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first speech from Ohio 
Senator JD Van says the 
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nominee. As the party 
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around the globe. It 
is the 3rd night of the 
2024 Republican National

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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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The former president's 
words, the person who 
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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. 
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today there have been 
there's been a back and 
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campaign and the Trump campaign 
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I have been told by 
sources familiar that Vice 
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did have a phone call with 
JD Vance, the Republican 
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nominee today, but there 
have been statements 
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the Biden campaign 
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or August, the Trump 
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be set because they say 
they're not sure who 
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nominee is implying that 
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So tell us more about 
that, Lisa. That's 
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Biden campaign is trying 
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campaign, namely JD Vance, is in 
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Harris, but you're 
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not going to make a 
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who will be on the 
ticket. Well, it's sort 
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can tell it's quite 
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dries down. That's it. 
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although I will say also 
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earlier, we have video 
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Joe Biden will be his 
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would prefer it to be 
Joe Biden than Kamala 
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just to follow up on 
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exclusively. Is there any other 
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we should understand 
or what we don't know 
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down here. This was in 
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pro-Trump. Can some

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some donors in there, 
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and the former president 
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do it. The pool, the 
press pool was outside 
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to the event, but someone 
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that video. It's 
important context there, 
Lisa Desjardins on the

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very loud convention 
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evening. Lisa we'll 
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course back up here we have our 
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Amy Walter, David 
Brooks, and Jonathan 
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already by the speakers 
we've seen on the 
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the night we expect to 
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Kamala Harris as well. 
It's really um quite 
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it last night how Kamala 
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was in almost every 
speech. And uh today 
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of Chicago, uh, we 
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and um we asked him 
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What do you think it 
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that if she is put in 
for Biden, we will still 
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for this. We will be 
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about Biden to making it. About 
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trying to do here by 
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to define her before if she were 
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an opportunity to do 
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even if Biden is at the 
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be a president in waiting 
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uh. The president's health. What 
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which Republicans are 
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and by the way, 
mispronouncing her first 
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by now she's been vice president 
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correctly, but that's 
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tonight. Yeah, well, you 
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name correctly. I mean 
people should be called 
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be called. So that's a 
pretty simple rule. But 
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politics that you go after 
your opponents and you 
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especially Joe Biden, I 
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and so it's looking a 
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of Chuck Schumer went to 
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step down, so it's looking 
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down. I don't know what 
the odds are, but so 
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101 to go after the 
first two would possibly 
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Jonathan. I'm just watching your 
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notes there, but I'm 
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my response is I noticed 
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name on the very first 
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start of this convention. 
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of the convention, and 
I'm very sensitive to 
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as we've moved through the days 
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Kamala and, and the 
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you know it is smart 
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of

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seed the field. Here and 
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knowing uh I I think 
that the Trump campaign 
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fact that anticipating 
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ticket and so that if 
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folks in this hall and the folks 
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the convention will 
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if they were gonna like 
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where we expect to hear 
later from the vice 
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JD Vance. We've been 
talking all week about 
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himself as Donald Trump's 
populist protege. This 
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to the Republican 
Party, to Americans 
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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 
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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 
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and that's one of the 
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about, this is foreign 
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earlier in the day, people 
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Ronald Reagan, but he's 
Newt Gingrich, he's 
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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 
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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 
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is the one this is the 
most unified Republican 
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been at, but this is 
the one issue where 
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on some of the issues 
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the war in Ukraine and 
the war in the Middle 
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already heard some of 
those remarks and there's 
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of we are less safe under 
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How much does this resonate with 
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policy issues don't rank 
among the highest of 
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of safety certainly 
hits home. How are folks 
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much more about the border 
than it is about what's 
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trying to make that 
case as as the president 
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To do both in public 
and in private saying 
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him to get out. Look what I did 
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I not only kept NATO 
together but expanded 
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on the world stage. 
That's not something 
he's getting credit for

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from voters in part 
because they're looking 
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is happening at home rather than 
what's happening um overseas and

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to David's point, it is true 
that this generation of.

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Of Republicans this 
cohort of Republicans 
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the crowd, they have been shaped 
as much by reaction to the wars

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started under George 
W. Bush than anything 
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Biden's presidency. 
That's interesting 
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at this point really is pleading 
for credit for strengthening the

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Western alliance

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against a resurgent 
Russian in many ways a 
resurgent China. What

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you've heard from this 
Stage tonight is, well, 
Vladimir Putin didn't

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invade Ukraine on Donald Trump's 
watch, and he wouldn't have that

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that he invaded Crimea 
when it was President 
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full scale invasion of, 
of, of Ukraine under 
President Biden. What

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do you make of that? 
Because I feel like 
there are dispassionate

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voices who will hear 
that and say they have 
a point. Um, they may

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have a point. I don't 
know what's in Putin's 
mind, and they're, but

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they're even more so 
there have been at least 
one speaker who said

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who implied that the 
invasion of Ukraine by 
Putin was in part America's

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fault for overexpanding 
NATO and so that is a 
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of basically post-war 
foreign policy, uh, which 
is and it's a pretty

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strong evasion of who 
Vladimir Putin is, and 
so what does this party

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believe about that? I genuinely 
don't know. I know what JD.

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but I don't know, Donald 
Trump talks one way 
on this issue, but as

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president, at least, He 
didn't pull us out of 
NATO. He was much more

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conventional than you 
would thought by the 
populist rhetoric. David,

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we also saw the Russian Foreign 
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essentially welcoming 
JD Vance to the Trump 
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this is a good thing 
because he will stop 
arming Ukraine. That feels

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like a big policy 
gap within Republican 
establishment I'm right.

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JD Vance called him a 
man of peace, the foreign 
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which is a little odd 
for a guy who helped 
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but that that's the 
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think that. Vladimir 
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of JD Van, and there's 
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as long as the possibility 
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out there, uh, and so, 
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Vladimir Putin. You 
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testing of this theory, 
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right? Ohio has a significant 
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Ukraine, Rob Portman, 
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helping Ukraine and 
going over to Ukraine 
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of time on this issue. 
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in that state could come out and 
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everybody said that's 
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race. You can't say 
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here, given how much work the 
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not just what it means

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within the Republican Party, but 
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you know, for the public. 
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in talking with some,

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um, old school conservative 
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really happy about JD 
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have way more policy pull 
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because Donald Trump 
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to really invest in and 
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do you see it? Um, I 
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it'll be easier it'll be easy 
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do all sorts of things 
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be coming, that is 
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Project 2025 with a 
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in minute on minute 
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like Senator Vance, 
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some strong ideas on 
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all those from his from 
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a way that former Vice President 
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thing I think we'll all 
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heard from day one 
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like the further down 
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further away from that. 
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as well. Peter Navarro took the 
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straight from prison, 
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several minutes from 
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as sort of an anti-immigrant 
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people crossing the 
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here to steal your jobs, calling 
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lot of applause here 
in the room. Do you 
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Further back towards 
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Freudian psychology, but there's 
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id, the Republican id 
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would like to tamp down. 
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Peter Navarro who are pretty out 
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the idea that they 
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the elites can't control 
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what speech he gives 
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the video that Lisa got, 
whether he is a changed 
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the theme he wants to strike and 
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then in the months since we'll 
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Can be controlled or 
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to all Freudians if 
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said on that stage was they came 
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too. And we should say 
the reason he did time 
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to cooperate with the 
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the January 6th

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investigation, uh, and 
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um, he said all sorts 
of things, um, I went 
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have to. He talked about Lawfare 
jackals, he said. That um Trump

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will hold these lawfare 
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he. If the if the campaign 
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as they're signaling 
they never would have 
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out of prison. This idea 
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in tone either from this 
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I've I've never believed 
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like turns that on its 
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um outward facing 
convention these speeches 
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souls and amping up the 
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people watching at home 
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what about what we're 
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or former President 
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setting expectation 
from JD Vance. Well, the 
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immediately after the 
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was one of the first to come out 
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President Biden to say 
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think he might tone it 
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you can go. You can go 
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model and Lara Trump 
last night talked about 
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Donald Trump was. It 
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really, uh, for a RNC 
chairman, uh, and, but, 
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is uh Vance can go 
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because that's what vice 
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of Sarah Palin's first 
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she did the lipstick on the pig, 
the hockey mom, mom, she did, it

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was personal here, 
here's who I am America. 
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so I'm not going to 
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most of Republicans 
don't know anything about 
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just introducing him to the rest 
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them to the people in this room 
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Hi, um, but I'm also 
gonna be very curious um 
to see if he does what

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we think he will be doing 
on the campaign, which 
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him and then he serves 
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if Trump now is the toned down 
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and, and, uh, and Vance 
is a, is a bad cop. Let's 
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floor now and hear from 
Mayor Trent Conway of 
East Palestine, Ohio,

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who's now speaking at 
the podium. I'm Trent 
Conaway, the proud mayor

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of East Palestine, Ohio.

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When the train derailed, 
spewing flames and 
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town. Face the disaster 
unlike we'd ever seen. 
And in the chaos we

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witnessed a clear contrast 
between leadership 
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Our first responders 
didn't hesitate. They 
raced to the scene. They

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battled the flames and 
evacuated our citizens.

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And for that I want to thank 
every one of them tonight.

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Unfortunately, the 
Biden administration's 
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different. And constant, 
it consisted almost 
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and press events. They 
talked and talked, but 
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help. Then there was 
a clear difference 
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Trump and President 
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was silent. And we never heard a 
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I guess we weren't 
their type of folks. No 
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Street billionaires live 
in East Palestine, just 
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But Donald Trump cared. 
First he called to ask 
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not wanting to intrude, and 
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When he arrived with 
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everyone from first 
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He tore the derailment 
site. He listened to 
us. And he shared a meal

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with volunteers at a 
local McDonald's. His 
presence was genuine.

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His concern was real. 
After a year of criticism 
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Biden finally did show 
up. His appearance was 
brief, forced and scripted.

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He met with a select 
few and then left. We 
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delivered so little. 
I know a thing or two 
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and let me tell you, 
that's what the Biden 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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we unleash American 
prosperity and we ensure 
our national security.

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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.

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Serving as a governor 
under Joe Biden. Has 
been like a gale force

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wind in our face. Biden's 
war on energy hurts 
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the cost of energy is 
in everything we use 
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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 
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and rare earth minerals 
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And the day that Biden 
halted permits for clean 
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facilities. Just think about the 
party they must have thrown that

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night at the Kremlin. 
Because Biden's policies 
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and Iran filthy rich.

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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.

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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

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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, 
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President Trump will 
ensure that there is power 
for you. And importantly

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that we have the power 
as the United States 
to beat China in the

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AI arms race.

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Unleashing American 
energy dominance is our 
path back to prosperity

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and peace through 
strength. Teddy Roosevelt 
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To speak softly and 
carry a big stick.

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Energy dominance will be the big 
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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.

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Innovation has always been the 
source of American greatness.

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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

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with a huge impact and rural 
America is Trump country.

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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.

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President Trump cares 
deeply about every American.

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Rig workers, truck 
drivers, roughnecks. 
And yes, America's great

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farmers and ranchers. President 
Trump cares deeply about you.

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We know that he'll fight 
for us. He'll fight 
for our families. And

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we know one more thing. 
He'll let all of you 
keep driving your gas

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powered cars.

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When President Trump 
unleashes energy dominance, 
he will make America

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affordable again. He 
will make America strong 
again and when President

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Donald J. Trump and JD 
Vance together, they 
will make America great

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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

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and defied the doubters 
to become the forty-fifth 
president of the

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United States. He didn't 
want the form fortune 
or fame, power and

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position. He already 
has all of that. Donald 
Trump may and his family

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made enormous sacrifices to 
run and to serve as president.

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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

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presidential nominee ever to 
tap a woman to lead a campaign.

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But that was a natural 
for Donald J. Trump. 
He had elevated women

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in New York real estate decades 
before when few people would.

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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.

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In that meeting where 
Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 
Mercedes Schlapp Brooke

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Rollins, Ivanka Trump, and me.

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00:32:02,233 --> 00:32:06,833
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

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president.

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In the Trump White House 
we lived it. Sure, he 
saw something in me

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and the other working 
moms that perhaps we did 
not see in ourselves.

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But more importantly, 
he sees what's best and 
what's possible. For

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millions of decent 
hardworking Americans.

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00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,600
Now 8 years later, He 
and his family have made 
the sacrifice again.

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For him to run and serve 
as president. Donald 
Trump could be the

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envy of former presidents. 
He's a billionaire 
who could play golf

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every day at his own 
golf courses. He can 
enjoy a magnificent life.

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With his incredible 5 
children, his 10 amazing 
grandchildren. And

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00:33:19,366 --> 00:33:24,366
that extraordinary elegant, 
beautiful, brilliant wife.

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00:33:29,366 --> 00:33:32,966
The former and future 
First Lady Melania Trump.

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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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00:33:52,666 --> 00:33:57,666
Well, good luck with 
that. We don't get those 
policies without that

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00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:02,866
personality.

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00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:11,500
Taking out our Baghdadi 
and Soleimani, ending 
the ISIS caliphate.

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00:34:13,166 --> 00:34:17,433
Recalibrating trade 
deals, restoring sanity, 
growth, and fairness

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00:34:17,433 --> 00:34:22,333
in our economy. Making 
our southern border more 
secure and sovereign.

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00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:28,100
Supporting school 
choice. Protecting life, 
respecting workers, backing

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00:34:29,833 --> 00:34:33,833
our blue, our military 
and our border patrol. 
You get that through

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00:34:35,266 --> 00:34:39,300
strength and toughness. Weakness 
emboldens our adversaries.

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00:34:41,433 --> 00:34:44,833
Enables failure. 
And empowers evil.

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The answer to weakness 
is strength. The antidote 
to division is unity.

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00:34:52,833 --> 00:34:57,833
And the alternative to 
failure and incompetence 
to Joe Biden and

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00:34:59,533 --> 00:35:03,400
Kamala Harris is to 
send them packing and 
send Donald Trump and JD

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Vance to the White House.

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If you know someone 
who is skeptical. About 
the Republican Party.

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Or who is cynical about 
politics. Don't dismiss them.

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00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,566
Talk to them. We went through 
addition, not division.

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00:35:30,033 --> 00:35:33,500
In Donald Trump's Republican 
Party, everyone is welcome.

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00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,400
We have been called 
deplorable. Irredeemable.

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00:35:46,166 --> 00:35:50,200
Mega Maggot extremists 
and worse. But Donald 
Trump sees you for who

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you are. You love your 
God? You love your 
family and you love your

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country.

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00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:06,066
In 2024 there should be no more 
hidden undercover Trump voters.

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00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:11,766
It's time to put that 
flag on your front porch. 
That red hat on your

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00:36:11,766 --> 00:36:16,766
head. Because we don't 
cave and we don't cower 
and we do not capitulate.

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00:36:18,433 --> 00:36:22,300
Instead We get up We show up

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00:36:23,166 --> 00:36:25,933
We stand up and we speak up.

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Ladies and gentlemen, 
this is your movement. 
This is your moment.

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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

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will always stand up 
for you. Thank you, God 
bless you and God bless

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the United States of America.

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I would describe that 
was Kellyanne Conway, 
former senior counselor

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to former President Trump taking 
the stage. They're watching PBS

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News live coverage of the 
3rd night of the Republican 
National Convention.

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We're going to turn now 
to some other topics 
before we take you back

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down to the stage for additional 
speakers. It's important to note

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misinformation continues 
to be an important 
issue during this whole

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campaign season, including right 
here at the Republican National

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00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,400
Convention unfortunately 
PBS News is partnering 
with PolitiFact to

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do some fact checking. 
Katie Sanders from joins 
us here in the booth.

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00:37:37,533 --> 00:37:39,266
Good to see you. Thanks 
for having us. So let's 
just address a few

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00:37:39,266 --> 00:37:42,000
of the things we've 
heard in previous nights 
tonight already and

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00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,833
add some context and 
necessary facts to this 
on the issue of inflation,

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00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:49,200
we heard Congressman 
Ronnie Jackson of Texas 
earlier today saying

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that the US had 
experienced record high 
inflation under the Biden

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00:37:53,266 --> 00:37:55,800
administration. What 
should we understand 
about that? I think when

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you leave it open ended 
like that and maybe 
you're not an economist

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00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:02,066
or an economics expert, 
you don't know that he's 
referring to a specific

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point of time. Inflation. 
I experienced a couple 
of years ago was

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nowhere near the levels 
of the 1970s, the early 
1980s, when it was

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12 to 15%. So at the high under 
Biden, it was at around 9%. It's

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come down since then, so you can 
kind of play fast and loose with

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record high inflation. 
It's important to actually 
look up the numbers

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00:38:20,866 --> 00:38:24,600
and Congressman Matt Gates, who 
addressed the convention earlier

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00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,566
this evening, said that 
Vice President Kamala 
Harris was appointed

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the border czar. She 
did have immigration as 
part of her portfolio.

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00:38:32,466 --> 00:38:34,433
So how does that stack 
up? Just need some context 
too and. He's certainly

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not the first person to bring up 
that line. You've heard it from

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00:38:37,233 --> 00:38:40,666
multiple speakers, so 
it sounds like it's 
something that actually

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literally happened, 
but this is actually a 
nickname from Republicans.

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What Biden did early 
into his presidency was 
a point Kamala Harris

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to investigate the root 
causes of immigration 
in Northern Triangle

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00:38:51,833 --> 00:38:55,533
countries. He didn't 
say you're in charge 
now. He left that to the

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00:38:55,533 --> 00:38:59,400
Department of Homeland 
Security, so that remains 
with Alejando Majorcas

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and um the Republicans 
very quickly took to 
calling her the border

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00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:04,533
czar. Because

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political reasons. We've 
heard a lot a lot also 
about the US withdrawal

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00:39:11,966 --> 00:39:15,300
of troops from Afghanistan 
after the 20 plus 
year war there we saw

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00:39:16,766 --> 00:39:18,100
former Republican House Speaker 
Newt Gingrich take to the stage,

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00:39:19,833 --> 00:39:22,066
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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00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:30,666
American killed in 
nearly two years. It's 
a very specific claim.

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00:39:32,333 --> 00:39:34,366
How does that check out 
with you and your team, 
um, I think It just

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00:39:34,366 --> 00:39:38,066
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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00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:45,000
think again, the dates 
matter specific time 
frames matter and there

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00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,800
may not have been combat 
deaths, but there were 
4 non-hostile service

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00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,866
members who died during 
that period and 3 
others were wounded in

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00:39:51,866 --> 00:39:55,800
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

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00:39:58,666 --> 00:40:02,433
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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00:40:05,866 --> 00:40:08,500
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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00:40:11,766 --> 00:40:14,900
floor where Lisa Desjardin, our 
politics correspondent, our eyes

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00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:18,866
and ears here at the 
Republican National 
Convention is with a delegate,

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00:40:20,666 --> 00:40:22,200
as I understand it, Lisa. 
That's right. It's a 
little bit of activity

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00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,366
around here, guys, because Texas 
Governor Greg Abbott is expected

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00:40:25,366 --> 00:40:28,333
to speak. They're clearing some 
of the aisles for him right now.

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00:40:29,633 --> 00:40:30,866
That's why it's a little 
bit shaky on our end, but

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00:40:32,633 --> 00:40:35,833
To talk to you right 
now but a delegate from 
Texas, uh, this is Thomas.

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00:40:37,666 --> 00:40:39,900
You are from uh Amarillo, 
which I believe you 
described as what hot?

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00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,066
It's a hot, really 
flat, but it's also kind 
of like the old west,

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00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,266
so you said it's where modern 
America meets the old West,

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00:40:48,766 --> 00:40:51,800
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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00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,600
running for office. You're 
running as a Republican 
nominee, I believe,

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00:40:59,366 --> 00:41:01,966
as tax assessor. I'm 
the Republican nominee 
for taxes or. County,

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00:41:03,633 --> 00:41:05,166
Texas. You are someone 
who is about the future 
of the Republican

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00:41:05,166 --> 00:41:08,333
Party. So let me ask you, why do 
you think Donald Trump should be

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00:41:08,333 --> 00:41:13,033
the future of this party 
young Americans still 
mostly vote Democratic.

