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With their convention
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Trump 100% of the time
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including some of

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former President Donald
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have come together

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as a result of Joe
Biden's presidency, your
family is less safe.

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Let's Donald Trump
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promoting what they call

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a new vision that aims
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politics. If you want

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to restore law and order in this
country. Vote Trump. Tonight the

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first speech from Ohio
Senator JD Van says the
GOP's vice presidential

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nominee. As the party
lays out its foreign
policy agenda amid unrest

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around the globe. It
is the 3rd night of the
2024 Republican National

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Convention.

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Welcome to PBS News special
coverage of the Republican
National Convention

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in Milwaukee. I'm Jeff
Bennett and I'm Ana
Navaz. This is the 3rd

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night of the convention,
and the theme tonight
is Make America Strong

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once again over the next
3 hours we will hear
from people who have

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worked closely with
former President Trump
from members of the Trump

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family, from veterans,
and in the final hour
from JD Vance's wife

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Usha and then from the
vice presidential nominee
himself. Our panel

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is back with us tonight.
That includes Amy.
of the Cook Political

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Report with Amy Walter.
David Brooks of The New
York Times and Jonathan

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Capehart of The Washington
Post and down on the
floor of the convention

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hall, our politics
correspondent Lisa Desjardin.
Lisa. Hi Jeff, we're

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down with the Georgia
delegation right now on
this 3rd night. President

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Trump is not expected
to speak here until
tomorrow night, but PBS

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News has exclusively
gotten video of him at
a private event that

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happened a few hours ago here in
Milwaukee. The former president

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was introducing a
documentary about him
that's called Trump's Rescue

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Mission Saving America.
The reason I bring
this up is because in

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this video which was
given to us by someone
who went to see President

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Trump in person, former
President Trump in this
video he makes. first

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known comments about
the shooting. This has
been our best campaign

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and then I got shot. Yeah

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How does that happen?

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You say how did that happen? But
I got lucky. God was with me, I

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tell you. uh

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That's why they call
it close call. That was
amazing, horrible thing,

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amazing thing, and in
many ways it changes your,

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your attitude, your
viewpoint on life. And I
think, honestly, I think

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you

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appreciate God even
more. I really do because
there's something,

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something happened
that. Only happen, not
that it was pleasant.

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It wasn't like it was a complete
miss. But it was uh. It's pretty

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terrible that that can
happen. Pretty terrible
that that can happen.

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The former president's
words, the person who
shot this obviously

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is amateur video. This is not a
member of the media that gave it

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to us obviously freely
that person told us
they thought the former

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president was appealing
to evangelicals, and
Ana Jeff, you may have

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picked up on evangelicals
since the assassination
attempt have been

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saying they thought
there was a hand of God.
One other bit of news

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today there have been
there's been a back and
forth between the Biden

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campaign and the Trump campaign
over the vice presidential.

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I have been told by
sources familiar that Vice
President Kamala Harris

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did have a phone call with
JD Vance, the Republican
vice presidential

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nominee today, but there
have been statements
back and forth with

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the Biden campaign
hoping for a debate date
to be set perhaps July

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or August, the Trump
campaign has responded
and said no date will

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be set because they say
they're not sure who
the vice presidential

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nominee is implying that
Joe Biden will not be
the presidential nominee.

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So tell us more about
that, Lisa. That's
interesting because the

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Biden campaign is trying
to put forward this
notion that the Trump

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campaign, namely JD Vance, is in
some way afraid to debate Kamala

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Harris, but you're
saying that the campaign
is saying that they're

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not going to make a
determination until they
know for sure exactly

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who will be on the
ticket. Well, it's sort
of. Classic. Oh, as you

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can tell it's quite
loud on the floor right
now. See if this check

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dries down. That's it.
It's sort of a classic.

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I guess The campaign
being witty here,

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although I will say also
in those remarks from
former President Trump

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earlier, we have video
of him saying that he's
not sure himself if

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Joe Biden will be his
opponent, and he told the
crowd that he actually

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would prefer it to be
Joe Biden than Kamala
Harris. Am I right? Lisa,

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just to follow up on
that because you were
able to obtain that video

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exclusively. Is there any other
context for that video you think

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we should understand
or what we don't know
about video we don't see.

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Yeah, it's a great
question and again I
apologize for the loudness

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down here. This was in
a hall. It was for a
documentary that was

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pro-Trump. Can some

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some donors in there,
just some supporters
of Trump in that crowd,

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and the former president
introduced the movie.
He was planning to

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do it. The pool, the
press pool was outside
and was not given access

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to the event, but someone
that we know was inside
and wanted to share

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that video. It's
important context there,
Lisa Desjardins on the

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very loud convention
floor for us. Tonight
where she will be all

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evening. Lisa we'll
check back in with you
shortly. Thank you. Of

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course back up here we have our
panel with us all night as well.

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Amy Walter, David
Brooks, and Jonathan
Capehart. Amy, I'm struck

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already by the speakers
we've seen on the
stage. We are hearing on

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the night we expect to
hear JD Vance speak a
lot more mentions of

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Kamala Harris as well.
It's really um quite
striking. We, we noted

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it last night how Kamala
Harris's name, the
vice president's name,

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was in almost every
speech. And uh today
along with the university

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of Chicago, uh, we
interviewed Tony Fabrizio
who is the Trump pollster

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and um we asked him
what would happen if
things got switched out?

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What do you think it
would look like and um
he said, look, we believe

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that if she is put in
for Biden, we will still
win. We are 100% ready

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for this. We will be
able to quickly pivot
from making this race

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about Biden to making it. About
Harris, but I think what they're

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trying to do here by
bringing her up as much
as possible is to try

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to define her before if she were
to be the nominee before she has

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an opportunity to do
that uh herself and more
important to say that

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even if Biden is at the
top of the ticket. Kamala
Harris will essentially

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be a president in waiting
and it could be at
any moment, um, given,

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uh. The president's health. What
about that, David, the degree to

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which Republicans are
trying to preemptively
define Kamala Harris,

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and by the way,
mispronouncing her first
name. I think everyone knows

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by now she's been vice president
for 4 years, how to say her name

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correctly, but that's
not not what we've been
hearing on the stage

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tonight. Yeah, well, you
know, it's tasteless not
to pronounce somebody's

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name correctly. I mean
people should be called
what they want to

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be called. So that's a
pretty simple rule. But
you know, it's basic

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politics that you go after
your opponents and you
go after your opponents,

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especially Joe Biden, I
think had They're poor
polling day, I would

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say today

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and so it's looking a
little more likely where
there's been reports

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of Chuck Schumer went to
Biden and was aggressively
saying he should

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step down, so it's looking
a little more likely
that Biden will step

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down. I don't know what
the odds are, but so
it's, it's just politics

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101 to go after the
first two would possibly
going to be your opponent

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Jonathan. I'm just watching your
face. You weren't scribbling any

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notes there, but I'm
sure you have a response
here. Well, I mean

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my response is I noticed
the mentioning. Of
the vice president's

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name on the very first
night her name has been
mentioned since the

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start of this convention.
I would also note that
on the first night

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of the convention, and
I'm very sensitive to
this, her name was being

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pronounced correctly

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as we've moved through the days
and today in particular it's now

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Kamala and, and the
mispronunciation, but
look, I agree with David,

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you know it is smart
politics on the part of
the Republicans to sort

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of

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seed the field. Here and
with the nation with her name

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knowing uh I I think
that the Trump campaign
is anticipating the

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fact that anticipating
that she could very
well be the top of the

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ticket and so that if
she does become the
top of the ticket, the

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folks in this hall and the folks
who have been watching watching

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the convention will
already be predisposed
to not not like her as

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if they were gonna like
her to begin to begin
with. This is a night

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where we expect to hear
later from the vice
presidential nominee,

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JD Vance. We've been
talking all week about
how he very much envisions

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himself as Donald Trump's
populist protege. This
is his introduction

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to the Republican
Party, to Americans
nationwide. What should he

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say? Well, they made a
movie about his life,
so he should be able

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to, he should be able
to tell that story, and
I, I assume he'll tell

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that story very well. He wrote a
book telling that story. It's a

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pretty fantastic story,
frankly, uh, and so
I, I think that's that

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and that's one of the
things we'll hear. One
of the things I'm curious

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about, this is foreign
policy night and already
in the in the pre-speakers

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earlier in the day, people
went hammer and tong
after George W. Bush.

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Uh, they're really, I
mean, Newt Gingrich said
something nice about

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Ronald Reagan, but he's
Newt Gingrich, he's
150 years old, and so,

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uh, and so, but how
hard they hit this,
this, uh, theme of let's

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get out of Ukraine, the posters
on the floor that have been laid

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out on the seats,
President Trump will end
the war in Ukraine. It

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doesn't say how. And
so let's leaves some
ambiguity open and this

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is the one this is the
most unified Republican
convention I've ever

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been at, but this is
the one issue where
they're not unified. Amy

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on some of the issues
we know we're going
to hear about tonight,

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the war in Ukraine and
the war in the Middle
East as well. We've

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already heard some of
those remarks and there's
this repeated sort

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of we are less safe under
a president Biden and
Vice President Harris.

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How much does this resonate with
voters because typically foreign

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policy issues don't rank
among the highest of
issues, but this issue

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of safety certainly
hits home. How are folks
looking in, I think

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much more about the border
than it is about what's
happening in Ukraine

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trying to make that
case as as the president
has continued to try.

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To do both in public
and in private saying
to those who are asking

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him to get out. Look what I did
with NATO. Look at how much, how

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I not only kept NATO
together but expanded
it. Look what I'm doing

11:37.466 --> 11:41.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on the world stage.
That's not something
he's getting credit for

11:41.100 --> 11:44.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from voters in part
because they're looking
more closely at what

11:44.933 --> 11:49.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is happening at home rather than
what's happening um overseas and

11:49.833 --> 11:54.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to David's point, it is true
that this generation of.

11:55.966 --> 11:59.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Of Republicans this
cohort of Republicans
both on the stage and in

11:59.366 --> 12:04.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the crowd, they have been shaped
as much by reaction to the wars

12:06.200 --> 12:11.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
started under George
W. Bush than anything
that happened with under

12:12.933 --> 12:15.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Biden's presidency.
That's interesting
because as President Biden

12:15.500 --> 12:18.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
at this point really is pleading
for credit for strengthening the

12:18.633 --> 12:19.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Western alliance

12:21.300 --> 12:23.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
against a resurgent
Russian in many ways a
resurgent China. What

12:23.100 --> 12:27.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you've heard from this
Stage tonight is, well,
Vladimir Putin didn't

12:27.500 --> 12:30.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
invade Ukraine on Donald Trump's
watch, and he wouldn't have that

12:32.600 --> 12:35.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that he invaded Crimea
when it was President
Obama, and he did the

12:35.233 --> 12:39.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
full scale invasion of,
of, of Ukraine under
President Biden. What

12:39.800 --> 12:42.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
do you make of that?
Because I feel like
there are dispassionate

12:42.366 --> 12:46.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
voices who will hear
that and say they have
a point. Um, they may

12:46.700 --> 12:49.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
have a point. I don't
know what's in Putin's
mind, and they're, but

12:49.800 --> 12:52.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they're even more so
there have been at least
one speaker who said

12:54.500 --> 12:57.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
who implied that the
invasion of Ukraine by
Putin was in part America's

12:57.033 --> 13:02.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
fault for overexpanding
NATO and so that is a
pretty strong critique

13:03.800 --> 13:07.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of basically post-war
foreign policy, uh, which
is and it's a pretty

13:07.033 --> 13:12.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
strong evasion of who
Vladimir Putin is, and
so what does this party

13:13.500 --> 13:15.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
believe about that? I genuinely
don't know. I know what JD.

13:17.266 --> 13:21.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
but I don't know, Donald
Trump talks one way
on this issue, but as

13:21.633 --> 13:25.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
president, at least, He
didn't pull us out of
NATO. He was much more

13:25.366 --> 13:28.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
conventional than you
would thought by the
populist rhetoric. David,

13:29.833 --> 13:31.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
we also saw the Russian Foreign
Minister today issue a statement

13:31.633 --> 13:35.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
essentially welcoming
JD Vance to the Trump
ticket, basically saying

13:35.366 --> 13:39.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this is a good thing
because he will stop
arming Ukraine. That feels

13:39.566 --> 13:43.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
like a big policy
gap within Republican
establishment I'm right.

13:45.566 --> 13:47.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
JD Vance called him a
man of peace, the foreign
minister of Russia,

13:49.066 --> 13:50.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
which is a little odd
for a guy who helped
invade another country,

13:52.000 --> 13:53.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
but that that's the
realignment that we're
seeing. And you got to

13:53.900 --> 13:58.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
think that. Vladimir
Putin is super happy
about the the nomination

13:58.500 --> 14:03.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of JD Van, and there's
no way there will be a
peace plan on the table

14:05.300 --> 14:07.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
as long as the possibility
of a US withdrawal of
aid. It's just hanging

14:07.900 --> 14:12.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
out there, uh, and so,
uh, you know, it's,
this is happy days for

14:12.466 --> 14:17.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Vladimir Putin. You
know, do we have time
for one thought OK um the

14:19.166 --> 14:22.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
testing of this theory,
we saw a piece of it in
the Ohio Senate race,

14:24.633 --> 14:28.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
right? Ohio has a significant
Ukrainian population
when Russia invaded

14:29.866 --> 14:33.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Ukraine, Rob Portman,
who was the then senator,
was adamant about

14:33.033 --> 14:37.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
helping Ukraine and
going over to Ukraine
and spending a great deal

14:37.800 --> 14:42.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of time on this issue.
The thought that a
candidate for the Senate

14:42.766 --> 14:46.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in that state could come out and
say what he said about Ukraine.

14:47.766 --> 14:49.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
everybody said that's
crazy, that's gonna,
you're gonna lose the

14:49.500 --> 14:53.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
race. You can't say
that in Ohio. Given the
Ukrainian population

14:53.466 --> 14:56.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
here, given how much work the
senior senators working on that?

14:58.566 --> 15:02.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Then it seem to hurt
him in the state of
Ohio, and that tells you

15:02.300 --> 15:03.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
not just what it means

15:05.033 --> 15:09.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
within the Republican Party, but
just as an issue writ large for,

15:10.933 --> 15:12.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
you know, for the public.
You know, Jonathan,
in talking with some,

15:14.300 --> 15:17.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
um, old school conservative
sources today. One of
the reasons they're

15:17.133 --> 15:20.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
really happy about JD
Vance is because they
believe that he will

15:20.066 --> 15:24.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
have way more policy pull
in the West Wing than
previous vice presidents

15:24.266 --> 15:28.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
because Donald Trump
hasn't really shown. A
desire or willingness

15:28.100 --> 15:31.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to really invest in and
get really steeped in
the policy. How, how

15:31.933 --> 15:36.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
do you see it? Um, I
could see that. I could
totally see that, and

15:36.000 --> 15:40.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
it'll be easier it'll be easy
for a vice president advance to

15:42.166 --> 15:46.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
do all sorts of things
because there is a 900
page manual that will

15:46.166 --> 15:49.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
be coming, that is
right out there from the
Heritage Foundation called

15:49.666 --> 15:54.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Project 2025 with a
litany of things that
they could do starting

15:56.366 --> 15:59.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in minute on minute
one. And so, you know,
when you've got someone

15:59.266 --> 16:02.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
like Senator Vance,
only a year and a half
in the Senate, but with

16:02.333 --> 16:06.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
some strong ideas on
foreign policy on abortion
despite him deleting

16:06.200 --> 16:11.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
all those from his from
his social media sites
that, uh, yeah, he,

16:12.600 --> 16:15.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I could see him taking a having
a very strong policy position in

16:15.700 --> 16:19.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a way that former Vice President
Mike Pence never did. The other

16:19.300 --> 16:21.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
thing I think we'll all
keep an eye on tonight
is this pledge we've

16:21.966 --> 16:26.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
heard from day one
about a tamping down on
political rhetoric and

16:28.733 --> 16:30.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Avoiding additional
political violence in
whatever way it does feel

16:30.900 --> 16:34.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
like the further down
the path we move with
each day we're moving

16:34.833 --> 16:37.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
further away from that.
David, I don't know
if you've noticed that

16:37.366 --> 16:40.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
as well. Peter Navarro took the
stage, and by the way, came here

16:40.466 --> 16:45.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
straight from prison,
took the stage, got a
standing ovation for

16:45.033 --> 16:49.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
several minutes from
this crowd and delivered
what I can best describe

16:49.266 --> 16:53.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
as sort of an anti-immigrant
screed. Doubling
down on this idea of

16:53.466 --> 16:56.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
people crossing the
border are rapists and
murderers, and they are

16:56.800 --> 17:00.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
here to steal your jobs, calling
them illiterate, and that got a

17:00.733 --> 17:03.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
lot of applause here
in the room. Do you
sense that we're moving?

17:05.666 --> 17:07.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Further back towards
this kind of language,
I should know more about

17:07.400 --> 17:10.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Freudian psychology, but there's
the ego and the id. I think the

17:10.666 --> 17:14.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
id, the Republican id
wants a lot of that and
I think the, the people

17:14.900 --> 17:16.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
who are running this campaign

17:18.133 --> 17:21.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
would like to tamp down.
But this is a party
with like people like

17:21.366 --> 17:25.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Peter Navarro who are pretty out
there on a lot of issues and so

17:25.600 --> 17:30.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the idea that they
control this party is
true of most parties that

17:30.200 --> 17:34.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the elites can't control
the crucial question
is Donald Trump is

17:34.100 --> 17:38.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what speech he gives
tomorrow and whether, as
he said in Lisa's video,

17:39.700 --> 17:41.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the video that Lisa got,
whether he is a changed
man, and if that's

17:41.366 --> 17:44.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the theme he wants to strike and
we'll see if he can do that and

17:44.866 --> 17:48.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
then in the months since we'll
see if his own aid can be

17:49.833 --> 17:53.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Can be controlled or
whether he goes on a
rampage, and I apologize

17:53.133 --> 17:57.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to all Freudians if
I got that wrong. The
other thing Peter Navarro

17:57.766 --> 18:01.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
said on that stage was they came
for me and they can come for you

18:01.300 --> 18:04.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
too. And we should say
the reason he did time
was because he refused

18:04.100 --> 18:06.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to cooperate with the
congressional investigation
the January 6th

18:06.900 --> 18:10.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
investigation, uh, and
that was why he was
sent to prison. Right,

18:12.100 --> 18:14.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
um, he said all sorts
of things, um, I went
to prison, so you won't

18:14.966 --> 18:19.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
have to. He talked about Lawfare
jackals, he said. That um Trump

18:21.633 --> 18:24.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
will hold these lawfare
jackals accountable,
he said the things that

18:24.266 --> 18:25.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Ana said that he said um

18:26.966 --> 18:31.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
he. If the if the campaign
Trump campaign wants
to be as disciplined

18:33.666 --> 18:38.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as they're signaling
they never would have
put him on stage fresh

18:38.400 --> 18:42.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
out of prison. This idea
that there was gonna
be unity and a change

18:42.866 --> 18:47.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in tone either from this
convention or from or
from the former president.

18:49.533 --> 18:52.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I've I've never believed
it and having Peter
Navarro take that stage

18:52.400 --> 18:54.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and give the speech
that he gave just

18:56.100 --> 18:59.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
like turns that on its
head. This was never going
to be. Unity convention.

19:00.733 --> 19:01.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
This was never going
to be a discipline

19:03.433 --> 19:07.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
um outward facing
convention these speeches
are about soothing the

19:08.900 --> 19:11.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
souls and amping up the
passions of the people
in this hall and the

19:11.666 --> 19:16.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
people watching at home
who who are couldn't
be in this hall. David,

19:18.300 --> 19:19.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what about what we're
expecting to hear from
Senator Vance himself.

19:21.233 --> 19:21.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
I know we're all anticipating
what we hear from the
president himself,

19:23.633 --> 19:25.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
or former President
Trump himself tomorrow,
but is there some tone

19:25.600 --> 19:30.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
setting expectation
from JD Vance. Well, the
man who we should note

19:30.400 --> 19:32.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
immediately after the
assassination attempt on
former President Trump

19:32.766 --> 19:36.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
was one of the first to come out
and blatantly point a finger at

19:36.166 --> 19:39.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
President Biden to say
he was responsible for
that attack. Do you

19:39.466 --> 19:43.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
think he might tone it
down tonight? I think
so. There are two ways

19:43.000 --> 19:45.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you can go. You can go
the personal route, which
was called the Lara-Trump

19:45.800 --> 19:49.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
model and Lara Trump
last night talked about
what a great grandfather

19:49.400 --> 19:52.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Donald Trump was. It
was heartwarming and it
was, it was apolitical

19:52.900 --> 19:57.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
really, uh, for a RNC
chairman, uh, and, but,
and so the other way

19:59.566 --> 20:04.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is uh Vance can go
super wonky. I imagine
he'll go personal simply

20:06.233 --> 20:08.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
because that's what vice
presidential nominees
do. If you're a member

20:08.066 --> 20:10.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of Sarah Palin's first
speech, which I thought
was a pretty good

20:10.400 --> 20:10.633 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
speech

20:12.100 --> 20:14.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
she did the lipstick on the pig,
the hockey mom, mom, she did, it

20:14.866 --> 20:18.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was personal here,
here's who I am America.
I want you to like me,

20:20.000 --> 20:22.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
so I'm not going to
offend half of you. Well,
and like Sarah Palin,

20:23.900 --> 20:26.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
most of Republicans
don't know anything about
JD Vance, so it's not

20:26.200 --> 20:29.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
just introducing him to the rest
of the country. It's introducing

20:29.400 --> 20:32.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
them to the people in this room
who really don't know much about

20:34.233 --> 20:37.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Hi, um, but I'm also
gonna be very curious um
to see if he does what

20:39.400 --> 20:42.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
we think he will be doing
on the campaign, which
is you got to introduce

20:42.066 --> 20:47.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
him and then he serves
as the attack dog for
uh for Trump, especially

20:48.600 --> 20:52.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
if Trump now is the toned down
one he gets to be a good cop

20:53.933 --> 20:56.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and, and, uh, and Vance
is a, is a bad cop. Let's
go to the convention

20:56.800 --> 21:00.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
floor now and hear from
Mayor Trent Conway of
East Palestine, Ohio,

21:02.600 --> 21:05.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
who's now speaking at
the podium. I'm Trent
Conaway, the proud mayor

21:05.533 --> 21:08.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of East Palestine, Ohio.

21:14.433 --> 21:18.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
When the train derailed,
spewing flames and
toxic chemicals to our

21:18.233 --> 21:23.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
town. Face the disaster
unlike we'd ever seen.
And in the chaos we

21:24.933 --> 21:27.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
witnessed a clear contrast
between leadership
and incompetence.

21:29.466 --> 21:32.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Our first responders
didn't hesitate. They
raced to the scene. They

21:32.866 --> 21:36.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
battled the flames and
evacuated our citizens.

21:37.933 --> 21:40.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And for that I want to thank
every one of them tonight.

21:47.600 --> 21:51.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Unfortunately, the
Biden administration's
federal response was much

21:51.166 --> 21:56.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
different. And constant,
it consisted almost
entirely of meetings

21:57.900 --> 22:00.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and press events. They
talked and talked, but
they delivered a little

22:00.233 --> 22:04.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
help. Then there was
a clear difference
between former President

22:04.266 --> 22:07.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump and President
Biden. For the longest
time, the White House

22:07.900 --> 22:12.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
was silent. And we never heard a
word from Vice President Harris.

22:13.933 --> 22:17.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I guess we weren't
their type of folks. No
Hollywood elites or Wall

22:17.500 --> 22:21.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Street billionaires live
in East Palestine, just
hardworking Americans.

22:28.433 --> 22:32.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But Donald Trump cared.
First he called to ask
permission to visit,

22:34.333 --> 22:36.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
not wanting to intrude, and
then he asked how he could help.

22:38.200 --> 22:40.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
When he arrived with
fresh pallets of drinking
water, he met with

22:40.700 --> 22:44.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
everyone from first
responders to local
officials and residents.

22:46.533 --> 22:49.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He tore the derailment
site. He listened to
us. And he shared a meal

22:49.500 --> 22:53.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
with volunteers at a
local McDonald's. His
presence was genuine.

22:55.466 --> 22:58.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
His concern was real.
After a year of criticism
criticism President

23:00.833 --> 23:04.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Biden finally did show
up. His appearance was
brief, forced and scripted.

23:06.000 --> 23:10.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He met with a select
few and then left. We
needed so much and he

23:12.266 --> 23:15.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
delivered so little.
I know a thing or two
about train wrecks now,

23:17.633 --> 23:19.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and let me tell you,
that's what the Biden
administration has been.

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Before President Biden
derails our entire
nation. We need to act.

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We need a leader who
values small town
communities as much as big

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cities. We need a president
who loves all Americans.

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We need Donald J. Trump.

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Thank you

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Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome the
governor of North Dakota,

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Doug Burgu.

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Hello Milwaukee. And
hello North Dakota.

