. this year length of the speech will weaken its impact among the republican base. and he also needed to reach beyond the republican base. 43% of america makes you a millionaire in the private sector but makes you a loser in politics. that is where president trump has continued to balance himself, messaging to a minority base. there were some overtures in the beginning the who set -- when he said democrats and independents and whoever stands with thi

biden shipped jobs overseas and made promises he will never keep. todd: this is a presidential poll in pennsylvania, 49% to biden, 45% to trump. this coming after an earlier fox news poll last month showing 11 point difference with bidenu think trump will close that gap between now and election day and give pennsylvania to the republicans? >> pennsylvanians are smart hard-working people and they will see through what joe biden is saying and running his campaign, people that wants to cured of the natural gas industry which in pennsylvania produces 10% of the nation's natural gas, $35 billion to our economy. we can't -- joe biden's ideas will not work. the people of pennsylvania see that, they see donald trump delivered results, joe biden has been part of the swamp for 50 years and we voted in pennsylvania four years ago because we didn't want career politicians and people running our country from washington dc telling us what is right in our communities and everything else, we want somebody who will listen to what is in our best interests, america's jobs first and that is donald trump. >> 15 seconds on the last question, the postmaster general testified before the senate and house oversight committee testify on monday.

biden. joe biden served as a mentor of john mccain early on. this film shows john mccain was still in the navy when he first met senator biden on a trip overseas d when john ultimately became a senator from arizona, a colleague of joe biden, they worked together and they fought together but at the end of the night, they could go have a cocktail and discuss the world as they see it. they always saw the world the same way as americans. it is a stroll down memory lane, but i think an important value lesson for people who watch it. and that is that you can fight like dogs and cats all day long over politics, but at the end of the day, you are all americans and you have to work together to make the world a safer place and a better place. >> you can fight like dogs and cats but come together or you could? is that still possible today? it strikes me, looking at late john mccain and colin powell, is there a place in the republican party for republicans of that ilk today or has president trump so fundamentally transformed the party that it is pushing them out? >> the one thing that is a lesson to me over 40 years in politics is, as soon as you think you

biden and running mate come to harris have made their 1st joint campaign appearance harris's the 1st woman of color on a major party presidential ticket there of and comes prior to biden formally accepting the democratic nomination next week. historic debut for the biden harris ticket even though the pandemic kept the crowds away the democratic duo campaigning in person together for the 1st time in joe biden's home state of delaware the former vice president called harris a tough proven fighter whose background reflected the diversity of america. and this morning all across the nation. little girls woke up special little black and brown girls who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities but today today just maybe they're seeing themselves for the 1st time in a new way as the stuff of president and vice presidents harris is the 1st woman of color to be the vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket she used president trump of bungling the coronavirus response and failing to confront racism. the president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression. and we're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of cons

biden's message -- we saw those clips of how she talked about her healing the biden family as they emerged from tragedy, as she joined the vice president and his young children. we can see in that an effort by the bidensanslate that to joe biden healing the nation. >> and i just want to remind folks, dr. jill biden will be joining joe, mika, and willie in the show a little bit later on. let's talk kamala harris here for a moment, mike, while i have you. so, axios is reporting the addition of kamala harris to the ticket. it has given joe biden the biggest surge of online enthusiasm that he has seen in his entire campaign. how could this affect -- and will it affect -- voter turnout? >> well, this is fascinating, exclusive data for axios. and every democrat that i've talked to, i always ask them, i put the specific effect of senator harris has been, and all democrats say it's just put a spring in their step, people on the ground, in milwaukee, people elsewhere. and here's a way to quantify it. really interesting. you look at this news clip data about online engagement, so that that's likes, shares comments, content about biden. in the week after harris was announced, it was by far his biggest online wee

jill biden on the personal side of joe biden as he officially becomes the democratic nominee for president. the prominent political figures making the case for a bidendency. plus what running mate kamala harris was doing during night two of the dnc. >>> there is growing concern on college campuses as coronavirus cases rise. plus is one widely used test giving some false results? >>> new this morning, he billed himself as the lottery lawyer, representing winners of huge lottery jackpots. now he's accused of scamming some of them out of millions. an> d ne its release, the very first harry potter film hitting a new milestone. >> why the pandemic has been good for "harry potter and the sorcerer's stone" ahead in "the skinny." it is wednesday, august 19th. >>> my humble opinion, that's the best book out of the entire series. >> it's the only one i read. >> it's the only one i read, exactly. exactly that. it's the only movie i read. >> you read a movie, wow. >> potter fans are going to come after me, because there's a lot more in the series, and they are die-hard fans. apparently now a lot of them are maybe doubling back, new fans are being made 20 years

bidens ticket. the safest choice perhaps vice president onjoe bidens ticket. the safest choice perhaszoe bidenden. she probably making a joint statement tomorrow. plenty of that on the website. hello again, our remarkable run of hot weather is set to continue for a while. that means temperatures once again for wednesday pushing well into the 30s, it will feel hot, it will feel humid in the sunshine but we will also get some very big thundery downpours, some of these bringing some torrential rain and there will be a few communities that could see some localised flash flooding over the next few days from those really heavy downpours. now we are seeing storms through this afternoon across northern france, have to keep an eye on them, could get quite close to kent overnight tonight and a few showers as well to watch across cornwall, across wales and also through much of the day we have had a line of storms affecting eastern scotland. they will continue overnight bringing some localised, very heavy falls of rain. so another area to keep a close eye on. a couple storms also, a lot of thunder and lig

when biden announced his pick, biden reveals he chose senator harris because she'd be ready to lead on day one. but bideno said there was no one's opinion he valued more than his late son beau who died in 2015 from brain cancer. the younger biden and harris worked together closely during the foreclosure crisis in 2011. she wrote in her memoir there were periods when i was taking heat that beau and i talked every day, sometimes multiple times a day, we had each other's backs. joining me now is massachusetts attorney general mara heely to republic help us understand and illuminate this relationship that the two had. you worked with both of them when they were attorneys general. >> it's a special relationship, pam. when you're working as a state attorney general, you're really out there in the big fight, fighting for people, fighting for the most vulnerable in our communities. and that's what kamala and beau did. standing up to the big banks in wall street. they fought for health care, protecting students taken advantage of by predatory lenders. these are the fights and the experiences that they bonded over