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00:41:14,733 --> 00:41:16,266
He's led some incredible 
growth in our party, 
you know, we have more

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00:41:16,266 --> 00:41:19,066
people coming to the Republican 
Party now than we've had in many

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00:41:19,066 --> 00:41:23,233
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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00:41:26,233 --> 00:41:29,333
the policies. Which 
policies? I think the 
economic policies are a

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00:41:29,333 --> 00:41:34,166
great example. What do 
you mean? Well, you know, 
look at the inflation

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00:41:34,166 --> 00:41:37,233
we have right now. Look 
at the expenses people 
are having on their

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00:41:37,233 --> 00:41:41,666
pocketbooks. Grocery 
prices are going up. The 
gas prices, um, especially

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00:41:41,666 --> 00:41:44,966
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

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00:41:49,133 --> 00:41:54,100
for the days of Trump 
again. You own your own 
home now. I think Democrats

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00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,833
is an example of the 
Biden economy doing 
well. I wouldn't say so,

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00:42:00,633 --> 00:42:01,433
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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00:42:04,833 --> 00:42:07,633
Americans and older 
Americans, and so they 
need someone who's going

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00:42:07,633 --> 00:42:10,100
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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00:42:16,866 --> 00:42:21,266
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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00:42:23,666 --> 00:42:26,800
attend classes. How, 
what was that like for 
you? I was scary, you

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00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,266
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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00:42:33,833 --> 00:42:36,733
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

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00:42:40,900 --> 00:42:45,833
COVID right now, you 
know, I'm a believer 
that you have to pray for

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00:42:45,833 --> 00:42:48,066
everybody whether you 
agree with them or not. 
Well, I don't support

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00:42:48,066 --> 00:42:50,733
President Biden. I'm praying for 
him. I hope he gets through this

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00:42:50,733 --> 00:42:54,433
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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00:42:58,066 --> 00:43:00,800
a Christian. He said 
some very harsh words 
about a lot of people,

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00:43:02,333 --> 00:43:04,233
about women. his enemies. What 
do you think of his character,

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00:43:05,966 --> 00:43:09,300
you know, we haven't 
always agreed with all 
of his actions or his

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00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:13,266
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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00:43:18,066 --> 00:43:21,566
values, and I'm praying 
for him right now and 
for his family, and

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00:43:21,566 --> 00:43:24,600
I think we're seeing it 
out, especially in this 
convention. He seems

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00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:29,433
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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00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,700
Warren, maybe we'll see 
you up on that stage 
someday. Jeff, thank

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00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:40,966
you. Isa Desjardins, 
thanks so much as Lisa 
mentioned, we learned

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00:43:40,966 --> 00:43:44,100
earlier today that 
President Biden was 
diagnosed with COVID. His

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00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:47,633
symptoms are said to be 
mild. He's self-isolating 
at his home in

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00:43:47,633 --> 00:43:51,266
Rehoboth, and this is 
a day me Walter, in 
which we also learned by

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00:43:51,266 --> 00:43:54,433
way of reporting by 
The Wall Street Journal 
and other outlets that

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00:43:54,433 --> 00:43:58,100
House Democratic and 
Senate Democratic leaders, 
Schumer and Jeffreys

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00:43:58,100 --> 00:44:03,066
pushed Democratic officials 
at the DNC to delay. 
To formally nominate

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00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,966
President Biden ahead 
of the convention, NBC 
is reporting that Chuck

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00:44:10,766 --> 00:44:13,033
Schumer, Majority Leader 
Schumer, presented polling 
data to the president

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00:44:13,033 --> 00:44:16,500
over the weekend showing that he 
doesn't have a path to win. Your

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00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:21,500
reaction to all of that 
is just. An unbelievable 
amount of information

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00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,300
and news that has been 
breaking, it feels like 
every minute of the

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00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:30,766
day, like if, if Aaron 
Sorkin had scripted 
these last two weeks.

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It would have been thrown 
out of the writer's room 
for being absolutely

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00:44:34,466 --> 00:44:35,366
ridiculous, but it

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00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:41,266
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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00:44:48,166 --> 00:44:50,833
actually unifying for 
the country definitely 
that's another topic,

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00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,766
but for the party, 
definitely unified the 
fact that Democrats are

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00:44:55,766 --> 00:45:00,766
now spending more time 
debating their own future 
is is very telling.

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00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:08,033
Look, we keep waiting 
for this um this moment 
where somebody in very

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00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:13,166
high leadership, whether that is 
the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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00:45:14,633 --> 00:45:18,300
Or Chuck Schumer to come out and 
publicly say something they seem

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00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:19,033
to be

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00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:24,566
dropping as many hints 
saying it as nicely as 
possible to allow President

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00:45:26,066 --> 00:45:31,066
Biden to bow out without 
having to have that public

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00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,833
um accounting. Maybe we 
will have an answer at 
the end of this week.

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00:45:38,566 --> 00:45:40,400
I doubt we're going to 
see something before 
we get to Friday, but

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00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:45,066
as we go into the 
weekend, it does seem like 
this pressure campaign

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is on a Not only continuous 
but pretty intense.

617
00:45:51,733 --> 00:45:55,166
Round. Jonathan, that context of 
what's happening outside of this

618
00:45:55,166 --> 00:45:58,966
arena is important because it's 
relevant to the race to what all

619
00:45:58,966 --> 00:46:02,833
of these messages and 
whatever policies and 
campaigns, you know,

620
00:46:04,500 --> 00:46:06,266
pledges these turn into 
what they're running 
against, who they're

621
00:46:06,266 --> 00:46:08,766
running against, as 
you've noted a number of 
times, President Biden

622
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:11,800
has continued to insist 
that he is. He has made 
up his mind. There's

623
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,933
no question about it. 
Democrats can't take 
yes for an answer here.

624
00:46:16,633 --> 00:46:18,400
Is there anything about 
the day's events that 
leads you to believe

625
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,066
that will change? This, 
I, I've always said 
that these people who

626
00:46:22,066 --> 00:46:25,566
are calling on the 
president to withdraw 
from the race. They can't

627
00:46:25,566 --> 00:46:30,033
just say the polling 
looks bad and therefore 
you should get out.

628
00:46:31,666 --> 00:46:34,566
They need to come to the 
table either preferably 
to the public and

629
00:46:34,566 --> 00:46:38,733
show what these internal 
numbers are, um, and, 
and go to the president,

630
00:46:40,433 --> 00:46:43,266
not public polling but 
internal polling and 
from the reporting about

631
00:46:43,266 --> 00:46:46,266
the meeting that Senator Schumer 
had the majority leader had with

632
00:46:46,266 --> 00:46:50,333
the president is he came to the 
table within. Internal polling.

633
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,666
This is significant. 
He's the Senate majority 
leader, the leading

634
00:46:54,666 --> 00:46:59,233
Democrat in the Senate, 
um, this is something

635
00:47:00,566 --> 00:47:03,000
where I'm like wow if 
Schumer has done this.

636
00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:08,800
This is pretty big. Now 
to Amy's point though. 
This is not Schumer

637
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,700
on the record saying this 
happened, but what makes 
this story significant

638
00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:18,033
is this meeting that 
happened between the 
majority leader and the

639
00:47:18,033 --> 00:47:22,066
president. They were 
the only two people in 
the room, according to

640
00:47:22,066 --> 00:47:25,300
the recording, according 
to the reporting and 
so how does this get

641
00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:30,300
out? And why does it 
get out? And so we had 
Speaker Emeta Nancy Pelosi

642
00:47:32,033 --> 00:47:36,166
a couple of weeks ago 
dropping a little hint 
you had um, Congressman

643
00:47:36,166 --> 00:47:38,666
Adam Schiff of California 
Senate. Candidate

644
00:47:40,433 --> 00:47:42,466
Going on the record 
saying he thinks the 
president should withdraw

645
00:47:42,466 --> 00:47:47,466
from the race. This 
story about Schumer. 
Talking to the president.

646
00:47:49,233 --> 00:47:52,633
Is a bit of an earthquake 
and then there were 
other if memory serves,

647
00:47:54,366 --> 00:47:56,666
there's also another 
story I believe in in 
the Washington Post, I

648
00:47:56,666 --> 00:48:01,666
believe, where it says 
that President Biden 
is going from. Quote

649
00:48:02,766 --> 00:48:06,066
Kala can't win to Can Kamala.

650
00:48:07,733 --> 00:48:11,666
You put all this 
together and maybe we are 
moving to a situation

651
00:48:11,666 --> 00:48:14,633
where he bounced out 
of the race, but I will 
repeat what I've said

652
00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:16,466
multiple times at this table

653
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:21,133
if President Biden is not is 
not the top of the ticket.

654
00:48:22,833 --> 00:48:25,866
Then it has to be Vice 
President Harris, and if 
it is not Vice President

655
00:48:25,866 --> 00:48:30,066
Harris, the Democrats 
will definitely lose. 
The thing I fear the

656
00:48:30,066 --> 00:48:33,933
most for the Democrats is 
that he drops President 
Biden drops from

657
00:48:33,933 --> 00:48:38,000
the top of the ticket 
and then they go into 
some crazy open primary

658
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,000
process. Democrats don't 
know how to handle that 
kind they Democrats

659
00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:46,266
love chaos. And they're 
all in agreement it 
seems. He needs to get

660
00:48:46,266 --> 00:48:49,800
out of the race. And if he does 
get out of the race, that's when

661
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,633
all hell breaks loose 
because everyone has 
their own preferred person

662
00:48:53,633 --> 00:48:56,933
and if that preferred 
person, if they don't 
coalesce around the sitting

663
00:48:56,933 --> 00:49:00,666
vice president, then 
what do they say to 
African American voters

664
00:49:00,666 --> 00:49:03,333
who are consistently 
behind the fact that the 
president should stay

665
00:49:03,333 --> 00:49:07,666
in the race and have 
been the rescuers in the 
foundation of the Democratic

666
00:49:07,666 --> 00:49:12,200
Party. For years, Jonathan, 
you mentioned that 
statement from Congressman

667
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,000
Adam Schiff, which, 
which struck me when I 
read it in part because

668
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,366
Adam Schiff is such a 
close ally, a former House 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

669
00:49:22,033 --> 00:49:23,900
She was the one who 
appointed him the House 
impeachment manager and

670
00:49:23,900 --> 00:49:26,733
Impeachment one, and he 
actually played that role 
in both impeachments.

671
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,733
In many ways he is a 
proxy for her. We don't 
know what we don't know.

672
00:49:33,466 --> 00:49:33,933
I'm not trying to, you 
know, enter into the 
realm of speculation,

673
00:49:35,633 --> 00:49:39,000
but in, but previously 
he has been, uh, and he 
is now a Of this roster

674
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,933
of high profile Democrats 
who are saying that 
Joe Biden should step

675
00:49:43,933 --> 00:49:47,133
aside. He would not 
say something like this 
without thinking through

676
00:49:47,133 --> 00:49:50,266
it very careful. Yeah, 
I think he thought 
through it carefully. I

677
00:49:50,266 --> 00:49:53,166
think Nancy Pelosi 
issued a statement saying 
when he announced that

678
00:49:53,166 --> 00:49:56,466
publicly, it was news 
to her, but I do think 
that the Washington

679
00:49:56,466 --> 00:50:00,733
Post story which did 
have the shift in Byron's 
mentality. I thought

680
00:50:00,733 --> 00:50:01,433
that was

681
00:50:03,166 --> 00:50:05,300
interesting for a lot 
of different reasons, 
partly for that sign

682
00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:09,400
of a shift. Secondly, there 
was a very interesting 
sentence. Unlike

683
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,400
any sentence I've read 
in American journalism 
that said a person

684
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,366
close to Biden 
confronted him directly

685
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:19,933
with just the two of them 
in the room. They were

686
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,400
that had to come from Camp Biden

687
00:50:24,133 --> 00:50:27,166
and so that's a sign that 
the, it's like watching 
a sandcastle begin

688
00:50:27,166 --> 00:50:30,466
to erode. And I think 
they're doing it in 
the right way. I don't

689
00:50:30,466 --> 00:50:34,100
think they should go 
public. You give the man 
his dignity. You preserve

690
00:50:34,100 --> 00:50:37,700
the process of the 
party. Cory Booker was 
on television today and

691
00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:40,966
he was asked. Do you 
think he should step 
down? he said, I'm waiting

692
00:50:40,966 --> 00:50:43,400
for the president to 
make the decision. Of 
course the president made

693
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,266
the decision a zillion 
times, but I let him 
have his time even at

694
00:50:47,266 --> 00:50:51,566
this late hour. I think 
that's the right policy, 
and my vibe is that

695
00:50:51,566 --> 00:50:54,833
the idea of a supercharged 
primary, a lot of, a 
lot like 8 pick your

696
00:50:54,833 --> 00:50:58,066
8 finalists, have a 
lot of town meetings. 
People were super excited

697
00:50:58,066 --> 00:51:01,733
about that. I think 
the party has drifted 
away from that. I think

698
00:51:01,733 --> 00:51:05,266
what you said the idea 
of tumults right now, I 
think they've internalized

699
00:51:05,266 --> 00:51:08,666
the idea that if it's not Biden, 
it's going to be Kalari. and so

700
00:51:08,666 --> 00:51:11,933
I The, the, again, when 
you're talking about 
the Democratic Party,

701
00:51:13,766 --> 00:51:16,500
you're talking about this 
vague cloud of people 
who are all whispering

702
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:19,666
and so it's super hard 
to get a read on how the 
whispering is moving,

703
00:51:21,366 --> 00:51:23,866
the climate of whispers, 
but I, I one sense is 
accelerating today.

704
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,700
The sand is beginning to 
Amy, President, former 
President Trump wants

705
00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:32,800
to run against President 
Biden for their messaging 
on this is clear.

706
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:36,666
They have coalesced 
around the opposition 
here. That's how does it

707
00:51:36,666 --> 00:51:40,100
scramble all the messaging 
and the strategy. 
We're seeing this week

708
00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:45,100
in here if these kinds 
of changes do occur, I 
mean what we're seeing

709
00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:49,900
again and some of the 
polling, but it's, it 
feels like any polling

710
00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:50,800
that we've had

711
00:51:52,533 --> 00:51:54,866
that is older than 2 
weeks, doesn't make a 
whole lot of sense, but.

712
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,566
That said, Uh, Harris 
does a little bit better 
with the base, with

713
00:52:02,266 --> 00:52:05,866
the voters like women, 
like younger voters. 
Um, and, and in some

714
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:12,033
cases younger voters 
of color, so there is 
some advantage there,

715
00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:16,500
but she still has all the 
negatives of being a part 
of this administration.

716
00:52:17,966 --> 00:52:19,800
What they're saying right, what 
they've been saying for the last

717
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,566
few days about the 
administration, its policies 
on the border, it's

718
00:52:23,566 --> 00:52:28,566
policies on it, um, 
inflation and the economy 
on Afghanistan. She

719
00:52:30,266 --> 00:52:35,000
will own those as well. 
The difference is that 
she doesn't own the

720
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,666
Big, um contrast that they 
would like in terms of 
the physical difference

721
00:52:43,366 --> 00:52:47,066
between a Donald Trump 
and a Biden in terms of 
strength and weakness,

722
00:52:48,733 --> 00:52:51,433
but they will still 
lean into the weakness, 
right, that she is weak

723
00:52:51,433 --> 00:52:56,400
because she supports 
open borders. She is weak 
because she as a candidate.

724
00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:02,166
Wasn't particularly 
successful when she first 
ran so they will basically

725
00:53:03,900 --> 00:53:08,000
run a very similar 
campaign, but if the 
biggest one of the biggest

726
00:53:08,733 --> 00:53:10,066
challenges for Biden is

727
00:53:11,866 --> 00:53:14,700
he can't get anybody 
excited about his candidacy 
within his own base.

728
00:53:16,433 --> 00:53:18,633
The theory is having 
a Kamala Harris and of 
course there would be

729
00:53:18,633 --> 00:53:23,033
a new vice president then 
brings a little attention

730
00:53:24,566 --> 00:53:27,133
interest energy into what 
has been a pretty Like

731
00:53:28,833 --> 00:53:33,600
Moribund Democratic 
Party at this point in 
terms of voter base, but

732
00:53:35,366 --> 00:53:37,133
the Biden campaign 
is trying and they're 
they're they're trying to

733
00:53:37,133 --> 00:53:40,133
gin up enthusiasm, 
even in recent days by 
lurching leftward. The

734
00:53:40,133 --> 00:53:44,200
president is embracing 
rent control and debt 
erasure and Supreme

735
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,466
Court reform. This was 
the thing that he had 
resisted for so I saw

736
00:53:47,466 --> 00:53:52,400
that I saw that and and 
it just goes to, you 
know, the, the heart

737
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:57,400
of the challenge for 
the Biden campaign 
isn't the policy. That's

738
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,900
not why. His voters 
aren't excited. The 
heart of the challenge is

739
00:54:01,900 --> 00:54:05,200
the thing that voters 
have been saying. We've 
all listened to voters.

740
00:54:06,966 --> 00:54:08,233
We've sat in focus groups. 
They've been saying 
from the very beginning,

741
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,800
I think it's too old. 
I think he's too old. 
I don't understand why

742
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:17,633
he's doing this. And 
so if you already have 
that in your mind, he's

743
00:54:17,633 --> 00:54:21,733
too old. No matter what 
he's saying. It, it 
has to go through the

744
00:54:21,733 --> 00:54:24,766
filter of can he really 
do it? Is he really 
going to finish so it

745
00:54:24,766 --> 00:54:28,366
doesn't matter what the message 
is. If the messenger isn't to be

746
00:54:28,366 --> 00:54:32,266
ineffective, but going 
to doing the the rent 
control, doing the Supreme

747
00:54:32,266 --> 00:54:36,266
Court stuff that just to 
me reeks of panic because 
the, the progressives

748
00:54:36,266 --> 00:54:38,766
are the people who 
are sticking with them 
they're gonna, we got to

749
00:54:38,766 --> 00:54:42,000
keep these people and 
so they've adopted 
whatever we can do and if

750
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,466
there's ever an idea 
that's to me stale and 
discredited. It's rent

751
00:54:45,466 --> 00:54:49,033
control, but they, 
they've got to keep, 
they've got to keep their

752
00:54:49,033 --> 00:54:49,900
people

753
00:54:51,566 --> 00:54:54,733
On their, on their team, 
so I, I just look at 
that as a last ditch

754
00:54:54,733 --> 00:54:58,833
political none of us want to get 
ahead of where this story is and

755
00:54:58,833 --> 00:55:02,133
you know kind of following 
the reporting as it 
comes out, but you've

756
00:55:02,133 --> 00:55:05,666
covered plenty of conventions 
and campaigns and elections.

757
00:55:07,366 --> 00:55:11,000
This is a unique one 
for a number of reasons. 
Mainly because of this

758
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,133
individual right here 
entering the arena is 
former President Donald

759
00:55:15,133 --> 00:55:19,266
Trump. On the 3rd 
night of the Republican 
convention, a convention

760
00:55:19,266 --> 00:55:23,133
in which he has appeared 
every single night 
tonight walking into

761
00:55:23,133 --> 00:55:28,133
James Brown's, it's a 
man's world. As he makes 
his way to the boxes

762
00:55:29,766 --> 00:55:33,066
he has in previous 
nights where members of 
his family, uh, members

763
00:55:33,066 --> 00:55:36,366
of Congress, his allies. 
Interestingly, we have 
not seen former First

764
00:55:36,366 --> 00:55:40,300
Lady Melania Trump appeared this 
week. She might be here tomorrow

765
00:55:40,300 --> 00:55:44,833
night when former President 
Trump addresses. This 
gathering. So let's

766
00:55:44,833 --> 00:55:47,900
take this in. Let's see, let's 
see uh how the former president.

767
00:55:48,766 --> 00:55:51,500
Reached the crowd this evening.

768
00:56:00,566 --> 00:56:04,966
This is the James Brown 
Pavarotti version of 
It's a man's world.

769
00:56:05,766 --> 00:56:05,900
Yes

770
00:56:09,466 --> 00:56:14,366
He's come out early. 
Yeah, there was some 
scrambling of the schedule.