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Feels good to be here.
The last time I was in
Milwaukee in this building

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standing behind a podium
was for the debate.
And I stood on one leg

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for two hours. You guys
might remember I blew
my Achilles the day

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before, but to kick things off,
I have a question for you, and I

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need your help answering
so nice and so loud
that everyone at home

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can hear you. Are you
ready? Who will make
America energy dominant.

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Again, who will make
America energy dominant.

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Well, that's that's
pretty good, but it's,
it's after 4 p.m. in DC.

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So how about one more time loud
enough to wake up Joe Biden, who

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will make America
energy dominant.

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That's right, because
when President Trump
unleashes American energy,

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we unleash American
prosperity and we ensure
our national security.

25:25.366 --> 25:28.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Serving as a governor
with President Trump.
It was like having a

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beautiful breeze at our back. He
cut taxes and he cut red tape.

25:35.700 --> 25:39.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Serving as a governor
under Joe Biden. Has
been like a gale force

25:39.633 --> 25:44.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
wind in our face. Biden's
war on energy hurts
every American because

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the cost of energy is
in everything we use
or touch every day.

25:52.033 --> 25:55.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Biden's red tape has
raised the price of the
gas in your car. The

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cost of food on your
table. The clothes on
your back. And it's even

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raised your rent. Biden's green
agenda feels like it was written

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by China. Russia and Iran.

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Let's look at Biden's
EV mandates. Where do
nearly all the batteries

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and rare earth minerals
come from? China, you know.

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And the day that Biden
halted permits for clean
US natural gas export

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facilities. Just think about the
party they must have thrown that

26:30.100 --> 26:34.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
night at the Kremlin.
Because Biden's policies
are making Russia

26:34.966 --> 26:38.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and Iran filthy rich.

26:39.800 --> 26:43.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And they're using that
money to fund wars and
terrorism against our

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allies. At home, Biden is
acting like a dictator.

26:50.333 --> 26:53.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He's using mandates to shut down
reliable base load electricity.

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That's why your electric
bills have soared
upwards as our nation's

27:00.333 --> 27:02.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
electric grid reliability
spirals downward.

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4 more years of Joe will
usher an era of Biden
brownouts and blackouts.

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Imagine no electricity for
your fridge, your lights,
or air conditioning.

27:16.600 --> 27:20.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
President Trump will
ensure that there is power
for you. And importantly

27:22.400 --> 27:25.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that we have the power
as the United States
to beat China in the

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AI arms race.

27:33.466 --> 27:38.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Unleashing American
energy dominance is our
path back to prosperity

27:39.966 --> 27:43.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and peace through
strength. Teddy Roosevelt
encouraged America.

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To speak softly and
carry a big stick.

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Energy dominance will be the big
stick that President Trump will

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carry.

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Yes, President Trump
will make sure that
America is selling energy

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to our allies versus buying
it from our adversaries.

28:14.900 --> 28:19.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Innovation has always been the
source of American greatness.

28:21.400 --> 28:25.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And President Trump champions
innovation over regulation.

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Last year, Over that whole year
my wife Catherine and I traveled

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all across America. As
all of you know, it's
rural America that feeds

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the world, that fuels
the world and defends
the world. Small towns

28:45.700 --> 28:49.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
with a huge impact and rural
America is Trump country.

28:56.133 --> 28:59.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
In North Dakota we know. We know
one thing for sure because we've

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seen him do it, and that's
at the hardest working
president in American

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history is Donald J. Trump.

29:15.233 --> 29:19.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
President Trump cares
deeply about every American.

29:20.666 --> 29:24.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Rig workers, truck
drivers, roughnecks.
And yes, America's great

29:26.100 --> 29:31.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
farmers and ranchers. President
Trump cares deeply about you.

29:32.800 --> 29:37.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We know that he'll fight
for us. He'll fight
for our families. And

29:37.033 --> 29:41.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we know one more thing.
He'll let all of you
keep driving your gas

29:41.233 --> 29:44.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
powered cars.

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When President Trump
unleashes energy dominance,
he will make America

29:55.666 --> 29:59.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
affordable again. He
will make America strong
again and when President

29:59.300 --> 30:04.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Donald J. Trump and JD
Vance together, they
will make America great

30:04.266 --> 30:07.266 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
again.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome former
counselor to President

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Donald J. Trump,
Kellyanne Conway.

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Good evening, Patriots.
8 years ago. Donald
Trump shocked the system

30:38.333 --> 30:41.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and defied the doubters
to become the forty-fifth
president of the

30:41.233 --> 30:46.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
United States. He didn't
want the form fortune
or fame, power and

30:47.900 --> 30:51.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
position. He already
has all of that. Donald
Trump may and his family

30:53.133 --> 30:56.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
made enormous sacrifices to
run and to serve as president.

30:57.266 --> 30:59.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He didn't need to do
it. He wanted to do it.

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My relationship with
Mr. Trump was forged
under fire in a foxhole

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in 2016. After he asked me
to be his campaign manager.

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We had no idea that he
was making history as
the first successful

31:23.700 --> 31:27.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
presidential nominee ever to
tap a woman to lead a campaign.

31:32.666 --> 31:36.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But that was a natural
for Donald J. Trump.
He had elevated women

31:36.966 --> 31:41.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in New York real estate decades
before when few people would.

31:43.300 --> 31:46.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
One morning I was in an
early senior staff meeting
in the White House.

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And as I glanced around the
table, something caught my eye.

31:52.866 --> 31:56.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In that meeting where
Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Mercedes Schlapp Brooke

31:57.866 --> 32:00.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Rollins, Ivanka Trump, and me.

32:02.233 --> 32:06.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I soon realized that among
us We have 19 children.

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At the time, ages 2 through 16.

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Show me a C-suite in
America. Where 5 working
moms of 19 young children.

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Could have the highest
rank in the company
and work alongside the

32:24.466 --> 32:27.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
president.

32:31.133 --> 32:36.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In the Trump White House
we lived it. Sure, he
saw something in me

32:37.866 --> 32:40.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and the other working
moms that perhaps we did
not see in ourselves.

32:42.166 --> 32:46.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But more importantly,
he sees what's best and
what's possible. For

32:47.600 --> 32:49.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
millions of decent
hardworking Americans.

32:51.700 --> 32:55.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now 8 years later, He
and his family have made
the sacrifice again.

32:57.266 --> 33:02.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
For him to run and serve
as president. Donald
Trump could be the

33:03.800 --> 33:07.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
envy of former presidents.
He's a billionaire
who could play golf

33:08.966 --> 33:12.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
every day at his own
golf courses. He can
enjoy a magnificent life.

33:14.400 --> 33:19.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
With his incredible 5
children, his 10 amazing
grandchildren. And

33:19.366 --> 33:24.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that extraordinary elegant,
beautiful, brilliant wife.

33:29.366 --> 33:32.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The former and future
First Lady Melania Trump.

33:39.633 --> 33:44.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He does not need to do this.
But we need him to do this.

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How often do we hear?
I want Trump's policies
without Trump's personality.

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Well, good luck with
that. We don't get those
policies without that

33:59.900 --> 34:02.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
personality.

34:06.500 --> 34:11.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Taking out our Baghdadi
and Soleimani, ending
the ISIS caliphate.

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Recalibrating trade
deals, restoring sanity,
growth, and fairness

34:17.433 --> 34:22.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in our economy. Making
our southern border more
secure and sovereign.

34:24.100 --> 34:28.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Supporting school
choice. Protecting life,
respecting workers, backing

34:29.833 --> 34:33.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
our blue, our military
and our border patrol.
You get that through

34:35.266 --> 34:39.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
strength and toughness. Weakness
emboldens our adversaries.

34:41.433 --> 34:44.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Enables failure.
And empowers evil.

34:46.666 --> 34:51.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
The answer to weakness
is strength. The antidote
to division is unity.

34:52.833 --> 34:57.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And the alternative to
failure and incompetence
to Joe Biden and

34:59.533 --> 35:03.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Kamala Harris is to
send them packing and
send Donald Trump and JD

35:04.233 --> 35:06.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Vance to the White House.

35:14.266 --> 35:19.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
If you know someone
who is skeptical. About
the Republican Party.

35:20.633 --> 35:23.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Or who is cynical about
politics. Don't dismiss them.

35:25.000 --> 35:28.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Talk to them. We went through
addition, not division.

35:30.033 --> 35:33.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
In Donald Trump's Republican
Party, everyone is welcome.

35:39.800 --> 35:44.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We have been called
deplorable. Irredeemable.

35:46.166 --> 35:50.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Mega Maggot extremists
and worse. But Donald
Trump sees you for who

35:51.866 --> 35:56.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you are. You love your
God? You love your
family and you love your

35:56.866 --> 35:59.666 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
country.

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In 2024 there should be no more
hidden undercover Trump voters.

36:07.866 --> 36:11.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It's time to put that
flag on your front porch.
That red hat on your

36:11.766 --> 36:16.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
head. Because we don't
cave and we don't cower
and we do not capitulate.

36:18.433 --> 36:22.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Instead We get up We show up

36:23.166 --> 36:25.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
We stand up and we speak up.

36:29.500 --> 36:34.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your movement.
This is your moment.

36:35.933 --> 36:39.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And this is the man I
know and the president
we need for 4 more years.

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He picks the toughest fights and
wins. He has stood by me and he

36:45.000 --> 36:50.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
will always stand up
for you. Thank you, God
bless you and God bless

36:50.900 --> 36:53.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
the United States of America.

37:04.000 --> 37:08.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I would describe that
was Kellyanne Conway,
former senior counselor

37:08.033 --> 37:11.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to former President Trump taking
the stage. They're watching PBS

37:11.466 --> 37:15.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
News live coverage of the
3rd night of the Republican
National Convention.

37:17.133 --> 37:18.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We're going to turn now
to some other topics
before we take you back

37:18.666 --> 37:21.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
down to the stage for additional
speakers. It's important to note

37:22.800 --> 37:24.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
misinformation continues
to be an important
issue during this whole

37:24.566 --> 37:27.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
campaign season, including right
here at the Republican National

37:27.400 --> 37:31.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Convention unfortunately
PBS News is partnering
with PolitiFact to

37:31.400 --> 37:35.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
do some fact checking.
Katie Sanders from joins
us here in the booth.

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Good to see you. Thanks
for having us. So let's
just address a few

37:39.266 --> 37:42.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the things we've
heard in previous nights
tonight already and

37:42.000 --> 37:45.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
add some context and
necessary facts to this
on the issue of inflation,

37:47.500 --> 37:49.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we heard Congressman
Ronnie Jackson of Texas
earlier today saying

37:49.200 --> 37:53.266 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
that the US had
experienced record high
inflation under the Biden

37:53.266 --> 37:55.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
administration. What
should we understand
about that? I think when

37:55.800 --> 37:58.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you leave it open ended
like that and maybe
you're not an economist

37:58.700 --> 38:02.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
or an economics expert,
you don't know that he's
referring to a specific

38:02.066 --> 38:05.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
point of time. Inflation.
I experienced a couple
of years ago was

38:05.633 --> 38:09.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
nowhere near the levels
of the 1970s, the early
1980s, when it was

38:09.466 --> 38:13.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
12 to 15%. So at the high under
Biden, it was at around 9%. It's

38:13.833 --> 38:17.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
come down since then, so you can
kind of play fast and loose with

38:17.100 --> 38:20.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
record high inflation.
It's important to actually
look up the numbers

38:20.866 --> 38:24.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and Congressman Matt Gates, who
addressed the convention earlier

38:24.600 --> 38:27.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this evening, said that
Vice President Kamala
Harris was appointed

38:27.566 --> 38:30.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the border czar. She
did have immigration as
part of her portfolio.

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So how does that stack
up? Just need some context
too and. He's certainly

38:34.433 --> 38:37.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
not the first person to bring up
that line. You've heard it from

38:37.233 --> 38:40.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
multiple speakers, so
it sounds like it's
something that actually

38:40.666 --> 38:43.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
literally happened,
but this is actually a
nickname from Republicans.

38:45.466 --> 38:48.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
What Biden did early
into his presidency was
a point Kamala Harris

38:48.233 --> 38:51.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to investigate the root
causes of immigration
in Northern Triangle

38:51.833 --> 38:55.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
countries. He didn't
say you're in charge
now. He left that to the

38:55.533 --> 38:59.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Department of Homeland
Security, so that remains
with Alejando Majorcas

39:01.200 --> 39:03.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and um the Republicans
very quickly took to
calling her the border

39:03.600 --> 39:04.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
czar. Because

39:06.233 --> 39:10.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
political reasons. We've
heard a lot a lot also
about the US withdrawal

39:11.966 --> 39:15.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
of troops from Afghanistan
after the 20 plus
year war there we saw

39:16.766 --> 39:18.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
former Republican House Speaker
Newt Gingrich take to the stage,

39:19.833 --> 39:22.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and he said that Biden
adopted what he called
failed policies, whereas

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Trump orchestrated
an orderly end to the
Afghanistan war with no

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American killed in
nearly two years. It's
a very specific claim.

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How does that check out
with you and your team,
um, I think It just

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needs a little context.
Some of that long
period actually overlaps

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with the Biden
administration, which isn't
something that you might

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think again, the dates
matter specific time
frames matter and there

39:45.000 --> 39:48.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
may not have been combat
deaths, but there were
4 non-hostile service

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members who died during
that period and 3
others were wounded in

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combat wounded, which
is not what he said,
so to be fair, um, but

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that wasn't a combat
situation, so I think it
kind of speaks to this

39:58.666 --> 40:02.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
broader theme that under
former President Trump,
everything was fine.

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We didn't have conflicts
around the world.
Certainly more context

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is needed for that.
Katie Sanders, editor
in chief of PolitiFact,

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thanks so much. Thanks
for having me. Let's go
back to the convention

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floor where Lisa Desjardin, our
politics correspondent, our eyes

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and ears here at the
Republican National
Convention is with a delegate,

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as I understand it, Lisa.
That's right. It's a
little bit of activity

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around here, guys, because Texas
Governor Greg Abbott is expected

40:25.366 --> 40:28.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to speak. They're clearing some
of the aisles for him right now.

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That's why it's a little
bit shaky on our end, but

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To talk to you right
now but a delegate from
Texas, uh, this is Thomas.

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You are from uh Amarillo,
which I believe you
described as what hot?

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It's a hot, really
flat, but it's also kind
of like the old west,

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so you said it's where modern
America meets the old West,

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right? And you are 25, you are a
delegate here that is among the

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youngest delegates, I think, at
this convention, but you're also

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running for office. You're
running as a Republican
nominee, I believe,

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as tax assessor. I'm
the Republican nominee
for taxes or. County,

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Texas. You are someone
who is about the future
of the Republican

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Party. So let me ask you, why do
you think Donald Trump should be

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the future of this party
young Americans still
mostly vote Democratic.

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He's led some incredible
growth in our party,
you know, we have more

41:16.266 --> 41:19.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
people coming to the Republican
Party now than we've had in many

41:19.066 --> 41:23.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
years and while not all
of it is specifically
about Trump, I think

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the policies are attracting
a lot of people. He's
good on a lot of

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the policies. Which
policies? I think the
economic policies are a

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great example. What do
you mean? Well, you know,
look at the inflation

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we have right now. Look
at the expenses people
are having on their

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pocketbooks. Grocery
prices are going up. The
gas prices, um, especially

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for a long time since
Biden was in, you know,
they were really high.

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I think Americans are
just feeling it more
now, and they're wishing

41:49.133 --> 41:54.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for the days of Trump
again. You own your own
home now. I think Democrats

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is an example of the
Biden economy doing
well. I wouldn't say so,

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you know, my wife
and I were just very
fortunate the way things.

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Lined up, but a lot of Americans
aren't as fortunate as us. Young

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Americans and older
Americans, and so they
need someone who's going

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to have their back in
this economic time, and
I think Donald Trump's

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that guy. In addition
to the other hats you
wear, including a cowboy

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hat, I bet you have at
your seat, uh, you are
also part time in law

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school. When you were
in college, it was the
pandemic. You told me

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that and tell me, tell me
your experience you you
couldn't, you couldn't

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attend classes. How,
what was that like for
you? I was scary, you

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know, especially we were
also at the same time
taking care of elderly

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family members and. So
we had to think about
health. We had to think

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about just making sure
everything was safe,
so it was pretty scary.

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I'm curious your reaction
to the news that President
Biden has contracted

42:40.900 --> 42:45.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
COVID right now, you
know, I'm a believer
that you have to pray for

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everybody whether you
agree with them or not.
Well, I don't support

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President Biden. I'm praying for
him. I hope he gets through this

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well and I hope he's
healthy on the other
side. You're talking about

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your faith. Donald Trump is not
someone who's always talked like

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a Christian. He said
some very harsh words
about a lot of people,

43:02.333 --> 43:04.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
about women. his enemies. What
do you think of his character,

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you know, we haven't
always agreed with all
of his actions or his

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style on some things,
um, I think he is a
man who cares about the

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country and I'm comfortable
with where he's at
on promoting American

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values, and I'm praying
for him right now and
for his family, and

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I think we're seeing it
out, especially in this
convention. He seems

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like he's very grateful,
especially after what
happened, and I know

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people are praying for
them and we'll just.
Hope for the best. Thomas

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Warren, maybe we'll see
you up on that stage
someday. Jeff, thank

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you. Isa Desjardins,
thanks so much as Lisa
mentioned, we learned

43:40.966 --> 43:44.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
earlier today that
President Biden was
diagnosed with COVID. His

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symptoms are said to be
mild. He's self-isolating
at his home in

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Rehoboth, and this is
a day me Walter, in
which we also learned by

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way of reporting by
The Wall Street Journal
and other outlets that

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House Democratic and
Senate Democratic leaders,
Schumer and Jeffreys

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pushed Democratic officials
at the DNC to delay.
To formally nominate

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President Biden ahead
of the convention, NBC
is reporting that Chuck

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Schumer, Majority Leader
Schumer, presented polling
data to the president

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over the weekend showing that he
doesn't have a path to win. Your

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reaction to all of that
is just. An unbelievable
amount of information

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and news that has been
breaking, it feels like
every minute of the

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day, like if, if Aaron
Sorkin had scripted
these last two weeks.

44:32.533 --> 44:34.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
It would have been thrown
out of the writer's room
for being absolutely

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ridiculous, but it

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it is something we've
been talking about a lot
here of the fact that

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this is a. Unifying
event for the party. We
can discuss whether it's

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actually unifying for
the country definitely
that's another topic,

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but for the party,
definitely unified the
fact that Democrats are

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now spending more time
debating their own future
is is very telling.

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Look, we keep waiting
for this um this moment
where somebody in very

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high leadership, whether that is
the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Or Chuck Schumer to come out and
publicly say something they seem

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to be

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dropping as many hints
saying it as nicely as
possible to allow President

45:26.066 --> 45:31.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Biden to bow out without
having to have that public

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um accounting. Maybe we
will have an answer at
the end of this week.

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I doubt we're going to
see something before
we get to Friday, but

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as we go into the
weekend, it does seem like
this pressure campaign

45:45.066 --> 45:50.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is on a Not only continuous
but pretty intense.

45:51.733 --> 45:55.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Round. Jonathan, that context of
what's happening outside of this

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arena is important because it's
relevant to the race to what all

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of these messages and
whatever policies and
campaigns, you know,

46:04.500 --> 46:06.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
pledges these turn into
what they're running
against, who they're

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running against, as
you've noted a number of
times, President Biden

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has continued to insist
that he is. He has made
up his mind. There's

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no question about it.
Democrats can't take
yes for an answer here.

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Is there anything about
the day's events that
leads you to believe

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that will change? This,
I, I've always said
that these people who

46:22.066 --> 46:25.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
are calling on the
president to withdraw
from the race. They can't

46:25.566 --> 46:30.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
just say the polling
looks bad and therefore
you should get out.

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They need to come to the
table either preferably
to the public and

46:34.566 --> 46:38.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
show what these internal
numbers are, um, and,
and go to the president,

46:40.433 --> 46:43.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
not public polling but
internal polling and
from the reporting about

46:43.266 --> 46:46.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the meeting that Senator Schumer
had the majority leader had with

46:46.266 --> 46:50.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the president is he came to the
table within. Internal polling.

46:52.000 --> 46:54.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
This is significant.
He's the Senate majority
leader, the leading

46:54.666 --> 46:59.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Democrat in the Senate,
um, this is something

47:00.566 --> 47:03.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
where I'm like wow if
Schumer has done this.

47:04.700 --> 47:08.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
This is pretty big. Now
to Amy's point though.
This is not Schumer

47:10.600 --> 47:14.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
on the record saying this
happened, but what makes
this story significant

47:14.700 --> 47:18.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is this meeting that
happened between the
majority leader and the

47:18.033 --> 47:22.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
president. They were
the only two people in
the room, according to

47:22.066 --> 47:25.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the recording, according
to the reporting and
so how does this get

47:25.300 --> 47:30.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
out? And why does it
get out? And so we had
Speaker Emeta Nancy Pelosi

47:32.033 --> 47:36.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a couple of weeks ago
dropping a little hint
you had um, Congressman

47:36.166 --> 47:38.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Adam Schiff of California
Senate. Candidate

47:40.433 --> 47:42.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Going on the record
saying he thinks the
president should withdraw

47:42.466 --> 47:47.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from the race. This
story about Schumer.
Talking to the president.

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Is a bit of an earthquake
and then there were
other if memory serves,

47:54.366 --> 47:56.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
there's also another
story I believe in in
the Washington Post, I

47:56.666 --> 48:01.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
believe, where it says
that President Biden
is going from. Quote

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Kala can't win to Can Kamala.

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You put all this
together and maybe we are
moving to a situation

48:11.666 --> 48:14.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
where he bounced out
of the race, but I will
repeat what I've said

48:15.500 --> 48:16.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
multiple times at this table

48:17.900 --> 48:21.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
if President Biden is not is
not the top of the ticket.

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Then it has to be Vice
President Harris, and if
it is not Vice President

48:25.866 --> 48:30.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Harris, the Democrats
will definitely lose.
The thing I fear the

48:30.066 --> 48:33.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
most for the Democrats is
that he drops President
Biden drops from

48:33.933 --> 48:38.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the top of the ticket
and then they go into
some crazy open primary

48:38.000 --> 48:43.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
process. Democrats don't
know how to handle that
kind they Democrats

48:44.700 --> 48:46.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
love chaos. And they're
all in agreement it
seems. He needs to get

48:46.266 --> 48:49.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
out of the race. And if he does
get out of the race, that's when

48:49.800 --> 48:53.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
all hell breaks loose
because everyone has
their own preferred person

48:53.633 --> 48:56.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and if that preferred
person, if they don't
coalesce around the sitting

48:56.933 --> 49:00.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
vice president, then
what do they say to
African American voters

49:00.666 --> 49:03.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
who are consistently
behind the fact that the
president should stay

49:03.333 --> 49:07.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in the race and have
been the rescuers in the
foundation of the Democratic

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Party. For years, Jonathan,
you mentioned that
statement from Congressman

49:12.200 --> 49:16.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Adam Schiff, which,
which struck me when I
read it in part because

49:16.000 --> 49:20.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Adam Schiff is such a
close ally, a former House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

49:22.033 --> 49:23.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
She was the one who
appointed him the House
impeachment manager and

49:23.900 --> 49:26.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Impeachment one, and he
actually played that role
in both impeachments.

49:28.400 --> 49:31.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In many ways he is a
proxy for her. We don't
know what we don't know.

49:33.466 --> 49:33.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm not trying to, you
know, enter into the
realm of speculation,

49:35.633 --> 49:39.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
but in, but previously
he has been, uh, and he
is now a Of this roster

49:40.800 --> 49:43.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
of high profile Democrats
who are saying that
Joe Biden should step

49:43.933 --> 49:47.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
aside. He would not
say something like this
without thinking through

49:47.133 --> 49:50.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
it very careful. Yeah,
I think he thought
through it carefully. I

49:50.266 --> 49:53.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
think Nancy Pelosi
issued a statement saying
when he announced that

49:53.166 --> 49:56.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
publicly, it was news
to her, but I do think
that the Washington

49:56.466 --> 50:00.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Post story which did
have the shift in Byron's
mentality. I thought

50:00.733 --> 50:01.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
that was

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interesting for a lot
of different reasons,
partly for that sign

50:05.300 --> 50:09.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
of a shift. Secondly, there
was a very interesting
sentence. Unlike

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any sentence I've read
in American journalism
that said a person

50:13.400 --> 50:16.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
close to Biden
confronted him directly

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with just the two of them
in the room. They were

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that had to come from Camp Biden

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and so that's a sign that
the, it's like watching
a sandcastle begin

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to erode. And I think
they're doing it in
the right way. I don't

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think they should go
public. You give the man
his dignity. You preserve

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the process of the
party. Cory Booker was
on television today and

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he was asked. Do you
think he should step
down? he said, I'm waiting

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for the president to
make the decision. Of
course the president made

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the decision a zillion
times, but I let him
have his time even at

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this late hour. I think
that's the right policy,
and my vibe is that

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the idea of a supercharged
primary, a lot of, a
lot like 8 pick your

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8 finalists, have a
lot of town meetings.
People were super excited

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about that. I think
the party has drifted
away from that. I think

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what you said the idea
of tumults right now, I
think they've internalized

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the idea that if it's not Biden,
it's going to be Kalari. and so

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I The, the, again, when
you're talking about
the Democratic Party,

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you're talking about this
vague cloud of people
who are all whispering

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and so it's super hard
to get a read on how the
whispering is moving,

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the climate of whispers,
but I, I one sense is
accelerating today.