771
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,766
David Brooks, interesting 
to note each night 
who is seated in that

772
00:56:56,766 --> 00:56:59,966
box. If you take a look 
down the line there, 
there's Texas Governor

773
00:56:59,966 --> 00:57:04,533
Greg Abbott, Florida 
Senator Marco Rubio. I 
noticed Virginia Governor

774
00:57:04,533 --> 00:57:09,100
Glenn Yunkin as well rejects.

775
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:12,666
And I think it's Senator 
Ted Cruz, I think was 
next to Governor Junin,

776
00:57:13,533 --> 00:57:17,266
I think. We're about to see.

777
00:57:19,766 --> 00:57:19,900
It

778
00:57:25,266 --> 00:57:28,600
Take a listen now to our 
next featured speaker 
of the evening, that

779
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:33,033
is Kimberly Guilfoyle, 
the fiancee of Donald 
Trump Jr. as she takes

780
00:57:33,033 --> 00:57:36,033
the stage.

781
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:46,000
Good evening ladies and 
gentlemen. Like you, 
I have spent much of

782
00:57:47,733 --> 00:57:51,966
my time the last few 
days in prayer. And I 
know that God has put

783
00:57:53,133 --> 00:57:56,733
an armor. protection 
over Donald Trump.

784
00:58:02,266 --> 00:58:07,266
We are all reminded 
that love for our nation 
and the beauty of life

785
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:11,833
itself transcends all hatred 
and political divisions.

786
00:58:13,266 --> 00:58:17,000
I stand before you tonight, 
more convinced than ever.

787
00:58:18,433 --> 00:58:22,166
This is the. Most important 
election in our lifetime.

788
00:58:26,900 --> 00:58:31,666
This election will decide 
the fate of our great nation.

789
00:58:33,033 --> 00:58:37,666
And that is why We must 
elect. President Donald Trump.

790
00:58:44,666 --> 00:58:48,200
And we're just going 
to take a short break 
right here for our PBS

791
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,533
stations. We'll be right 
back with continued 
live coverage of the

792
00:58:51,533 --> 00:58:54,533
Republican National 
Convention. Stay with us.

793
00:58:58,733 --> 00:59:02,966
I'm Michael Beschloss, 
presidential historian 
and Newshour contributor.

794
00:59:04,700 --> 00:59:07,833
Republican Convention 
Cleveland 2016. Donald 
Trump was getting up

795
00:59:07,833 --> 00:59:10,966
to give his acceptance 
speech, and a lot of 
people were predicting

796
00:59:10,966 --> 00:59:14,533
that Trump would do 
what most presidential 
nominees do, which is

797
00:59:14,533 --> 00:59:19,033
pivot to the center, become 
more presidential, and 
Donald Trump surprised

798
00:59:19,033 --> 00:59:23,633
many people by doing 
almost exactly the 
opposite. Our convention

799
00:59:23,633 --> 00:59:28,633
occurs at a moment of 
crisis for our nation. 
The attacks on our police

800
00:59:29,566 --> 00:59:32,600
and the terrorism of our cities

801
00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:36,700
threaten our very way of life.

802
00:59:38,166 --> 00:59:42,333
Any politician who does not 
grasp this danger is not fit to

803
00:59:44,500 --> 00:59:49,366
lead our country. All 
this foreshadowed Trump's 
inauguration in which

804
00:59:49,366 --> 00:59:53,100
he talked about American 
carnage. It's a line 
he would give just

805
00:59:53,100 --> 00:59:56,100
as easily in 2020.

806
00:59:59,633 --> 01:00:03,233
Welcome back now to live 
coverage of the Republican 
National Convention.

807
01:00:04,933 --> 01:00:07,100
I'm Amna Nawaz, and I'm 
Jeff Bennett, and we 
are going to take you

808
01:00:07,100 --> 01:00:10,700
back to the convention 
floor where Kimberly 
Guilfoyle is addressing

809
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,900
the crowd. All Joe had to do was 
leave it alone and take a nap.

810
01:00:22,533 --> 01:00:27,533
But Joe just couldn't 
help himself. Joe Biden 
cannot lead America.

811
01:00:30,366 --> 01:00:34,366
He cannot even lead 
himself off a stage.

812
01:00:38,933 --> 01:00:43,700
Now Americans are drowning 
in inflation insanity 
spreads like a cancer

813
01:00:43,700 --> 01:00:48,533
in our schools. We are closer to 
World War II than any time in my

814
01:00:48,533 --> 01:00:53,500
life. And we are 
facing an unprecedented 
invasion of millions of

815
01:00:54,766 --> 01:00:57,133
illegal aliens across 
our southern border.

816
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:04,166
Rioters and looters go 
free. While Biden and 
the Democrats persecute.

817
01:01:07,166 --> 01:01:10,166
heroes like Donald Trump.

818
01:01:14,433 --> 01:01:19,166
tens of millions of 
Americans are made to 
feel like enemies in our

819
01:01:19,166 --> 01:01:24,166
own country. An enemy 
for wanting to defend our 
border for not wanting

820
01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:30,166
our children indoctrinated 
in school for not 
wanting to erase our

821
01:01:31,900 --> 01:01:35,266
history for praying 
to our God saying what 
we think and fighting

822
01:01:36,966 --> 01:01:41,233
for what we believe. 
It is no wonder that 
the heroes who stormed

823
01:01:42,900 --> 01:01:47,366
the beaches of Normandy 
and face down communism, 
sadly say they don't

824
01:01:48,766 --> 01:01:52,466
recognize our country anymore. 
This is not an accident.

825
01:01:54,266 --> 01:01:58,300
The powerful elites in the 
swamp will say anything 
to crush and destroy

826
01:01:59,766 --> 01:02:03,600
the America First movement, 
but we. Well Never give up

827
01:02:04,500 --> 01:02:07,433
They're well Donald J. Trump.

828
01:02:16,966 --> 01:02:21,266
I know I speak for 
patriots everywhere. 
When I say we are fed up.

829
01:02:22,966 --> 01:02:25,900
We are outraged about 
sex trafficking and 
drug trafficking across

830
01:02:25,900 --> 01:02:30,900
our southern border. 
We are fed. With the 
forever wars. We are done

831
01:02:32,666 --> 01:02:35,966
being told by the 
radical left to sit down, 
shut up, and obey. The

832
01:02:35,966 --> 01:02:40,966
Democrat vision for America 
is governed by fear, 
hatred, and oppression.

833
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:47,433
Our vision is defined by 
a love of our country.

834
01:02:48,533 --> 01:02:51,833
Love for Fellow 
citizens and our Love

835
01:02:53,100 --> 01:02:56,066
Freedom.

836
01:03:01,766 --> 01:03:06,766
In our vision we will 
secure the southern border 
and deport the violent

837
01:03:07,966 --> 01:03:10,966
criminal aliens 
once and for all.

838
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,000
In our vision America 
will combat. For 
aggressors and ensure our

839
01:03:26,666 --> 01:03:30,400
service members are 
protected, not abandoned 
as they carry out their

840
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:35,400
dangerous missions 
abroad. Because we

841
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:40,133
We can only have Peace 
through strength.

842
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:50,100
We will restore an 
era of national pride 
where freedom of speech

843
01:03:50,100 --> 01:03:53,833
is respected. And 
cancel culture is ended.

844
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:03,300
Where high school girls 
only compete. Girls not

845
01:04:13,266 --> 01:04:18,266
We're struggling cities 
never put criminal 
illegal aliens above.

846
01:04:19,500 --> 01:04:22,766
Heroic veterans and 
brave law enforcement.

847
01:04:26,833 --> 01:04:31,566
Where our streets are 
not ruled by gangs and 
rioters, but governed

848
01:04:31,566 --> 01:04:36,566
by law and order. Where 
students are freed from 
failing schools and

849
01:04:37,900 --> 01:04:42,200
corrupt teachers unions through 
universal school. Choice

850
01:04:48,433 --> 01:04:52,933
Where our most sacred 
institutions are not 
weaponized against political

851
01:04:52,933 --> 01:04:55,633
opponents but are fair. E

852
01:04:56,333 --> 01:04:57,166
And just

853
01:05:01,300 --> 01:05:06,266
Where we teach our children 
to love our country.

854
01:05:07,166 --> 01:05:10,833
Learn our history. and respect

855
01:05:11,566 --> 01:05:14,566
American flag.

856
01:05:20,166 --> 01:05:21,633
I believe America

857
01:05:22,666 --> 01:05:25,066
I believe Freedom 
and liberty and

858
01:05:25,966 --> 01:05:28,966
Le Donald John Trump.

859
01:05:35,833 --> 01:05:40,833
And I want Joe Biden, 
Kamala Harris, and all 
of the radical Democrats

860
01:05:42,533 --> 01:05:46,400
to know this. We will 
not be bullied into 
obedience. We will not.

861
01:05:47,766 --> 01:05:52,766
and silence we will fight 
for America because we

862
01:05:53,966 --> 01:05:54,733
America

863
01:06:21,766 --> 01:06:26,766
I stand before you as a 
working mother. A former 
prosecutor, a Catholic

864
01:06:28,300 --> 01:06:30,366
and Proud Latina

865
01:06:35,666 --> 01:06:39,733
I know personally what 
every American has now 
seen with their own

866
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,800
eyes. I know the measure 
of the man that stands 
before us. Donald

867
01:06:46,433 --> 01:06:49,600
Trump will never. 
Stop waiting for you.

868
01:06:55,866 --> 01:06:56,933
So join me

869
01:06:58,266 --> 01:07:01,833
And voting for Donald 
Trump for president again.

870
01:07:12,033 --> 01:07:17,033
Victory is in our sights. 
As future is in our 
hands. America's destiny

871
01:07:18,666 --> 01:07:23,666
is in our control. And America's 
prosperity is in our hearts and

872
01:07:25,333 --> 01:07:29,700
souls. America, this 
is your moment. Will 
you stand for President

873
01:07:30,866 --> 01:07:33,866
Trump?

874
01:07:35,266 --> 01:07:35,966
Ladies and gentlemen

875
01:07:36,733 --> 01:07:38,466
Lovers of The Freedom

876
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:44,266
Dream. Last year To make

877
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:45,333
Right

878
01:07:45,966 --> 01:07:47,233
Again, Yeah

879
01:07:49,166 --> 01:07:50,066
President Trump

880
01:07:50,766 --> 01:07:53,766
God bless.

881
01:07:56,466 --> 01:08:00,333
That is Kimberly Guilfoyle 
addressing night 3 of 
the Republican National

882
01:08:00,333 --> 01:08:04,300
Convention. You are 
watching live PBS News 
special coverage of the

883
01:08:04,300 --> 01:08:07,266
Republican National 
Convention. Let's go to our 
White House correspondent

884
01:08:07,266 --> 01:08:11,500
Laura Barone Lopez. Laura, 
as we were discussing 
just a minute ago,

885
01:08:13,033 --> 01:08:15,600
the increasing pressure 
facing President 
Biden, some in private,

886
01:08:17,333 --> 01:08:20,700
some in public for him 
to exit the race past 
the baton, if you will,

887
01:08:22,333 --> 01:08:23,866
walk us through that 
reporting and the impact 
it's having on the

888
01:08:23,866 --> 01:08:27,166
campaign and how the how the 
Biden team is responding. To it.

889
01:08:28,866 --> 01:08:32,600
Yeah, Jeff, all week 
long I've been hearing 
from Democrats that the

890
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:37,533
conversation is not 
over about the Democrats 
telling the president

891
01:08:37,533 --> 01:08:40,733
and talking amongst 
themselves about wanting 
the president to step

892
01:08:40,733 --> 01:08:43,666
aside, to step out of 
the presidential race 
and to have someone else

893
01:08:45,433 --> 01:08:48,133
pick up the baton. So 
despite the fact that 
Biden has been saying

894
01:08:48,133 --> 01:08:52,300
that the decision has 
been made that he is 
in the race. Democrats

895
01:08:52,300 --> 01:08:56,966
are not done having that 
conversation and today 
ABC reported as well

896
01:08:56,966 --> 01:09:01,966
as Politico. That Senator 
Chuck Schumer, the 
majority leader there.

897
01:09:03,733 --> 01:09:06,333
Actually over the 
weekend said to President 
Biden that he thought

898
01:09:06,333 --> 01:09:09,766
it was in the best 
interest of the country 
to step out of the race.

899
01:09:11,433 --> 01:09:13,200
Now, here at News hour, 
we haven't confirmed 
that reporting, but

900
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,800
multiple outlets have 
been reporting that 
and the White House did

901
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,533
send me a statement 
Andrew Bates, spokesperson 
for the White House,

902
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,000
said that the president 
told both leaders, 
told Chuck Schumer and

903
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:26,800
told Hakeem Jeffries 
that he is the nominee 
of the party. He plans

904
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:30,366
to win and that President 
Biden looks forward 
to working with both

905
01:09:30,366 --> 01:09:34,900
of them to pass his 100 
days agenda. To help 
working families. So

906
01:09:34,900 --> 01:09:38,066
a pretty clear statement 
there from the White 
House that matches

907
01:09:38,066 --> 01:09:41,366
what President Biden 
has been saying, which 
is he has no intention

908
01:09:41,366 --> 01:09:45,066
to get out of this race 
right now, Jeff. And 
Laura, what is your

909
01:09:45,066 --> 01:09:47,900
reporting also show about 
this other big piece 
of news we heard about

910
01:09:47,900 --> 01:09:51,366
the president and 
his health today that 
positive COVID diagnosis

911
01:09:51,366 --> 01:09:55,500
that has forced him 
into self-isolation in 
his Delaware home for

912
01:09:55,500 --> 01:10:00,100
a few days at the very 
least we know he was just 
sort of on a campaigning

913
01:10:00,100 --> 01:10:04,366
tear in particular reaching 
out to black voters 
to try to build some

914
01:10:04,366 --> 01:10:08,366
enthusiasm among 
this core part of the 
Democratic base. He had to

915
01:10:08,366 --> 01:10:12,400
cancel the speaking 
engagement to a major 
Latino advocacy and civil

916
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:15,800
rights group today. What kind of 
impact is his diagnosis going to

917
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:19,066
have on the days ahead? 
What does it mean for 
Vice President Harris

918
01:10:19,066 --> 01:10:23,366
and other surrogates 
out there. It could 
potentially lead to more

919
01:10:23,366 --> 01:10:27,266
Democrats coming out 
saying that he needs to 
step aside, Ana, because

920
01:10:27,266 --> 01:10:31,133
of the fact that so 
many Democrats have 
said publicly, privately

921
01:10:31,133 --> 01:10:34,700
that one of their 
biggest concerns is that 
President Biden is not

922
01:10:34,700 --> 01:10:39,233
up to the task of 
campaigning, of actually 
effectively telling the

923
01:10:39,233 --> 01:10:43,333
public the message 
that so many Democrats 
down ballot are running

924
01:10:43,333 --> 01:10:46,600
on. They say that the 
problem isn't the message 
in the president's

925
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,933
record as so much 
as the messenger

926
01:10:50,633 --> 01:10:53,800
himself. And so the fact 
that President Biden 
is now going to have

927
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:58,200
to be taken off the 
campaign trail. He's 
in Rehoboth at his home

928
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,900
there in Delaware, and he wasn't 
able to finish all of his events

929
01:11:01,900 --> 01:11:05,866
in Nevada is going to 
be a troubling sign to 
a number of Democrats,

930
01:11:07,566 --> 01:11:10,600
especially as they come 
back next week to DC, 
uh, and we may hear

931
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,900
from more of them that 
they want him to step 
aside because they had

932
01:11:13,900 --> 01:11:17,466
wanted President Biden 
to show after that 
debate performance that

933
01:11:17,466 --> 01:11:22,466
he could maintain a 
really strenuous, rigorous 
campaign. Schedule

934
01:11:24,333 --> 01:11:26,966
potentially holding multiple 
events a day. And with 
this COVID diagnosis,

935
01:11:28,700 --> 01:11:31,066
that's gonna make it 
harder for him in this 
really crucial moment

936
01:11:31,066 --> 01:11:34,300
at this crucial period 
to convince Democrats 
that he's up to the

937
01:11:34,300 --> 01:11:38,700
task. And as we've been 
discussing, it's been 
those progressive Democrats

938
01:11:38,700 --> 01:11:42,166
who have been President 
Biden's harbor in the 
storm. Senator Bernie

939
01:11:42,166 --> 01:11:46,633
Sanders, Congresswoman 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 
and President Biden

940
01:11:46,633 --> 01:11:50,400
has responded by embracing 
many of their causes, 
you know, walk us

941
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:53,866
through that your report. 
On, on, on why they 
feel at this moment

942
01:11:53,866 --> 01:11:57,266
they can really lobby 
him to support things 
like rent control and

943
01:11:57,266 --> 01:12:02,233
court reform and debt 
erasure and how he's 
able to use their support

944
01:12:04,100 --> 01:12:07,300
to stay in this race. Just 
this week, Jeff, President 
Biden was unveiling

945
01:12:08,766 --> 01:12:12,100
a bit more of his 100 days. What 
he would do if he were reelected

946
01:12:12,100 --> 01:12:16,200
and had another 4 years 
in office and a lot 
of that is coming from

947
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:20,566
the fact that he, during 
his entire presidency 
has really had an

948
01:12:20,566 --> 01:12:25,566
open door policy for 
progressives. His prior 
chief of staff Ron Klain

949
01:12:27,433 --> 01:12:29,366
really did a lot of work to 
build up that relationship 
with progressives,

950
01:12:31,100 --> 01:12:33,500
be it Bernie Sanders, 
be it Congresswoman 
Acasio-Cortez or other

951
01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:37,766
progressives. Across 
Congress and so this 
week he talked about how

952
01:12:37,766 --> 01:12:42,766
he, if he were reelected, 
would institute a 
cap on rent, a 5% cap

953
01:12:44,433 --> 01:12:47,500
on rent for apartments, 
and that's something 
that he hadn't unveiled

954
01:12:47,500 --> 01:12:51,433
before. He also has 
talked about eliminating 
medical debt for people.

955
01:12:53,233 --> 01:12:55,066
That's something that 
came from the progressive 
wing of Democrats

956
01:12:55,066 --> 01:12:59,833
and some sources have 
told me that yes, he 
is potentially in the

957
01:13:01,566 --> 01:13:05,100
coming weeks, wants to 
unveil a plan to reform 
the Supreme Court,

958
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,166
and that would include 
term limits for the 
Supreme Court. It could

959
01:13:09,166 --> 01:13:10,500
also include

960
01:13:12,300 --> 01:13:14,666
what he hopes would 
be legislation that he 
could pass with Democrats

961
01:13:14,666 --> 01:13:19,666
in Congress to limit 
the scope of immunity 
for presidents and for

962
01:13:21,366 --> 01:13:25,100
judges and justices. So 
that's something that 
he is considering right

963
01:13:26,766 --> 01:13:29,433
now a big endorsement 
of that type of reform. 
Uh, my source told

964
01:13:29,433 --> 01:13:34,400
me that he was potentially going 
to unveil that earlier this. We

965
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:38,800
when he was scheduled to 
go to the LBJ Presidential 
Library for the

966
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:42,366
anniversary of the Civil 
Rights Act, but that 
event, as you know,

967
01:13:44,100 --> 01:13:45,866
had to be canceled because 
of the assassination 
attempt on Donald

968
01:13:45,866 --> 01:13:49,866
Trump. Hey Laura, how 
much is what's happening 
in this room behind

969
01:13:49,866 --> 01:13:54,600
us informing the 
conversation among Democrats 
as well at this moment

970
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:58,466
around this issue and what we've 
seen in the last 3 days of this

971
01:13:58,466 --> 01:14:03,433
Republican National 
Convention is a unified 
Republican Party around

972
01:14:05,233 --> 01:14:07,800
this Trump van ticket. 
We have no idea how some 
of the policy differences

973
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:11,266
will be coming together 
later, but right now 
this is a party in which

974
01:14:11,266 --> 01:14:15,000
all of Mr. Trump's former rivals 
have come together to back him.

975
01:14:16,666 --> 01:14:18,733
How much is this? a 
force in forming the 
Democrats' conversation

976
01:14:18,733 --> 01:14:22,266
around their ticket right 
now. Well, it depends 
on if you're talking

977
01:14:22,266 --> 01:14:26,033
to President Biden's 
campaign or if you're 
talking to other Democrats

978
01:14:26,033 --> 01:14:30,666
across the party, right, 
because of the really 
big family conversation

979
01:14:30,666 --> 01:14:33,666
that they're having right 
now. President Biden's 
campaign says that

980
01:14:33,666 --> 01:14:37,300
what they're hearing at 
the Republican National 
Convention is stuff

981
01:14:37,300 --> 01:14:39,633
that uh they that gives them

982
01:14:41,333 --> 01:14:43,600
a lot to work with, 
essentially that they 
are going to continue to

983
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:47,533
be able to attack 
Republicans on Trump's 
second term plans, whether,

984
01:14:49,300 --> 01:14:52,566
whether it's about 
immigration, about mass 
deportation. of of migrants,

985
01:14:54,233 --> 01:14:56,700
um, the fact that 
Republicans are really 
leaning into conspiracy

986
01:14:56,700 --> 01:15:01,633
theories about non-citizens 
voting in droves and 
in massive numbers

987
01:15:01,633 --> 01:15:05,600
which the data and the 
evidence doesn't show 
that. They also feel

988
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:09,066
as though the President 
Biden's campaign, as 
though they can definitely

989
01:15:09,066 --> 01:15:13,733
go on the attack on 
abortion and especially 
when it comes to Trump's

990
01:15:13,733 --> 01:15:18,266
vice presidential pick 
JD Vance, who has had 
some pretty restrictive

991
01:15:18,266 --> 01:15:22,066
positions when it comes 
to abortion. So That's 
from President Biden's

992
01:15:22,066 --> 01:15:25,166
campaign, but when you 
talk to other Democrats, 
whether it's lawmakers

993
01:15:25,166 --> 01:15:30,166
in Congress, donors, 
party operatives, you 
know, they feel as though

994
01:15:31,866 --> 01:15:34,000
President Biden himself 
and his campaign is 
not necessarily up to

995
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:38,666
the task of effectively 
messaging to the public, 
all of those things

996
01:15:38,666 --> 01:15:42,000
that I just talked 
about, whether it's 
abortion, whether it's uh

997
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:45,933
what they say is 
Republican extremism when 
it comes to wanting to,

998
01:15:47,633 --> 01:15:51,033
uh, you know, uh, push 
forward anti-democratic. 
norms and so that's

999
01:15:52,700 --> 01:15:54,766
something that Democrats 
feel as though they 
don't have the strongest

1000
01:15:54,766 --> 01:15:58,166
messenger on, and 
they're worried that 
because they don't have a

1001
01:15:58,166 --> 01:16:01,633
strong person at the top of the 
ticket, that it could eventually

1002
01:16:01,633 --> 01:16:06,333
impact them down ballot 
in other races. Lar Baron 
Lopez. Laura, thanks

1003
01:16:06,333 --> 01:16:09,433
as always for your 
terrific reporting. We 
appreciate it. Thank you.

1004
01:16:11,166 --> 01:16:12,700
And let's go back now 
down to the convention 
floor. Our political

1005
01:16:12,700 --> 01:16:16,166
correspondent Lisa Desjardins is 
there with a delegate. Lisa, who

1006
01:16:16,166 --> 01:16:19,500
are you with? Hi Jeff 
and I'm, I'm with Lauren 
Martel, but I have

1007
01:16:19,500 --> 01:16:22,366
to tell you they just 
began a presentation 
for Gold Star family,

1008
01:16:24,100 --> 01:16:25,500
so I think Ms. Martel 
doesn't want to talk to 
me. So let me instead

1009
01:16:25,500 --> 01:16:27,366
tell you some of my 
reporting uh if we're gonna

1010
01:16:29,066 --> 01:16:32,966
move around here, Jim, 
with the camera, um. 
Tonight's theme is Make

1011
01:16:34,700 --> 01:16:37,066
America strong again, 
and this is part of it 
talking about Gold Star

1012
01:16:37,066 --> 01:16:41,000
families, military 
families. I was in South 
Carolina to talk about

1013
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,433
that because we know 
there are a lot of 
military veterans in South

1014
01:16:43,433 --> 01:16:47,633
Carolina, you know, 
just a few minutes ago I 
talked to South Carolina's

1015
01:16:47,633 --> 01:16:51,200
governor Henry McMaster. 
He's someone I've 
known a long time, uh,

1016
01:16:52,900 --> 01:16:54,200
a lot of folks know 
that I, I was a reporter 
in South Carolina. Uh,

1017
01:16:55,900 --> 01:16:58,433
he's been a politician 
in that state for 40 
years, depending on how

1018
01:16:58,433 --> 01:17:02,866
you count, and I asked him 
about vice presidential 
nominee. JD Vance,

1019
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:06,400
and he said, to be 
honest, I don't know him. 
I don't think I've ever

1020
01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:10,366
met him. This is the 
end of a longtime 
Republican operative in a

1021
01:17:10,366 --> 01:17:14,533
key state of South 
Carolina who hasn't met 
the new vice presidential

1022
01:17:14,533 --> 01:17:18,100
nominee, but he said 
right away, it doesn't 
matter to me, you know,

1023
01:17:19,833 --> 01:17:22,466
as long as Trump likes 
him, I like him too, 
but it just shows that

1024
01:17:22,466 --> 01:17:26,366
as JD Vance takes the 
stage later tonight, uh, 
that these delegates,

1025
01:17:28,066 --> 01:17:30,166
they're not really quite 
sure who he is. A lot 
of them do know that

1026
01:17:30,166 --> 01:17:33,766
he was once a very sharp. 
Critic of Trump. I think 
he's got to convince

1027
01:17:33,766 --> 01:17:36,600
him that he's all the way 
on board. This is a group 
that's very protective,

1028
01:17:38,300 --> 01:17:40,433
especially now after the 
assassination attempt 
on Donald Trump. So

1029
01:17:40,433 --> 01:17:43,566
I think South Carolina, 
I'm hoping to take 
some temperatures here

1030
01:17:43,566 --> 01:17:47,700
beyond just their governor, 
uh, on, on what they 
think about Senator,

1031
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:52,866
uh, becoming their vice 
presidential nominee. 
Ana Lisa, we know you've

1032
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:56,966
been spending time with 
delegates, folks from 
all around the country

1033
01:17:56,966 --> 01:18:00,500
down there on the 
floor as this night's 
speeches have unfolded as

1034
01:18:00,500 --> 01:18:04,966
you have every We've noticed up 
here kind of a change in tone as

1035
01:18:04,966 --> 01:18:08,666
we've shifted to these 
issues of immigration 
and foreign intervention

1036
01:18:08,666 --> 01:18:12,633
and safety and so on. 
I wonder how a lot of 
those messages we're

1037
01:18:12,633 --> 01:18:16,200
hearing up here are 
resonating with delegates 
down on the ground.

1038
01:18:17,933 --> 01:18:18,966
What do they have to 
say about what they've 
heard so far tonight?

1039
01:18:20,666 --> 01:18:22,366
Well, you know, one of 
the questions I have 
right now for Lauren

1040
01:18:22,366 --> 01:18:25,033
was about, I have heard 
more of the fight, 
fight, fight chant, and

1041
01:18:25,033 --> 01:18:27,666
I'm really interested 
in what that means to 
these delegates. What

1042
01:18:27,666 --> 01:18:29,833
are they saying when 
they say fight? I mean, 
obviously it's something

1043
01:18:29,833 --> 01:18:32,833
that a former president.

1044
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:52,000
harm Americans who are 
they targeting, who 
are they fearful of in

1045
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:55,566
this speech. I do also 
sense that change in 
rhetoric tonight and

1046
01:18:55,566 --> 01:18:57,933
I, I need to talk to 
some more delegates about 
it, but I think you're

1047
01:18:57,933 --> 01:19:01,666
on the right track for 
questions I have as 
well. Lisa Desjardin down

1048
01:19:01,666 --> 01:19:04,400
on the convention floor 
for us. Lisa, thank 
you. We'll check back

1049
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,766
in with you shortly. 
Back up here, of course, 
we have our panel with

1050
01:19:07,766 --> 01:19:11,766
us all night, Amy 
Walter, David Brooks, and 
Jonathan Capar. Jonathan,

1051
01:19:13,466 --> 01:19:15,366
we watched Kimberly 
Guilfoyle there, who was 
another family member

1052
01:19:15,366 --> 01:19:19,166
of the Trump family to 
speak. I it was a sharp 
contrast between what

1053
01:19:19,166 --> 01:19:23,900
we heard from Laura 
Trump last night a very 
personal sort of reflective

1054
01:19:23,900 --> 01:19:28,366
here is the man I know 
behind the scenes, many 
of you may not know.

1055
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:31,833
That's not what we heard 
from Kimberly Guilfoyle 
today. No, it was

1056
01:19:31,833 --> 01:19:35,033
a it was a repeat 
performance of what she did 
in 2020. You may recall

1057
01:19:35,033 --> 01:19:40,033
the Republican convention 
was held at the White 
House and her when

1058
01:19:41,700 --> 01:19:44,033
she spoke, the big 
thing about her speech 
was the ending when she

1059
01:19:45,766 --> 01:19:49,333
yelled out the best is 
yet to come, you know, 
very theatrical, but

1060
01:19:51,033 --> 01:19:54,833
you know she was on 
attack, um, and a lot 
of her, you know, we are

1061
01:19:56,600 --> 01:19:59,100
fed up, um, we are 
done being told by the 
radical left to sit down,

1062
01:20:00,833 --> 01:20:04,100
shut up, and obey. Um, 
there are, you know, 
uh, deport the violent

1063
01:20:05,766 --> 01:20:08,833
criminal aliens once 
and for all. I mean, 
we've talked about this

1064
01:20:08,833 --> 01:20:13,833
since day one. The 
unit, the unity vision 
that we were that they

1065
01:20:15,533 --> 01:20:18,133
were talking about this 
convention being in 
the aftermath. Of the

1066
01:20:18,133 --> 01:20:23,133
assassination attempt 
of Donald Trump would 
give way to this, the

1067
01:20:24,866 --> 01:20:27,600
closer we got to the 
big moment and that is 
Donald Trump's speech

1068
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:31,500
and you know we started 
seeing it last night 
and we saw it with Peter

1069
01:20:31,500 --> 01:20:36,500
Navarro today is we've 
seen it with with 
Kimberly Guilfoyle and so

1070
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:40,666
I just think it's gonna, 
it's gonna amp up the 
the later this night

1071
01:20:40,666 --> 01:20:45,633
goes and into tomorrow. 
And Amy, with, with 
both campaigns, excuse

1072
01:20:47,366 --> 01:20:50,066
me, eyeing the rust 
belt as they. Make their 
path to 270 electoral

1073
01:20:50,066 --> 01:20:55,066
votes, that kind of messaging, I 
mean, does that reach the, to be

1074
01:20:55,066 --> 01:21:00,100
specific, the white, 
the white working class 
voter who for generations

1075
01:21:01,766 --> 01:21:03,566
had voted for Democrats, 
but more recently 
voted for Donald Trump

1076
01:21:03,566 --> 01:21:06,600
or would be more inclined 
to vote for a Republican 
like Donald Trump.

1077
01:21:08,333 --> 01:21:11,166
Yeah, so I mean, this 
is always your challenge 
in a campaign. You've

1078
01:21:11,166 --> 01:21:14,500
got to keep your base 
energized while you're 
at the same time trying

1079
01:21:14,500 --> 01:21:18,600
to bring the new people in, the 
swing voters in, and what. Makes

1080
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:23,600
the Trump campaign so 
strong is and we see 
it in this hall, we've

1081
01:21:25,366 --> 01:21:27,333
seen it for the last 4 
days. We've seen it in 
the last 2 campaigns.

1082
01:21:29,100 --> 01:21:32,500
He has a much closer 
relationships, more 
enthusiastic relationship

1083
01:21:34,166 --> 01:21:36,933
with his voters than 
Joe Biden does. Many 
of the people who voted

1084
01:21:36,933 --> 01:21:40,933
for Joe Biden in 2020 
did it not because of 
Joe Biden, but because

1085
01:21:40,933 --> 01:21:43,766
they were doing it to 
protest Donald Trump. 
They didn't want Donald

1086
01:21:43,766 --> 01:21:47,533
Trump to win. That's 
very different from this 
space, but you've got

1087
01:21:47,533 --> 01:21:52,500
to keep them engaged. 
The more if if Donald 
Trump does do a 3, 180

1088
01:21:54,700 --> 01:21:59,333
and start talking like 
a swing voter focus 
group those folks are

1089
01:21:59,333 --> 01:22:03,233
gonna feel like they're kind of 
left out. What gets them engaged

1090
01:22:03,233 --> 01:22:07,966
and energized is the 
kind of appeals that 
we've been hearing from

1091
01:22:07,966 --> 01:22:11,533
some of these voters. 
One thing that I thought 
was really interesting

1092
01:22:11,533 --> 01:22:12,400
today about

1093
01:22:14,066 --> 01:22:17,966
Our interview with Trump 
uh Trump's pollster 
Tony Fabrizio, as he

1094
01:22:17,966 --> 01:22:22,966
said, you know, what, what Vance 
does for the ticket is, yes, he

1095
01:22:24,733 --> 01:22:27,600
agreed that the Rust 
Belt is where he's really 
strong. We're going

1096
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:31,933
to put him everywhere 
in the Rust Belt, every 
one of those states,

1097
01:22:33,633 --> 01:22:37,100
Pennsylvania, Michigan, 
um, which allows and 
uh and uh. Wisconsin,

1098
01:22:39,533 --> 01:22:44,533
which allows Trump to 
go campaign in places 
that are kind of rich

1099
01:22:46,266 --> 01:22:50,200
states, Minnesota, New 
Hampshire, Virginia 
states that were once

1100
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:53,733
thought of as off the 
map. The other thing 
though that I thought

1101
01:22:53,733 --> 01:22:57,566
was really interesting 
was the choice of where 
their first campaign

1102
01:22:57,566 --> 01:23:02,200
stop is as a ticket, Grand 
Rapids, Michigan. Now 
Grand Rapids, Michigan

1103
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:07,200
is the kind of place 
that in 20004 George W. 
Bush won it with like

1104
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:12,300
60%. This is Gerald Ford's 
backyard, literally, it 
was his congressional

1105
01:23:14,066 --> 01:23:17,333
district. In the Trump 
era it has shifted 
pretty significantly over

1106
01:23:17,333 --> 01:23:22,200
the Democrats, not 
only did Biden win the 
Grand Rapids area, but

1107
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:26,600
it has a Democratic 
congresswoman. That 
Democratic congresswoman

1108
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:29,200
has come out publicly, 
Hillary Skolton against

1109
01:23:30,933 --> 01:23:34,766
Biden running again. 
She has said, I want 
him to drop out and it's

1110
01:23:34,766 --> 01:23:39,233
the kind of place where 
again you would think, 
boy, this is going

1111
01:23:39,233 --> 01:23:42,800
to be a tough place for 
Donald Trump, right? 
These are the newly

1112
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:46,533
engaged anti-Trump 
voters, but the fact 
that they're choosing to

1113
01:23:46,533 --> 01:23:50,900
go there, I think tells us 
that they are looking at

1114
01:23:52,166 --> 01:23:54,800
this as sort of a 
checkmate because if, if.

1115
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,066
Biden can't win in that 
region, in Kent County.

1116
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:03,400
He doesn't win Michigan. 
So instead of going, 
you know, you would

1117
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:06,466
think based on everything 
we were just talking 
about about red meat

1118
01:24:06,466 --> 01:24:09,700
and going to the base. They 
could have ended up in.

1119
01:24:11,466 --> 01:24:14,400
a really red part of 
Michigan as their kickoff, 
but they went right

1120
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:19,400
into this they're 
going to the swingiest, 
most critical part for

1121
01:24:21,100 --> 01:24:23,500
Democrats, and I think 
that tells you a lot 
about what role they

1122
01:24:23,500 --> 01:24:26,033
see fans playing in those

1123
01:24:27,500 --> 01:24:30,366
swing, uh, Upper Midwest states. 
I just want to take a moment and

1124
01:24:30,366 --> 01:24:33,966
note we're now hearing 
from Gold Star families. 
It's been a change

1125
01:24:33,966 --> 01:24:37,500
in tone here right now. We know 
Republican officials have wanted

1126
01:24:37,500 --> 01:24:40,966
to highlight the voices of 
what they call everyday. 
Americans, people

1127
01:24:40,966 --> 01:24:44,100
staring, sharing their 
individual stories, 
and right now there are

1128
01:24:44,100 --> 01:24:47,466
Gold Star families 
speaking at this stage. 
Let's just take a listen

1129
01:24:47,466 --> 01:24:50,466
in to some of those 
remarks right now with me.

1130
01:24:56,966 --> 01:24:59,966
Yeah.

1131
01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:09,366
And for the first time 
since Nicole's death, 
I felt I wasn't alone

1132
01:25:09,366 --> 01:25:12,366
in my grief.

1133
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,000
Thank you.

1134
01:25:23,266 --> 01:25:27,433
I had expected to meet 
an arrogant politician.

1135
01:25:29,133 --> 01:25:33,166
Instead, I met a man 
who had empathy for us. 
He was compassionate.

1136
01:25:35,500 --> 01:25:40,500
And he spent time with 
us. Because he knew 
it would make us feel

1137
01:25:41,533 --> 01:25:44,400
better. Thank you 
President Trump.

1138
01:25:58,300 --> 01:26:03,300
I'm Cheryl Jos, Nicole's 
aunt. Joe Biden said 
the withdrawal from

1139
01:26:04,500 --> 01:26:06,833
Afghanistan was an 
extraordinary success.

1140
01:26:11,433 --> 01:26:15,533
An extraordinary success. 
Look at our faces.

1141
01:26:16,966 --> 01:26:20,533
Look at our pain. 
And our heartbreak

1142
01:26:22,066 --> 01:26:26,666
And look at our rage. That was 
not an extraordinary success.

1143
01:26:28,366 --> 01:26:32,466
The humiliation of 
our nation was not an 
extraordinary success.

1144
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:45,800
Joe Biden may have 
forgotten that our 
children died, but we have

1145
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:49,566
not forgotten. Donald 
Trump has not forgotten.

1146
01:27:18,133 --> 01:27:22,566
Joe Biden owes the men 
and women that served 
in Afghanistan a debt

1147
01:27:22,566 --> 01:27:23,633
of gratitude and

1148
01:27:24,233 --> 01:27:28,133
an apology. Yeah

1149
01:27:35,233 --> 01:27:38,433
Donald Trump loves his 
country and will never 
forget the sacrifice

1150
01:27:38,433 --> 01:27:42,733
and bravery of our 
service members. Join us 
in putting him back in

1151
01:27:42,733 --> 01:27:45,733
the White House.

1152
01:27:57,100 --> 01:28:00,600
I'm Alicia Lopez and this 
is my husband, Herman.

1153
01:28:02,300 --> 01:28:07,033
Our son Corporal Hunter 
Lopez. Whose name Joe 
Biden has refused to

1154
01:28:08,233 --> 01:28:12,433
say out loud. was killed 
on August 26, 2021.

1155
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,966
He died during Joe Biden's 
disastrous withdrawal 
from Afghanistan.

1156
01:28:20,100 --> 01:28:25,100
Hunter was 22 years old. And 
plan to come home to California.

1157
01:28:26,433 --> 01:28:29,733
After his tour to 
follow in our footsteps.

1158
01:28:31,033 --> 01:28:32,133
Herman and I

1159
01:28:33,533 --> 01:28:36,166
Work for the Riverside 
County Sheriff's Office. Yeah

1160
01:28:46,066 --> 01:28:51,066
And our family has a tradition. 
Of service in law enforcement.

1161
01:29:00,233 --> 01:29:04,933
Hunter was excited to 
carry it on. Instead

1162
01:29:06,266 --> 01:29:08,866
In the nearly 3 years 
since Hunter's been gone.

1163
01:29:10,533 --> 01:29:14,300
There has been silence. 
Silence from that empty 
space at the dinner

1164
01:29:14,300 --> 01:29:19,300
table? Where Hunter 
would have joined his 
brothers and sister and

1165
01:29:21,366 --> 01:29:26,366
us for family gatherings. And 
there has been a deafening.

1166
01:29:27,700 --> 01:29:30,400
Silence from the Biden 
and Harris administration.