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The sand is beginning to
Amy, President, former
President Trump wants

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to run against President
Biden for their messaging
on this is clear.

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They have coalesced
around the opposition
here. That's how does it

51:36.666 --> 51:40.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
scramble all the messaging
and the strategy.
We're seeing this week

51:40.100 --> 51:45.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in here if these kinds
of changes do occur, I
mean what we're seeing

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again and some of the
polling, but it's, it
feels like any polling

51:49.900 --> 51:50.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
that we've had

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that is older than 2
weeks, doesn't make a
whole lot of sense, but.

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That said, Uh, Harris
does a little bit better
with the base, with

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the voters like women,
like younger voters.
Um, and, and in some

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cases younger voters
of color, so there is
some advantage there,

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but she still has all the
negatives of being a part
of this administration.

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What they're saying right, what
they've been saying for the last

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few days about the
administration, its policies
on the border, it's

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policies on it, um,
inflation and the economy
on Afghanistan. She

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will own those as well.
The difference is that
she doesn't own the

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Big, um contrast that they
would like in terms of
the physical difference

52:43.366 --> 52:47.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
between a Donald Trump
and a Biden in terms of
strength and weakness,

52:48.733 --> 52:51.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
but they will still
lean into the weakness,
right, that she is weak

52:51.433 --> 52:56.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
because she supports
open borders. She is weak
because she as a candidate.

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Wasn't particularly
successful when she first
ran so they will basically

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run a very similar
campaign, but if the
biggest one of the biggest

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challenges for Biden is

53:11.866 --> 53:14.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he can't get anybody
excited about his candidacy
within his own base.

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The theory is having
a Kamala Harris and of
course there would be

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a new vice president then
brings a little attention

53:24.566 --> 53:27.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
interest energy into what
has been a pretty Like

53:28.833 --> 53:33.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Moribund Democratic
Party at this point in
terms of voter base, but

53:35.366 --> 53:37.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the Biden campaign
is trying and they're
they're they're trying to

53:37.133 --> 53:40.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
gin up enthusiasm,
even in recent days by
lurching leftward. The

53:40.133 --> 53:44.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
president is embracing
rent control and debt
erasure and Supreme

53:44.200 --> 53:47.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Court reform. This was
the thing that he had
resisted for so I saw

53:47.466 --> 53:52.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that I saw that and and
it just goes to, you
know, the, the heart

53:52.400 --> 53:57.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the challenge for
the Biden campaign
isn't the policy. That's

53:59.200 --> 54:01.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
not why. His voters
aren't excited. The
heart of the challenge is

54:01.900 --> 54:05.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the thing that voters
have been saying. We've
all listened to voters.

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We've sat in focus groups.
They've been saying
from the very beginning,

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I think it's too old.
I think he's too old.
I don't understand why

54:12.800 --> 54:17.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he's doing this. And
so if you already have
that in your mind, he's

54:17.633 --> 54:21.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
too old. No matter what
he's saying. It, it
has to go through the

54:21.733 --> 54:24.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
filter of can he really
do it? Is he really
going to finish so it

54:24.766 --> 54:28.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
doesn't matter what the message
is. If the messenger isn't to be

54:28.366 --> 54:32.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
ineffective, but going
to doing the the rent
control, doing the Supreme

54:32.266 --> 54:36.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Court stuff that just to
me reeks of panic because
the, the progressives

54:36.266 --> 54:38.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
are the people who
are sticking with them
they're gonna, we got to

54:38.766 --> 54:42.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
keep these people and
so they've adopted
whatever we can do and if

54:42.000 --> 54:45.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
there's ever an idea
that's to me stale and
discredited. It's rent

54:45.466 --> 54:49.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
control, but they,
they've got to keep,
they've got to keep their

54:49.033 --> 54:49.900 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
people

54:51.566 --> 54:54.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
On their, on their team,
so I, I just look at
that as a last ditch

54:54.733 --> 54:58.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
political none of us want to get
ahead of where this story is and

54:58.833 --> 55:02.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
you know kind of following
the reporting as it
comes out, but you've

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covered plenty of conventions
and campaigns and elections.

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This is a unique one
for a number of reasons.
Mainly because of this

55:11.000 --> 55:15.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
individual right here
entering the arena is
former President Donald

55:15.133 --> 55:19.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump. On the 3rd
night of the Republican
convention, a convention

55:19.266 --> 55:23.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in which he has appeared
every single night
tonight walking into

55:23.133 --> 55:28.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
James Brown's, it's a
man's world. As he makes
his way to the boxes

55:29.766 --> 55:33.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he has in previous
nights where members of
his family, uh, members

55:33.066 --> 55:36.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of Congress, his allies.
Interestingly, we have
not seen former First

55:36.366 --> 55:40.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Lady Melania Trump appeared this
week. She might be here tomorrow

55:40.300 --> 55:44.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
night when former President
Trump addresses. This
gathering. So let's

55:44.833 --> 55:47.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
take this in. Let's see, let's
see uh how the former president.

55:48.766 --> 55:51.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Reached the crowd this evening.

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This is the James Brown
Pavarotti version of
It's a man's world.

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Yes

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He's come out early.
Yeah, there was some
scrambling of the schedule.

56:53.400 --> 56:56.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
David Brooks, interesting
to note each night
who is seated in that

56:56.766 --> 56:59.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
box. If you take a look
down the line there,
there's Texas Governor

56:59.966 --> 57:04.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Greg Abbott, Florida
Senator Marco Rubio. I
noticed Virginia Governor

57:04.533 --> 57:09.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Glenn Yunkin as well rejects.

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And I think it's Senator
Ted Cruz, I think was
next to Governor Junin,

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I think. We're about to see.

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It

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Take a listen now to our
next featured speaker
of the evening, that

57:28.600 --> 57:33.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is Kimberly Guilfoyle,
the fiancee of Donald
Trump Jr. as she takes

57:33.033 --> 57:36.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
the stage.

57:41.000 --> 57:46.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Good evening ladies and
gentlemen. Like you,
I have spent much of

57:47.733 --> 57:51.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
my time the last few
days in prayer. And I
know that God has put

57:53.133 --> 57:56.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
an armor. protection
over Donald Trump.

58:02.266 --> 58:07.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We are all reminded
that love for our nation
and the beauty of life

58:08.600 --> 58:11.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
itself transcends all hatred
and political divisions.

58:13.266 --> 58:17.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I stand before you tonight,
more convinced than ever.

58:18.433 --> 58:22.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
This is the. Most important
election in our lifetime.

58:26.900 --> 58:31.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
This election will decide
the fate of our great nation.

58:33.033 --> 58:37.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And that is why We must
elect. President Donald Trump.

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And we're just going
to take a short break
right here for our PBS

58:48.200 --> 58:51.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
stations. We'll be right
back with continued
live coverage of the

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Republican National
Convention. Stay with us.

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I'm Michael Beschloss,
presidential historian
and Newshour contributor.

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Republican Convention
Cleveland 2016. Donald
Trump was getting up

59:07.833 --> 59:10.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to give his acceptance
speech, and a lot of
people were predicting

59:10.966 --> 59:14.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that Trump would do
what most presidential
nominees do, which is

59:14.533 --> 59:19.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
pivot to the center, become
more presidential, and
Donald Trump surprised

59:19.033 --> 59:23.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
many people by doing
almost exactly the
opposite. Our convention

59:23.633 --> 59:28.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
occurs at a moment of
crisis for our nation.
The attacks on our police

59:29.566 --> 59:32.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and the terrorism of our cities

59:33.500 --> 59:36.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
threaten our very way of life.

59:38.166 --> 59:42.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Any politician who does not
grasp this danger is not fit to

59:44.500 --> 59:49.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
lead our country. All
this foreshadowed Trump's
inauguration in which

59:49.366 --> 59:53.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he talked about American
carnage. It's a line
he would give just

59:53.100 --> 59:56.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
as easily in 2020.

59:59.633 --> 01:00:03.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Welcome back now to live
coverage of the Republican
National Convention.

01:00:04.933 --> 01:00:07.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm Amna Nawaz, and I'm
Jeff Bennett, and we
are going to take you

01:00:07.100 --> 01:00:10.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
back to the convention
floor where Kimberly
Guilfoyle is addressing

01:00:12.200 --> 01:00:15.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the crowd. All Joe had to do was
leave it alone and take a nap.

01:00:22.533 --> 01:00:27.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But Joe just couldn't
help himself. Joe Biden
cannot lead America.

01:00:30.366 --> 01:00:34.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He cannot even lead
himself off a stage.

01:00:38.933 --> 01:00:43.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Now Americans are drowning
in inflation insanity
spreads like a cancer

01:00:43.700 --> 01:00:48.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in our schools. We are closer to
World War II than any time in my

01:00:48.533 --> 01:00:53.500 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
life. And we are
facing an unprecedented
invasion of millions of

01:00:54.766 --> 01:00:57.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
illegal aliens across
our southern border.

01:00:59.200 --> 01:01:04.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Rioters and looters go
free. While Biden and
the Democrats persecute.

01:01:07.166 --> 01:01:10.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
heroes like Donald Trump.

01:01:14.433 --> 01:01:19.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
tens of millions of
Americans are made to
feel like enemies in our

01:01:19.166 --> 01:01:24.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
own country. An enemy
for wanting to defend our
border for not wanting

01:01:25.900 --> 01:01:30.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
our children indoctrinated
in school for not
wanting to erase our

01:01:31.900 --> 01:01:35.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
history for praying
to our God saying what
we think and fighting

01:01:36.966 --> 01:01:41.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for what we believe.
It is no wonder that
the heroes who stormed

01:01:42.900 --> 01:01:47.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the beaches of Normandy
and face down communism,
sadly say they don't

01:01:48.766 --> 01:01:52.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
recognize our country anymore.
This is not an accident.

01:01:54.266 --> 01:01:58.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
The powerful elites in the
swamp will say anything
to crush and destroy

01:01:59.766 --> 01:02:03.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the America First movement,
but we. Well Never give up

01:02:04.500 --> 01:02:07.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
They're well Donald J. Trump.

01:02:16.966 --> 01:02:21.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I know I speak for
patriots everywhere.
When I say we are fed up.

01:02:22.966 --> 01:02:25.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We are outraged about
sex trafficking and
drug trafficking across

01:02:25.900 --> 01:02:30.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
our southern border.
We are fed. With the
forever wars. We are done

01:02:32.666 --> 01:02:35.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
being told by the
radical left to sit down,
shut up, and obey. The

01:02:35.966 --> 01:02:40.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Democrat vision for America
is governed by fear,
hatred, and oppression.

01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:47.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Our vision is defined by
a love of our country.

01:02:48.533 --> 01:02:51.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Love for Fellow
citizens and our Love

01:02:53.100 --> 01:02:56.066 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Freedom.

01:03:01.766 --> 01:03:06.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In our vision we will
secure the southern border
and deport the violent

01:03:07.966 --> 01:03:10.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
criminal aliens
once and for all.

01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:25.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In our vision America
will combat. For
aggressors and ensure our

01:03:26.666 --> 01:03:30.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
service members are
protected, not abandoned
as they carry out their

01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:35.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
dangerous missions
abroad. Because we

01:03:36.600 --> 01:03:40.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We can only have Peace
through strength.

01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:50.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We will restore an
era of national pride
where freedom of speech

01:03:50.100 --> 01:03:53.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is respected. And
cancel culture is ended.

01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:03.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Where high school girls
only compete. Girls not

01:04:13.266 --> 01:04:18.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We're struggling cities
never put criminal
illegal aliens above.

01:04:19.500 --> 01:04:22.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Heroic veterans and
brave law enforcement.

01:04:26.833 --> 01:04:31.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Where our streets are
not ruled by gangs and
rioters, but governed

01:04:31.566 --> 01:04:36.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
by law and order. Where
students are freed from
failing schools and

01:04:37.900 --> 01:04:42.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
corrupt teachers unions through
universal school. Choice

01:04:48.433 --> 01:04:52.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Where our most sacred
institutions are not
weaponized against political

01:04:52.933 --> 01:04:55.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
opponents but are fair. E

01:04:56.333 --> 01:04:57.166 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
And just

01:05:01.300 --> 01:05:06.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Where we teach our children
to love our country.

01:05:07.166 --> 01:05:10.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Learn our history. and respect

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American flag.

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I believe America

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I believe Freedom
and liberty and

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Le Donald John Trump.

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And I want Joe Biden,
Kamala Harris, and all
of the radical Democrats

01:05:42.533 --> 01:05:46.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to know this. We will
not be bullied into
obedience. We will not.

01:05:47.766 --> 01:05:52.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and silence we will fight
for America because we

01:05:53.966 --> 01:05:54.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
America

01:06:21.766 --> 01:06:26.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I stand before you as a
working mother. A former
prosecutor, a Catholic

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and Proud Latina

01:06:35.666 --> 01:06:39.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I know personally what
every American has now
seen with their own

01:06:41.400 --> 01:06:44.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
eyes. I know the measure
of the man that stands
before us. Donald

01:06:46.433 --> 01:06:49.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Trump will never.
Stop waiting for you.

01:06:55.866 --> 01:06:56.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
So join me

01:06:58.266 --> 01:07:01.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And voting for Donald
Trump for president again.

01:07:12.033 --> 01:07:17.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Victory is in our sights.
As future is in our
hands. America's destiny

01:07:18.666 --> 01:07:23.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is in our control. And America's
prosperity is in our hearts and

01:07:25.333 --> 01:07:29.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
souls. America, this
is your moment. Will
you stand for President

01:07:30.866 --> 01:07:33.866 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Trump?

01:07:35.266 --> 01:07:35.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Ladies and gentlemen

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Lovers of The Freedom

01:07:39.600 --> 01:07:44.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Dream. Last year To make

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Right

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Again, Yeah

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President Trump

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God bless.

01:07:56.466 --> 01:08:00.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
That is Kimberly Guilfoyle
addressing night 3 of
the Republican National

01:08:00.333 --> 01:08:04.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Convention. You are
watching live PBS News
special coverage of the

01:08:04.300 --> 01:08:07.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Republican National
Convention. Let's go to our
White House correspondent

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Laura Barone Lopez. Laura,
as we were discussing
just a minute ago,

01:08:13.033 --> 01:08:15.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the increasing pressure
facing President
Biden, some in private,

01:08:17.333 --> 01:08:20.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
some in public for him
to exit the race past
the baton, if you will,

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walk us through that
reporting and the impact
it's having on the

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campaign and how the how the
Biden team is responding. To it.

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Yeah, Jeff, all week
long I've been hearing
from Democrats that the

01:08:32.600 --> 01:08:37.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
conversation is not
over about the Democrats
telling the president

01:08:37.533 --> 01:08:40.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and talking amongst
themselves about wanting
the president to step

01:08:40.733 --> 01:08:43.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
aside, to step out of
the presidential race
and to have someone else

01:08:45.433 --> 01:08:48.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
pick up the baton. So
despite the fact that
Biden has been saying

01:08:48.133 --> 01:08:52.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that the decision has
been made that he is
in the race. Democrats

01:08:52.300 --> 01:08:56.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
are not done having that
conversation and today
ABC reported as well

01:08:56.966 --> 01:09:01.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
as Politico. That Senator
Chuck Schumer, the
majority leader there.

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Actually over the
weekend said to President
Biden that he thought

01:09:06.333 --> 01:09:09.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
it was in the best
interest of the country
to step out of the race.

01:09:11.433 --> 01:09:13.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now, here at News hour,
we haven't confirmed
that reporting, but

01:09:13.200 --> 01:09:15.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
multiple outlets have
been reporting that
and the White House did

01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:19.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
send me a statement
Andrew Bates, spokesperson
for the White House,

01:09:21.200 --> 01:09:23.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
said that the president
told both leaders,
told Chuck Schumer and

01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:26.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
told Hakeem Jeffries
that he is the nominee
of the party. He plans

01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:30.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to win and that President
Biden looks forward
to working with both

01:09:30.366 --> 01:09:34.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of them to pass his 100
days agenda. To help
working families. So

01:09:34.900 --> 01:09:38.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a pretty clear statement
there from the White
House that matches

01:09:38.066 --> 01:09:41.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what President Biden
has been saying, which
is he has no intention

01:09:41.366 --> 01:09:45.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to get out of this race
right now, Jeff. And
Laura, what is your

01:09:45.066 --> 01:09:47.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
reporting also show about
this other big piece
of news we heard about

01:09:47.900 --> 01:09:51.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the president and
his health today that
positive COVID diagnosis

01:09:51.366 --> 01:09:55.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that has forced him
into self-isolation in
his Delaware home for

01:09:55.500 --> 01:10:00.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a few days at the very
least we know he was just
sort of on a campaigning

01:10:00.100 --> 01:10:04.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
tear in particular reaching
out to black voters
to try to build some

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enthusiasm among
this core part of the
Democratic base. He had to

01:10:08.366 --> 01:10:12.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
cancel the speaking
engagement to a major
Latino advocacy and civil

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rights group today. What kind of
impact is his diagnosis going to

01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:19.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
have on the days ahead?
What does it mean for
Vice President Harris

01:10:19.066 --> 01:10:23.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and other surrogates
out there. It could
potentially lead to more

01:10:23.366 --> 01:10:27.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Democrats coming out
saying that he needs to
step aside, Ana, because

01:10:27.266 --> 01:10:31.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the fact that so
many Democrats have
said publicly, privately

01:10:31.133 --> 01:10:34.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that one of their
biggest concerns is that
President Biden is not

01:10:34.700 --> 01:10:39.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
up to the task of
campaigning, of actually
effectively telling the

01:10:39.233 --> 01:10:43.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
public the message
that so many Democrats
down ballot are running

01:10:43.333 --> 01:10:46.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on. They say that the
problem isn't the message
in the president's

01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:48.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
record as so much
as the messenger

01:10:50.633 --> 01:10:53.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
himself. And so the fact
that President Biden
is now going to have

01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:58.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to be taken off the
campaign trail. He's
in Rehoboth at his home

01:10:58.200 --> 01:11:01.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
there in Delaware, and he wasn't
able to finish all of his events

01:11:01.900 --> 01:11:05.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in Nevada is going to
be a troubling sign to
a number of Democrats,

01:11:07.566 --> 01:11:10.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
especially as they come
back next week to DC,
uh, and we may hear

01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:13.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from more of them that
they want him to step
aside because they had

01:11:13.900 --> 01:11:17.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
wanted President Biden
to show after that
debate performance that

01:11:17.466 --> 01:11:22.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he could maintain a
really strenuous, rigorous
campaign. Schedule

01:11:24.333 --> 01:11:26.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
potentially holding multiple
events a day. And with
this COVID diagnosis,

01:11:28.700 --> 01:11:31.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that's gonna make it
harder for him in this
really crucial moment

01:11:31.066 --> 01:11:34.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
at this crucial period
to convince Democrats
that he's up to the

01:11:34.300 --> 01:11:38.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
task. And as we've been
discussing, it's been
those progressive Democrats

01:11:38.700 --> 01:11:42.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
who have been President
Biden's harbor in the
storm. Senator Bernie

01:11:42.166 --> 01:11:46.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Sanders, Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
and President Biden

01:11:46.633 --> 01:11:50.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
has responded by embracing
many of their causes,
you know, walk us

01:11:50.400 --> 01:11:53.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
through that your report.
On, on, on why they
feel at this moment

01:11:53.866 --> 01:11:57.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they can really lobby
him to support things
like rent control and

01:11:57.266 --> 01:12:02.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
court reform and debt
erasure and how he's
able to use their support

01:12:04.100 --> 01:12:07.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to stay in this race. Just
this week, Jeff, President
Biden was unveiling

01:12:08.766 --> 01:12:12.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a bit more of his 100 days. What
he would do if he were reelected

01:12:12.100 --> 01:12:16.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and had another 4 years
in office and a lot
of that is coming from

01:12:16.200 --> 01:12:20.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the fact that he, during
his entire presidency
has really had an

01:12:20.566 --> 01:12:25.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
open door policy for
progressives. His prior
chief of staff Ron Klain

01:12:27.433 --> 01:12:29.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
really did a lot of work to
build up that relationship
with progressives,

01:12:31.100 --> 01:12:33.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
be it Bernie Sanders,
be it Congresswoman
Acasio-Cortez or other

01:12:33.500 --> 01:12:37.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
progressives. Across
Congress and so this
week he talked about how

01:12:37.766 --> 01:12:42.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
he, if he were reelected,
would institute a
cap on rent, a 5% cap

01:12:44.433 --> 01:12:47.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on rent for apartments,
and that's something
that he hadn't unveiled

01:12:47.500 --> 01:12:51.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
before. He also has
talked about eliminating
medical debt for people.

01:12:53.233 --> 01:12:55.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's something that
came from the progressive
wing of Democrats

01:12:55.066 --> 01:12:59.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and some sources have
told me that yes, he
is potentially in the

01:13:01.566 --> 01:13:05.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
coming weeks, wants to
unveil a plan to reform
the Supreme Court,

01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:09.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and that would include
term limits for the
Supreme Court. It could

01:13:09.166 --> 01:13:10.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
also include

01:13:12.300 --> 01:13:14.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what he hopes would
be legislation that he
could pass with Democrats

01:13:14.666 --> 01:13:19.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in Congress to limit
the scope of immunity
for presidents and for

01:13:21.366 --> 01:13:25.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
judges and justices. So
that's something that
he is considering right

01:13:26.766 --> 01:13:29.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
now a big endorsement
of that type of reform.
Uh, my source told

01:13:29.433 --> 01:13:34.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
me that he was potentially going
to unveil that earlier this. We

01:13:34.400 --> 01:13:38.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
when he was scheduled to
go to the LBJ Presidential
Library for the

01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:42.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
anniversary of the Civil
Rights Act, but that
event, as you know,

01:13:44.100 --> 01:13:45.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
had to be canceled because
of the assassination
attempt on Donald

01:13:45.866 --> 01:13:49.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump. Hey Laura, how
much is what's happening
in this room behind

01:13:49.866 --> 01:13:54.600 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
us informing the
conversation among Democrats
as well at this moment

01:13:54.600 --> 01:13:58.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
around this issue and what we've
seen in the last 3 days of this

01:13:58.466 --> 01:14:03.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Republican National
Convention is a unified
Republican Party around

01:14:05.233 --> 01:14:07.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this Trump van ticket.
We have no idea how some
of the policy differences

01:14:07.800 --> 01:14:11.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
will be coming together
later, but right now
this is a party in which

01:14:11.266 --> 01:14:15.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
all of Mr. Trump's former rivals
have come together to back him.

01:14:16.666 --> 01:14:18.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
How much is this? a
force in forming the
Democrats' conversation

01:14:18.733 --> 01:14:22.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
around their ticket right
now. Well, it depends
on if you're talking

01:14:22.266 --> 01:14:26.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to President Biden's
campaign or if you're
talking to other Democrats

01:14:26.033 --> 01:14:30.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
across the party, right,
because of the really
big family conversation

01:14:30.666 --> 01:14:33.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
that they're having right
now. President Biden's
campaign says that

01:14:33.666 --> 01:14:37.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what they're hearing at
the Republican National
Convention is stuff

01:14:37.300 --> 01:14:39.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
that uh they that gives them

01:14:41.333 --> 01:14:43.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a lot to work with,
essentially that they
are going to continue to

01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:47.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
be able to attack
Republicans on Trump's
second term plans, whether,

01:14:49.300 --> 01:14:52.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
whether it's about
immigration, about mass
deportation. of of migrants,

01:14:54.233 --> 01:14:56.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
um, the fact that
Republicans are really
leaning into conspiracy

01:14:56.700 --> 01:15:01.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
theories about non-citizens
voting in droves and
in massive numbers

01:15:01.633 --> 01:15:05.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
which the data and the
evidence doesn't show
that. They also feel

01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:09.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as though the President
Biden's campaign, as
though they can definitely

01:15:09.066 --> 01:15:13.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
go on the attack on
abortion and especially
when it comes to Trump's

01:15:13.733 --> 01:15:18.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
vice presidential pick
JD Vance, who has had
some pretty restrictive

01:15:18.266 --> 01:15:22.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
positions when it comes
to abortion. So That's
from President Biden's

01:15:22.066 --> 01:15:25.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
campaign, but when you
talk to other Democrats,
whether it's lawmakers

01:15:25.166 --> 01:15:30.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in Congress, donors,
party operatives, you
know, they feel as though

01:15:31.866 --> 01:15:34.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
President Biden himself
and his campaign is
not necessarily up to

01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:38.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the task of effectively
messaging to the public,
all of those things

01:15:38.666 --> 01:15:42.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that I just talked
about, whether it's
abortion, whether it's uh

01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:45.933 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
what they say is
Republican extremism when
it comes to wanting to,

01:15:47.633 --> 01:15:51.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
uh, you know, uh, push
forward anti-democratic.
norms and so that's

01:15:52.700 --> 01:15:54.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
something that Democrats
feel as though they
don't have the strongest

01:15:54.766 --> 01:15:58.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
messenger on, and
they're worried that
because they don't have a

01:15:58.166 --> 01:16:01.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
strong person at the top of the
ticket, that it could eventually

01:16:01.633 --> 01:16:06.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
impact them down ballot
in other races. Lar Baron
Lopez. Laura, thanks

01:16:06.333 --> 01:16:09.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as always for your
terrific reporting. We
appreciate it. Thank you.