1167
01:29:36,633 --> 01:29:41,633
Despite our pleas for 
answers and accountability 
they have pushed

1168
01:29:42,500 --> 01:29:45,500
us away. And try to silence us.

1169
01:29:47,033 --> 01:29:51,933
The Biden administration has not 
owned up to the bad decisions.

1170
01:29:53,333 --> 01:29:56,466
They have not been transparent 
about their failures.

1171
01:29:58,133 --> 01:30:02,300
And their so-called 
leaders work to protect 
themselves. Rather than

1172
01:30:03,766 --> 01:30:06,933
our sons and daughters who took 
the oath to defend our country.

1173
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:22,333
Thank you. When Hunter 
and the other service 
members' bodies were

1174
01:30:22,333 --> 01:30:26,200
returned to the US in 
Dover, Delaware. Joe 
Biden met the plane.

1175
01:30:27,866 --> 01:30:31,166
But he made the occasion 
more about his son. 
Loss of cancer than

1176
01:30:31,166 --> 01:30:35,800
our sons and daughters 
lost on his watch. 
Worse than that, he has

1177
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:40,500
never said their names 
out loud. And during 
and during last month's

1178
01:30:40,500 --> 01:30:45,466
debate. He claimed no 
service members. have died 
during his administration.

1179
01:30:51,100 --> 01:30:51,766
None

1180
01:30:53,500 --> 01:30:57,400
That hurt us all deeply. 
So Alicia and I are 
here to say the names

1181
01:30:57,400 --> 01:31:00,900
of all 13 service members. 
Who lost their lives.

1182
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:17,000
All 13 service members who lost 
their lives at Abbey Gate. David

1183
01:31:17,566 --> 01:31:20,566
Espinoza.

1184
01:31:26,633 --> 01:31:29,633
And the goal G.

1185
01:31:34,666 --> 01:31:37,666
Taylor Hoover.

1186
01:31:42,600 --> 01:31:45,600
Ryan C. Canals.

1187
01:31:50,133 --> 01:31:53,100
Riley McCollum.

1188
01:31:57,566 --> 01:32:00,566
Dylan Morola.

1189
01:32:04,133 --> 01:32:07,133
Karem Nui.

1190
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:13,400
Digging page.

1191
01:32:17,366 --> 01:32:20,366
Johani Pardo.

1192
01:32:24,733 --> 01:32:27,733
Humberto Sanchez.

1193
01:32:33,133 --> 01:32:36,133
Jared Schmitz.

1194
01:32:39,633 --> 01:32:42,633
Maxine Sylvia.

1195
01:32:44,566 --> 01:32:47,566
And my son Hunter Lopez.

1196
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:32,400
Joe Biden has to go. He 
failed the American people.

1197
01:33:35,233 --> 01:33:40,233
He failed the Afghan people. And 
our military service members. He

1198
01:33:41,900 --> 01:33:45,700
failed our family. And 
he failed hunter. Donald 
Trump has a proven

1199
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,600
record of keeping the peace. 
And honoring those in uniform.

1200
01:34:18,033 --> 01:34:23,033
All of us on this stage 
recognize. The efforts 
of Mr. Trump. We know

1201
01:34:24,733 --> 01:34:28,433
this firsthand. We've 
experienced it. Whenever 
we've met with him,

1202
01:34:30,233 --> 01:34:32,966
he has demonstrated 
compassion. He has joined 
us on our mission for

1203
01:34:32,966 --> 01:34:37,700
answers. And he has given 
hope to our extended 
Gold Star family.

1204
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:53,200
Now we have another son. 
Serving in the army.

1205
01:35:01,266 --> 01:35:04,733
And we do not trust Joe 
Biden with his life.

1206
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:12,633
We have faith that Donald 
Trump To lead our military.

1207
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:18,533
Please join us in 
supporting Donald Trump for 
president and commander

1208
01:35:18,533 --> 01:35:21,533
in chief.

1209
01:36:02,133 --> 01:36:05,966
While campuses struggle 
to get control of their 
students at UNC Chapel

1210
01:36:05,966 --> 01:36:09,700
Hill, they are bringing 
order back. Students 
restoring the American

1211
01:36:09,700 --> 01:36:12,700
flag and singing 
the national anthem.

1212
01:36:17,033 --> 01:36:21,600
And there you were just 
hearing from some Gold 
Star families, powerful

1213
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:25,266
testimony from those 
who've suffered devastating 
loss of their loved

1214
01:36:25,266 --> 01:36:29,433
ones service members, 
including the 13 US 
service members who were

1215
01:36:29,433 --> 01:36:33,300
killed, the Abbey Gate, 
Kabul International 
Airport during the US

1216
01:36:33,300 --> 01:36:37,433
withdrawal from 
Afghanistan incredibly 
emotional moments here at

1217
01:36:37,433 --> 01:36:41,033
the Republican National 
Convention. You're 
watching live coverage

1218
01:36:41,033 --> 01:36:45,533
on PBS News. We're 
joined up here in our 
PBS News booth right now

1219
01:36:45,533 --> 01:36:50,433
by Captain Sam. Brown, he 
is a US Senate candidate 
in Nevada running

1220
01:36:50,433 --> 01:36:53,866
against the incumbent 
Democrat Jackie Rosen. 
Captain Brown, welcome.

1221
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:57,400
Thanks for joining us 
here. Thank you. It's 
good to be here with

1222
01:36:57,400 --> 01:37:01,033
you. So you served in 
Afghanistan. You were 
injured during your time

1223
01:37:02,700 --> 01:37:04,933
in your service there 
in 2008. You heard 
what these families had

1224
01:37:04,933 --> 01:37:08,833
to say. We know we're going 
to hear a little later 
from vice presidential

1225
01:37:08,833 --> 01:37:13,066
nominee JD Vance, who 
talks about how his 
service informed how he

1226
01:37:13,066 --> 01:37:17,633
views foreign policy. Do 
you agree with him in the 
way that he articulated

1227
01:37:17,633 --> 01:37:22,633
his views so far. No, I 
don't know exactly what 
all of um JD Vance's

1228
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:28,733
positions are, but I 
can tell you what I see 
out of President Trump,

1229
01:37:30,466 --> 01:37:34,200
his record as president 
and what I believe is 
that the United States

1230
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:39,200
of America needs to be 
a leader. In the free 
world and that we achieve

1231
01:37:40,666 --> 01:37:44,033
peace through strength. And One 
of the really important messages

1232
01:37:44,033 --> 01:37:47,066
that we just heard from Mr. 
Lopez, a Gold Star father,

1233
01:37:48,533 --> 01:37:52,933
um, regarding his son Hunter and 
families to service members hope

1234
01:37:54,733 --> 01:37:57,333
to see out of their 
commander in chief is 
someone who has compassion

1235
01:37:57,333 --> 01:38:02,333
and also gives hope. And I think 
that's an important quality that

1236
01:38:02,333 --> 01:38:05,733
is sometimes over uh overlooked.

1237
01:38:07,200 --> 01:38:09,833
You feel like your time and your 
service overseas helped to shape

1238
01:38:09,833 --> 01:38:12,700
your worldview and 
what you think American 
policy should be right

1239
01:38:12,700 --> 01:38:17,700
now? Absolutely. Tell 
us about that what I saw 
and what I experienced

1240
01:38:19,500 --> 01:38:22,733
was um as part of our 
mission was to serve and 
help the Afghan government

1241
01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:28,200
stand up and provide. You know, 
basic in the United States terms

1242
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:33,200
very basic services. 
Very advanced services in 
particular. The mission

1243
01:38:34,866 --> 01:38:39,633
that I was wounded on, 
we're providing security 
as allied forces,

1244
01:38:41,266 --> 01:38:43,700
ISAF forces were moving 
a turbine to the Helmand 
River to a dam to

1245
01:38:43,700 --> 01:38:48,700
provide power for all 
of southern Afghanistan 
this is something that

1246
01:38:48,700 --> 01:38:53,500
would help the economy. 
It would help businesses 
bring electricity

1247
01:38:53,500 --> 01:38:57,966
to schools. Undoubtedly 
could help and I think 
Americans are very

1248
01:38:59,433 --> 01:39:03,200
Very compassionate. They want to 
see. The world be better. Also,

1249
01:39:04,933 --> 01:39:09,933
as the world is uplifted 
economically and human 
rights are respected.

1250
01:39:11,733 --> 01:39:14,733
We also see more freedom. 
We should note that 
we are competing with

1251
01:39:14,733 --> 01:39:17,600
a lot of background noise 
here, Captain Brown, 
if you wouldn't mind,

1252
01:39:19,166 --> 01:39:20,600
sir, moving your 
microphone up your lapel 
just a bit more so our

1253
01:39:22,333 --> 01:39:23,500
our audience at home 
can hear you a bit 
better. Is that OK there?

1254
01:39:25,266 --> 01:39:27,333
Absolutely. Thank you, 
sir. Thank you. I have 
to say all that again?

1255
01:39:29,066 --> 01:39:32,433
No, on the, on the 
specific issue of Ukraine 
as we talk about foreign

1256
01:39:34,233 --> 01:39:38,333
policy. JD Vance has been 
one of the most vocal 
critics of continued

1257
01:39:38,333 --> 01:39:42,300
US support for Ukraine. 
He said, I don't really 
care one way or another

1258
01:39:42,300 --> 01:39:45,966
what happens in Ukraine 
and in many ways this 
isn't a partisan issue.

1259
01:39:47,666 --> 01:39:49,533
There are Democrats and 
Republicans who have 
said that Russia's war

1260
01:39:49,533 --> 01:39:53,500
in Ukraine threaten 
small de democracy around 
the globe. How do you

1261
01:39:53,500 --> 01:39:58,500
see it? Well, I, I think 
that. This is one of 
those issues that is

1262
01:40:00,266 --> 01:40:02,466
unfortunately just boiled 
down to, you know, a 
headline, right, but

1263
01:40:03,566 --> 01:40:05,400
I think it's important 
that we continue

1264
01:40:07,700 --> 01:40:11,333
to lead that frankly we're 
able to blunt Putin's 
ability to continue

1265
01:40:11,333 --> 01:40:15,733
to be an aggressor. 
What we see is not just 
a Putin versus Ukraine

1266
01:40:15,733 --> 01:40:20,733
dynamic here. This is 
a this is an alignment 
of Iran. Of China of

1267
01:40:22,466 --> 01:40:25,933
North Korea of Russia 
together. And, and when 
we have an opportunity

1268
01:40:25,933 --> 01:40:29,933
to blunt those forces 
that are trying to 
align against the United

1269
01:40:29,933 --> 01:40:33,633
States in the free 
world, I think that we 
ought to take that very

1270
01:40:33,633 --> 01:40:37,833
seriously that that you 
know that responsibility.

1271
01:40:39,566 --> 01:40:42,433
No, that's, that's my view that 
should we take that to mean that

1272
01:40:42,433 --> 01:40:45,666
you would like to see 
the US continue to 
support Ukraine in their

1273
01:40:45,666 --> 01:40:48,966
defense against Russia. You'd 
like to see continued aid.

1274
01:40:50,733 --> 01:40:53,533
I would like to see us. 
I would like to see a 
change in the way that

1275
01:40:53,533 --> 01:40:56,766
we do it. I want to see more 
accountability, you know, we.

1276
01:40:57,900 --> 01:40:59,300
American people are

1277
01:41:01,033 --> 01:41:04,533
Our funding a good deal 
of our effort there 
um and and we owe it

1278
01:41:04,533 --> 01:41:07,366
to the American people 
to be able to demonstrate 
what's happening

1279
01:41:07,366 --> 01:41:11,133
with those dollars, so 
there's been an element 
of a lack of trying

1280
01:41:11,133 --> 01:41:14,033
to sort of transparency 
and accountability 
that I think is owed to

1281
01:41:14,033 --> 01:41:17,400
the American people, 
but I wouldn't say that 
we just need to turn

1282
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:21,466
off our support 
reproductive rights, that's 
certainly going to be

1283
01:41:21,466 --> 01:41:25,900
a resonant issue in this 
election. It has been 
ever since the Supreme

1284
01:41:25,900 --> 01:41:29,500
Court overturned Roe every time 
reproductive rights has appeared

1285
01:41:29,500 --> 01:41:34,033
on. Ballot since the 
court overturned Roe, 
abortion activists and

1286
01:41:34,033 --> 01:41:37,400
Republicans have lost. 
You, as I understand 
it, you support the law

1287
01:41:37,400 --> 01:41:41,266
in Nevada that preserves 
abortion access up to 24 
weeks, as I understand

1288
01:41:41,266 --> 01:41:45,966
it. Why? And do you feel 
like you are running 
counter to your party's

1289
01:41:45,966 --> 01:41:50,933
position on this? No, I mean, a 
hallmark of the Republican Party

1290
01:41:52,666 --> 01:41:55,066
and conservatism is, 
you know, respecting 
the 10th Amendment and

1291
01:41:55,066 --> 01:41:59,100
allowing, you know, 
states to be able to 
create laws that you know

1292
01:41:59,100 --> 01:42:03,400
reflect their constituency 
and and so I've been 
really consistent

1293
01:42:03,400 --> 01:42:06,800
in saying this ought to 
be an issue that voters 
in states are able

1294
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:09,433
to address in alignment 
with, you know, the voice and

1295
01:42:11,900 --> 01:42:13,766
and sort of the decision 
of those voters and

1296
01:42:15,533 --> 01:42:17,800
and so that's, that's 
where I'm at and I, I 
think that's. A lot of

1297
01:42:17,800 --> 01:42:20,933
other Republicans are 
going now too before 
we let you go, I'd love

1298
01:42:20,933 --> 01:42:25,600
to get your take on, on 
your race and how you 
think this ticket helps

1299
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:28,733
or hurts you. This clearly 
seems to be with the 
addition of JD Vance,

1300
01:42:30,566 --> 01:42:33,200
really a doubling down 
on appealing to voters 
in Michigan and Wisconsin

1301
01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:36,966
and Pennsylvania in 
Nevada, does this ticket 
help you and how? Who

1302
01:42:36,966 --> 01:42:40,366
does it help you reach, 
you know, I think with 
this ticket does is

1303
01:42:42,100 --> 01:42:46,000
and across the country 
is JD Vance's story, he 
comes from such humble

1304
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:51,566
beginnings. Um, you know, 
he, he had undoubtedly 
a very tough childhood,

1305
01:42:53,266 --> 01:42:55,533
uh, there's a lot of 
people out there who 
again I'm gonna go back

1306
01:42:55,533 --> 01:42:58,533
to the two things that 
Mr. Lopez said that he's 
looking for in leadership.

1307
01:43:00,100 --> 01:43:02,733
Some with compassion and someone 
who can deliver hope and, and JD

1308
01:43:02,733 --> 01:43:06,300
Vance's life demonstrates 
that we can have 
hope. You can you can

1309
01:43:06,300 --> 01:43:09,266
still aspire and achieve 
incredible things

1310
01:43:10,966 --> 01:43:12,966
regardless of the tough 
circumstances we're 
in, and there's a lot

1311
01:43:12,966 --> 01:43:16,400
of Nevadans that are looking for 
something that they can kind of

1312
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:20,033
cling on to and say 
hey. If he can make it, 
maybe I can make it too,

1313
01:43:21,700 --> 01:43:23,566
and that's part of what 
my campaign is hoping 
to do is say look.

1314
01:43:25,300 --> 01:43:27,166
I'm not the prettiest 
Senate candidate out 
there. No one's going

1315
01:43:27,166 --> 01:43:29,800
to argue with me on that, 
um, you know, I come 
from humble beginnings

1316
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:34,366
as well, um, but I'm 
a father, I'm a small 
business guy, I'm a husband,

1317
01:43:36,066 --> 01:43:38,933
I'm a veteran, and, and, 
and why, why can't I, 
why shouldn't I also

1318
01:43:38,933 --> 01:43:42,300
have an opportunity 
to be a voice and a 
leader for our state and

1319
01:43:42,300 --> 01:43:46,533
not just me, but other 
people out there as 
well. The Biden campaign

1320
01:43:46,533 --> 01:43:50,800
says it has multiple 
paths to victory to 270 
electoral votes. One

1321
01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:54,033
of those paths is through 
the sun belt. Uh, do 
they have it right?

1322
01:43:55,733 --> 01:43:57,966
What, what, how, how 
would you characterize 
the, the, the Republican

1323
01:43:57,966 --> 01:44:02,666
standing in Nevada right now. I 
think, I think it's we're seeing

1324
01:44:02,666 --> 01:44:07,300
a shift and part of 
it is that we're a 
transient state. A lot of

1325
01:44:07,300 --> 01:44:11,533
people kind of move in 
and out 80% of Nevadans 
now weren't born and

1326
01:44:11,533 --> 01:44:15,700
raised there, um, and 
so, so the state is 
constantly evolving right

1327
01:44:15,700 --> 01:44:19,000
now we have almost 
identical registration 
between Republicans and

1328
01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:21,166
Democrats. A lot of people in 
the middle as independent and

1329
01:44:22,866 --> 01:44:25,166
and they're not, they 
weren't necessarily 
there when Jackie Rosen

1330
01:44:25,166 --> 01:44:30,166
was elected 6 years ago. And so 
what I see is people who we have

1331
01:44:31,866 --> 01:44:34,800
we have tickets splitter 
voters, you know, last 
election we had Governor

1332
01:44:34,800 --> 01:44:36,666
Lombardo as a 
Republican, you know, was

1333
01:44:38,433 --> 01:44:41,533
and Cortez Masto is a 
Democrat, was elected 
to the Senate, and so,

1334
01:44:43,233 --> 01:44:44,666
um, people are just 
looking for for someone 
who they can who they

1335
01:44:44,666 --> 01:44:47,000
can trust who they can relate 
to, and who will lead uh

1336
01:44:48,700 --> 01:44:51,500
to you know for what 
their best interest in 
mind. Captain Sam Brown,

1337
01:44:53,233 --> 01:44:54,966
US Senate candidate in 
Nevada. Thank you so 
much for your service.

1338
01:44:56,766 --> 01:44:58,533
Thank you so much for 
being with us here 
tonight. We appreciate your

1339
01:44:58,533 --> 01:45:01,800
time. My honor. Thank 
you. Thank you. Let's go 
back to Lisa Desjardins,

1340
01:45:03,466 --> 01:45:04,600
who's on the floor again 
with another delegate. 
Hey Lisa. Hi guys,

1341
01:45:06,300 --> 01:45:08,600
I'm with Candy Art, 
uh, she is involved in 
several military causes

1342
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:11,766
here including the war 
memorial here in Milwaukee.

1343
01:45:13,433 --> 01:45:15,133
Can you, what was 
that moment like this 
powerful moment we heard

1344
01:45:15,133 --> 01:45:18,400
from the Gold Star 
families reading the 
names and then we had of

1345
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:23,133
course the UNC frat boys 
who had the US flag, 
walk right by us. What

1346
01:45:23,133 --> 01:45:26,500
was that moment like 
for you? You know it 
was so moving because we

1347
01:45:26,500 --> 01:45:31,500
know how important our 
flag is and what our 
flag stands for and I,

1348
01:45:33,233 --> 01:45:36,600
I just when I saw what 
they had done before, 
I was amazed, so we're,

1349
01:45:38,300 --> 01:45:42,766
we're lucky to live in 
America in a free land. 
Donald Trump, obviously

1350
01:45:42,766 --> 01:45:46,400
you're here to support 
him, but they were 
saying that they did not

1351
01:45:46,400 --> 01:45:49,533
feel safe under President 
Joe Biden. Have you 
felt safe these four

1352
01:45:49,533 --> 01:45:52,200
years? What do you think? 
think about President 
Biden in terms of

1353
01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:55,533
a national leader, I think it's 
time for a change, you know, um,

1354
01:45:57,066 --> 01:46:00,333
what happened in 
Afghanistan, Afghanistan 
is shameful, and we need

1355
01:46:00,333 --> 01:46:05,300
to change it. Donald 
Trump was pro-military 
and they beefed up our

1356
01:46:06,766 --> 01:46:10,633
military, our navy boats we had 
a lot more ships and we need, we

1357
01:46:10,633 --> 01:46:13,700
need to get that back. 
We need our country to 
be safe, and he's the

1358
01:46:13,700 --> 01:46:16,433
only one that can do 
it. I want to ask you, 
I don't know if you've

1359
01:46:16,433 --> 01:46:19,200
been one of the delegates 
who's been chanting 
fight, you know, the

1360
01:46:19,200 --> 01:46:22,433
former president chanted after 
the assassination attempt.