01:16:11.166 --> 01:16:12.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And let's go back now
down to the convention
floor. Our political

01:16:12.700 --> 01:16:16.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
correspondent Lisa Desjardins is
there with a delegate. Lisa, who

01:16:16.166 --> 01:16:19.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
are you with? Hi Jeff
and I'm, I'm with Lauren
Martel, but I have

01:16:19.500 --> 01:16:22.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to tell you they just
began a presentation
for Gold Star family,

01:16:24.100 --> 01:16:25.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
so I think Ms. Martel
doesn't want to talk to
me. So let me instead

01:16:25.500 --> 01:16:27.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
tell you some of my
reporting uh if we're gonna

01:16:29.066 --> 01:16:32.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
move around here, Jim,
with the camera, um.
Tonight's theme is Make

01:16:34.700 --> 01:16:37.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
America strong again,
and this is part of it
talking about Gold Star

01:16:37.066 --> 01:16:41.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
families, military
families. I was in South
Carolina to talk about

01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:43.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that because we know
there are a lot of
military veterans in South

01:16:43.433 --> 01:16:47.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Carolina, you know,
just a few minutes ago I
talked to South Carolina's

01:16:47.633 --> 01:16:51.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
governor Henry McMaster.
He's someone I've
known a long time, uh,

01:16:52.900 --> 01:16:54.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a lot of folks know
that I, I was a reporter
in South Carolina. Uh,

01:16:55.900 --> 01:16:58.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he's been a politician
in that state for 40
years, depending on how

01:16:58.433 --> 01:17:02.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
you count, and I asked him
about vice presidential
nominee. JD Vance,

01:17:04.600 --> 01:17:06.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and he said, to be
honest, I don't know him.
I don't think I've ever

01:17:06.400 --> 01:17:10.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
met him. This is the
end of a longtime
Republican operative in a

01:17:10.366 --> 01:17:14.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
key state of South
Carolina who hasn't met
the new vice presidential

01:17:14.533 --> 01:17:18.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
nominee, but he said
right away, it doesn't
matter to me, you know,

01:17:19.833 --> 01:17:22.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as long as Trump likes
him, I like him too,
but it just shows that

01:17:22.466 --> 01:17:26.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as JD Vance takes the
stage later tonight, uh,
that these delegates,

01:17:28.066 --> 01:17:30.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they're not really quite
sure who he is. A lot
of them do know that

01:17:30.166 --> 01:17:33.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
he was once a very sharp.
Critic of Trump. I think
he's got to convince

01:17:33.766 --> 01:17:36.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
him that he's all the way
on board. This is a group
that's very protective,

01:17:38.300 --> 01:17:40.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
especially now after the
assassination attempt
on Donald Trump. So

01:17:40.433 --> 01:17:43.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I think South Carolina,
I'm hoping to take
some temperatures here

01:17:43.566 --> 01:17:47.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
beyond just their governor,
uh, on, on what they
think about Senator,

01:17:49.400 --> 01:17:52.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
uh, becoming their vice
presidential nominee.
Ana Lisa, we know you've

01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:56.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
been spending time with
delegates, folks from
all around the country

01:17:56.966 --> 01:18:00.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
down there on the
floor as this night's
speeches have unfolded as

01:18:00.500 --> 01:18:04.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
you have every We've noticed up
here kind of a change in tone as

01:18:04.966 --> 01:18:08.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we've shifted to these
issues of immigration
and foreign intervention

01:18:08.666 --> 01:18:12.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and safety and so on.
I wonder how a lot of
those messages we're

01:18:12.633 --> 01:18:16.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
hearing up here are
resonating with delegates
down on the ground.

01:18:17.933 --> 01:18:18.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
What do they have to
say about what they've
heard so far tonight?

01:18:20.666 --> 01:18:22.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Well, you know, one of
the questions I have
right now for Lauren

01:18:22.366 --> 01:18:25.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was about, I have heard
more of the fight,
fight, fight chant, and

01:18:25.033 --> 01:18:27.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm really interested
in what that means to
these delegates. What

01:18:27.666 --> 01:18:29.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
are they saying when
they say fight? I mean,
obviously it's something

01:18:29.833 --> 01:18:32.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
that a former president.

01:18:48.800 --> 01:18:52.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
harm Americans who are
they targeting, who
are they fearful of in

01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:55.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this speech. I do also
sense that change in
rhetoric tonight and

01:18:55.566 --> 01:18:57.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I, I need to talk to
some more delegates about
it, but I think you're

01:18:57.933 --> 01:19:01.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on the right track for
questions I have as
well. Lisa Desjardin down

01:19:01.666 --> 01:19:04.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on the convention floor
for us. Lisa, thank
you. We'll check back

01:19:04.400 --> 01:19:07.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in with you shortly.
Back up here, of course,
we have our panel with

01:19:07.766 --> 01:19:11.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
us all night, Amy
Walter, David Brooks, and
Jonathan Capar. Jonathan,

01:19:13.466 --> 01:19:15.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we watched Kimberly
Guilfoyle there, who was
another family member

01:19:15.366 --> 01:19:19.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the Trump family to
speak. I it was a sharp
contrast between what

01:19:19.166 --> 01:19:23.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we heard from Laura
Trump last night a very
personal sort of reflective

01:19:23.900 --> 01:19:28.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
here is the man I know
behind the scenes, many
of you may not know.

01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:31.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's not what we heard
from Kimberly Guilfoyle
today. No, it was

01:19:31.833 --> 01:19:35.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a it was a repeat
performance of what she did
in 2020. You may recall

01:19:35.033 --> 01:19:40.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
the Republican convention
was held at the White
House and her when

01:19:41.700 --> 01:19:44.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
she spoke, the big
thing about her speech
was the ending when she

01:19:45.766 --> 01:19:49.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
yelled out the best is
yet to come, you know,
very theatrical, but

01:19:51.033 --> 01:19:54.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you know she was on
attack, um, and a lot
of her, you know, we are

01:19:56.600 --> 01:19:59.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
fed up, um, we are
done being told by the
radical left to sit down,

01:20:00.833 --> 01:20:04.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
shut up, and obey. Um,
there are, you know,
uh, deport the violent

01:20:05.766 --> 01:20:08.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
criminal aliens once
and for all. I mean,
we've talked about this

01:20:08.833 --> 01:20:13.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
since day one. The
unit, the unity vision
that we were that they

01:20:15.533 --> 01:20:18.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
were talking about this
convention being in
the aftermath. Of the

01:20:18.133 --> 01:20:23.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
assassination attempt
of Donald Trump would
give way to this, the

01:20:24.866 --> 01:20:27.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
closer we got to the
big moment and that is
Donald Trump's speech

01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:31.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and you know we started
seeing it last night
and we saw it with Peter

01:20:31.500 --> 01:20:36.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Navarro today is we've
seen it with with
Kimberly Guilfoyle and so

01:20:38.200 --> 01:20:40.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I just think it's gonna,
it's gonna amp up the
the later this night

01:20:40.666 --> 01:20:45.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
goes and into tomorrow.
And Amy, with, with
both campaigns, excuse

01:20:47.366 --> 01:20:50.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
me, eyeing the rust
belt as they. Make their
path to 270 electoral

01:20:50.066 --> 01:20:55.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
votes, that kind of messaging, I
mean, does that reach the, to be

01:20:55.066 --> 01:21:00.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
specific, the white,
the white working class
voter who for generations

01:21:01.766 --> 01:21:03.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
had voted for Democrats,
but more recently
voted for Donald Trump

01:21:03.566 --> 01:21:06.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
or would be more inclined
to vote for a Republican
like Donald Trump.

01:21:08.333 --> 01:21:11.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Yeah, so I mean, this
is always your challenge
in a campaign. You've

01:21:11.166 --> 01:21:14.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
got to keep your base
energized while you're
at the same time trying

01:21:14.500 --> 01:21:18.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to bring the new people in, the
swing voters in, and what. Makes

01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:23.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the Trump campaign so
strong is and we see
it in this hall, we've

01:21:25.366 --> 01:21:27.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
seen it for the last 4
days. We've seen it in
the last 2 campaigns.

01:21:29.100 --> 01:21:32.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He has a much closer
relationships, more
enthusiastic relationship

01:21:34.166 --> 01:21:36.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
with his voters than
Joe Biden does. Many
of the people who voted

01:21:36.933 --> 01:21:40.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for Joe Biden in 2020
did it not because of
Joe Biden, but because

01:21:40.933 --> 01:21:43.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they were doing it to
protest Donald Trump.
They didn't want Donald

01:21:43.766 --> 01:21:47.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump to win. That's
very different from this
space, but you've got

01:21:47.533 --> 01:21:52.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to keep them engaged.
The more if if Donald
Trump does do a 3, 180

01:21:54.700 --> 01:21:59.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and start talking like
a swing voter focus
group those folks are

01:21:59.333 --> 01:22:03.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
gonna feel like they're kind of
left out. What gets them engaged

01:22:03.233 --> 01:22:07.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and energized is the
kind of appeals that
we've been hearing from

01:22:07.966 --> 01:22:11.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
some of these voters.
One thing that I thought
was really interesting

01:22:11.533 --> 01:22:12.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
today about

01:22:14.066 --> 01:22:17.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Our interview with Trump
uh Trump's pollster
Tony Fabrizio, as he

01:22:17.966 --> 01:22:22.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
said, you know, what, what Vance
does for the ticket is, yes, he

01:22:24.733 --> 01:22:27.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
agreed that the Rust
Belt is where he's really
strong. We're going

01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:31.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to put him everywhere
in the Rust Belt, every
one of those states,

01:22:33.633 --> 01:22:37.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Pennsylvania, Michigan,
um, which allows and
uh and uh. Wisconsin,

01:22:39.533 --> 01:22:44.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
which allows Trump to
go campaign in places
that are kind of rich

01:22:46.266 --> 01:22:50.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
states, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, Virginia
states that were once

01:22:50.200 --> 01:22:53.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
thought of as off the
map. The other thing
though that I thought

01:22:53.733 --> 01:22:57.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was really interesting
was the choice of where
their first campaign

01:22:57.566 --> 01:23:02.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
stop is as a ticket, Grand
Rapids, Michigan. Now
Grand Rapids, Michigan

01:23:02.200 --> 01:23:07.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is the kind of place
that in 20004 George W.
Bush won it with like

01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:12.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
60%. This is Gerald Ford's
backyard, literally, it
was his congressional

01:23:14.066 --> 01:23:17.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
district. In the Trump
era it has shifted
pretty significantly over

01:23:17.333 --> 01:23:22.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the Democrats, not
only did Biden win the
Grand Rapids area, but

01:23:22.200 --> 01:23:26.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
it has a Democratic
congresswoman. That
Democratic congresswoman

01:23:26.600 --> 01:23:29.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
has come out publicly,
Hillary Skolton against

01:23:30.933 --> 01:23:34.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Biden running again.
She has said, I want
him to drop out and it's

01:23:34.766 --> 01:23:39.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the kind of place where
again you would think,
boy, this is going

01:23:39.233 --> 01:23:42.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to be a tough place for
Donald Trump, right?
These are the newly

01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:46.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
engaged anti-Trump
voters, but the fact
that they're choosing to

01:23:46.533 --> 01:23:50.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
go there, I think tells us
that they are looking at

01:23:52.166 --> 01:23:54.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
this as sort of a
checkmate because if, if.

01:23:56.000 --> 01:23:59.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Biden can't win in that
region, in Kent County.

01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:03.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He doesn't win Michigan.
So instead of going,
you know, you would

01:24:03.400 --> 01:24:06.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
think based on everything
we were just talking
about about red meat

01:24:06.466 --> 01:24:09.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and going to the base. They
could have ended up in.

01:24:11.466 --> 01:24:14.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a really red part of
Michigan as their kickoff,
but they went right

01:24:14.400 --> 01:24:19.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
into this they're
going to the swingiest,
most critical part for

01:24:21.100 --> 01:24:23.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Democrats, and I think
that tells you a lot
about what role they

01:24:23.500 --> 01:24:26.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
see fans playing in those

01:24:27.500 --> 01:24:30.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
swing, uh, Upper Midwest states.
I just want to take a moment and

01:24:30.366 --> 01:24:33.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
note we're now hearing
from Gold Star families.
It's been a change

01:24:33.966 --> 01:24:37.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in tone here right now. We know
Republican officials have wanted

01:24:37.500 --> 01:24:40.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to highlight the voices of
what they call everyday.
Americans, people

01:24:40.966 --> 01:24:44.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
staring, sharing their
individual stories,
and right now there are

01:24:44.100 --> 01:24:47.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Gold Star families
speaking at this stage.
Let's just take a listen

01:24:47.466 --> 01:24:50.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in to some of those
remarks right now with me.

01:24:56.966 --> 01:24:59.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Yeah.

01:25:05.100 --> 01:25:09.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And for the first time
since Nicole's death,
I felt I wasn't alone

01:25:09.366 --> 01:25:12.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
in my grief.

01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:17.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Thank you.

01:25:23.266 --> 01:25:27.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I had expected to meet
an arrogant politician.

01:25:29.133 --> 01:25:33.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Instead, I met a man
who had empathy for us.
He was compassionate.

01:25:35.500 --> 01:25:40.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And he spent time with
us. Because he knew
it would make us feel

01:25:41.533 --> 01:25:44.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
better. Thank you
President Trump.

01:25:58.300 --> 01:26:03.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm Cheryl Jos, Nicole's
aunt. Joe Biden said
the withdrawal from

01:26:04.500 --> 01:26:06.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Afghanistan was an
extraordinary success.

01:26:11.433 --> 01:26:15.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
An extraordinary success.
Look at our faces.

01:26:16.966 --> 01:26:20.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Look at our pain.
And our heartbreak

01:26:22.066 --> 01:26:26.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And look at our rage. That was
not an extraordinary success.

01:26:28.366 --> 01:26:32.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
The humiliation of
our nation was not an
extraordinary success.

01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:45.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Joe Biden may have
forgotten that our
children died, but we have

01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:49.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
not forgotten. Donald
Trump has not forgotten.

01:27:18.133 --> 01:27:22.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Joe Biden owes the men
and women that served
in Afghanistan a debt

01:27:22.566 --> 01:27:23.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
of gratitude and

01:27:24.233 --> 01:27:28.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
an apology. Yeah

01:27:35.233 --> 01:27:38.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Donald Trump loves his
country and will never
forget the sacrifice

01:27:38.433 --> 01:27:42.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and bravery of our
service members. Join us
in putting him back in

01:27:42.733 --> 01:27:45.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
the White House.

01:27:57.100 --> 01:28:00.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I'm Alicia Lopez and this
is my husband, Herman.

01:28:02.300 --> 01:28:07.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Our son Corporal Hunter
Lopez. Whose name Joe
Biden has refused to

01:28:08.233 --> 01:28:12.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
say out loud. was killed
on August 26, 2021.

01:28:14.200 --> 01:28:17.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
He died during Joe Biden's
disastrous withdrawal
from Afghanistan.

01:28:20.100 --> 01:28:25.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Hunter was 22 years old. And
plan to come home to California.

01:28:26.433 --> 01:28:29.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
After his tour to
follow in our footsteps.

01:28:31.033 --> 01:28:32.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Herman and I

01:28:33.533 --> 01:28:36.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Work for the Riverside
County Sheriff's Office. Yeah

01:28:46.066 --> 01:28:51.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And our family has a tradition.
Of service in law enforcement.

01:29:00.233 --> 01:29:04.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Hunter was excited to
carry it on. Instead

01:29:06.266 --> 01:29:08.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
In the nearly 3 years
since Hunter's been gone.

01:29:10.533 --> 01:29:14.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There has been silence.
Silence from that empty
space at the dinner

01:29:14.300 --> 01:29:19.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
table? Where Hunter
would have joined his
brothers and sister and

01:29:21.366 --> 01:29:26.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
us for family gatherings. And
there has been a deafening.

01:29:27.700 --> 01:29:30.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Silence from the Biden
and Harris administration.

01:29:36.633 --> 01:29:41.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Despite our pleas for
answers and accountability
they have pushed

01:29:42.500 --> 01:29:45.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
us away. And try to silence us.

01:29:47.033 --> 01:29:51.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The Biden administration has not
owned up to the bad decisions.

01:29:53.333 --> 01:29:56.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
They have not been transparent
about their failures.

01:29:58.133 --> 01:30:02.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And their so-called
leaders work to protect
themselves. Rather than

01:30:03.766 --> 01:30:06.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
our sons and daughters who took
the oath to defend our country.

01:30:17.400 --> 01:30:22.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Thank you. When Hunter
and the other service
members' bodies were

01:30:22.333 --> 01:30:26.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
returned to the US in
Dover, Delaware. Joe
Biden met the plane.

01:30:27.866 --> 01:30:31.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But he made the occasion
more about his son.
Loss of cancer than

01:30:31.166 --> 01:30:35.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
our sons and daughters
lost on his watch.
Worse than that, he has

01:30:35.800 --> 01:30:40.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
never said their names
out loud. And during
and during last month's

01:30:40.500 --> 01:30:45.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
debate. He claimed no
service members. have died
during his administration.

01:30:51.100 --> 01:30:51.766 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
None

01:30:53.500 --> 01:30:57.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That hurt us all deeply.
So Alicia and I are
here to say the names

01:30:57.400 --> 01:31:00.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
of all 13 service members.
Who lost their lives.

01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:17.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
All 13 service members who lost
their lives at Abbey Gate. David

01:31:17.566 --> 01:31:20.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Espinoza.

01:31:26.633 --> 01:31:29.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
And the goal G.

01:31:34.666 --> 01:31:37.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Taylor Hoover.

01:31:42.600 --> 01:31:45.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Ryan C. Canals.

01:31:50.133 --> 01:31:53.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Riley McCollum.

01:31:57.566 --> 01:32:00.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Dylan Morola.

01:32:04.133 --> 01:32:07.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Karem Nui.

01:32:10.400 --> 01:32:13.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Digging page.

01:32:17.366 --> 01:32:20.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Johani Pardo.

01:32:24.733 --> 01:32:27.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Humberto Sanchez.

01:32:33.133 --> 01:32:36.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Jared Schmitz.

01:32:39.633 --> 01:32:42.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Maxine Sylvia.

01:32:44.566 --> 01:32:47.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
And my son Hunter Lopez.

01:33:27.400 --> 01:33:32.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Joe Biden has to go. He
failed the American people.

01:33:35.233 --> 01:33:40.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He failed the Afghan people. And
our military service members. He

01:33:41.900 --> 01:33:45.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
failed our family. And
he failed hunter. Donald
Trump has a proven

01:33:47.200 --> 01:33:49.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
record of keeping the peace.
And honoring those in uniform.

01:34:18.033 --> 01:34:23.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
All of us on this stage
recognize. The efforts
of Mr. Trump. We know

01:34:24.733 --> 01:34:28.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this firsthand. We've
experienced it. Whenever
we've met with him,

01:34:30.233 --> 01:34:32.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he has demonstrated
compassion. He has joined
us on our mission for

01:34:32.966 --> 01:34:37.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
answers. And he has given
hope to our extended
Gold Star family.

01:34:48.200 --> 01:34:53.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now we have another son.
Serving in the army.

01:35:01.266 --> 01:35:04.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And we do not trust Joe
Biden with his life.

01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:12.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
We have faith that Donald
Trump To lead our military.

01:35:14.400 --> 01:35:18.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Please join us in
supporting Donald Trump for
president and commander

01:35:18.533 --> 01:35:21.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
in chief.

01:36:02.133 --> 01:36:05.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
While campuses struggle
to get control of their
students at UNC Chapel

01:36:05.966 --> 01:36:09.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Hill, they are bringing
order back. Students
restoring the American

01:36:09.700 --> 01:36:12.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
flag and singing
the national anthem.

01:36:17.033 --> 01:36:21.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And there you were just
hearing from some Gold
Star families, powerful

01:36:21.600 --> 01:36:25.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
testimony from those
who've suffered devastating
loss of their loved

01:36:25.266 --> 01:36:29.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
ones service members,
including the 13 US
service members who were

01:36:29.433 --> 01:36:33.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
killed, the Abbey Gate,
Kabul International
Airport during the US

01:36:33.300 --> 01:36:37.433 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
withdrawal from
Afghanistan incredibly
emotional moments here at

01:36:37.433 --> 01:36:41.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the Republican National
Convention. You're
watching live coverage

01:36:41.033 --> 01:36:45.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on PBS News. We're
joined up here in our
PBS News booth right now

01:36:45.533 --> 01:36:50.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
by Captain Sam. Brown, he
is a US Senate candidate
in Nevada running

01:36:50.433 --> 01:36:53.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
against the incumbent
Democrat Jackie Rosen.
Captain Brown, welcome.

01:36:55.600 --> 01:36:57.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Thanks for joining us
here. Thank you. It's
good to be here with

01:36:57.400 --> 01:37:01.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you. So you served in
Afghanistan. You were
injured during your time

01:37:02.700 --> 01:37:04.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in your service there
in 2008. You heard
what these families had

01:37:04.933 --> 01:37:08.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to say. We know we're going
to hear a little later
from vice presidential

01:37:08.833 --> 01:37:13.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
nominee JD Vance, who
talks about how his
service informed how he

01:37:13.066 --> 01:37:17.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
views foreign policy. Do
you agree with him in the
way that he articulated

01:37:17.633 --> 01:37:22.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
his views so far. No, I
don't know exactly what
all of um JD Vance's

01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:28.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
positions are, but I
can tell you what I see
out of President Trump,

01:37:30.466 --> 01:37:34.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
his record as president
and what I believe is
that the United States

01:37:34.200 --> 01:37:39.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of America needs to be
a leader. In the free
world and that we achieve

01:37:40.666 --> 01:37:44.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
peace through strength. And One
of the really important messages

01:37:44.033 --> 01:37:47.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that we just heard from Mr.
Lopez, a Gold Star father,

01:37:48.533 --> 01:37:52.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
um, regarding his son Hunter and
families to service members hope

01:37:54.733 --> 01:37:57.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to see out of their
commander in chief is
someone who has compassion

01:37:57.333 --> 01:38:02.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and also gives hope. And I think
that's an important quality that

01:38:02.333 --> 01:38:05.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
is sometimes over uh overlooked.

01:38:07.200 --> 01:38:09.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
You feel like your time and your
service overseas helped to shape

01:38:09.833 --> 01:38:12.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
your worldview and
what you think American
policy should be right

01:38:12.700 --> 01:38:17.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
now? Absolutely. Tell
us about that what I saw
and what I experienced

01:38:19.500 --> 01:38:22.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was um as part of our
mission was to serve and
help the Afghan government

01:38:24.200 --> 01:38:28.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
stand up and provide. You know,
basic in the United States terms

01:38:28.200 --> 01:38:33.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
very basic services.
Very advanced services in
particular. The mission

01:38:34.866 --> 01:38:39.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that I was wounded on,
we're providing security
as allied forces,

01:38:41.266 --> 01:38:43.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
ISAF forces were moving
a turbine to the Helmand
River to a dam to

01:38:43.700 --> 01:38:48.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
provide power for all
of southern Afghanistan
this is something that

01:38:48.700 --> 01:38:53.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
would help the economy.
It would help businesses
bring electricity

01:38:53.500 --> 01:38:57.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to schools. Undoubtedly
could help and I think
Americans are very

01:38:59.433 --> 01:39:03.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Very compassionate. They want to
see. The world be better. Also,

01:39:04.933 --> 01:39:09.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as the world is uplifted
economically and human
rights are respected.

01:39:11.733 --> 01:39:14.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
We also see more freedom.
We should note that
we are competing with

01:39:14.733 --> 01:39:17.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
a lot of background noise
here, Captain Brown,
if you wouldn't mind,

01:39:19.166 --> 01:39:20.600 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
sir, moving your
microphone up your lapel
just a bit more so our

01:39:22.333 --> 01:39:23.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
our audience at home
can hear you a bit
better. Is that OK there?

01:39:25.266 --> 01:39:27.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Absolutely. Thank you,
sir. Thank you. I have
to say all that again?

01:39:29.066 --> 01:39:32.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
No, on the, on the
specific issue of Ukraine
as we talk about foreign

01:39:34.233 --> 01:39:38.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
policy. JD Vance has been
one of the most vocal
critics of continued

01:39:38.333 --> 01:39:42.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
US support for Ukraine.
He said, I don't really
care one way or another

01:39:42.300 --> 01:39:45.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what happens in Ukraine
and in many ways this
isn't a partisan issue.

01:39:47.666 --> 01:39:49.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There are Democrats and
Republicans who have
said that Russia's war

01:39:49.533 --> 01:39:53.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in Ukraine threaten
small de democracy around
the globe. How do you

01:39:53.500 --> 01:39:58.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
see it? Well, I, I think
that. This is one of
those issues that is

01:40:00.266 --> 01:40:02.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
unfortunately just boiled
down to, you know, a
headline, right, but

01:40:03.566 --> 01:40:05.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think it's important
that we continue

01:40:07.700 --> 01:40:11.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to lead that frankly we're
able to blunt Putin's
ability to continue

01:40:11.333 --> 01:40:15.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to be an aggressor.
What we see is not just
a Putin versus Ukraine

01:40:15.733 --> 01:40:20.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
dynamic here. This is
a this is an alignment
of Iran. Of China of

01:40:22.466 --> 01:40:25.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
North Korea of Russia
together. And, and when
we have an opportunity

01:40:25.933 --> 01:40:29.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to blunt those forces
that are trying to
align against the United

01:40:29.933 --> 01:40:33.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
States in the free
world, I think that we
ought to take that very

01:40:33.633 --> 01:40:37.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
seriously that that you
know that responsibility.

01:40:39.566 --> 01:40:42.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
No, that's, that's my view that
should we take that to mean that

01:40:42.433 --> 01:40:45.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you would like to see
the US continue to
support Ukraine in their

01:40:45.666 --> 01:40:48.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
defense against Russia. You'd
like to see continued aid.

01:40:50.733 --> 01:40:53.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I would like to see us.
I would like to see a
change in the way that

01:40:53.533 --> 01:40:56.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
we do it. I want to see more
accountability, you know, we.

01:40:57.900 --> 01:40:59.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
American people are

01:41:01.033 --> 01:41:04.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Our funding a good deal
of our effort there
um and and we owe it

01:41:04.533 --> 01:41:07.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to the American people
to be able to demonstrate
what's happening

01:41:07.366 --> 01:41:11.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
with those dollars, so
there's been an element
of a lack of trying

01:41:11.133 --> 01:41:14.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to sort of transparency
and accountability
that I think is owed to

01:41:14.033 --> 01:41:17.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the American people,
but I wouldn't say that
we just need to turn

01:41:17.400 --> 01:41:21.466 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
off our support
reproductive rights, that's
certainly going to be

01:41:21.466 --> 01:41:25.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a resonant issue in this
election. It has been
ever since the Supreme

01:41:25.900 --> 01:41:29.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Court overturned Roe every time
reproductive rights has appeared

01:41:29.500 --> 01:41:34.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on. Ballot since the
court overturned Roe,
abortion activists and

01:41:34.033 --> 01:41:37.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Republicans have lost.
You, as I understand
it, you support the law

01:41:37.400 --> 01:41:41.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in Nevada that preserves
abortion access up to 24
weeks, as I understand

01:41:41.266 --> 01:41:45.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
it. Why? And do you feel
like you are running
counter to your party's

01:41:45.966 --> 01:41:50.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
position on this? No, I mean, a
hallmark of the Republican Party

01:41:52.666 --> 01:41:55.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and conservatism is,
you know, respecting
the 10th Amendment and

01:41:55.066 --> 01:41:59.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
allowing, you know,
states to be able to
create laws that you know

01:41:59.100 --> 01:42:03.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
reflect their constituency
and and so I've been
really consistent

01:42:03.400 --> 01:42:06.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in saying this ought to
be an issue that voters
in states are able

01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:09.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to address in alignment
with, you know, the voice and

01:42:11.900 --> 01:42:13.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and sort of the decision
of those voters and

01:42:15.533 --> 01:42:17.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and so that's, that's
where I'm at and I, I
think that's. A lot of

01:42:17.800 --> 01:42:20.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
other Republicans are
going now too before
we let you go, I'd love

01:42:20.933 --> 01:42:25.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to get your take on, on
your race and how you
think this ticket helps

01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:28.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
or hurts you. This clearly
seems to be with the
addition of JD Vance,

01:42:30.566 --> 01:42:33.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
really a doubling down
on appealing to voters
in Michigan and Wisconsin

01:42:33.200 --> 01:42:36.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and Pennsylvania in
Nevada, does this ticket
help you and how? Who

01:42:36.966 --> 01:42:40.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
does it help you reach,
you know, I think with
this ticket does is

01:42:42.100 --> 01:42:46.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and across the country
is JD Vance's story, he
comes from such humble

01:42:47.800 --> 01:42:51.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
beginnings. Um, you know,
he, he had undoubtedly
a very tough childhood,

01:42:53.266 --> 01:42:55.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
uh, there's a lot of
people out there who
again I'm gonna go back

01:42:55.533 --> 01:42:58.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to the two things that
Mr. Lopez said that he's
looking for in leadership.

01:43:00.100 --> 01:43:02.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Some with compassion and someone
who can deliver hope and, and JD

01:43:02.733 --> 01:43:06.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Vance's life demonstrates
that we can have
hope. You can you can

01:43:06.300 --> 01:43:09.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
still aspire and achieve
incredible things

01:43:10.966 --> 01:43:12.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
regardless of the tough
circumstances we're
in, and there's a lot

01:43:12.966 --> 01:43:16.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
of Nevadans that are looking for
something that they can kind of

01:43:16.400 --> 01:43:20.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
cling on to and say
hey. If he can make it,
maybe I can make it too,

01:43:21.700 --> 01:43:23.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and that's part of what
my campaign is hoping
to do is say look.

01:43:25.300 --> 01:43:27.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm not the prettiest
Senate candidate out
there. No one's going

01:43:27.166 --> 01:43:29.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to argue with me on that,
um, you know, I come
from humble beginnings

01:43:29.800 --> 01:43:34.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
as well, um, but I'm
a father, I'm a small
business guy, I'm a husband,

01:43:36.066 --> 01:43:38.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm a veteran, and, and,
and why, why can't I,
why shouldn't I also

01:43:38.933 --> 01:43:42.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
have an opportunity
to be a voice and a
leader for our state and

01:43:42.300 --> 01:43:46.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
not just me, but other
people out there as
well. The Biden campaign

01:43:46.533 --> 01:43:50.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
says it has multiple
paths to victory to 270
electoral votes. One

01:43:50.800 --> 01:43:54.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
of those paths is through
the sun belt. Uh, do
they have it right?

01:43:55.733 --> 01:43:57.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
What, what, how, how
would you characterize
the, the, the Republican

01:43:57.966 --> 01:44:02.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
standing in Nevada right now. I
think, I think it's we're seeing

01:44:02.666 --> 01:44:07.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a shift and part of
it is that we're a
transient state. A lot of

01:44:07.300 --> 01:44:11.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
people kind of move in
and out 80% of Nevadans
now weren't born and

01:44:11.533 --> 01:44:15.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
raised there, um, and
so, so the state is
constantly evolving right

01:44:15.700 --> 01:44:19.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
now we have almost
identical registration
between Republicans and

01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:21.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Democrats. A lot of people in
the middle as independent and

01:44:22.866 --> 01:44:25.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and they're not, they
weren't necessarily
there when Jackie Rosen

01:44:25.166 --> 01:44:30.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
was elected 6 years ago. And so
what I see is people who we have

01:44:31.866 --> 01:44:34.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we have tickets splitter
voters, you know, last
election we had Governor

01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:36.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Lombardo as a
Republican, you know, was

01:44:38.433 --> 01:44:41.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and Cortez Masto is a
Democrat, was elected
to the Senate, and so,

01:44:43.233 --> 01:44:44.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
um, people are just
looking for for someone
who they can who they

01:44:44.666 --> 01:44:47.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
can trust who they can relate
to, and who will lead uh

01:44:48.700 --> 01:44:51.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to you know for what
their best interest in
mind. Captain Sam Brown,

01:44:53.233 --> 01:44:54.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
US Senate candidate in
Nevada. Thank you so
much for your service.

01:44:56.766 --> 01:44:58.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Thank you so much for
being with us here
tonight. We appreciate your

01:44:58.533 --> 01:45:01.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
time. My honor. Thank
you. Thank you. Let's go
back to Lisa Desjardins,

01:45:03.466 --> 01:45:04.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
who's on the floor again
with another delegate.
Hey Lisa. Hi guys,

01:45:06.300 --> 01:45:08.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm with Candy Art,
uh, she is involved in
several military causes

01:45:08.600 --> 01:45:11.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
here including the war
memorial here in Milwaukee.

01:45:13.433 --> 01:45:15.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Can you, what was
that moment like this
powerful moment we heard

01:45:15.133 --> 01:45:18.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from the Gold Star
families reading the
names and then we had of

01:45:18.400 --> 01:45:23.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
course the UNC frat boys
who had the US flag,
walk right by us. What

01:45:23.133 --> 01:45:26.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was that moment like
for you? You know it
was so moving because we

01:45:26.500 --> 01:45:31.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
know how important our
flag is and what our
flag stands for and I,

01:45:33.233 --> 01:45:36.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I just when I saw what
they had done before,
I was amazed, so we're,

01:45:38.300 --> 01:45:42.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we're lucky to live in
America in a free land.
Donald Trump, obviously

01:45:42.766 --> 01:45:46.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you're here to support
him, but they were
saying that they did not

01:45:46.400 --> 01:45:49.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
feel safe under President
Joe Biden. Have you
felt safe these four

01:45:49.533 --> 01:45:52.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
years? What do you think?
think about President
Biden in terms of

01:45:52.200 --> 01:45:55.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a national leader, I think it's
time for a change, you know, um,

01:45:57.066 --> 01:46:00.333 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
what happened in
Afghanistan, Afghanistan
is shameful, and we need

01:46:00.333 --> 01:46:05.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to change it. Donald
Trump was pro-military
and they beefed up our

01:46:06.766 --> 01:46:10.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
military, our navy boats we had
a lot more ships and we need, we

01:46:10.633 --> 01:46:13.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
need to get that back.
We need our country to
be safe, and he's the

01:46:13.700 --> 01:46:16.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
only one that can do
it. I want to ask you,
I don't know if you've

01:46:16.433 --> 01:46:19.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
been one of the delegates
who's been chanting
fight, you know, the

01:46:19.200 --> 01:46:22.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
former president chanted after
the assassination attempt.

01:46:23.900 --> 01:46:25.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
What does that mean to you? What
fighting for what, fighting who,

01:46:27.600 --> 01:46:28.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
fighting how? what does
that mean? I need to
keep our country safe.

01:46:30.633 --> 01:46:34.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We want to make sure
that none of these wars
come on our shores.

01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:37.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I mean, it's sad that
they happen in other
places, but we don't want

01:46:37.933 --> 01:46:41.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
anything on our shores.
Do you want fewer, less
American involvement

01:46:41.300 --> 01:46:46.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
overseas? No, I don't
think so. I think we
just have to like we I

01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:49.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
think we should have been
in Ukraine ahead of time

01:46:50.766 --> 01:46:53.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and. We weren't and
then last question,

01:46:54.933 --> 01:46:56.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
we're discussion among Democrats
now about President Joe Biden if

01:46:56.733 --> 01:47:00.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he should be their
nominee. Do you have a
sense as a Republican,

01:47:01.966 --> 01:47:04.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
if you would rather.
Biden be the nominee
or Harris, and there's

01:47:04.433 --> 01:47:07.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
many reasons you might think one
way or the other. How do you see

01:47:07.100 --> 01:47:11.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that? I think I'd like
to have Joe Biden stay
in. And why? Because

01:47:11.766 --> 01:47:15.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I think he's shown to
America he can't do the
job. And you, you want,

01:47:17.466 --> 01:47:19.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you want Trump to win
handily, I guess, and
I think he can do that

01:47:19.866 --> 01:47:23.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
if Joe Biden stays in.
I also have to give you
credit. She has played

01:47:23.500 --> 01:47:27.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a part in the next
speaker who is 99-year-old
World War II veteran,

01:47:28.833 --> 01:47:32.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
you'll be 99 in December.
Yes, he was at Normandy
on Omaha. Beach.

01:47:34.166 --> 01:47:36.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
It was a 2nd wave on D-Day, and
then he was Battle of the Bulge.

01:47:38.633 --> 01:47:40.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Take your can now make
sure you can listen.
Thank you so much. Back

01:47:40.366 --> 01:47:43.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to you, I'm Ninja. Lisa
Desjardin, thanks so
much. Lisa, picking

01:47:43.700 --> 01:47:47.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
up on this question
that we've discussed or
Amy rather, I'm sorry.

01:47:48.533 --> 01:47:52.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
By any name or on the 2nd
to last night, you just

01:47:56.066 --> 01:47:57.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
saw in your direction
and I looked in your
face and called you by

01:47:57.900 --> 01:48:00.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
a different name. My deep
apologies. As someone
who's often called

01:48:00.466 --> 01:48:04.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Greg and all sorts of
things. I apologize.
There, there's a, this

01:48:04.166 --> 01:48:06.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
question of whether
or not President Biden
should stay in the race.

01:48:08.366 --> 01:48:11.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There's an APN NORC
poll out today that 65%
of Democratic voters

01:48:13.466 --> 01:48:16.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
think that he should
withdraw. How does the
Biden campaign confront

01:48:16.433 --> 01:48:20.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that? How do they come back from
that? Come back You mean and say

01:48:20.300 --> 01:48:23.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
we're still going to keep
going forward, right,
because his argument

01:48:23.000 --> 01:48:27.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
had been that the party
elites want me out. This
is all the commentariat

01:48:27.300 --> 01:48:30.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and the party elites,
and this is saying that
the vast majority of

01:48:30.300 --> 01:48:35.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Democratic voters. Agree.
And you don't have to
look at a poll from

01:48:36.933 --> 01:48:40.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
today, go back in 2023.
Voters, Democratic
voters were asked, would

01:48:42.400 --> 01:48:44.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you like to stick with
Biden, or would you
like a different choice?

01:48:45.866 --> 01:48:48.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Now it wasn't as significant
as this, but it was
a significant portion

01:48:48.233 --> 01:48:52.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the democratic
electorate that said we
want to see somebody else.

01:48:53.633 --> 01:48:56.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
They didn't really get
somebody else. There were. Um

01:48:58.400 --> 01:49:02.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Why so soon we forget
um Dean Dean Phillips,
thank you. I could see

01:49:03.866 --> 01:49:05.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
him, but I couldn't
remember his last name,
uh, but in terms of the

01:49:05.933 --> 01:49:10.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
high level people we did not get
to see those in the race and so

01:49:10.533 --> 01:49:14.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this is sort of a
culmination of that moment
and you can't ignore.

01:49:16.200 --> 01:49:17.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
This is the whole idea
about you can't kind
of put back in the box

01:49:17.933 --> 01:49:21.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
what you've let out,
which was the debate
performance. It's just,

01:49:23.266 --> 01:49:26.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
it's, there's no way
to get beyond that if
people worry that that's

01:49:26.333 --> 01:49:29.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
going to happen again.
We just heard a chant
on the floor there,

01:49:31.100 --> 01:49:33.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Bring them home at the
podium right now are
Orna and Ronan Neutra,

01:49:34.833 --> 01:49:36.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
their son Omer was
kidnapped last October when
Hamas attacked Israel.

01:49:38.633 --> 01:49:40.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We had a chance to
speak with the neutral
family just last month

01:49:40.500 --> 01:49:43.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and here they are
speaking now about their
sons still held hostage

01:49:43.733 --> 01:49:46.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
in Gaza. Is our first born.

01:49:48.733 --> 01:49:53.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He was born in New York
City. One month after 9/11.

01:49:55.000 --> 01:49:59.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
8 months pregnant,
I walked across the
Queensboro Bridge towards

01:49:59.033 --> 01:50:04.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
home that day. And here
we are. 23 years later.

01:50:05.433 --> 01:50:09.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And he's the victim of
another vile terrorist attack.

01:50:12.700 --> 01:50:17.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Let me tell you a
little bit about my son.
He's a connector. He's

01:50:19.400 --> 01:50:23.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
an extremely social
person. He loves sports
in high school he was

01:50:25.300 --> 01:50:28.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
captain of the soccer
ball volleyball and
basketball teams. He's

01:50:28.533 --> 01:50:31.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
a natural leader.

01:50:37.100 --> 01:50:41.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And he cares deeply about others
and about helping them grow.

01:50:42.366 --> 01:50:46.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He turned 22. On
October 14th, 2023.

01:50:48.766 --> 01:50:52.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
And instead of celebrating
with us. And with
his friends. He spent

01:50:52.833 --> 01:50:56.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
his birthday as a hostage
of Hamas terrorists.

01:50:59.000 --> 01:51:00.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Imagine

01:51:01.500 --> 01:51:05.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Over 9 months. Not knowing
whether your son is alive.

01:51:07.166 --> 01:51:11.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Waking up every morning.
Praying that he too is
still waking up every

01:51:12.400 --> 01:51:16.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
morning that he is
strong and is surviving.

01:51:18.500 --> 01:51:23.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I recite Psalm 23 in his
merit every single day.

01:51:24.966 --> 01:51:27.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Come.

01:51:29.666 --> 01:51:34.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Heidi. I walk through
the shadow of the valley
of the shadow of the

01:51:36.233 --> 01:51:40.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
death, I will fear no
evil. For thou art with
me, thy rod and thy

01:51:41.433 --> 01:51:44.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
staff, they comfort me.

01:51:47.800 --> 01:51:50.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Bring them home.

01:51:52.400 --> 01:51:56.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Bring them home,
bring them home.

01:51:59.000 --> 01:52:03.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Bring them home.
Bring them home.

01:52:10.200 --> 01:52:14.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
During the brutal October
7th attack on Israel.

01:52:15.033 --> 01:52:18.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Over 1200 people
were slaughtered.

01:52:19.400 --> 01:52:23.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Of them 45 where
American citizens

01:52:23.933 --> 01:52:26.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
where is the outrage?

01:52:30.000 --> 01:52:35.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Where is it? This was
not merely an attack
on Israel. This was and

01:52:36.733 --> 01:52:39.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
remains an attack on Americans.

01:52:43.266 --> 01:52:46.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Omer is one of 8
American hostages.

01:52:48.566 --> 01:52:52.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And one of 120 hostages
still left in Gaza.

01:52:54.200 --> 01:52:58.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Citizens of 24 countries and 5
different religions still held

01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:06.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
by Hamas denied basic
human needs, their lives
threatened every day.

01:53:08.500 --> 01:53:13.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
President Trump called
us personally right
after the attack when

01:53:15.200 --> 01:53:18.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Omer was taken captive.
We know he stands. With
our American hostages,

01:53:20.566 --> 01:53:25.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
we need our beautiful son
back. And we need Your support.

01:53:27.933 --> 01:53:32.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We need our support.
To end this crisis and
bring all the hostages

01:53:33.533 --> 01:53:36.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
back home.

01:53:41.033 --> 01:53:41.233 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
And

01:53:42.233 --> 01:53:47.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
home. home, bring them home.

01:53:48.100 --> 01:53:51.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
them home.

01:53:53.366 --> 01:53:53.666 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Oh

01:53:55.433 --> 01:53:59.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We love you. We won't
stop fighting for you.

01:54:03.033 --> 01:54:08.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
So with us, bring them
home. Bring them home,

01:54:10.133 --> 01:54:14.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
bring them home. Thank
you everybody. God bless
Israel and God bless

01:54:14.500 --> 01:54:17.500 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
America.

01:54:22.433 --> 01:54:27.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Ladies and gentlemen,
former paratrooper,
congressman and New York

01:54:27.166 --> 01:54:30.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
State gubernatorial
candidate. Lee Zeldin.

01:54:40.100 --> 01:54:45.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Hello, Wisconsin. I'm
Lee Zeldin from New York.

01:54:59.433 --> 01:55:02.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
A nation led by President Trump.

01:55:03.766 --> 01:55:08.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Is the nation stronger?
Safer And more secure.

01:55:10.633 --> 01:55:13.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
As a former 802
airborne paratrooper.

01:55:18.766 --> 01:55:23.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I want a military
focused on being the
world's greatest fighting

01:55:23.433 --> 01:55:27.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
force, not its biggest
social experiment.

01:55:33.700 --> 01:55:38.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We need a president
treating our friends as
friends and our adversaries

01:55:40.166 --> 01:55:44.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
as our adversaries understanding
they only respect strength, not

01:55:44.700 --> 01:55:47.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
weakness.

01:55:51.333 --> 01:55:55.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I was on the House
Foreign Affairs Committee
under 3 presidents.

01:55:57.433 --> 01:56:01.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But only one ended wars without
starting new ones. President

01:56:04.066 --> 01:56:07.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Donald Trump.

01:56:13.866 --> 01:56:17.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
As one of two Jewish
Republicans in Congress.

01:56:18.766 --> 01:56:21.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
It was amazing to witness

01:56:23.000 --> 01:56:26.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
history making progress.
Strengthening the
US-Israel relationship

01:56:28.566 --> 01:56:33.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
under President Trump.
Moving our embassy in
Israel to Jerusalem.

01:56:38.166 --> 01:56:42.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Recognizing Israel's sovereignty
over the Golan Heights.

01:56:44.566 --> 01:56:49.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
And launching the Abraham
Accords, which no one
said was possible.

01:56:57.000 --> 01:57:01.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Soleimani and the ISIS
caliphate were eliminated.

01:57:03.700 --> 01:57:07.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
President Trump Withdrew
from the Iran deal.

01:57:08.833 --> 01:57:12.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Stop those insane
ransom payments

01:57:14.166 --> 01:57:17.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and crippled Iran
with maximum pressure.

01:57:23.033 --> 01:57:23.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
But then

01:57:24.833 --> 01:57:27.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Everything went
downhill under Biden.

01:57:29.066 --> 01:57:33.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Yes, the guy who advised
Obama not to take out Osama.

01:57:36.000 --> 01:57:41.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Joe Biden advised
against the mission that
killed Osama bin Laden.

01:57:47.933 --> 01:57:52.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
As an American. And
especially as a New Yorker,

01:57:54.200 --> 01:57:58.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that's unforgivable. Even in
his prime, he had bad judgment.

01:58:01.433 --> 01:58:06.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And it's only gotten worse with
age. We cannot count on Biden to

01:58:07.600 --> 01:58:11.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
make this kind of
crucial 3 a.m. decision.

01:58:13.000 --> 01:58:17.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Heck, we can't rely on
him at 3 in the afternoon.

01:58:23.933 --> 01:58:27.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He has refilled. Iran's coffers.

01:58:29.400 --> 01:58:33.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Since October 7th, Biden
has pandered to anti-Semites
who cheer Hamas's

01:58:35.766 --> 01:58:38.766 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
attack.

01:58:40.233 --> 01:58:45.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Oh while Americans are still
being held hostage in Gaza.

01:58:48.633 --> 01:58:53.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Biden turned 13, Blue
Star families. It's a
gold star families with

01:58:55.400 --> 01:58:59.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
his fatal withdrawal
from Afghanistan and then
he lied about it during

01:59:01.600 --> 01:59:06.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
last month's debate
claiming that no service
members had died under

01:59:07.166 --> 01:59:09.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
his watch.

01:59:13.766 --> 01:59:18.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We must elect President
Trump. Whether building
an iron dome defense

01:59:20.966 --> 01:59:25.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
shield at home. Countering China
and other bad actors abroad

01:59:27.700 --> 01:59:32.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
or securing our borders.
He will make America
strong and respected

01:59:33.933 --> 01:59:38.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
again. President Trump
risks everything for us.

01:59:45.533 --> 01:59:50.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
We need him back. In the White
House now more than ever before.

01:59:57.533 --> 02:00:01.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
To make America great
again. We must first.

02:00:03.533 --> 02:00:07.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And God willing we will
expand the Republican
majority in the United

02:00:08.200 --> 02:00:10.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
States House of Representatives.

02:00:13.633 --> 02:00:17.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
We will flip the
United States Senate.

02:00:21.433 --> 02:00:26.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We are going to elect JD
Vance, our next vice president.

02:00:29.966 --> 02:00:34.966 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
And we will make
Donald J. Trump, the
forty-seventh president of

02:00:36.633 --> 02:00:40.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
these United States.
Thank you. God bless
you. God bless President

02:00:40.933 --> 02:00:43.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Trump and his family,
and God bless America.

02:00:50.966 --> 02:00:55.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We are gathered here on
Freedom's Altar on the
shores on these bluffs

02:00:57.800 --> 02:01:02.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on this day, 75 years
ago, 10,000 men shed
their blood and thousands

02:01:04.466 --> 02:01:09.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
sacrificed their lives
for their brothers, for
their countries, and

02:01:10.766 --> 02:01:14.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for the survival of
liberty. Those who
fought here want a future

02:01:16.100 --> 02:01:20.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for our nation. They
won the survival. Of
our civilization. These

02:01:22.566 --> 02:01:27.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
men ran through the fires
of hell. Moved by a force,

02:01:29.300 --> 02:01:33.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
no weapon could destroy
it. The fierce patriotism
of a free, proud,

02:01:35.066 --> 02:01:39.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and sovereign people.
And they showed us the
way to love, cherish,

02:01:40.533 --> 02:01:44.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and defend our way of life.
For many centuries to come.