1361
01:46:23,900 --> 01:46:25,900
What does that mean to you? What 
fighting for what, fighting who,

1362
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:28,966
fighting how? what does 
that mean? I need to 
keep our country safe.

1363
01:46:30,633 --> 01:46:34,200
We want to make sure 
that none of these wars 
come on our shores.

1364
01:46:36,000 --> 01:46:37,933
I mean, it's sad that 
they happen in other 
places, but we don't want

1365
01:46:37,933 --> 01:46:41,300
anything on our shores. 
Do you want fewer, less 
American involvement

1366
01:46:41,300 --> 01:46:46,300
overseas? No, I don't 
think so. I think we 
just have to like we I

1367
01:46:47,600 --> 01:46:49,566
think we should have been 
in Ukraine ahead of time

1368
01:46:50,766 --> 01:46:53,466
and. We weren't and 
then last question,

1369
01:46:54,933 --> 01:46:56,733
we're discussion among Democrats 
now about President Joe Biden if

1370
01:46:56,733 --> 01:47:00,266
he should be their 
nominee. Do you have a 
sense as a Republican,

1371
01:47:01,966 --> 01:47:04,433
if you would rather. 
Biden be the nominee 
or Harris, and there's

1372
01:47:04,433 --> 01:47:07,100
many reasons you might think one 
way or the other. How do you see

1373
01:47:07,100 --> 01:47:11,766
that? I think I'd like 
to have Joe Biden stay 
in. And why? Because

1374
01:47:11,766 --> 01:47:15,700
I think he's shown to 
America he can't do the 
job. And you, you want,

1375
01:47:17,466 --> 01:47:19,866
you want Trump to win 
handily, I guess, and 
I think he can do that

1376
01:47:19,866 --> 01:47:23,500
if Joe Biden stays in. 
I also have to give you 
credit. She has played

1377
01:47:23,500 --> 01:47:27,200
a part in the next 
speaker who is 99-year-old 
World War II veteran,

1378
01:47:28,833 --> 01:47:32,700
you'll be 99 in December. 
Yes, he was at Normandy 
on Omaha. Beach.

1379
01:47:34,166 --> 01:47:36,933
It was a 2nd wave on D-Day, and 
then he was Battle of the Bulge.

1380
01:47:38,633 --> 01:47:40,366
Take your can now make 
sure you can listen. 
Thank you so much. Back

1381
01:47:40,366 --> 01:47:43,700
to you, I'm Ninja. Lisa 
Desjardin, thanks so 
much. Lisa, picking

1382
01:47:43,700 --> 01:47:47,233
up on this question 
that we've discussed or 
Amy rather, I'm sorry.

1383
01:47:48,533 --> 01:47:52,433
By any name or on the 2nd 
to last night, you just

1384
01:47:56,066 --> 01:47:57,900
saw in your direction 
and I looked in your 
face and called you by

1385
01:47:57,900 --> 01:48:00,466
a different name. My deep 
apologies. As someone 
who's often called

1386
01:48:00,466 --> 01:48:04,166
Greg and all sorts of 
things. I apologize. 
There, there's a, this

1387
01:48:04,166 --> 01:48:06,700
question of whether 
or not President Biden 
should stay in the race.

1388
01:48:08,366 --> 01:48:11,766
There's an APN NORC 
poll out today that 65% 
of Democratic voters

1389
01:48:13,466 --> 01:48:16,433
think that he should 
withdraw. How does the 
Biden campaign confront

1390
01:48:16,433 --> 01:48:20,300
that? How do they come back from 
that? Come back You mean and say

1391
01:48:20,300 --> 01:48:23,000
we're still going to keep 
going forward, right, 
because his argument

1392
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:27,300
had been that the party 
elites want me out. This 
is all the commentariat

1393
01:48:27,300 --> 01:48:30,300
and the party elites, 
and this is saying that 
the vast majority of

1394
01:48:30,300 --> 01:48:35,300
Democratic voters. Agree. 
And you don't have to 
look at a poll from

1395
01:48:36,933 --> 01:48:40,700
today, go back in 2023. 
Voters, Democratic 
voters were asked, would

1396
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:44,033
you like to stick with 
Biden, or would you 
like a different choice?

1397
01:48:45,866 --> 01:48:48,233
Now it wasn't as significant 
as this, but it was 
a significant portion

1398
01:48:48,233 --> 01:48:52,233
of the democratic 
electorate that said we 
want to see somebody else.

1399
01:48:53,633 --> 01:48:56,633
They didn't really get 
somebody else. There were. Um

1400
01:48:58,400 --> 01:49:02,200
Why so soon we forget 
um Dean Dean Phillips, 
thank you. I could see

1401
01:49:03,866 --> 01:49:05,933
him, but I couldn't 
remember his last name, 
uh, but in terms of the

1402
01:49:05,933 --> 01:49:10,533
high level people we did not get 
to see those in the race and so

1403
01:49:10,533 --> 01:49:14,466
this is sort of a 
culmination of that moment 
and you can't ignore.

1404
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:17,933
This is the whole idea 
about you can't kind 
of put back in the box

1405
01:49:17,933 --> 01:49:21,566
what you've let out, 
which was the debate 
performance. It's just,

1406
01:49:23,266 --> 01:49:26,333
it's, there's no way 
to get beyond that if 
people worry that that's

1407
01:49:26,333 --> 01:49:29,366
going to happen again. 
We just heard a chant 
on the floor there,

1408
01:49:31,100 --> 01:49:33,033
Bring them home at the 
podium right now are 
Orna and Ronan Neutra,

1409
01:49:34,833 --> 01:49:36,933
their son Omer was 
kidnapped last October when 
Hamas attacked Israel.

1410
01:49:38,633 --> 01:49:40,500
We had a chance to 
speak with the neutral 
family just last month

1411
01:49:40,500 --> 01:49:43,733
and here they are 
speaking now about their 
sons still held hostage

1412
01:49:43,733 --> 01:49:46,966
in Gaza. Is our first born.

1413
01:49:48,733 --> 01:49:53,266
He was born in New York 
City. One month after 9/11.

1414
01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:59,033
8 months pregnant, 
I walked across the 
Queensboro Bridge towards

1415
01:49:59,033 --> 01:50:04,033
home that day. And here 
we are. 23 years later.

1416
01:50:05,433 --> 01:50:09,266
And he's the victim of 
another vile terrorist attack.

1417
01:50:12,700 --> 01:50:17,700
Let me tell you a 
little bit about my son. 
He's a connector. He's

1418
01:50:19,400 --> 01:50:23,566
an extremely social 
person. He loves sports 
in high school he was

1419
01:50:25,300 --> 01:50:28,533
captain of the soccer 
ball volleyball and 
basketball teams. He's

1420
01:50:28,533 --> 01:50:31,533
a natural leader.

1421
01:50:37,100 --> 01:50:41,266
And he cares deeply about others 
and about helping them grow.

1422
01:50:42,366 --> 01:50:46,966
He turned 22. On 
October 14th, 2023.

1423
01:50:48,766 --> 01:50:52,833
And instead of celebrating 
with us. And with 
his friends. He spent

1424
01:50:52,833 --> 01:50:56,566
his birthday as a hostage 
of Hamas terrorists.

1425
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:00,100
Imagine

1426
01:51:01,500 --> 01:51:05,433
Over 9 months. Not knowing 
whether your son is alive.

1427
01:51:07,166 --> 01:51:11,233
Waking up every morning. 
Praying that he too is 
still waking up every

1428
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:16,533
morning that he is 
strong and is surviving.

1429
01:51:18,500 --> 01:51:23,500
I recite Psalm 23 in his 
merit every single day.

1430
01:51:24,966 --> 01:51:27,966
Come.

1431
01:51:29,666 --> 01:51:34,533
Heidi. I walk through 
the shadow of the valley 
of the shadow of the

1432
01:51:36,233 --> 01:51:40,200
death, I will fear no 
evil. For thou art with 
me, thy rod and thy

1433
01:51:41,433 --> 01:51:44,433
staff, they comfort me.

1434
01:51:47,800 --> 01:51:50,766
Bring them home.

1435
01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:56,333
Bring them home, 
bring them home.

1436
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:03,833
Bring them home. 
Bring them home.

1437
01:52:10,200 --> 01:52:14,000
During the brutal October 
7th attack on Israel.

1438
01:52:15,033 --> 01:52:18,366
Over 1200 people 
were slaughtered.

1439
01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:23,166
Of them 45 where 
American citizens

1440
01:52:23,933 --> 01:52:26,733
where is the outrage?

1441
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:35,000
Where is it? This was 
not merely an attack 
on Israel. This was and

1442
01:52:36,733 --> 01:52:39,766
remains an attack on Americans.

1443
01:52:43,266 --> 01:52:46,533
Omer is one of 8 
American hostages.

1444
01:52:48,566 --> 01:52:52,633
And one of 120 hostages 
still left in Gaza.

1445
01:52:54,200 --> 01:52:58,966
Citizens of 24 countries and 5 
different religions still held

1446
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:06,000
by Hamas denied basic 
human needs, their lives 
threatened every day.

1447
01:53:08,500 --> 01:53:13,500
President Trump called 
us personally right 
after the attack when

1448
01:53:15,200 --> 01:53:18,500
Omer was taken captive. 
We know he stands. With 
our American hostages,

1449
01:53:20,566 --> 01:53:25,566
we need our beautiful son 
back. And we need Your support.

1450
01:53:27,933 --> 01:53:32,933
We need our support. 
To end this crisis and 
bring all the hostages

1451
01:53:33,533 --> 01:53:36,533
back home.

1452
01:53:41,033 --> 01:53:41,233
And

1453
01:53:42,233 --> 01:53:47,233
home. home, bring them home.

1454
01:53:48,100 --> 01:53:51,100
them home.

1455
01:53:53,366 --> 01:53:53,666
Oh

1456
01:53:55,433 --> 01:53:59,700
We love you. We won't 
stop fighting for you.

1457
01:54:03,033 --> 01:54:08,033
So with us, bring them 
home. Bring them home,

1458
01:54:10,133 --> 01:54:14,500
bring them home. Thank 
you everybody. God bless 
Israel and God bless

1459
01:54:14,500 --> 01:54:17,500
America.

1460
01:54:22,433 --> 01:54:27,166
Ladies and gentlemen, 
former paratrooper, 
congressman and New York

1461
01:54:27,166 --> 01:54:30,700
State gubernatorial 
candidate. Lee Zeldin.

1462
01:54:40,100 --> 01:54:45,100
Hello, Wisconsin. I'm 
Lee Zeldin from New York.

1463
01:54:59,433 --> 01:55:02,533
A nation led by President Trump.

1464
01:55:03,766 --> 01:55:08,666
Is the nation stronger? 
Safer And more secure.

1465
01:55:10,633 --> 01:55:13,700
As a former 802 
airborne paratrooper.

1466
01:55:18,766 --> 01:55:23,433
I want a military 
focused on being the 
world's greatest fighting

1467
01:55:23,433 --> 01:55:27,966
force, not its biggest 
social experiment.

1468
01:55:33,700 --> 01:55:38,700
We need a president 
treating our friends as 
friends and our adversaries

1469
01:55:40,166 --> 01:55:44,033
as our adversaries understanding 
they only respect strength, not

1470
01:55:44,700 --> 01:55:47,700
weakness.

1471
01:55:51,333 --> 01:55:55,966
I was on the House 
Foreign Affairs Committee 
under 3 presidents.

1472
01:55:57,433 --> 01:56:01,633
But only one ended wars without 
starting new ones. President

1473
01:56:04,066 --> 01:56:07,066
Donald Trump.

1474
01:56:13,866 --> 01:56:17,933
As one of two Jewish 
Republicans in Congress.

1475
01:56:18,766 --> 01:56:21,333
It was amazing to witness

1476
01:56:23,000 --> 01:56:26,833
history making progress. 
Strengthening the 
US-Israel relationship

1477
01:56:28,566 --> 01:56:33,366
under President Trump. 
Moving our embassy in 
Israel to Jerusalem.

1478
01:56:38,166 --> 01:56:42,800
Recognizing Israel's sovereignty 
over the Golan Heights.

1479
01:56:44,566 --> 01:56:49,066
And launching the Abraham 
Accords, which no one 
said was possible.

1480
01:56:57,000 --> 01:57:01,766
Soleimani and the ISIS 
caliphate were eliminated.

1481
01:57:03,700 --> 01:57:07,800
President Trump Withdrew 
from the Iran deal.

1482
01:57:08,833 --> 01:57:12,966
Stop those insane 
ransom payments

1483
01:57:14,166 --> 01:57:17,966
and crippled Iran 
with maximum pressure.

1484
01:57:23,033 --> 01:57:23,733
But then

1485
01:57:24,833 --> 01:57:27,733
Everything went 
downhill under Biden.

1486
01:57:29,066 --> 01:57:33,500
Yes, the guy who advised 
Obama not to take out Osama.

1487
01:57:36,000 --> 01:57:41,000
Joe Biden advised 
against the mission that 
killed Osama bin Laden.

1488
01:57:47,933 --> 01:57:52,733
As an American. And 
especially as a New Yorker,

1489
01:57:54,200 --> 01:57:58,566
that's unforgivable. Even in 
his prime, he had bad judgment.

1490
01:58:01,433 --> 01:58:06,433
And it's only gotten worse with 
age. We cannot count on Biden to

1491
01:58:07,600 --> 01:58:11,300
make this kind of 
crucial 3 a.m. decision.

1492
01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:17,433
Heck, we can't rely on 
him at 3 in the afternoon.

1493
01:58:23,933 --> 01:58:27,633
He has refilled. Iran's coffers.

1494
01:58:29,400 --> 01:58:33,833
Since October 7th, Biden 
has pandered to anti-Semites 
who cheer Hamas's

1495
01:58:35,766 --> 01:58:38,766
attack.

1496
01:58:40,233 --> 01:58:45,100
Oh while Americans are still 
being held hostage in Gaza.

1497
01:58:48,633 --> 01:58:53,633
Biden turned 13, Blue 
Star families. It's a 
gold star families with

1498
01:58:55,400 --> 01:58:59,766
his fatal withdrawal 
from Afghanistan and then 
he lied about it during

1499
01:59:01,600 --> 01:59:06,600
last month's debate 
claiming that no service 
members had died under

1500
01:59:07,166 --> 01:59:09,766
his watch.

1501
01:59:13,766 --> 01:59:18,766
We must elect President 
Trump. Whether building 
an iron dome defense

1502
01:59:20,966 --> 01:59:25,966
shield at home. Countering China 
and other bad actors abroad

1503
01:59:27,700 --> 01:59:32,700
or securing our borders. 
He will make America 
strong and respected

1504
01:59:33,933 --> 01:59:38,300
again. President Trump 
risks everything for us.

1505
01:59:45,533 --> 01:59:50,533
We need him back. In the White 
House now more than ever before.

1506
01:59:57,533 --> 02:00:01,800
To make America great 
again. We must first.

1507
02:00:03,533 --> 02:00:07,333
And God willing we will 
expand the Republican 
majority in the United

1508
02:00:08,200 --> 02:00:10,833
States House of Representatives.

1509
02:00:13,633 --> 02:00:17,433
We will flip the 
United States Senate.

1510
02:00:21,433 --> 02:00:26,266
We are going to elect JD 
Vance, our next vice president.

1511
02:00:29,966 --> 02:00:34,966
And we will make 
Donald J. Trump, the 
forty-seventh president of

1512
02:00:36,633 --> 02:00:40,933
these United States. 
Thank you. God bless 
you. God bless President

1513
02:00:40,933 --> 02:00:43,900
Trump and his family, 
and God bless America.

1514
02:00:50,966 --> 02:00:55,933
We are gathered here on 
Freedom's Altar on the 
shores on these bluffs

1515
02:00:57,800 --> 02:01:02,766
on this day, 75 years 
ago, 10,000 men shed 
their blood and thousands

1516
02:01:04,466 --> 02:01:09,033
sacrificed their lives 
for their brothers, for 
their countries, and

1517
02:01:10,766 --> 02:01:14,433
for the survival of 
liberty. Those who 
fought here want a future

1518
02:01:16,100 --> 02:01:20,733
for our nation. They 
won the survival. Of 
our civilization. These

1519
02:01:22,566 --> 02:01:27,566
men ran through the fires 
of hell. Moved by a force,

1520
02:01:29,300 --> 02:01:33,300
no weapon could destroy 
it. The fierce patriotism 
of a free, proud,

1521
02:01:35,066 --> 02:01:39,033
and sovereign people. 
And they showed us the 
way to love, cherish,

1522
02:01:40,533 --> 02:01:44,833
and defend our way of life. 
For many centuries to come.

1523
02:01:46,566 --> 02:01:50,700
Our children and their 
children will forever. 
And always be free.

1524
02:01:58,633 --> 02:02:02,633
Ladies and gentlemen, Please 
welcome World War II hero

1525
02:02:03,333 --> 02:02:06,333
William Perell.

1526
02:02:32,800 --> 02:02:37,566
Thank you very much. My 
name is Bill Perrell.

1527
02:02:38,466 --> 02:02:41,200
I'm a proud Wisconsinite. Well

1528
02:02:45,033 --> 02:02:50,033
I'm a proud husband of 76 
years old and my wife Rosemary.

1529
02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:55,000
I'm, I'm a father 
of 11 children.

1530
02:02:59,800 --> 02:03:02,200
6 girls 5 boys

1531
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:10,400
Our family across 5 
generations and a proud 
World War II veterans.

1532
02:03:17,966 --> 02:03:20,966
I'm 998 years old.

1533
02:03:33,833 --> 02:03:36,833
Some call us the 
greatest generation.

1534
02:03:41,900 --> 02:03:42,033
That

1535
02:03:43,700 --> 02:03:48,000
That's an honor 
considering America is 
the greatest nation in the

1536
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:51,000
history of the world.

1537
02:03:55,666 --> 02:04:00,233
I will never forget. And 
witnessed the horror.

1538
02:04:01,533 --> 02:04:05,500
Of the Nazis war camps. In 
the battle of the Bulge.

1539
02:04:07,233 --> 02:04:11,566
My friends and I. What 
to stop the Nazis last 
major portion in the

1540
02:04:12,400 --> 02:04:15,400
Western Front.

1541
02:04:21,700 --> 02:04:26,300
If you want it later, Hitler 
was dead. Hitler was dead.

1542
02:04:27,300 --> 02:04:28,100
But not

1543
02:04:28,833 --> 02:04:31,733
The Nazis were defeated.

1544
02:04:41,133 --> 02:04:46,133
We were and we gave 
thanks to Almighty God 
for delivering us from

1545
02:04:46,600 --> 02:04:48,700
evil. Hm

1546
02:04:53,233 --> 02:04:53,733
not

1547
02:04:54,566 --> 02:04:56,000
But not many of us

1548
02:04:56,833 --> 02:04:57,633
Came home

1549
02:04:58,666 --> 02:05:02,000
I still miss. A 
lot of my friends,

1550
02:05:03,366 --> 02:05:06,733
On that beach. And we're

1551
02:05:08,433 --> 02:05:11,233
There were many of 
us left. There aren't 
many of us left today.

1552
02:05:12,233 --> 02:05:15,300
But for us, Those who

1553
02:05:16,333 --> 02:05:17,100
Who are

1554
02:05:17,633 --> 02:05:18,266
Here

1555
02:05:20,000 --> 02:05:23,000
That America is still 
worth fighting for.

1556
02:05:44,800 --> 02:05:49,800
It hurts my heart to 
see. What our current 
president and vice president

1557
02:05:51,166 --> 02:05:55,566
have done. To the 
country I love so well.

1558
02:05:56,733 --> 02:06:00,533
The hum humiliated 
us and stan again.

1559
02:06:02,200 --> 02:06:06,266
We pushed around in 
China terrorists run 
wild in the Middle East.

1560
02:06:07,633 --> 02:06:11,533
And they let our own 
southern border, get overrun.