02:01:46.566 --> 02:01:50.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Our children and their
children will forever.
And always be free.

02:01:58.633 --> 02:02:02.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Ladies and gentlemen, Please
welcome World War II hero

02:02:03.333 --> 02:02:06.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
William Perell.

02:02:32.800 --> 02:02:37.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Thank you very much. My
name is Bill Perrell.

02:02:38.466 --> 02:02:41.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I'm a proud Wisconsinite. Well

02:02:45.033 --> 02:02:50.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I'm a proud husband of 76
years old and my wife Rosemary.

02:02:52.000 --> 02:02:55.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I'm, I'm a father
of 11 children.

02:02:59.800 --> 02:03:02.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
6 girls 5 boys

02:03:05.400 --> 02:03:10.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Our family across 5
generations and a proud
World War II veterans.

02:03:17.966 --> 02:03:20.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
I'm 998 years old.

02:03:33.833 --> 02:03:36.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Some call us the
greatest generation.

02:03:41.900 --> 02:03:42.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
That

02:03:43.700 --> 02:03:48.000 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
That's an honor
considering America is
the greatest nation in the

02:03:48.000 --> 02:03:51.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
history of the world.

02:03:55.666 --> 02:04:00.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I will never forget. And
witnessed the horror.

02:04:01.533 --> 02:04:05.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Of the Nazis war camps. In
the battle of the Bulge.

02:04:07.233 --> 02:04:11.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
My friends and I. What
to stop the Nazis last
major portion in the

02:04:12.400 --> 02:04:15.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Western Front.

02:04:21.700 --> 02:04:26.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
If you want it later, Hitler
was dead. Hitler was dead.

02:04:27.300 --> 02:04:28.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
But not

02:04:28.833 --> 02:04:31.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
The Nazis were defeated.

02:04:41.133 --> 02:04:46.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We were and we gave
thanks to Almighty God
for delivering us from

02:04:46.600 --> 02:04:48.700 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
evil. Hm

02:04:53.233 --> 02:04:53.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
not

02:04:54.566 --> 02:04:56.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
But not many of us

02:04:56.833 --> 02:04:57.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Came home

02:04:58.666 --> 02:05:02.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I still miss. A
lot of my friends,

02:05:03.366 --> 02:05:06.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
On that beach. And we're

02:05:08.433 --> 02:05:11.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There were many of
us left. There aren't
many of us left today.

02:05:12.233 --> 02:05:15.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
But for us, Those who

02:05:16.333 --> 02:05:17.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Who are

02:05:17.633 --> 02:05:18.266 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Here

02:05:20.000 --> 02:05:23.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
That America is still
worth fighting for.

02:05:44.800 --> 02:05:49.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It hurts my heart to
see. What our current
president and vice president

02:05:51.166 --> 02:05:55.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
have done. To the
country I love so well.

02:05:56.733 --> 02:06:00.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The hum humiliated
us and stan again.

02:06:02.200 --> 02:06:06.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We pushed around in
China terrorists run
wild in the Middle East.

02:06:07.633 --> 02:06:11.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And they let our own
southern border, get overrun.

02:06:18.400 --> 02:06:19.166 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
America

02:06:19.933 --> 02:06:21.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
People say

02:06:22.166 --> 02:06:25.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
People is is like
America is an idea.

02:06:25.766 --> 02:06:27.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
But I believe

02:06:27.933 --> 02:06:31.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
America is much more than that.

02:06:32.133 --> 02:06:34.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
America, America as a whole.

02:06:49.633 --> 02:06:49.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
I

02:07:04.566 --> 02:07:09.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
You know, and I was fighting in
Europe. And I came back home.

02:07:11.566 --> 02:07:15.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I kissed the ground. Thank God.

02:07:16.166 --> 02:07:19.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
That I'm back home.
No for my country.

02:07:28.066 --> 02:07:33.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And where I come from,
When somebody comes. For me

02:07:34.766 --> 02:07:39.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Or my home You dig in
your boots in the ground
and never look back.

02:07:46.866 --> 02:07:47.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Yeah

02:07:48.400 --> 02:07:51.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
That the that saved
the free world.

02:07:53.533 --> 02:07:57.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And It was years ago.
And President Trump back
in commander in chief.

02:08:00.800 --> 02:08:04.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I would go back to
re-enlist today.

02:08:22.166 --> 02:08:27.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And I, I was storm.
Whatever beach you want
my country wanted to.

02:08:29.366 --> 02:08:33.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Needs me to. I was.

02:08:37.933 --> 02:08:41.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
God was you. God bless our home.

02:08:42.400 --> 02:08:45.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
And the United
States of America.

02:09:13.366 --> 02:09:17.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
That was Wisconsin's own retired
Sergeant Bill Peckrell, 98 years

02:09:17.466 --> 02:09:21.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
old, a decorated World
War II veteran awarded
two Bronze Stars and

02:09:21.100 --> 02:09:26.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a silver Star for his
service. It is now 9:09
p.m. here in Milwaukee.

02:09:27.833 --> 02:09:30.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
10:09 p.m. on the east
coast. This is PBS News
special live coverage

02:09:30.800 --> 02:09:33.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the Republican
National Convention.
Thank you for staying with

02:09:33.500 --> 02:09:36.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
us, and we are so pleased to be
joined once again by the one and

02:09:36.833 --> 02:09:40.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
only Judy Woodruff.
Judy, how are you doing
tonight? Well, I'm doing

02:09:40.700 --> 02:09:44.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
very well. I'm watching
the coverage and I have
to say. Bill Peckrell

02:09:44.666 --> 02:09:48.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
looks pretty good
for '98. God bless.

02:09:49.666 --> 02:09:52.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Judy, I know this is now the 3rd
night of the Republican National

02:09:52.900 --> 02:09:56.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Convention. You've been
with us every night
watching as the speeches

02:09:56.466 --> 02:10:00.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
unfold and all of the
messages unfold. What do
you make of what you've

02:10:00.100 --> 02:10:03.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
heard so far and what we'll hear
from JD Vance in just a moment.

02:10:05.033 --> 02:10:06.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Well, we'll hear from
JD Vance. You're right,
we've been given an

02:10:06.866 --> 02:10:08.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
advance copy and I've
just been skipping
through it, but I have to

02:10:08.966 --> 02:10:13.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
say what we've heard
so far is uh more of
it's. All about Donald

02:10:15.666 --> 02:10:18.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump and what he's
going to mean for this
party. I have to say the

02:10:18.766 --> 02:10:23.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
party, the RNC has struck
some pretty powerful
chords tonight between

02:10:25.433 --> 02:10:29.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the Gold Star mother
and father, uh, and not
a dry eye in the house,

02:10:30.766 --> 02:10:34.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the family who has a uh
uh a child who's being
held hostage by Hamas.

02:10:37.933 --> 02:10:42.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
This now just a statement
from first remarks from
a 98-year-old World

02:10:42.400 --> 02:10:47.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
War II veteran. They
are hitting some, you
know, emotional strings,

02:10:48.733 --> 02:10:50.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and we see that at every
national convention.
I have to, I think

02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:54.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
you have to give them credit for
putting on this kind of program

02:10:56.266 --> 02:10:58.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
at this point tonight.
How do you see it,
David, so far? Yeah, I

02:10:58.166 --> 02:11:01.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
think the same, you
know, it gets at the
emotional tone of the party

02:11:01.433 --> 02:11:04.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that the Gold Star, the Gold
Star families feel betrayed

02:11:06.600 --> 02:11:09.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
by President Biden last
night we had a lot of
parents who had lost

02:11:09.566 --> 02:11:14.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
somebody in their family
to crime they feel
betrayed, I think. JD

02:11:14.300 --> 02:11:18.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Vance we're going to
feel here about betrayal
and so there is an

02:11:18.233 --> 02:11:22.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
undercurrent of a sense
that our leadership
class is not doing what

02:11:22.766 --> 02:11:25.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
it should be doing, and
that's really the core
of why Donald Trump

02:11:25.066 --> 02:11:28.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
has a political career.
It's the support of Y
JD Vance has a political

02:11:28.500 --> 02:11:32.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
career and it's reflected
time. Let's go back to
the convention stage

02:11:32.500 --> 02:11:34.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
because now speaking
at the podium is the
former president's son

02:11:34.866 --> 02:11:37.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Donald Trump Jr
uncharacteristic.

02:11:39.766 --> 02:11:44.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A Trump is going to give
up the microphone. It
doesn't happen often,

02:11:46.233 --> 02:11:50.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
you may never see it again. But
I got a call on Monday morning.

02:11:51.233 --> 02:11:54.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
From a young lady.
Who said, Dad.

02:11:55.866 --> 02:11:58.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I want to speak at the RNC.

02:12:02.866 --> 02:12:07.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I want to speak at
the RNC because I want
America to know what my

02:12:08.700 --> 02:12:10.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
grandpa is actually like.

02:12:15.700 --> 02:12:20.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
So for the first time
ever on a stage, first
time ever giving a speech.

02:12:22.066 --> 02:12:25.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I want to bring out My
eldest daughter and the
eldest granddaughter

02:12:25.366 --> 02:12:29.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
of the president of the United
States, your favorite president.

02:12:29.866 --> 02:12:32.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Kai, Madison, Trump.

02:12:51.766 --> 02:12:56.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Hi everyone, my name is
Kai Mainrum. I am the
granddaughter of Donald

02:12:58.466 --> 02:13:02.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump. I'm speaking
today. To share this
side of my grandpa that

02:13:03.600 --> 02:13:06.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
people don't often see. To me,
he's just a normal grandpa.

02:13:08.000 --> 02:13:10.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He gives us candy and soda when
our parents aren't looking.

02:13:12.966 --> 02:13:17.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He always wants to
know how we're doing in
school. When I made the

02:13:17.633 --> 02:13:21.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
high honor roll, he
printed it out to show
his friends how proud

02:13:21.133 --> 02:13:24.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
he was on me. And um

02:13:28.433 --> 02:13:31.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He calls me during the
middle of the school day

02:13:32.466 --> 02:13:35.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to how my golf game is going
and tells me all about his.

02:13:38.533 --> 02:13:42.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But then I had to remind
him that I'm in school
and I have to call

02:13:42.533 --> 02:13:47.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
him back later. When we
played golf together,
if Pan and his team,

02:13:49.133 --> 02:13:53.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he'll try to get inside
of my head. I know.

02:13:54.566 --> 02:13:56.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And he's always surprised that
I don't let him get to me.

02:13:59.200 --> 02:14:02.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But I have to remind
him, I'm a Trump too.

02:14:12.000 --> 02:14:15.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Even when it's going
through all these court
cases, he always asked

02:14:15.766 --> 02:14:20.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
me how I'm doing. He
always encourages me to
push myself to be the

02:14:22.500 --> 02:14:26.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
most successful person
I can be. Obviously,
he sets the bar pretty

02:14:26.000 --> 02:14:29.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
high, but who knows, maybe
one day I'll catch him.

02:14:33.700 --> 02:14:38.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
On Saturday. I was shocked when
I heard that he has been shot.

02:14:40.466 --> 02:14:43.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And I just want to know
if he was OK. It was
heartbreaking that someone

02:14:43.833 --> 02:14:48.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
would do that to another person.
A lot of people I put my grandpa

02:14:48.600 --> 02:14:51.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
through hell and
he's still standing.

02:15:03.600 --> 02:15:08.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Grandpa, you are such an
inspiration. And I love you.

02:15:14.900 --> 02:15:19.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
The media makes my grandpa
seem like a different
person, but I know

02:15:19.300 --> 02:15:24.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
him for who he is. He's
very caring and loving.
He truly wants the

02:15:25.966 --> 02:15:29.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
best for this country,
and he will fight every
single day to make

02:15:29.866 --> 02:15:33.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
America great again.
Thank you very much.

02:16:06.166 --> 02:16:10.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A lot of proud moments
this week for my family.
Thank you again guys,

02:16:12.133 --> 02:16:13.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
really appreciate that.
That's not easy. That's
the first time. I

02:16:13.933 --> 02:16:17.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
mean this is. What we
call a large crowd for
a speech, so incredible

02:16:17.566 --> 02:16:22.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
work, Kai. Now back to business.

02:16:23.466 --> 02:16:26.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Guys. Thank you, sir.

02:16:28.666 --> 02:16:33.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Tonight we gather here
in Milwaukee. At one of
the most crucial moments

02:16:35.533 --> 02:16:39.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
in American history. Just
days ago something that
once seemed unimaginable.

02:16:40.900 --> 02:16:44.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Became a terrifying
reality. My father came
under literal fire. As

02:16:46.500 --> 02:16:51.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
an incredible patriotic
rally turned into a tragedy.

02:16:52.933 --> 02:16:57.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
On a field in Butler,
Pennsylvania, a brave
firefighter died. Others

02:16:57.000 --> 02:17:02.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
were injured and as
those bullets rain down,
we came millimeters

02:17:03.466 --> 02:17:05.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
away from one of the darkest
moments in our nation's history.

02:17:07.666 --> 02:17:11.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But we did lose an
American hero that day.
We wish that he were with

02:17:11.866 --> 02:17:16.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
us tonight. But his memory will
live on forever in the hearts of

02:17:16.700 --> 02:17:20.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
his family, his community,
and the nation that he loved.

02:17:30.500 --> 02:17:34.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
So I would like to take
just a moment tonight to
express our gratitude.

02:17:36.433 --> 02:17:40.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
For the life and service of
American hero Corey Comparator.

02:18:08.000 --> 02:18:11.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
They'd say you can't
truly know how you'll
respond in a moment of

02:18:11.600 --> 02:18:16.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
danger until you're
actually confronted with
it. So what was my father's

02:18:16.033 --> 02:18:21.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
instinct as his life
was on the line. Not to
cower, not to surrender,

02:18:23.166 --> 02:18:28.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
but to show for all the
world to see that the
next American president

02:18:28.900 --> 02:18:31.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
has the heart of a lion.

02:18:40.033 --> 02:18:44.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That the next American
president has the courage
to put the American

02:18:44.200 --> 02:18:47.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
people first once again.

02:18:50.866 --> 02:18:55.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And in that moment,
My father didn't just
show his character. He

02:18:56.733 --> 02:18:59.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
showed America's character.

02:19:03.033 --> 02:19:08.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
When he stood up with
blood on his face. And
the flag at his back.

02:19:09.400 --> 02:19:12.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The world saw a spirit
that could never be broken.

02:19:21.133 --> 02:19:24.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And that is the true
spirit of America.

02:19:25.900 --> 02:19:29.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
America knows what it's
like to be down. We
know what it's like to

02:19:29.333 --> 02:19:34.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
be confused and to be
afraid. Long before the
attempt on my father's

02:19:35.866 --> 02:19:38.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
life, every American I met was
filled with fear and anxiety.

02:19:39.966 --> 02:19:43.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
They were afraid our
country was being torn
apart. They were anxious

02:19:43.166 --> 02:19:46.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
about the massive and
chaotic invasion of
illegal aliens across our

02:19:46.566 --> 02:19:51.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
border. They were
deeply concerned about
partisan lawfare,

02:19:52.666 --> 02:19:56.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
education indoctrination and
attacks on freedom of speech.

02:19:57.733 --> 02:20:02.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Most terrifying of all, they saw
that our leaders didn't care or

02:20:04.566 --> 02:20:07.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
worse, that they joyfully
aided and abetted the
erosion of our rights.

02:20:12.700 --> 02:20:17.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And the lies. Oh yeah, the lies.
We won't ever forget the lies.

02:20:19.166 --> 02:20:22.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
From left wing politicians, from
their allies in the media, when

02:20:22.300 --> 02:20:26.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you hear them in a row,
you fully understand
the extent they have

02:20:26.766 --> 02:20:30.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
gone to divide
this great nation.

02:20:32.500 --> 02:20:37.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
They lied about Russia
collusion. They lied
about hunter's laptop.

02:20:38.766 --> 02:20:41.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
They lied about Joe
Biden's fitness for office.

02:20:43.733 --> 02:20:48.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
They lied about the
border being secure.
They lied about inflation

02:20:48.400 --> 02:20:53.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
being transitory. They
lied about how they
would safely withdraw

02:20:55.100 --> 02:20:58.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from Afghanistan. They
lied about Biden being
a quote moderate.

02:21:02.866 --> 02:21:03.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
And they told

02:21:05.066 --> 02:21:08.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
1, nonstop lie after
another about my father.

02:21:10.566 --> 02:21:15.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But they could only run
away from reality for
so long. All hell has

02:21:15.000 --> 02:21:19.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
broken loose in America and
it's impossible to hide anymore.

02:21:25.433 --> 02:21:27.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Remember, build
back better. Yeah

02:21:29.200 --> 02:21:32.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Instead, we got
broke bumbling Biden.

02:21:34.000 --> 02:21:38.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Nothing is built. Nothing is
back, and nothing is better.

02:21:42.300 --> 02:21:47.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Bridges are collapsing.
Our credibility is
crumbling and our money

02:21:48.500 --> 02:21:51.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is worth less and
less every single day.

02:21:53.466 --> 02:21:57.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It was just one giant
bait and switch. And
normal Americans are the

02:21:59.366 --> 02:22:02.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
ones left holding the
bag. Housing costs,
gasoline prices, grocery

02:22:04.633 --> 02:22:09.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
bills, just keep going
up. Wave after wave of
illegal aliens, deadly

02:22:10.733 --> 02:22:13.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
drugs keep pouring
across our border. Yeah

02:22:14.733 --> 02:22:17.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Meanwhile, pro-crime
district attorneys have
turned our cities into

02:22:17.800 --> 02:22:22.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
giant crime zones. They've
turned criminals into
victims. Prosecutors

02:22:24.266 --> 02:22:28.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
into criminal defense attorneys.
And police into public enemies.

02:22:30.533 --> 02:22:34.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Left wing activists
are pretending to be
educators teaching our kids

02:22:34.400 --> 02:22:38.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that there are 57
genders. But they can't
even define what a woman

02:22:38.866 --> 02:22:41.866 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
is.

02:22:43.600 --> 02:22:46.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
On one hand they think
free speech protects
their right to expose

02:22:46.933 --> 02:22:51.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
your children to explicit
drag shows. On the other hand,

02:22:53.600 --> 02:22:57.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they want to put you in
jail for making a meme.
It's like the entire

02:22:59.366 --> 02:23:03.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
world has been turned
upside down. Does any
of this sound like a

02:23:04.766 --> 02:23:08.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
country that's going
in the right direction?
And honestly, who is

02:23:09.966 --> 02:23:14.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
actually running the
country anyway. It's
obviously not Joe Biden.

02:23:18.600 --> 02:23:23.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
So who are they asking
us to elect? Seriously,
Who's running things?

02:23:28.600 --> 02:23:32.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Does anyone really
know? Is it Jill?

02:23:33.933 --> 02:23:38.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Is he a hunter? Barack Obama.

02:23:40.366 --> 02:23:43.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Maybe it's the
ghost of corn pop.

02:23:47.833 --> 02:23:52.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Whoever is running the show. The
only thing they are effective at

02:23:54.133 --> 02:23:57.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is persecuting my
father. They twisted,
contorted, and corrupted

02:23:57.533 --> 02:24:01.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the criminal code to
turn bookkeeping errors
into fenalies. They

02:24:01.200 --> 02:24:06.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
concocted new legal
theories out of thin air.
They imposed gag orders

02:24:06.000 --> 02:24:08.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on my father because the
last thing a defendant
should be able to

02:24:08.566 --> 02:24:13.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
do is defend himself,
right? They punished
him for merely speaking

02:24:15.266 --> 02:24:19.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the truth. They say they
hate Vladimir Putin,
but it sure seems like

02:24:21.100 --> 02:24:24.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
they've spent a lot of
time copying his playbook.

02:24:28.966 --> 02:24:33.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In this country we don't
criminalize political
differences. We debate

02:24:33.033 --> 02:24:33.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
them

02:24:35.133 --> 02:24:39.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We vote on them. But we
don't make you choose
between picking a party

02:24:39.033 --> 02:24:42.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
or picking a jail cell.

02:24:48.833 --> 02:24:52.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There was a time when
the Democrats really
wanted what was best for

02:24:52.066 --> 02:24:55.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
America. Even if they had a
different way of getting there.

02:24:57.066 --> 02:24:59.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It was the party of
Franklin Roosevelt, John
F. Kennedy, Martin Luther

02:24:59.633 --> 02:25:04.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
King Jr. You may have
disagreed with that
party, but at least you

02:25:04.066 --> 02:25:09.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
could respect it. But this
new extreme Democrat Party.

02:25:10.766 --> 02:25:13.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
They want us to somehow
believe that the only
way forward is going

02:25:13.666 --> 02:25:18.266 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
backwards. We're
hiring decisions are
based solely on race.

02:25:19.733 --> 02:25:22.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Where justice is only for
those with the right opinions.

02:25:23.733 --> 02:25:27.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Where streets are a
luxury only for the elite.

02:25:29.033 --> 02:25:32.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Where economic opportunity
exists only when you
know the right people.

02:25:34.200 --> 02:25:35.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Right now

02:25:36.466 --> 02:25:39.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The America we all grew up
with, the America that we love.

02:25:40.766 --> 02:25:44.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Feels like an old
photograph. Where you sit
down with your children

02:25:44.200 --> 02:25:49.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and tell them what life
used to be like. You look
back at that America.

02:25:50.966 --> 02:25:54.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And remember a country
that was confident and
proud. In America that

02:25:54.033 --> 02:25:59.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
knew who it was and
what it stood for. And
it could all feel like

02:26:00.766 --> 02:26:04.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a distant memory.
Somewhere along the way
we stumbled. Somewhere

02:26:05.700 --> 02:26:09.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
along the way we lost ourselves.
But we can't live on nostalgia.

02:26:10.900 --> 02:26:15.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Yes, America was great, but our
greatest days are yet to come.

02:26:32.366 --> 02:26:37.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Because no matter how
far off that old photo
may feel, it's not the

02:26:37.133 --> 02:26:41.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
end of our story.
We're like that man.

02:26:43.133 --> 02:26:46.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Who stood on that platform
and felt the bullet
pierce his flesh just

02:26:46.100 --> 02:26:51.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
days ago in Pennsylvania. He may
have moved to the ground, but he

02:26:51.733 --> 02:26:54.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
stood back up.

02:27:03.766 --> 02:27:08.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And when he did. My
father raised his fist
into the air. He looked

02:27:09.933 --> 02:27:13.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
out at the crowd and
what did He said.

02:27:34.333 --> 02:27:37.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And we will fight.
We will fight.

02:27:39.300 --> 02:27:43.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We will fight with our
voices. We will fight
with our ideas and in

02:27:44.600 --> 02:27:47.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
November 5th we will
fight with our vote.

02:27:56.466 --> 02:28:00.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I've always been proud
of him, but I've never
been prouder of my

02:28:00.833 --> 02:28:05.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
father than I was in
that moment. That's
when the world found out

02:28:07.100 --> 02:28:10.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that there is tough. And
then there's Trump tough.

02:28:18.833 --> 02:28:23.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And the good news is
America is Trump tough.

02:28:50.500 --> 02:28:55.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
In 1912, more than a century
ago. Another legendary
Republican president

02:28:57.266 --> 02:29:00.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
came right here to
Milwaukee. At a political
rally less than 1 mile

02:29:02.433 --> 02:29:05.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from where we stand
tonight. Teddy Roosevelt
was struck by a would-be

02:29:05.533 --> 02:29:10.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
assassin's bullet. But
he didn't quit either.
He finished his speech

02:29:11.300 --> 02:29:14.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and he kept fighting.

02:29:19.033 --> 02:29:19.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
My friends

02:29:21.333 --> 02:29:25.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I don't believe in coincidences,
but I do believe in God's plan.

02:29:36.500 --> 02:29:37.066 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Today

02:29:38.733 --> 02:29:42.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Teddy Roosevelt's man
in the arena has a
name, and it's Donald J.

02:29:44.333 --> 02:29:47.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Trump.

02:29:55.533 --> 02:29:56.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Remember

02:29:58.033 --> 02:30:01.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
My father didn't have to
run for reelection this
year. He does indeed

02:30:01.166 --> 02:30:04.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the money, the fame,
the power, frankly, he
doesn't need the witch

02:30:04.966 --> 02:30:08.400 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
hunts, the phony
investigations, or the
political prosecutions either.

02:30:10.200 --> 02:30:14.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But he knew he had to
run if there was any
chance at saving America.

02:30:20.100 --> 02:30:25.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He's not doing it for
himself. He's doing it
for everyone here tonight

02:30:26.000 --> 02:30:28.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
for everyone watching at home.

02:30:34.600 --> 02:30:39.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
No matter who you are,
you can be a part of
this movement to make

02:30:40.333 --> 02:30:42.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
America great again.

02:30:45.566 --> 02:30:46.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Look at me

02:30:48.300 --> 02:30:52.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And my friend JD Vance.
A kid from Appalachia
and a kid from Trump

02:30:52.166 --> 02:30:55.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Tower in Manhattan.