1561
02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:19,166
America

1562
02:06:19,933 --> 02:06:21,000
People say

1563
02:06:22,166 --> 02:06:25,100
People is is like 
America is an idea.

1564
02:06:25,766 --> 02:06:27,000
But I believe

1565
02:06:27,933 --> 02:06:31,266
America is much more than that.

1566
02:06:32,133 --> 02:06:34,933
America, America as a whole.

1567
02:06:49,633 --> 02:06:49,833
I

1568
02:07:04,566 --> 02:07:09,566
You know, and I was fighting in 
Europe. And I came back home.

1569
02:07:11,566 --> 02:07:15,000
I kissed the ground. Thank God.

1570
02:07:16,166 --> 02:07:19,800
That I'm back home. 
No for my country.

1571
02:07:28,066 --> 02:07:33,066
And where I come from, 
When somebody comes. For me

1572
02:07:34,766 --> 02:07:39,166
Or my home You dig in 
your boots in the ground 
and never look back.

1573
02:07:46,866 --> 02:07:47,000
Yeah

1574
02:07:48,400 --> 02:07:51,800
That the that saved 
the free world.

1575
02:07:53,533 --> 02:07:57,600
And It was years ago. 
And President Trump back 
in commander in chief.

1576
02:08:00,800 --> 02:08:04,033
I would go back to 
re-enlist today.

1577
02:08:22,166 --> 02:08:27,166
And I, I was storm. 
Whatever beach you want 
my country wanted to.

1578
02:08:29,366 --> 02:08:33,633
Needs me to. I was.

1579
02:08:37,933 --> 02:08:41,333
God was you. God bless our home.

1580
02:08:42,400 --> 02:08:45,300
And the United 
States of America.

1581
02:09:13,366 --> 02:09:17,466
That was Wisconsin's own retired 
Sergeant Bill Peckrell, 98 years

1582
02:09:17,466 --> 02:09:21,100
old, a decorated World 
War II veteran awarded 
two Bronze Stars and

1583
02:09:21,100 --> 02:09:26,100
a silver Star for his 
service. It is now 9:09 
p.m. here in Milwaukee.

1584
02:09:27,833 --> 02:09:30,800
10:09 p.m. on the east 
coast. This is PBS News 
special live coverage

1585
02:09:30,800 --> 02:09:33,500
of the Republican 
National Convention. 
Thank you for staying with

1586
02:09:33,500 --> 02:09:36,833
us, and we are so pleased to be 
joined once again by the one and

1587
02:09:36,833 --> 02:09:40,700
only Judy Woodruff. 
Judy, how are you doing 
tonight? Well, I'm doing

1588
02:09:40,700 --> 02:09:44,666
very well. I'm watching 
the coverage and I have 
to say. Bill Peckrell

1589
02:09:44,666 --> 02:09:48,133
looks pretty good 
for '98. God bless.

1590
02:09:49,666 --> 02:09:52,900
Judy, I know this is now the 3rd 
night of the Republican National

1591
02:09:52,900 --> 02:09:56,466
Convention. You've been 
with us every night 
watching as the speeches

1592
02:09:56,466 --> 02:10:00,100
unfold and all of the 
messages unfold. What do 
you make of what you've

1593
02:10:00,100 --> 02:10:03,333
heard so far and what we'll hear 
from JD Vance in just a moment.

1594
02:10:05,033 --> 02:10:06,866
Well, we'll hear from 
JD Vance. You're right, 
we've been given an

1595
02:10:06,866 --> 02:10:08,966
advance copy and I've 
just been skipping 
through it, but I have to

1596
02:10:08,966 --> 02:10:13,966
say what we've heard 
so far is uh more of 
it's. All about Donald

1597
02:10:15,666 --> 02:10:18,766
Trump and what he's 
going to mean for this 
party. I have to say the

1598
02:10:18,766 --> 02:10:23,766
party, the RNC has struck 
some pretty powerful 
chords tonight between

1599
02:10:25,433 --> 02:10:29,033
the Gold Star mother 
and father, uh, and not 
a dry eye in the house,

1600
02:10:30,766 --> 02:10:34,766
the family who has a uh 
uh a child who's being 
held hostage by Hamas.

1601
02:10:37,933 --> 02:10:42,400
This now just a statement 
from first remarks from 
a 98-year-old World

1602
02:10:42,400 --> 02:10:47,066
War II veteran. They 
are hitting some, you 
know, emotional strings,

1603
02:10:48,733 --> 02:10:50,800
and we see that at every 
national convention. 
I have to, I think

1604
02:10:50,800 --> 02:10:54,533
you have to give them credit for 
putting on this kind of program

1605
02:10:56,266 --> 02:10:58,166
at this point tonight. 
How do you see it, 
David, so far? Yeah, I

1606
02:10:58,166 --> 02:11:01,433
think the same, you 
know, it gets at the 
emotional tone of the party

1607
02:11:01,433 --> 02:11:04,900
that the Gold Star, the Gold 
Star families feel betrayed

1608
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:09,566
by President Biden last 
night we had a lot of 
parents who had lost

1609
02:11:09,566 --> 02:11:14,300
somebody in their family 
to crime they feel 
betrayed, I think. JD

1610
02:11:14,300 --> 02:11:18,233
Vance we're going to 
feel here about betrayal 
and so there is an

1611
02:11:18,233 --> 02:11:22,766
undercurrent of a sense 
that our leadership 
class is not doing what

1612
02:11:22,766 --> 02:11:25,066
it should be doing, and 
that's really the core 
of why Donald Trump

1613
02:11:25,066 --> 02:11:28,500
has a political career. 
It's the support of Y 
JD Vance has a political

1614
02:11:28,500 --> 02:11:32,500
career and it's reflected 
time. Let's go back to 
the convention stage

1615
02:11:32,500 --> 02:11:34,866
because now speaking 
at the podium is the 
former president's son

1616
02:11:34,866 --> 02:11:37,866
Donald Trump Jr 
uncharacteristic.

1617
02:11:39,766 --> 02:11:44,766
A Trump is going to give 
up the microphone. It 
doesn't happen often,

1618
02:11:46,233 --> 02:11:50,133
you may never see it again. But 
I got a call on Monday morning.

1619
02:11:51,233 --> 02:11:54,166
From a young lady. 
Who said, Dad.

1620
02:11:55,866 --> 02:11:58,833
I want to speak at the RNC.

1621
02:12:02,866 --> 02:12:07,866
I want to speak at 
the RNC because I want 
America to know what my

1622
02:12:08,700 --> 02:12:10,900
grandpa is actually like.

1623
02:12:15,700 --> 02:12:20,366
So for the first time 
ever on a stage, first 
time ever giving a speech.

1624
02:12:22,066 --> 02:12:25,366
I want to bring out My 
eldest daughter and the 
eldest granddaughter

1625
02:12:25,366 --> 02:12:29,133
of the president of the United 
States, your favorite president.

1626
02:12:29,866 --> 02:12:32,700
Kai, Madison, Trump.

1627
02:12:51,766 --> 02:12:56,766
Hi everyone, my name is 
Kai Mainrum. I am the 
granddaughter of Donald

1628
02:12:58,466 --> 02:13:02,100
Trump. I'm speaking 
today. To share this 
side of my grandpa that

1629
02:13:03,600 --> 02:13:06,533
people don't often see. To me, 
he's just a normal grandpa.

1630
02:13:08,000 --> 02:13:10,333
He gives us candy and soda when 
our parents aren't looking.

1631
02:13:12,966 --> 02:13:17,633
He always wants to 
know how we're doing in 
school. When I made the

1632
02:13:17,633 --> 02:13:21,133
high honor roll, he 
printed it out to show 
his friends how proud

1633
02:13:21,133 --> 02:13:24,333
he was on me. And um

1634
02:13:28,433 --> 02:13:31,000
He calls me during the 
middle of the school day

1635
02:13:32,466 --> 02:13:35,500
to how my golf game is going 
and tells me all about his.

1636
02:13:38,533 --> 02:13:42,533
But then I had to remind 
him that I'm in school 
and I have to call

1637
02:13:42,533 --> 02:13:47,533
him back later. When we 
played golf together, 
if Pan and his team,

1638
02:13:49,133 --> 02:13:53,100
he'll try to get inside 
of my head. I know.

1639
02:13:54,566 --> 02:13:56,833
And he's always surprised that 
I don't let him get to me.

1640
02:13:59,200 --> 02:14:02,200
But I have to remind 
him, I'm a Trump too.

1641
02:14:12,000 --> 02:14:15,766
Even when it's going 
through all these court 
cases, he always asked

1642
02:14:15,766 --> 02:14:20,766
me how I'm doing. He 
always encourages me to 
push myself to be the

1643
02:14:22,500 --> 02:14:26,000
most successful person 
I can be. Obviously, 
he sets the bar pretty

1644
02:14:26,000 --> 02:14:29,000
high, but who knows, maybe 
one day I'll catch him.

1645
02:14:33,700 --> 02:14:38,700
On Saturday. I was shocked when 
I heard that he has been shot.

1646
02:14:40,466 --> 02:14:43,833
And I just want to know 
if he was OK. It was 
heartbreaking that someone

1647
02:14:43,833 --> 02:14:48,600
would do that to another person. 
A lot of people I put my grandpa

1648
02:14:48,600 --> 02:14:51,600
through hell and 
he's still standing.

1649
02:15:03,600 --> 02:15:08,166
Grandpa, you are such an 
inspiration. And I love you.

1650
02:15:14,900 --> 02:15:19,300
The media makes my grandpa 
seem like a different 
person, but I know

1651
02:15:19,300 --> 02:15:24,300
him for who he is. He's 
very caring and loving. 
He truly wants the

1652
02:15:25,966 --> 02:15:29,866
best for this country, 
and he will fight every 
single day to make

1653
02:15:29,866 --> 02:15:33,566
America great again. 
Thank you very much.

1654
02:16:06,166 --> 02:16:10,500
A lot of proud moments 
this week for my family. 
Thank you again guys,

1655
02:16:12,133 --> 02:16:13,933
really appreciate that. 
That's not easy. That's 
the first time. I

1656
02:16:13,933 --> 02:16:17,566
mean this is. What we 
call a large crowd for 
a speech, so incredible

1657
02:16:17,566 --> 02:16:22,366
work, Kai. Now back to business.

1658
02:16:23,466 --> 02:16:26,900
Guys. Thank you, sir.

1659
02:16:28,666 --> 02:16:33,666
Tonight we gather here 
in Milwaukee. At one of 
the most crucial moments

1660
02:16:35,533 --> 02:16:39,200
in American history. Just 
days ago something that 
once seemed unimaginable.

1661
02:16:40,900 --> 02:16:44,933
Became a terrifying 
reality. My father came 
under literal fire. As

1662
02:16:46,500 --> 02:16:51,200
an incredible patriotic 
rally turned into a tragedy.

1663
02:16:52,933 --> 02:16:57,000
On a field in Butler, 
Pennsylvania, a brave 
firefighter died. Others

1664
02:16:57,000 --> 02:17:02,000
were injured and as 
those bullets rain down, 
we came millimeters

1665
02:17:03,466 --> 02:17:05,933
away from one of the darkest 
moments in our nation's history.

1666
02:17:07,666 --> 02:17:11,866
But we did lose an 
American hero that day. 
We wish that he were with

1667
02:17:11,866 --> 02:17:16,700
us tonight. But his memory will 
live on forever in the hearts of

1668
02:17:16,700 --> 02:17:20,833
his family, his community, 
and the nation that he loved.

1669
02:17:30,500 --> 02:17:34,966
So I would like to take 
just a moment tonight to 
express our gratitude.

1670
02:17:36,433 --> 02:17:40,533
For the life and service of 
American hero Corey Comparator.

1671
02:18:08,000 --> 02:18:11,600
They'd say you can't 
truly know how you'll 
respond in a moment of

1672
02:18:11,600 --> 02:18:16,033
danger until you're 
actually confronted with 
it. So what was my father's

1673
02:18:16,033 --> 02:18:21,033
instinct as his life 
was on the line. Not to 
cower, not to surrender,

1674
02:18:23,166 --> 02:18:28,166
but to show for all the 
world to see that the 
next American president

1675
02:18:28,900 --> 02:18:31,400
has the heart of a lion.

1676
02:18:40,033 --> 02:18:44,200
That the next American 
president has the courage 
to put the American

1677
02:18:44,200 --> 02:18:47,200
people first once again.

1678
02:18:50,866 --> 02:18:55,866
And in that moment, 
My father didn't just 
show his character. He

1679
02:18:56,733 --> 02:18:59,166
showed America's character.

1680
02:19:03,033 --> 02:19:08,033
When he stood up with 
blood on his face. And 
the flag at his back.

1681
02:19:09,400 --> 02:19:12,333
The world saw a spirit 
that could never be broken.

1682
02:19:21,133 --> 02:19:24,200
And that is the true 
spirit of America.

1683
02:19:25,900 --> 02:19:29,333
America knows what it's 
like to be down. We 
know what it's like to

1684
02:19:29,333 --> 02:19:34,333
be confused and to be 
afraid. Long before the 
attempt on my father's

1685
02:19:35,866 --> 02:19:38,266
life, every American I met was 
filled with fear and anxiety.

1686
02:19:39,966 --> 02:19:43,166
They were afraid our 
country was being torn 
apart. They were anxious

1687
02:19:43,166 --> 02:19:46,566
about the massive and 
chaotic invasion of 
illegal aliens across our

1688
02:19:46,566 --> 02:19:51,166
border. They were 
deeply concerned about 
partisan lawfare,

1689
02:19:52,666 --> 02:19:56,033
education indoctrination and 
attacks on freedom of speech.

1690
02:19:57,733 --> 02:20:02,733
Most terrifying of all, they saw 
that our leaders didn't care or

1691
02:20:04,566 --> 02:20:07,766
worse, that they joyfully 
aided and abetted the 
erosion of our rights.

1692
02:20:12,700 --> 02:20:17,700
And the lies. Oh yeah, the lies. 
We won't ever forget the lies.

1693
02:20:19,166 --> 02:20:22,300
From left wing politicians, from 
their allies in the media, when

1694
02:20:22,300 --> 02:20:26,766
you hear them in a row, 
you fully understand 
the extent they have

1695
02:20:26,766 --> 02:20:30,333
gone to divide 
this great nation.

1696
02:20:32,500 --> 02:20:37,433
They lied about Russia 
collusion. They lied 
about hunter's laptop.

1697
02:20:38,766 --> 02:20:41,133
They lied about Joe 
Biden's fitness for office.

1698
02:20:43,733 --> 02:20:48,400
They lied about the 
border being secure. 
They lied about inflation

1699
02:20:48,400 --> 02:20:53,366
being transitory. They 
lied about how they 
would safely withdraw

1700
02:20:55,100 --> 02:20:58,833
from Afghanistan. They 
lied about Biden being 
a quote moderate.

1701
02:21:02,866 --> 02:21:03,866
And they told

1702
02:21:05,066 --> 02:21:08,733
1, nonstop lie after 
another about my father.

1703
02:21:10,566 --> 02:21:15,000
But they could only run 
away from reality for 
so long. All hell has

1704
02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:19,366
broken loose in America and 
it's impossible to hide anymore.

1705
02:21:25,433 --> 02:21:27,900
Remember, build 
back better. Yeah

1706
02:21:29,200 --> 02:21:32,333
Instead, we got 
broke bumbling Biden.

1707
02:21:34,000 --> 02:21:38,366
Nothing is built. Nothing is 
back, and nothing is better.

1708
02:21:42,300 --> 02:21:47,300
Bridges are collapsing. 
Our credibility is 
crumbling and our money

1709
02:21:48,500 --> 02:21:51,733
is worth less and 
less every single day.

1710
02:21:53,466 --> 02:21:57,633
It was just one giant 
bait and switch. And 
normal Americans are the

1711
02:21:59,366 --> 02:22:02,866
ones left holding the 
bag. Housing costs, 
gasoline prices, grocery

1712
02:22:04,633 --> 02:22:09,566
bills, just keep going 
up. Wave after wave of 
illegal aliens, deadly

1713
02:22:10,733 --> 02:22:13,033
drugs keep pouring 
across our border. Yeah

1714
02:22:14,733 --> 02:22:17,800
Meanwhile, pro-crime 
district attorneys have 
turned our cities into

1715
02:22:17,800 --> 02:22:22,800
giant crime zones. They've 
turned criminals into 
victims. Prosecutors

1716
02:22:24,266 --> 02:22:28,566
into criminal defense attorneys. 
And police into public enemies.

1717
02:22:30,533 --> 02:22:34,400
Left wing activists 
are pretending to be 
educators teaching our kids

1718
02:22:34,400 --> 02:22:38,866
that there are 57 
genders. But they can't 
even define what a woman

1719
02:22:38,866 --> 02:22:41,866
is.

1720
02:22:43,600 --> 02:22:46,933
On one hand they think 
free speech protects 
their right to expose

1721
02:22:46,933 --> 02:22:51,933
your children to explicit 
drag shows. On the other hand,

1722
02:22:53,600 --> 02:22:57,600
they want to put you in 
jail for making a meme. 
It's like the entire

1723
02:22:59,366 --> 02:23:03,100
world has been turned 
upside down. Does any 
of this sound like a

1724
02:23:04,766 --> 02:23:08,300
country that's going 
in the right direction? 
And honestly, who is

1725
02:23:09,966 --> 02:23:14,500
actually running the 
country anyway. It's 
obviously not Joe Biden.

1726
02:23:18,600 --> 02:23:23,600
So who are they asking 
us to elect? Seriously, 
Who's running things?

1727
02:23:28,600 --> 02:23:32,866
Does anyone really 
know? Is it Jill?

1728
02:23:33,933 --> 02:23:38,100
Is he a hunter? Barack Obama.

1729
02:23:40,366 --> 02:23:43,366
Maybe it's the 
ghost of corn pop.

1730
02:23:47,833 --> 02:23:52,466
Whoever is running the show. The 
only thing they are effective at

1731
02:23:54,133 --> 02:23:57,533
is persecuting my 
father. They twisted, 
contorted, and corrupted

1732
02:23:57,533 --> 02:24:01,200
the criminal code to 
turn bookkeeping errors 
into fenalies. They

1733
02:24:01,200 --> 02:24:06,000
concocted new legal 
theories out of thin air. 
They imposed gag orders

1734
02:24:06,000 --> 02:24:08,566
on my father because the 
last thing a defendant 
should be able to

1735
02:24:08,566 --> 02:24:13,566
do is defend himself, 
right? They punished 
him for merely speaking

1736
02:24:15,266 --> 02:24:19,766
the truth. They say they 
hate Vladimir Putin, 
but it sure seems like

1737
02:24:21,100 --> 02:24:24,000
they've spent a lot of 
time copying his playbook.

1738
02:24:28,966 --> 02:24:33,033
In this country we don't 
criminalize political 
differences. We debate

1739
02:24:33,033 --> 02:24:33,433
them

1740
02:24:35,133 --> 02:24:39,033
We vote on them. But we 
don't make you choose 
between picking a party

1741
02:24:39,033 --> 02:24:42,033
or picking a jail cell.

1742
02:24:48,833 --> 02:24:52,066
There was a time when 
the Democrats really 
wanted what was best for

1743
02:24:52,066 --> 02:24:55,300
America. Even if they had a 
different way of getting there.

1744
02:24:57,066 --> 02:24:59,633
It was the party of 
Franklin Roosevelt, John 
F. Kennedy, Martin Luther

1745
02:24:59,633 --> 02:25:04,066
King Jr. You may have 
disagreed with that 
party, but at least you

1746
02:25:04,066 --> 02:25:09,066
could respect it. But this 
new extreme Democrat Party.

1747
02:25:10,766 --> 02:25:13,666
They want us to somehow 
believe that the only 
way forward is going

1748
02:25:13,666 --> 02:25:18,266
backwards. We're 
hiring decisions are 
based solely on race.

1749
02:25:19,733 --> 02:25:22,433
Where justice is only for 
those with the right opinions.

1750
02:25:23,733 --> 02:25:27,233
Where streets are a 
luxury only for the elite.

1751
02:25:29,033 --> 02:25:32,800
Where economic opportunity 
exists only when you 
know the right people.