02:30:57.500 --> 02:31:02.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
We grew up worlds apart. Yet now
we're both fighting side by side

02:31:03.933 --> 02:31:07.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to save the country we love.
And by the way, JD Vance is

02:31:10.000 --> 02:31:13.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
going to make one hell
of a vice president.

02:31:32.200 --> 02:31:36.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
For those of you who have
tuned out politics or
have never even voted.

02:31:38.166 --> 02:31:41.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I want you to know If
you're looking for a better
life, a more prosperous

02:31:43.366 --> 02:31:46.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
future, a safer, more
wholesome and patriotic
place to call home.

02:31:48.000 --> 02:31:51.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
There's room for you in this
party and in this movement.

02:31:58.033 --> 02:32:01.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
In fact, you're the ones
who matter most of all.

02:32:02.833 --> 02:32:05.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
My father has always
said that the people
he gets along with best

02:32:05.966 --> 02:32:09.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
are the people who
really work for a living.

02:32:14.233 --> 02:32:17.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It's because of his
background as a builder
in construction, right?

02:32:19.300 --> 02:32:22.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
In construction, it
doesn't matter how smart
your architect is if

02:32:22.666 --> 02:32:25.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
you don't have the best
guys laying the bricks.

02:32:28.900 --> 02:32:32.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
People with grit. People
who get their hands dirty.

02:32:34.633 --> 02:32:38.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's a big problem
with Washington DC.
Most of the bureaucrats

02:32:38.166 --> 02:32:41.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
who rule over us have never
built anything in their lives.

02:32:42.900 --> 02:32:47.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
It's time to build something
real. Something tangible.

02:32:49.033 --> 02:32:51.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Something that will last
and leave this country
better off for our

02:32:51.533 --> 02:32:54.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
children. That's my
father's mission.

02:33:03.233 --> 02:33:08.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
This November we have
a choice. It's a choice
between one team that

02:33:09.933 --> 02:33:13.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
wants to build this
country up and another
that wants to tear this

02:33:13.433 --> 02:33:18.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
country down. It's a
choice between people
who are proud of America

02:33:20.066 --> 02:33:25.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and people who are
ashamed of America. And
ultimately It's a choice

02:33:26.200 --> 02:33:29.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
between America last
and America first.

02:33:38.633 --> 02:33:41.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
So if you love this country
from the bottom of your heart.

02:33:43.633 --> 02:33:47.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
If you want to bring
back common sense. If you
want to save the American

02:33:49.333 --> 02:33:52.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
dream. If you want to
stand up and fight for
the future of our nation,

02:33:53.833 --> 02:33:57.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
you must re-elect my
father, Donald J. Trump.

02:34:12.633 --> 02:34:17.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Together we will make America
great once again. Thank you

02:34:21.200 --> 02:34:24.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Thank you, Wisconsin.

02:34:29.933 --> 02:34:33.566 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
Donald Trump Jr.
addressing night three of
the Republican National

02:34:33.566 --> 02:34:36.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Convention and Jonathan
Capehart he introduced
a new campaign line

02:34:36.933 --> 02:34:41.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
America is Trump tough, he says.
React to what we heard just now.

02:34:42.300 --> 02:34:42.866 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Well

02:34:44.533 --> 02:34:48.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We've been hearing a
lot of red meat over
yesterday to now it's so

02:34:49.666 --> 02:34:53.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
red, it might as well
be tartare. The the

02:34:54.466 --> 02:34:56.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I shouldn't be
surprised that the

02:34:58.100 --> 02:35:02.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Son of the former
president would defend his
father, but the beginning

02:35:02.066 --> 02:35:07.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of this convention, it
was unity, it's gonna try
to be a uni a unifying

02:35:08.533 --> 02:35:11.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
convention, but how can it be a
unifying convention when some of

02:35:11.533 --> 02:35:16.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the same old attack
lines that were used
before the assassination

02:35:16.166 --> 02:35:21.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
attempt are still being
used. The grievances that
his father Enunciates

02:35:22.966 --> 02:35:27.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on the campaign trail
all the time, phony
witch hunts prosecutions.

02:35:28.733 --> 02:35:31.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He's being persecuted. He's
being politically targeted

02:35:32.600 --> 02:35:35.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
by Democrats and by the
Biden administration.

02:35:36.700 --> 02:35:37.533 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
I just

02:35:38.866 --> 02:35:42.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
As as we sit here for hours
during this convention.

02:35:44.033 --> 02:35:47.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I have to tell you
it's like a weighted
blanket. Because despite

02:35:47.533 --> 02:35:51.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
him saying if you believe
in America, this is
a movement for you.

02:35:53.333 --> 02:35:56.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
No, it's not, it's not
I'm sitting here in
the hall. I'm watching.

02:35:58.000 --> 02:36:00.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There are people like
me who are watching.
And I can guarantee you

02:36:00.733 --> 02:36:04.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that most of them are listening
and think, no, it's not, because

02:36:04.300 --> 02:36:09.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
when you say to me, um,
for there are people who
are looking at America

02:36:09.233 --> 02:36:13.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and it's like America
is like looking at an
old photograph. That

02:36:13.966 --> 02:36:18.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the country has disappearing.
Who's it disappearing from?

02:36:19.800 --> 02:36:21.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
More importantly, how
is the country changing
and why does it feel

02:36:21.966 --> 02:36:26.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
like it's slipping away
from you. Is it because
there are more people

02:36:28.600 --> 02:36:33.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
like me who are also
trying to live the
American dream. who want

02:36:34.733 --> 02:36:38.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to partake in the
American dream. for some
reason there are a lot

02:36:40.133 --> 02:36:43.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
of people in this hall and
for Donald Trump Jr. they
find that threatening.

02:36:45.133 --> 02:36:48.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And so you know, I
never believed that this
was going to be this

02:36:48.633 --> 02:36:52.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
talk of unity that he's
changed. I never believed
it for one minute.

02:36:54.300 --> 02:36:56.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I just, I think as an
American I'm disappointed.

02:36:58.400 --> 02:37:02.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That I wasn't wrong.
David Brooks, uh, first,
uh, bringing out Kai

02:37:04.000 --> 02:37:07.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was interesting they're
clearly trying to uh
make Donald Trump seem

02:37:07.433 --> 02:37:10.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
like the kindly grandfather,
humanize him in a
way that I think more

02:37:10.800 --> 02:37:12.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
than they've done
in the past. Second

02:37:14.333 --> 02:37:18.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Uh, I think unity is
just the wrong metric.
A 18% of Americans or

02:37:18.400 --> 02:37:22.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
something like that think
the country's on the
right track. You shouldn't

02:37:22.000 --> 02:37:25.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
preach unity at a time
like this. People are
angry. They want change.

02:37:27.200 --> 02:37:29.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's Donald Trump's
whole message and so
he should, they should

02:37:29.100 --> 02:37:33.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
preach. Division difference
were different and
we need to make some

02:37:33.900 --> 02:37:36.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
fundamental changes. That's what
the opposition party is supposed

02:37:36.833 --> 02:37:40.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to do and so I don't
mind that they're talking
about fighting Hillary

02:37:40.866 --> 02:37:43.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Clinton when she was
running for president,
she talked about fighting

02:37:43.400 --> 02:37:48.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
all the time. Finally,
the nostalgia point is
a good point. We are

02:37:50.200 --> 02:37:52.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
drenched in nostalgia in
this country, and I think
Joe Biden is nostalgic

02:37:52.966 --> 02:37:57.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for that period in the
50s and 60s, as much as
Donald Trump Jr. there.

02:37:59.433 --> 02:38:01.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
The problem is I don't
walk away from this
convention so far, able

02:38:01.833 --> 02:38:03.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
to name a single domestic policy

02:38:05.700 --> 02:38:08.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
or even a foreign policy
that this president
wants to enact. So that's

02:38:08.600 --> 02:38:12.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
all just a void to me.
Amy, do, do, does the
Republican base care

02:38:12.966 --> 02:38:16.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
about policy or are
they, do they care more
about vibes to, to, to

02:38:16.733 --> 02:38:20.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
use that word? No, I
think obviously policy
is important and it's

02:38:20.733 --> 02:38:22.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
it's embedded in also

02:38:24.666 --> 02:38:29.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
trying to tease out
what policy and what's
ideology is, is always

02:38:29.066 --> 02:38:34.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
challenging, so they
are often in the same
uh breath, but this was

02:38:34.933 --> 02:38:37.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
clearly much more of a dystopian

02:38:38.500 --> 02:38:41.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Trump vision, the. Trump Jr.

02:38:43.300 --> 02:38:46.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
than it was an optimistic
one like we heard
from Laura Trump, and

02:38:46.800 --> 02:38:50.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
so I found that interesting part
of the event tonight is focused

02:38:50.233 --> 02:38:53.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
on introducing JD Vance
to the delegates in
the room, two people

02:38:53.766 --> 02:38:56.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
out in the rest of the
country. This is the
narrative they're building

02:38:56.633 --> 02:39:01.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
around JD Vance. Let's
take a listenbreaking
story in a best-selling

02:39:02.866 --> 02:39:07.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
book. Only in America
is this story possible.

02:39:08.533 --> 02:39:12.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But today for many families,
the American dream is now gone.

02:39:13.833 --> 02:39:16.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And this is the team tough
enough to bring it back.

02:39:18.400 --> 02:39:21.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
JD Vance understands
that working families
have become the forgotten

02:39:21.733 --> 02:39:26.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
families. Under Biden,
wages are going down
while prices skyrocket.

02:39:28.433 --> 02:39:31.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Forcing the majority
of Americans to live
paycheck to paycheck,

02:39:33.033 --> 02:39:35.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
working families will have
JD Vance fighting for them.

02:39:37.400 --> 02:39:41.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Seniors JD will have
your backs too. No more
deciding between putting

02:39:41.300 --> 02:39:44.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
food on your table and paying
for the prescriptions you need.

02:39:46.133 --> 02:39:49.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
As a husband and father.
JD knows the importance
of fighting for

02:39:49.766 --> 02:39:54.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a parent's right to
protect their children.
And you can count on

02:39:54.100 --> 02:39:58.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
this marine to stand
up for our soldiers who
put their lives on the

02:39:58.133 --> 02:40:03.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
line for their country
every day. JD Vance's story
is one of perseverance.

02:40:04.966 --> 02:40:05.766 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Of duty

02:40:07.433 --> 02:40:11.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Of commitment to what's
right. It's an American
story. And it's just

02:40:12.033 --> 02:40:15.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
getting started.

02:40:21.300 --> 02:40:25.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Usha Vance.

02:40:52.533 --> 02:40:57.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Good evening. Good
evening. When I was asked
to introduce my husband,

02:40:59.166 --> 02:41:02.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JD Vance, to all of
you. I was at a loss

02:41:04.333 --> 02:41:08.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
What could I say that
hasn't already been
said before? After all,

02:41:09.466 --> 02:41:11.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the man was already the
subject of a Ron Howard movie.

02:41:15.166 --> 02:41:19.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
JD has shared much of
his life through his
own eloquent words. In

02:41:19.400 --> 02:41:24.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
his book, Hillbillylogy.
During his Senate
campaign, and now as a

02:41:26.133 --> 02:41:30.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
sitting United States
senator. It occurred to
me that there was only

02:41:31.233 --> 02:41:34.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
one thing to do. To
explain from the heart.

02:41:35.733 --> 02:41:39.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Why I love and admire JD and
stand here beside him today.

02:41:40.866 --> 02:41:44.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And why he will make
a great vice president
of the United States.

02:41:52.900 --> 02:41:56.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I met JD in law school
when he was fresh out
of Ohio State. Which

02:41:56.733 --> 02:42:01.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he attended with the
support of the GI Bill.
We were friends first

02:42:01.333 --> 02:42:04.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
because, I mean, who
wouldn't want to be
friends with JD. He was

02:42:04.800 --> 02:42:08.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
then, as now, The most
interesting person I knew.

02:42:10.600 --> 02:42:13.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A working class guy who
would overcome childhood
traumas that I could

02:42:13.366 --> 02:42:14.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
barely fathom

02:42:16.133 --> 02:42:19.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to end up at Yale Law
School. A tough marine
who had served in Iraq.

02:42:21.633 --> 02:42:24.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But whose idea of a good
time was playing with
puppies. And watching

02:42:24.800 --> 02:42:27.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
the movie, babe.

02:42:29.500 --> 02:42:33.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
The most determined
person I knew with one
overriding ambition.

02:42:34.800 --> 02:42:38.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
To become a husband and
a father. And to build
the kind of tight-knit

02:42:38.133 --> 02:42:43.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
family that he had
longed for as a child. My
background is very different

02:42:44.766 --> 02:42:49.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from JD's. I grew up
in San Diego. In a
middle class community.

02:42:55.133 --> 02:42:59.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
With two loving parents,
both immigrants from
India and a wonderful

02:42:59.600 --> 02:43:04.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
sister. That JD and I
could meet at all. Let
alone fall in love and

02:43:05.833 --> 02:43:08.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
marry, is a testament
to this great country.

02:43:17.400 --> 02:43:22.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It is also a testament
to JD. And it tells
you something about who

02:43:24.200 --> 02:43:27.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
he is. When JD met
me, he approached our
differences with curiosity.

02:43:29.266 --> 02:43:34.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And enthusiasm. He
wanted to know everything
about me. Where I came

02:43:35.966 --> 02:43:39.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from, what my life had
been like. Although
he's a meat and potatoes

02:43:41.100 --> 02:43:43.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
kind of guy. He adapted
to my vegetarian diet
and learned to cook

02:43:43.800 --> 02:43:48.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
food for my mother, Indian
food. Before I knew it,

02:43:50.400 --> 02:43:53.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
He had become an integral
part of my family,
a person I could not

02:43:53.533 --> 02:43:58.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
manage. Could not imagine living
without. The JD I knew then, is

02:43:59.900 --> 02:44:03.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the same JD you see today,
except for that beard.

02:44:04.566 --> 02:44:05.200 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
And

02:44:06.933 --> 02:44:10.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And his goals in this
new role are the same
that he has pursued for

02:44:10.100 --> 02:44:15.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
our family. To keep people safe.
To create opportunities to build

02:44:16.533 --> 02:44:19.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a better life and to solve
problems with an open mind.

02:44:21.266 --> 02:44:24.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
It's safe to say that neither JD
nor I expected to find ourselves

02:44:24.966 --> 02:44:29.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in this position. But
it's hard to imagine a
more powerful example

02:44:29.166 --> 02:44:33.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of the American dream. A
boy from Middletown, Ohio.

02:44:56.900 --> 02:45:01.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Raised by his grandmother
through tough times.
Chosen to help lead

02:45:01.533 --> 02:45:05.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
our country through
some of its greatest
challenges. I am grateful

02:45:05.800 --> 02:45:09.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to all of you for the trust
you have placed in him.

02:45:10.900 --> 02:45:14.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And in our family. And
with that It is my great
privilege to introduce

02:45:16.366 --> 02:45:20.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
my husband and the next
vice president of the
United States. JD Vance

02:45:47.833 --> 02:45:52.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Why don't we? United States
where the one to Yeah

02:45:56.400 --> 02:46:00.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Let the rest of
the world. help us.

02:46:04.233 --> 02:46:07.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Thank you.

02:46:14.033 --> 02:46:16.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There's things to. the
world's rebuild. Thank
you, thank you, please.

02:46:25.633 --> 02:46:28.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Wow. Wow.

02:46:52.000 --> 02:46:57.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Yeah. First of all,
Aren't a lucky guy?
Isn't she lovely amazing.

02:47:03.066 --> 02:47:08.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Greetings, Milwaukee.
My fellow Americans and
my fellow Republicans.

02:47:09.266 --> 02:47:12.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
My name is JD Vance from
the great state of Ohio.

02:47:20.033 --> 02:47:20.866 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Tonight

02:47:26.433 --> 02:47:31.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I O H I O. You
guys, we got We're

02:47:33.566 --> 02:47:35.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
going to chill with the
Ohio love. We're going
to win Michigan too

02:47:35.833 --> 02:47:38.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
here, so.

02:47:46.800 --> 02:47:51.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
My friends, tonight
is a night of hope. A
celebration of what America

02:47:53.300 --> 02:47:57.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
once was and with God's grace,
what it will soon be again.

02:48:02.900 --> 02:48:07.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And it is a reminder.
Of the sacred duty we
have to preserve the

02:48:07.533 --> 02:48:12.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
American experiment. To
choose a new path for our
children and grandchildren.

02:48:14.200 --> 02:48:17.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But as we meet tonight,
we cannot forget that
this evening could

02:48:17.500 --> 02:48:21.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
have been so much
different. Instead of a
day of celebration, this

02:48:21.200 --> 02:48:26.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
could have been a day of
heartache and mourning.
For the last 8 years,

02:48:27.833 --> 02:48:30.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
President Trump has
given everything he has
to fight for the people

02:48:30.300 --> 02:48:33.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
of our country.

02:48:40.166 --> 02:48:44.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He, he didn't need politics,
but the country needed him.

02:48:46.633 --> 02:48:47.133 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Did it

02:48:50.433 --> 02:48:53.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now prior to running for
president, he was one
of the most successful

02:48:53.033 --> 02:48:57.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
businessmen in the
world. He had everything
anyone could ever want

02:48:57.166 --> 02:49:02.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in a life. And yet,
instead of choosing the
easy path, he chose to

02:49:03.866 --> 02:49:07.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
endure abuse, slander,
and persecution. And
he did it because he

02:49:08.366 --> 02:49:11.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
loves this country.

02:49:17.666 --> 02:49:22.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I want all Americans to
go and watch the video
of a would-be assassin

02:49:22.100 --> 02:49:26.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
coming a quarter of an
inch from taking his
life. Consider the lies

02:49:26.933 --> 02:49:31.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they told you about
Donald Trump and then
look at that photo of him

02:49:33.633 --> 02:49:36.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
defiant fist in the air
when Donald Trump rose
to his feet in that

02:49:36.733 --> 02:49:40.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Pennsylvania field, all
of America stood with him.

02:50:00.133 --> 02:50:03.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And what did he call us to
do for our country? To fight

02:50:05.300 --> 02:50:09.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
To fight for America even in his
most perilous moment, we were on

02:50:09.233 --> 02:50:14.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
his mind. His instinct
was for us, for our
country. To call us to

02:50:15.966 --> 02:50:18.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
something higher. To
something greater. To
once again be citizens

02:50:18.900 --> 02:50:23.900 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
who ask what our
country needs of us. Now
consider what they said.

02:50:25.700 --> 02:50:29.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
They said he was a tyrant.
They said he must be
stopped at all costs.

02:50:32.000 --> 02:50:36.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But how did he respond?
He called for national
unity, for national

02:50:36.200 --> 02:50:40.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
calm, literally right after an
assassin nearly took his life.

02:50:49.566 --> 02:50:52.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He remembered the victims of the
terrible attack, especially the

02:50:52.266 --> 02:50:56.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
brave Corey Coopertori, who gave
his life to protect his family.

02:51:00.700 --> 02:51:05.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
God bless him. And then
President Trump flew
to Milwaukee and got

02:51:07.066 --> 02:51:10.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
back to work.

02:51:15.533 --> 02:51:18.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now that's the man I've
gotten to know personally
over the last few

02:51:18.900 --> 02:51:23.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
years. He is tough,
and he is, but he cares
about people. He can

02:51:25.666 --> 02:51:28.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
stand defiant against
an assassin one moment
and call for national

02:51:28.466 --> 02:51:33.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
healing the next. He
is a beloved father
and grandfather, and of

02:51:35.233 --> 02:51:38.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
course a once in a
generation business
leader. He's the man who is

02:51:38.266 --> 02:51:42.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
feared by America's
adversaries, but two
nights ago, and I'll share

02:51:42.000 --> 02:51:45.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
a moment, said goodnight
to his two boys, told
them he loved them,

02:51:47.500 --> 02:51:49.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and made sure to give
each of them a kiss on
the cheek. And I will

02:51:49.400 --> 02:51:52.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
say, Don and Eric
squirmed the same way my
4 year old does when his

02:51:52.666 --> 02:51:55.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
daddy tries to give him a
kiss on the cheek. Sorry guys.

02:51:59.866 --> 02:52:03.733 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
He has all those
things, but tonight we
celebrate he is our once

02:52:03.733 --> 02:52:07.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and future president of the
United States of America.

02:52:26.266 --> 02:52:26.700 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Now

02:52:28.466 --> 02:52:32.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I want to respond to his
call for unity myself.
We have a big tent

02:52:32.866 --> 02:52:37.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
in this party on everything
from national security
to economic policy.

02:52:38.900 --> 02:52:41.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But my message to you,
my fellow Republicans,
is, we love this country

02:52:41.966 --> 02:52:44.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and we are united to win.

02:52:51.933 --> 02:52:56.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Right. Now I think our
disagreements actually
make us stronger.

02:52:58.633 --> 02:52:59.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's what I've learned
in my time in the
United States Senate,

02:53:01.566 --> 02:53:04.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
where sometimes I
persuade my colleagues and
sometimes they persuade

02:53:04.000 --> 02:53:08.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
me. And my message to my
fellow Americans, those
watching from across

02:53:08.733 --> 02:53:13.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
the country is, shouldn't
we be governed by a
party that is unafraid

02:53:13.266 --> 02:53:16.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to debate ideas and come
to the best solution?

02:53:24.900 --> 02:53:29.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's the Republican
Party of the next 4
years, united in our love

02:53:29.433 --> 02:53:33.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for this country and
committed to free speech
and the open exchange

02:53:33.500 --> 02:53:36.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
of ideas.

02:53:42.066 --> 02:53:46.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And so tonight, Mr.
Chairman, I stand here
humbled. And I'm overwhelmed

02:53:46.633 --> 02:53:50.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
with gratitude to say,
I officially accept
your nomination to be

02:53:50.800 --> 02:53:53.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
vice president of the
United States of America.

02:54:22.100 --> 02:54:27.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now, never in my wildest
imagination could I
have believed that I'd

02:54:28.566 --> 02:54:31.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
be standing here tonight. I
grew up in Middletown, Ohio.

02:54:35.900 --> 02:54:39.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A small town where
people spoke their minds,
built with their hands,

02:54:41.433 --> 02:54:43.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and loved their God,
their family, their
community and their country

02:54:43.133 --> 02:54:47.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
with their whole hearts.
But it was also a place
that had been cast

02:54:47.333 --> 02:54:50.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
aside and forgotten by America's
ruling class in Washington.

02:54:52.733 --> 02:54:55.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
When I was in the 4th
grade, a career politician
by the name of Joe

02:54:55.833 --> 02:55:00.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Biden supported NAFTA,
a bad trade deal that
sent countless good

02:55:00.333 --> 02:55:03.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
jobs to Mexico.

02:55:05.866 --> 02:55:09.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
When I was a sophomore
in high school, that
same career politician

02:55:09.366 --> 02:55:13.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
named Joe Biden gave
China a sweetheart trade
deal that destroyed

02:55:13.800 --> 02:55:17.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
even more good American middle
class manufacturing jobs.

02:55:20.900 --> 02:55:24.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
When I was a senior in
high school, that same
Joe Biden supported

02:55:24.300 --> 02:55:29.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the disastrous invasion
of Iraq, and at each
step of the way in small

02:55:31.033 --> 02:55:33.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
towns like mine in
Ohio or next door in
Pennsylvania or Michigan,

02:55:35.366 --> 02:55:38.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and states all across
our country, jobs were
sent overseas and our

02:55:38.500 --> 02:55:41.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
children were sent to war. And

02:55:50.200 --> 02:55:50.700 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
So

02:56:04.000 --> 02:56:04.800 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
I agree

02:56:07.366 --> 02:56:12.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And somehow. A real
estate developer from
New York City by the name

02:56:14.133 --> 02:56:17.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of Donald J. Trump was
right on all of these
issues while Biden was

02:56:17.300 --> 02:56:20.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
wrong.

02:56:23.066 --> 02:56:28.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
President Trump knew
even then that we needed
leaders who would put

02:56:28.066 --> 02:56:31.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
America first.

02:56:35.833 --> 02:56:39.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now thanks to these
these policies that Biden
and other out of touch

02:56:39.133 --> 02:56:43.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
politicians in Washington
gave us our country
was flooded with cheap

02:56:43.600 --> 02:56:48.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Chinese goods with cheap
foreign labor and in
the decades to come,

02:56:50.300 --> 02:56:54.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
deadly Chinese fentanyl.
Joe Biden screwed up
and my community paid

02:56:55.200 --> 02:56:58.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
the price. Now, I was lucky.

02:56:59.733 --> 02:57:01.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Despite the closing
factories and the growing
addiction in towns

02:57:01.966 --> 02:57:05.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
like mine. In my life, I had
a guardian angel by my side.

02:57:07.433 --> 02:57:09.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
She was an old woman
who could barely walk,
but she was tough as

02:57:09.833 --> 02:57:14.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
nails. I called her mammo.
The name we hillbillies
gave to our grandmothers.

02:57:22.833 --> 02:57:26.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Ma'am all raised me
as her own. Excuse me,
ma'am I raised me as my

02:57:26.900 --> 02:57:31.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
mother struggled with
addiction. Ma'ammo was
in so many ways a woman

02:57:33.666 --> 02:57:34.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of contradiction. She
loved the Lord, ladies
and gentlemen. She was

02:57:34.800 --> 02:57:37.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
a woman of very deep
Christian faith.

02:57:43.466 --> 02:57:46.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
But she also loved the F word.

02:57:48.866 --> 02:57:53.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I'm not kidding. She
could make a sailor
blush. Now she once told

02:57:55.600 --> 02:57:58.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
me when she found out
that I was spending too
much time with a local

02:57:58.233 --> 02:58:02.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
kid who was known for
dealing drugs, that if
I ever hung out with

02:58:02.000 --> 02:58:05.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that kid again, she would
run him over with her car.

02:58:10.466 --> 02:58:14.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's true. And she
said, JD, no one will
ever find out about it.

02:58:33.133 --> 02:58:37.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now, now thanks to that
memo things worked out
for me. After 9/11.

02:58:38.700 --> 02:58:41.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I did what thousands
of other young men my
age did in that time of

02:58:41.033 --> 02:58:44.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
soaring patriotism
and love of country. I
enlisted in the United

02:58:44.833 --> 02:58:47.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
States Marines.

02:58:55.133 --> 02:59:00.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Simplify to my fellow
Marines. Now I, I left
the Marines after 4

02:59:01.466 --> 02:59:03.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
years and went to the
Ohio State University.

02:59:12.633 --> 02:59:15.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I'm sorry, Michigan, I
had to get that in there.

02:59:24.633 --> 02:59:28.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Come on, come on. We've had
enough political violence. Let's

02:59:31.300 --> 02:59:34.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now after Ohio State, I
went to Yale Law School
where I met my beautiful

02:59:34.700 --> 02:59:38.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
wife, and then I started
businesses to create
jobs in the kind of

02:59:38.600 --> 02:59:42.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
places that I grew up
in. Now my work taught
me that there is still

02:59:42.933 --> 02:59:46.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
so much talent and
grit in the American
heartland. There really is.

02:59:48.400 --> 02:59:51.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But for these places to thrive,
my friends, we need a leader who

02:59:51.933 --> 02:59:54.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
fights for the people
who built this country.

03:00:02.933 --> 03:00:07.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We need a leader who's
not in the pocket of big
business, but answers

03:00:07.100 --> 03:00:10.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to the working man, union
and non-union alike.

03:00:17.200 --> 03:00:20.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A leader who won't sell
out to multinational
corporations but will

03:00:20.800 --> 03:00:24.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
stand up for American companies
and American industry.

03:00:30.966 --> 03:00:35.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A leader who rejects
Joe Biden and Kamala
Harris's Green News scam

03:00:35.166 --> 03:00:39.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and fights to bring
back our great American
factories. We need President

03:00:39.933 --> 03:00:42.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Donald J. Trump.

03:00:53.333 --> 03:00:55.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Some people tell me I've
lived the American dream
and of course they're

03:00:55.933 --> 03:00:59.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
right, and I'm so
grateful for it. But the
American dream that always

03:00:59.533 --> 03:01:03.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
counted most was not
starting a business or
becoming a senator or

03:01:03.600 --> 03:01:06.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
even being here with
you fine people though,
it's pretty awesome.

03:01:08.300 --> 03:01:11.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
My most important American dream
was becoming a good husband and

03:01:11.466 --> 03:01:15.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
a good dad. of being
able to give. Yeah

03:01:21.433 --> 03:01:24.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I wanted to give my
kids the things that I
didn't have when I was

03:01:24.633 --> 03:01:28.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
growing up, and that's
the accomplishment
that I'm proudest of.

03:01:29.366 --> 03:01:32.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
That tonight I'm joined
By my beautiful wife Usha.

03:01:34.666 --> 03:01:38.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
An incredible lawyer
and a better mom. And
our 3 beautiful kids,

03:01:40.033 --> 03:01:43.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Ewan, who's 7. Viva,
who's 4, and Mirabel,
who's 2. Now they're back

03:01:43.500 --> 03:01:46.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
at the hotel and kids,
if you're watching, Daddy
loves you very much,

03:01:48.100 --> 03:01:50.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but get your butts in
bed. It's 10 o'clock.

03:01:53.733 --> 03:01:57.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But my friends, things
did not work out well
for a lot of kids I

03:01:57.000 --> 03:02:00.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
grew up with. Every now
and then I will get a
call from a relative

03:02:00.700 --> 03:02:04.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
back home who asked,
did you know so and so?
And I remember a face

03:02:04.933 --> 03:02:09.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
from years ago and then
I'll hear, they died of
an overdose. As always,

03:02:11.433 --> 03:02:13.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
America's ruling class
wrote the checks.
Communities like mine paid

03:02:13.900 --> 03:02:18.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the price. For decades
that divide between the
few with their power

03:02:18.700 --> 03:02:23.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
and comfort in Washington
and the rest of us
only widened. From Iraq

03:02:23.166 --> 03:02:27.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to Afghanistan from the
financial crisis to the
Great Recession from

03:02:27.500 --> 03:02:31.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
open borders to stagnating
wages, the people who
govern this country

03:02:31.566 --> 03:02:34.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
have failed and failed again.

03:02:42.733 --> 03:02:45.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That is, of course,
until a guy named Donald
J. Trump came along.

03:02:51.433 --> 03:02:55.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
President Trump represents
America's last best
hope to restore what

03:02:55.566 --> 03:03:00.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
if lost, may never be
found again. A country
where working class

03:03:00.566 --> 03:03:05.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
boy born far from the
halls of power can stand
on this stage as the

03:03:05.200 --> 03:03:08.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
next vice president of the
United States of America.

03:03:20.300 --> 03:03:23.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Yes.

03:03:30.233 --> 03:03:34.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But my fellow Americans
here in this stage and

03:03:35.766 --> 03:03:38.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Watching at home. This moment is
not about me. It's about all of

03:03:38.233 --> 03:03:42.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
us. It's about who
we're fighting for. It's
about the auto worker

03:03:42.766 --> 03:03:46.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in Michigan wondering why out of
touch politicians are destroying

03:03:46.800 --> 03:03:51.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
their jobs. It's about
the factory worker in
Wisconsin who makes

03:03:53.300 --> 03:03:56.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
things with their hands and is
proud of American craftsmanship.

03:04:01.200 --> 03:04:04.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It's about the energy
worker in Pennsylvania
and Ohio who doesn't

03:04:04.900 --> 03:04:09.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
understand why Joe Biden
is willing to buy energy
from tin pot dictators

03:04:09.100 --> 03:04:12.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
across the world when
he could buy it from
his own citizens right

03:04:12.033 --> 03:04:15.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
here in our own country.

03:04:44.566 --> 03:04:47.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
You guys are a great crowd. Wow.

03:04:50.633 --> 03:04:51.200 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
And

03:05:16.366 --> 03:05:20.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And it's about our
movement is about single
moms like mine. struggled

03:05:20.766 --> 03:05:23.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
with money and addiction
but never gave up.

03:05:25.600 --> 03:05:27.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And I'm proud to say
that tonight my mom is
here. 10 years clean

03:05:27.900 --> 03:05:30.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and sober. I love you mom.

03:06:31.500 --> 03:06:34.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And, and, and you know,
mom, I was thinking.

03:06:36.466 --> 03:06:41.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It'll be 10 years
officially in January of
2025, and if President

03:06:43.066 --> 03:06:44.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump is OK with it,
let's have the celebration
in the White House.

03:07:03.166 --> 03:07:06.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And our movement, ladies
and gentlemen, it's
about grandparents all

03:07:06.500 --> 03:07:10.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
across this country who
are living on Social
Security and raising

03:07:10.633 --> 03:07:14.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
grandchildren they didn't expect
to raise. And while we're on the

03:07:14.466 --> 03:07:18.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
topic of grandparents,
let me tell you another
mammoth story. And

03:07:18.300 --> 03:07:21.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
my mama died shortly before
I left for Iraq in 2005.

03:07:23.233 --> 03:07:26.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And when we went through
things, we found 19
loaded handguns. They

03:07:26.366 --> 03:07:29.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
were.

03:07:42.833 --> 03:07:43.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Now

03:07:45.100 --> 03:07:48.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
The thing is that they
were stashed all over
her house under her

03:07:48.000 --> 03:07:53.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
bed, in her closet in
the silverware drawer.
And we wondered what

03:07:54.800 --> 03:07:57.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
was going on. And it
occurred to us that towards
the end of her life,

03:07:59.000 --> 03:08:01.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Mamma couldn't get around
so well. And so this
frail old woman made

03:08:01.233 --> 03:08:04.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
sure that no matter
where she was, she was
within arm's length of

03:08:04.733 --> 03:08:08.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
whatever she needed
to protect her family.
That's who we fight for.

03:08:09.100 --> 03:08:11.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
That's American spirit.

03:08:37.066 --> 03:08:40.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now Joe Biden has
been a politician in
Washington for longer than

03:08:40.300 --> 03:08:45.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I've been alive. 39
years old. Kamala Harris
is not much further

03:08:46.766 --> 03:08:50.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
behind. For half a century, he's
been the champion of every major

03:08:52.100 --> 03:08:54.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
policy initiative to make
America weaker and poorer.

03:08:56.833 --> 03:09:01.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
And in 4 short years Donald
Trump reversed decades
of betrayals inflicted

03:09:02.766 --> 03:09:06.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
by Joe Biden and the rest of
the corrupt Washington insiders.

03:09:14.500 --> 03:09:19.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He created the greatest
economy in history for
workers. Really was

03:09:19.233 --> 03:09:23.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
amazing. There's,
there's this chart that
shows worker wages, and

03:09:23.300 --> 03:09:26.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
they stagnated for pretty
much my entire life

03:09:28.033 --> 03:09:30.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
until President Donald
J. Trump came along.
Workers' wages went through

03:09:30.733 --> 03:09:33.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
the roof.

03:09:36.966 --> 03:09:41.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And just imagine what
he's going to do when we
give him 4 more years.

03:10:06.900 --> 03:10:11.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Months ago I heard some
young family member
observe that their parents'

03:10:11.266 --> 03:10:14.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
generation, the baby
boomers, could afford
to buy a home when they

03:10:14.233 --> 03:10:18.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
first entered the
workforce. But I don't
know this person observed,

03:10:19.533 --> 03:10:23.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
if I'll ever be able to afford a
home. The absurd cost of housing

03:10:23.333 --> 03:10:28.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is the result of so many
failures, and it reveals
so much about what's

03:10:28.066 --> 03:10:32.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
broken in Washington. I can tell
you exactly how it happened.

03:10:34.566 --> 03:10:37.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Wall Street barons
crashed the economy and
American builders went

03:10:37.233 --> 03:10:42.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
out of business. As
tradesmen scrambled for
jobs, houses stopped

03:10:42.133 --> 03:10:47.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
being built. The lack
of good jobs, of course,
led to stagnant wages.

03:10:48.866 --> 03:10:51.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And then the Democrats
flooded this country
with millions of illegal

03:10:51.500 --> 03:10:54.466 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
aliens.

03:10:56.600 --> 03:11:01.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
So citizens had to
compete with people who
shouldn't even be here

03:11:01.066 --> 03:11:06.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for precious housing.
Joe Biden's inflation
crisis, my friends, is

03:11:07.766 --> 03:11:10.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
really an affordability
crisis. And many of
the people that I grew

03:11:10.300 --> 03:11:14.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
up with can't afford to
pay more for groceries,
more for gas, more

03:11:14.833 --> 03:11:18.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
for rent, and that's
exactly what Joe Biden's
economy has given them.

03:11:39.566 --> 03:11:44.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
So prices soared, dreams
were shattered. And
China and the cartels

03:11:44.366 --> 03:11:48.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
sent fentanyl across the
border, adding addiction
to the heartache.

03:11:49.900 --> 03:11:53.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But ladies and gentlemen, that
is not the end of our story.

03:11:54.966 --> 03:11:57.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
We've heard about villains
and their victims.
I've talked a lot about

03:11:57.866 --> 03:12:02.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that, but let me tell
you about the future.
President Trump's vision

03:12:03.766 --> 03:12:06.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
is so simple and
yet so powerful.

03:12:08.333 --> 03:12:11.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We're done, ladies and
gentlemen, catering to
Wall Street will commit

03:12:11.166 --> 03:12:14.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
to the working man.

03:12:21.366 --> 03:12:24.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We're done importing
foreign labor. We're going
to fight for American

03:12:24.900 --> 03:12:27.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
citizens and their good
jobs and their good wages.

03:12:35.833 --> 03:12:38.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Were done by an energy
from countries that
hate us, we're going to

03:12:38.566 --> 03:12:42.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
get it right here from American
workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio

03:12:42.766 --> 03:12:45.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and across the country.

03:12:49.200 --> 03:12:53.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We're done sacrificing
supply chains to unlimited
global trade, and

03:12:53.733 --> 03:12:57.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
we're going to stamp
more and more products
with that beautiful label

03:12:58.000 --> 03:13:00.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
made in the USA.

03:13:16.466 --> 03:13:20.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We're gonna build
factories again, put
people to work making real

03:13:20.000 --> 03:13:25.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
products for American
families made with the
hands of American workers

03:13:25.566 --> 03:13:28.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
together.

03:13:29.833 --> 03:13:34.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We will protect the
wages of American workers
and stop the Chinese

03:13:34.200 --> 03:13:37.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Communist Party from
building their middle
class on the backs of

03:13:37.600 --> 03:13:40.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
American citizens.

03:13:51.800 --> 03:13:56.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Together we will make
sure our allies share in
the burden of securing

03:13:58.633 --> 03:14:01.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
world peace. No more free
rides for nations that
betray the generosity

03:14:01.666 --> 03:14:04.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
of the American taxpayer.

03:14:12.033 --> 03:14:17.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Together we will send our
kids to war only when we
must. But as President

03:14:18.733 --> 03:14:21.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Trump showed with the
elimination of ISIS and
so much more when we

03:14:21.733 --> 03:14:24.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
punch, we're going
to punch hard.

03:14:33.133 --> 03:14:37.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Together we will put
the citizens of America
first, whatever the

03:14:37.133 --> 03:14:42.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
color of their skin, we will, in
short, make America great again.

03:14:55.833 --> 03:14:57.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
You know, one of the things

03:14:58.766 --> 03:15:01.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that you hear people
say sometimes is that
America is an idea.

03:15:03.500 --> 03:15:06.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And to be clear, America
was indeed founded on
brilliant ideas like

03:15:06.733 --> 03:15:10.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
the rule of law and
religious liberty, things
written into the fabric

03:15:10.600 --> 03:15:15.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of our Constitution and
our nation. But America
is not just an idea.

03:15:17.300 --> 03:15:21.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
It is a group of people
with a shared history
and a common future.

03:15:22.133 --> 03:15:23.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
It is, in short. A nation

03:15:25.733 --> 03:15:28.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now it is part of that
tradition, of course,
that we welcome newcomers.

03:15:29.866 --> 03:15:32.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
But when we allow
newcomers into our American
family, we allow them

03:15:32.333 --> 03:15:35.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
on our terms.

03:15:43.133 --> 03:15:46.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That's the way we
preserve the continuity
of this project from 250

03:15:46.933 --> 03:15:51.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
years past to hopefully
250 years in the future.

03:15:57.566 --> 03:16:00.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And let me illustrate this with
a story, if I may. I'm of course

03:16:00.466 --> 03:16:03.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
married to the daughter
of South Asian immigrants
to this country,

03:16:05.100 --> 03:16:07.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
incredible people,
people who genuinely have
enriched this country

03:16:07.166 --> 03:16:10.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in so many ways, and
of course I'm biased
because I love my wife

03:16:10.633 --> 03:16:15.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and her family, but
it's true. Now what I
propose to my wife, we

03:16:15.633 --> 03:16:20.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
were in law school and
I said, honey. I come
with $1,200,000 worth

03:16:20.100 --> 03:16:24.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of law school debt and
a cemetery plot on a
mountainside in eastern

03:16:24.166 --> 03:16:27.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Kentucky.

03:16:37.033 --> 03:16:39.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And I, I, I guess
standing here tonight,
it's just gotten weirder

03:16:39.800 --> 03:16:44.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
and weirder, honey. That,
but, but that's what
she was getting. Now

03:16:46.533 --> 03:16:49.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
that cemetery plot in
eastern Kentucky is near
my family's ancestral

03:16:49.533 --> 03:16:53.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
home and like a lot of
people, we came from the
mountains of Appalachia

03:16:53.100 --> 03:16:57.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
into the factories of
Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Wisconsin.

03:17:04.800 --> 03:17:07.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now that's Kentucky coal
country, one of the 10.

03:17:15.833 --> 03:17:19.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now it's one of the 10
poorest counties in the
entire United States

03:17:19.300 --> 03:17:23.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of America. They are
very hardworking people
and they're very good

03:17:23.866 --> 03:17:26.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
people. They're the
kind of people who would
give you the shirt off

03:17:26.266 --> 03:17:29.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
their back even if they
can't afford enough
to eat. And our media

03:17:29.900 --> 03:17:33.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
calls them privileged and looks
down on them. But they love this

03:17:33.600 --> 03:17:38.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
country not only because
it's a good idea. But
because in their bones

03:17:40.300 --> 03:17:43.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
they know that this is
their home, and it will
be their children's

03:17:43.200 --> 03:17:46.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
home and they would die
fighting to protect it.

03:17:58.366 --> 03:18:02.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That is the source of
America's greatness. As
the United States senator,

03:18:04.433 --> 03:18:06.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I get to represent
millions of people in
the great state of Ohio

03:18:06.000 --> 03:18:08.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
with similar stories, and it
is the great honor of my life.

03:18:10.533 --> 03:18:12.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now in that cemetery,
there are people who
are born around the time

03:18:12.600 --> 03:18:16.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of the Civil War. And
if, as I hope, My wife
and I are eventually

03:18:16.733 --> 03:18:21.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
laid to rest there. And
our kids follow us. There
will be 7 generations

03:18:23.433 --> 03:18:25.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
just in that small
mountain cemetery plot
in eastern Kentucky. 7

03:18:25.800 --> 03:18:29.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
generations of people
who have fought for
this country, who have

03:18:29.033 --> 03:18:32.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
built this country.
Who have made things
in this country and who

03:18:32.466 --> 03:18:36.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
would fight and die to
protect this country
if they were asked to.

03:18:44.033 --> 03:18:44.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Yeah

03:18:46.033 --> 03:18:48.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now that's not just
an idea, my friends.
That's not just a set of

03:18:48.733 --> 03:18:52.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
principles, even though
the ideas and the
principles are great. That

03:18:52.633 --> 03:18:55.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is a homeland that
is our homeland.

03:19:02.200 --> 03:19:06.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
People will not fight
for abstractions, but
they will fight for their

03:19:06.366 --> 03:19:11.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
home. And if this
movement of ours is going
to succeed and if this

03:19:13.033 --> 03:19:15.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
country is going to
thrive, our leaders have
to remember that America

03:19:15.466 --> 03:19:20.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
is a nation and its
citizens deserve leaders
who put its interests

03:19:20.100 --> 03:19:23.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
first.

03:19:30.933 --> 03:19:33.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now we won't agree on
every issue, of course,
not even in this room.

03:19:35.666 --> 03:19:38.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
We may disagree from
time to time about how
best to reinvigorate

03:19:38.166 --> 03:19:41.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
American industry and
renew American family.
That's fine. In fact,

03:19:42.900 --> 03:19:45.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
it's more than fine, it's good.
But never forget that the reason

03:19:45.766 --> 03:19:50.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
why this united Republican
Party exists. Why we
do this? why we care

03:19:50.266 --> 03:19:54.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
about those great ideas
and that great history
is that we want this

03:19:54.433 --> 03:19:57.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
nation to thrive for
centuries to come.

03:20:07.400 --> 03:20:11.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Now eventually in that
that mountain cemetery.
My children will lay

03:20:11.533 --> 03:20:15.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
me to rest. And when
they do, I would like
them to know that thanks

03:20:15.800 --> 03:20:20.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
to the work of this
Republican Party, the
United States of America

03:20:20.166 --> 03:20:23.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and as strong and as proud
and as great as ever.

03:20:36.033 --> 03:20:40.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
That is who we serve,
my friends. That is who
we fight for and the

03:20:40.166 --> 03:20:44.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
only thing that we need
to do right now, the
most important thing

03:20:44.033 --> 03:20:48.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that we can do for those people,
for that American nation that we

03:20:48.000 --> 03:20:52.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
all love is to re-elect
Donald J. Trump,
President of the United

03:20:52.066 --> 03:20:55.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
States.

03:21:11.866 --> 03:21:16.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Mr. President, I will
never take for granted
the trust you have put

03:21:16.100 --> 03:21:20.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
in me. And what an honor
it is to help achieve
the extraordinary

03:21:20.700 --> 03:21:25.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
vision that you have
for this country. Now I
pledge to every American,

03:21:27.200 --> 03:21:30.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
no matter your party, I
will give you everything
I have to serve

03:21:30.500 --> 03:21:34.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
you and to make this
country a place where
every dream you have for

03:21:34.500 --> 03:21:38.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
yourself, your family,
and your country will
be possible once again.

03:21:49.033 --> 03:21:52.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And I promise you one
more thing. To the people
of Middletown, Ohio

03:21:52.700 --> 03:21:57.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and all the forgotten
communities. In Michigan,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,

03:21:59.300 --> 03:22:02.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
and Ohio and every
corner of our nation, I
promise you this, I will

03:22:02.133 --> 03:22:06.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
be a vice president who never
forgets where he came from.

03:22:30.733 --> 03:22:33.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
And every single day for
the next 4 years when
I walk into the White

03:22:33.733 --> 03:22:37.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
House to help President
Trump, I will be doing
it for you, for your

03:22:37.933 --> 03:22:42.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
family, for your future,
and for this great
country. Thank you. God

03:22:42.000 --> 03:22:45.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
bless all of you and God
bless our great country.

03:22:48.600 --> 03:22:53.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
There you have JD Vance
Junior senator from Ohio,
accepting the Republican

03:22:53.433 --> 03:22:57.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Party's nomination to
be the vice presidential
nominee on the ticket

03:22:57.833 --> 03:23:01.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
with former President
Donald Trump. Judy
Woodruff, what do you make

03:23:01.200 --> 03:23:05.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
of his remarks? Well,
what youngest person
or one of the youngest

03:23:05.500 --> 03:23:09.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
ever chosen to be a vice
presidential running
mate. I think he did

03:23:09.166 --> 03:23:13.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
the job that Donald Trump
probably wanted him to
do. He made contrasts.

03:23:15.600 --> 03:23:17.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
He, uh, you know, he
talked about Joe Biden's
age. He said when I

03:23:17.466 --> 03:23:22.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
was in the 4th grade, Joe
Biden supported NAFTA.
Um, he personalized

03:23:24.066 --> 03:23:27.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
himself. He talked about
his family, the woman
who raised him, Mama.

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There was some humor
we were introduced to
his mother. Her story

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about had to be personally
painful story about
addiction. Um, I think

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all in all, you know,
he showed us he's going
to be a fighter. He's

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going to go out on the
campaign trail and how
many times did he say

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tonight, Ohio, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, you know,
I've been counting

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Amy was counting by my
count, he said Michigan
5 times, Pennsylvania

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5 times, Wisconsin 3 times, Ohio
9 times. It's fairly clear what

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his role is on this
and where they want him
to be spending a lot

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of his time. The other
really fascinating
thing, look, we, we heard

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a lot of what we had been
talking about previously
on the panel about

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his um about his desire

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to make America a place
where we're not going
into foreign wars.

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He said something. I
wrote it down now I
cannot find it or see it,

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but said something to the degree
of we aren't going to fight for

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abstractions, but we will
fight to protect America, um,

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what is really interesting about
this, as we know though, is many

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of the things he talked
about WTO, NAFTA, all
of those things passed

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thanks to Republicans. Under
a democratic president.

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Jonathan David, final
thoughts, David. You
know, the guy literally

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has a cinematic life. I thought
he could have done a lot more to

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connect with people
emotionally introduce
himself, tell the story.

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Uh, it was interesting.
I thought it was a
little flat, but then

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the audience kind of
picked him up and it turned
into sort of a joyful

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conversation, which is
not what you expect from
a righteous indignant

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populist. Um, I
noticed that the song,

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the song Don't Think
it, Don't Stop Thinking
About Tomorrow was the

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Clinton. That's right,
but um I worked NAFTA
to quote a great thinker

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by the name of David
Brooks. Um, I would brand,
um, JD Vance's speeches

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perfectly adequate.
Jonathan Capehart, David
Brooks, Judy Woodruff,

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Amy Walter. Our deep
thanks to each of you
and that concludes our

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broadcast coverage of the first
night of the Republican National

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Convention. If you're
watching on YouTube,
don't go anywhere. Our

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coverage continues
with our friend and
colleague Lisa Desjardins,

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who will unpack the
day's events, and with
that, I'm Jeff Bennett.

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