1752
02:25:34,200 --> 02:25:35,033
Right now

1753
02:25:36,466 --> 02:25:39,033
The America we all grew up 
with, the America that we love.

1754
02:25:40,766 --> 02:25:44,200
Feels like an old 
photograph. Where you sit 
down with your children

1755
02:25:44,200 --> 02:25:49,200
and tell them what life 
used to be like. You look 
back at that America.

1756
02:25:50,966 --> 02:25:54,033
And remember a country 
that was confident and 
proud. In America that

1757
02:25:54,033 --> 02:25:59,033
knew who it was and 
what it stood for. And 
it could all feel like

1758
02:26:00,766 --> 02:26:04,233
a distant memory. 
Somewhere along the way 
we stumbled. Somewhere

1759
02:26:05,700 --> 02:26:09,400
along the way we lost ourselves. 
But we can't live on nostalgia.

1760
02:26:10,900 --> 02:26:15,733
Yes, America was great, but our 
greatest days are yet to come.

1761
02:26:32,366 --> 02:26:37,133
Because no matter how 
far off that old photo 
may feel, it's not the

1762
02:26:37,133 --> 02:26:41,333
end of our story. 
We're like that man.

1763
02:26:43,133 --> 02:26:46,100
Who stood on that platform 
and felt the bullet 
pierce his flesh just

1764
02:26:46,100 --> 02:26:51,100
days ago in Pennsylvania. He may 
have moved to the ground, but he

1765
02:26:51,733 --> 02:26:54,266
stood back up.

1766
02:27:03,766 --> 02:27:08,766
And when he did. My 
father raised his fist 
into the air. He looked

1767
02:27:09,933 --> 02:27:13,333
out at the crowd and 
what did He said.

1768
02:27:34,333 --> 02:27:37,533
And we will fight. 
We will fight.

1769
02:27:39,300 --> 02:27:43,400
We will fight with our 
voices. We will fight 
with our ideas and in

1770
02:27:44,600 --> 02:27:47,866
November 5th we will 
fight with our vote.

1771
02:27:56,466 --> 02:28:00,833
I've always been proud 
of him, but I've never 
been prouder of my

1772
02:28:00,833 --> 02:28:05,800
father than I was in 
that moment. That's 
when the world found out

1773
02:28:07,100 --> 02:28:10,233
that there is tough. And 
then there's Trump tough.

1774
02:28:18,833 --> 02:28:23,833
And the good news is 
America is Trump tough.

1775
02:28:50,500 --> 02:28:55,500
In 1912, more than a century 
ago. Another legendary 
Republican president

1776
02:28:57,266 --> 02:29:00,766
came right here to 
Milwaukee. At a political 
rally less than 1 mile

1777
02:29:02,433 --> 02:29:05,533
from where we stand 
tonight. Teddy Roosevelt 
was struck by a would-be

1778
02:29:05,533 --> 02:29:10,533
assassin's bullet. But 
he didn't quit either. 
He finished his speech

1779
02:29:11,300 --> 02:29:14,066
and he kept fighting.

1780
02:29:19,033 --> 02:29:19,866
My friends

1781
02:29:21,333 --> 02:29:25,633
I don't believe in coincidences, 
but I do believe in God's plan.

1782
02:29:36,500 --> 02:29:37,066
Today

1783
02:29:38,733 --> 02:29:42,933
Teddy Roosevelt's man 
in the arena has a 
name, and it's Donald J.

1784
02:29:44,333 --> 02:29:47,333
Trump.

1785
02:29:55,533 --> 02:29:56,366
Remember

1786
02:29:58,033 --> 02:30:01,166
My father didn't have to 
run for reelection this 
year. He does indeed

1787
02:30:01,166 --> 02:30:04,966
the money, the fame, 
the power, frankly, he 
doesn't need the witch

1788
02:30:04,966 --> 02:30:08,400
hunts, the phony 
investigations, or the 
political prosecutions either.

1789
02:30:10,200 --> 02:30:14,533
But he knew he had to 
run if there was any 
chance at saving America.

1790
02:30:20,100 --> 02:30:25,100
He's not doing it for 
himself. He's doing it 
for everyone here tonight

1791
02:30:26,000 --> 02:30:28,433
for everyone watching at home.

1792
02:30:34,600 --> 02:30:39,600
No matter who you are, 
you can be a part of 
this movement to make

1793
02:30:40,333 --> 02:30:42,866
America great again.

1794
02:30:45,566 --> 02:30:46,566
Look at me

1795
02:30:48,300 --> 02:30:52,166
And my friend JD Vance. 
A kid from Appalachia 
and a kid from Trump

1796
02:30:52,166 --> 02:30:55,133
Tower in Manhattan.

1797
02:30:57,500 --> 02:31:02,466
We grew up worlds apart. Yet now 
we're both fighting side by side

1798
02:31:03,933 --> 02:31:07,900
to save the country we love. 
And by the way, JD Vance is

1799
02:31:10,000 --> 02:31:13,000
going to make one hell 
of a vice president.

1800
02:31:32,200 --> 02:31:36,333
For those of you who have 
tuned out politics or 
have never even voted.

1801
02:31:38,166 --> 02:31:41,666
I want you to know If 
you're looking for a better 
life, a more prosperous

1802
02:31:43,366 --> 02:31:46,533
future, a safer, more 
wholesome and patriotic 
place to call home.

1803
02:31:48,000 --> 02:31:51,533
There's room for you in this 
party and in this movement.

1804
02:31:58,033 --> 02:32:01,166
In fact, you're the ones 
who matter most of all.

1805
02:32:02,833 --> 02:32:05,966
My father has always 
said that the people 
he gets along with best

1806
02:32:05,966 --> 02:32:09,400
are the people who 
really work for a living.

1807
02:32:14,233 --> 02:32:17,633
It's because of his 
background as a builder 
in construction, right?

1808
02:32:19,300 --> 02:32:22,666
In construction, it 
doesn't matter how smart 
your architect is if

1809
02:32:22,666 --> 02:32:25,966
you don't have the best 
guys laying the bricks.

1810
02:32:28,900 --> 02:32:32,966
People with grit. People 
who get their hands dirty.

1811
02:32:34,633 --> 02:32:38,166
That's a big problem 
with Washington DC. 
Most of the bureaucrats

1812
02:32:38,166 --> 02:32:41,466
who rule over us have never 
built anything in their lives.

1813
02:32:42,900 --> 02:32:47,366
It's time to build something 
real. Something tangible.

1814
02:32:49,033 --> 02:32:51,533
Something that will last 
and leave this country 
better off for our

1815
02:32:51,533 --> 02:32:54,800
children. That's my 
father's mission.

1816
02:33:03,233 --> 02:33:08,233
This November we have 
a choice. It's a choice 
between one team that

1817
02:33:09,933 --> 02:33:13,433
wants to build this 
country up and another 
that wants to tear this

1818
02:33:13,433 --> 02:33:18,433
country down. It's a 
choice between people 
who are proud of America

1819
02:33:20,066 --> 02:33:25,033
and people who are 
ashamed of America. And 
ultimately It's a choice

1820
02:33:26,200 --> 02:33:29,600
between America last 
and America first.

1821
02:33:38,633 --> 02:33:41,766
So if you love this country 
from the bottom of your heart.

1822
02:33:43,633 --> 02:33:47,500
If you want to bring 
back common sense. If you 
want to save the American

1823
02:33:49,333 --> 02:33:52,633
dream. If you want to 
stand up and fight for 
the future of our nation,

1824
02:33:53,833 --> 02:33:57,966
you must re-elect my 
father, Donald J. Trump.

1825
02:34:12,633 --> 02:34:17,633
Together we will make America 
great once again. Thank you

1826
02:34:21,200 --> 02:34:24,200
Thank you, Wisconsin.

1827
02:34:29,933 --> 02:34:33,566
Donald Trump Jr. 
addressing night three of 
the Republican National

1828
02:34:33,566 --> 02:34:36,933
Convention and Jonathan 
Capehart he introduced 
a new campaign line

1829
02:34:36,933 --> 02:34:41,633
America is Trump tough, he says. 
React to what we heard just now.

1830
02:34:42,300 --> 02:34:42,866
Well

1831
02:34:44,533 --> 02:34:48,433
We've been hearing a 
lot of red meat over 
yesterday to now it's so

1832
02:34:49,666 --> 02:34:53,400
red, it might as well 
be tartare. The the

1833
02:34:54,466 --> 02:34:56,266
I shouldn't be 
surprised that the

1834
02:34:58,100 --> 02:35:02,066
Son of the former 
president would defend his 
father, but the beginning

1835
02:35:02,066 --> 02:35:07,066
of this convention, it 
was unity, it's gonna try 
to be a uni a unifying

1836
02:35:08,533 --> 02:35:11,533
convention, but how can it be a 
unifying convention when some of

1837
02:35:11,533 --> 02:35:16,166
the same old attack 
lines that were used 
before the assassination

1838
02:35:16,166 --> 02:35:21,166
attempt are still being 
used. The grievances that 
his father Enunciates

1839
02:35:22,966 --> 02:35:27,300
on the campaign trail 
all the time, phony 
witch hunts prosecutions.

1840
02:35:28,733 --> 02:35:31,366
He's being persecuted. He's 
being politically targeted

1841
02:35:32,600 --> 02:35:35,466
by Democrats and by the 
Biden administration.

1842
02:35:36,700 --> 02:35:37,533
I just

1843
02:35:38,866 --> 02:35:42,400
As as we sit here for hours 
during this convention.

1844
02:35:44,033 --> 02:35:47,533
I have to tell you 
it's like a weighted 
blanket. Because despite

1845
02:35:47,533 --> 02:35:51,633
him saying if you believe 
in America, this is 
a movement for you.

1846
02:35:53,333 --> 02:35:56,300
No, it's not, it's not 
I'm sitting here in 
the hall. I'm watching.

1847
02:35:58,000 --> 02:36:00,733
There are people like 
me who are watching. 
And I can guarantee you

1848
02:36:00,733 --> 02:36:04,300
that most of them are listening 
and think, no, it's not, because

1849
02:36:04,300 --> 02:36:09,233
when you say to me, um, 
for there are people who 
are looking at America

1850
02:36:09,233 --> 02:36:13,966
and it's like America 
is like looking at an 
old photograph. That

1851
02:36:13,966 --> 02:36:18,100
the country has disappearing. 
Who's it disappearing from?

1852
02:36:19,800 --> 02:36:21,966
More importantly, how 
is the country changing 
and why does it feel

1853
02:36:21,966 --> 02:36:26,966
like it's slipping away 
from you. Is it because 
there are more people

1854
02:36:28,600 --> 02:36:33,066
like me who are also 
trying to live the 
American dream. who want

1855
02:36:34,733 --> 02:36:38,233
to partake in the 
American dream. for some 
reason there are a lot

1856
02:36:40,133 --> 02:36:43,500
of people in this hall and 
for Donald Trump Jr. they 
find that threatening.

1857
02:36:45,133 --> 02:36:48,633
And so you know, I 
never believed that this 
was going to be this

1858
02:36:48,633 --> 02:36:52,966
talk of unity that he's 
changed. I never believed 
it for one minute.

1859
02:36:54,300 --> 02:36:56,733
I just, I think as an 
American I'm disappointed.

1860
02:36:58,400 --> 02:37:02,300
That I wasn't wrong. 
David Brooks, uh, first, 
uh, bringing out Kai

1861
02:37:04,000 --> 02:37:07,433
was interesting they're 
clearly trying to uh 
make Donald Trump seem

1862
02:37:07,433 --> 02:37:10,800
like the kindly grandfather, 
humanize him in a 
way that I think more

1863
02:37:10,800 --> 02:37:12,600
than they've done 
in the past. Second

1864
02:37:14,333 --> 02:37:18,400
Uh, I think unity is 
just the wrong metric. 
A 18% of Americans or

1865
02:37:18,400 --> 02:37:22,000
something like that think 
the country's on the 
right track. You shouldn't

1866
02:37:22,000 --> 02:37:25,466
preach unity at a time 
like this. People are 
angry. They want change.

1867
02:37:27,200 --> 02:37:29,100
That's Donald Trump's 
whole message and so 
he should, they should

1868
02:37:29,100 --> 02:37:33,900
preach. Division difference 
were different and 
we need to make some

1869
02:37:33,900 --> 02:37:36,833
fundamental changes. That's what 
the opposition party is supposed

1870
02:37:36,833 --> 02:37:40,866
to do and so I don't 
mind that they're talking 
about fighting Hillary

1871
02:37:40,866 --> 02:37:43,400
Clinton when she was 
running for president, 
she talked about fighting

1872
02:37:43,400 --> 02:37:48,400
all the time. Finally, 
the nostalgia point is 
a good point. We are

1873
02:37:50,200 --> 02:37:52,966
drenched in nostalgia in 
this country, and I think 
Joe Biden is nostalgic

1874
02:37:52,966 --> 02:37:57,733
for that period in the 
50s and 60s, as much as 
Donald Trump Jr. there.

1875
02:37:59,433 --> 02:38:01,833
The problem is I don't 
walk away from this 
convention so far, able

1876
02:38:01,833 --> 02:38:03,933
to name a single domestic policy

1877
02:38:05,700 --> 02:38:08,600
or even a foreign policy 
that this president 
wants to enact. So that's

1878
02:38:08,600 --> 02:38:12,966
all just a void to me. 
Amy, do, do, does the 
Republican base care

1879
02:38:12,966 --> 02:38:16,733
about policy or are 
they, do they care more 
about vibes to, to, to

1880
02:38:16,733 --> 02:38:20,733
use that word? No, I 
think obviously policy 
is important and it's

1881
02:38:20,733 --> 02:38:22,766
it's embedded in also

1882
02:38:24,666 --> 02:38:29,066
trying to tease out 
what policy and what's 
ideology is, is always

1883
02:38:29,066 --> 02:38:34,066
challenging, so they 
are often in the same 
uh breath, but this was

1884
02:38:34,933 --> 02:38:37,200
clearly much more of a dystopian

1885
02:38:38,500 --> 02:38:41,533
Trump vision, the. Trump Jr.

1886
02:38:43,300 --> 02:38:46,800
than it was an optimistic 
one like we heard 
from Laura Trump, and

1887
02:38:46,800 --> 02:38:50,233
so I found that interesting part 
of the event tonight is focused

1888
02:38:50,233 --> 02:38:53,766
on introducing JD Vance 
to the delegates in 
the room, two people

1889
02:38:53,766 --> 02:38:56,633
out in the rest of the 
country. This is the 
narrative they're building

1890
02:38:56,633 --> 02:39:01,633
around JD Vance. Let's 
take a listenbreaking 
story in a best-selling

1891
02:39:02,866 --> 02:39:07,066
book. Only in America 
is this story possible.

1892
02:39:08,533 --> 02:39:12,533
But today for many families, 
the American dream is now gone.

1893
02:39:13,833 --> 02:39:16,600
And this is the team tough 
enough to bring it back.

1894
02:39:18,400 --> 02:39:21,733
JD Vance understands 
that working families 
have become the forgotten

1895
02:39:21,733 --> 02:39:26,733
families. Under Biden, 
wages are going down 
while prices skyrocket.

1896
02:39:28,433 --> 02:39:31,600
Forcing the majority 
of Americans to live 
paycheck to paycheck,

1897
02:39:33,033 --> 02:39:35,733
working families will have 
JD Vance fighting for them.

1898
02:39:37,400 --> 02:39:41,300
Seniors JD will have 
your backs too. No more 
deciding between putting

1899
02:39:41,300 --> 02:39:44,600
food on your table and paying 
for the prescriptions you need.

1900
02:39:46,133 --> 02:39:49,766
As a husband and father. 
JD knows the importance 
of fighting for

1901
02:39:49,766 --> 02:39:54,100
a parent's right to 
protect their children. 
And you can count on

1902
02:39:54,100 --> 02:39:58,133
this marine to stand 
up for our soldiers who 
put their lives on the

1903
02:39:58,133 --> 02:40:03,133
line for their country 
every day. JD Vance's story 
is one of perseverance.

1904
02:40:04,966 --> 02:40:05,766
Of duty

1905
02:40:07,433 --> 02:40:11,333
Of commitment to what's 
right. It's an American 
story. And it's just

1906
02:40:12,033 --> 02:40:15,033
getting started.

1907
02:40:21,300 --> 02:40:25,433
Ladies and gentlemen, 
please welcome Usha Vance.

1908
02:40:52,533 --> 02:40:57,500
Good evening. Good 
evening. When I was asked 
to introduce my husband,

1909
02:40:59,166 --> 02:41:02,633
JD Vance, to all of 
you. I was at a loss

1910
02:41:04,333 --> 02:41:08,100
What could I say that 
hasn't already been 
said before? After all,

1911
02:41:09,466 --> 02:41:11,366
the man was already the 
subject of a Ron Howard movie.

1912
02:41:15,166 --> 02:41:19,400
JD has shared much of 
his life through his 
own eloquent words. In

1913
02:41:19,400 --> 02:41:24,400
his book, Hillbillylogy. 
During his Senate 
campaign, and now as a

1914
02:41:26,133 --> 02:41:30,033
sitting United States 
senator. It occurred to 
me that there was only

1915
02:41:31,233 --> 02:41:34,266
one thing to do. To 
explain from the heart.

1916
02:41:35,733 --> 02:41:39,133
Why I love and admire JD and 
stand here beside him today.

1917
02:41:40,866 --> 02:41:44,033
And why he will make 
a great vice president 
of the United States.

1918
02:41:52,900 --> 02:41:56,733
I met JD in law school 
when he was fresh out 
of Ohio State. Which

1919
02:41:56,733 --> 02:42:01,333
he attended with the 
support of the GI Bill. 
We were friends first

1920
02:42:01,333 --> 02:42:04,800
because, I mean, who 
wouldn't want to be 
friends with JD. He was

1921
02:42:04,800 --> 02:42:08,933
then, as now, The most 
interesting person I knew.

1922
02:42:10,600 --> 02:42:13,366
A working class guy who 
would overcome childhood 
traumas that I could

1923
02:42:13,366 --> 02:42:14,400
barely fathom

1924
02:42:16,133 --> 02:42:19,900
to end up at Yale Law 
School. A tough marine 
who had served in Iraq.

1925
02:42:21,633 --> 02:42:24,800
But whose idea of a good 
time was playing with 
puppies. And watching

1926
02:42:24,800 --> 02:42:27,800
the movie, babe.

1927
02:42:29,500 --> 02:42:33,066
The most determined 
person I knew with one 
overriding ambition.

1928
02:42:34,800 --> 02:42:38,133
To become a husband and 
a father. And to build 
the kind of tight-knit

1929
02:42:38,133 --> 02:42:43,133
family that he had 
longed for as a child. My 
background is very different

1930
02:42:44,766 --> 02:42:49,366
from JD's. I grew up 
in San Diego. In a 
middle class community.

1931
02:42:55,133 --> 02:42:59,600
With two loving parents, 
both immigrants from 
India and a wonderful

1932
02:42:59,600 --> 02:43:04,566
sister. That JD and I 
could meet at all. Let 
alone fall in love and

1933
02:43:05,833 --> 02:43:08,500
marry, is a testament 
to this great country.

1934
02:43:17,400 --> 02:43:22,400
It is also a testament 
to JD. And it tells 
you something about who

1935
02:43:24,200 --> 02:43:27,433
he is. When JD met 
me, he approached our 
differences with curiosity.

1936
02:43:29,266 --> 02:43:34,266
And enthusiasm. He 
wanted to know everything 
about me. Where I came

1937
02:43:35,966 --> 02:43:39,400
from, what my life had 
been like. Although 
he's a meat and potatoes

1938
02:43:41,100 --> 02:43:43,800
kind of guy. He adapted 
to my vegetarian diet 
and learned to cook

1939
02:43:43,800 --> 02:43:48,666
food for my mother, Indian 
food. Before I knew it,

1940
02:43:50,400 --> 02:43:53,533
He had become an integral 
part of my family, 
a person I could not

1941
02:43:53,533 --> 02:43:58,533
manage. Could not imagine living 
without. The JD I knew then, is

1942
02:43:59,900 --> 02:44:03,366
the same JD you see today, 
except for that beard.

1943
02:44:04,566 --> 02:44:05,200
And

1944
02:44:06,933 --> 02:44:10,100
And his goals in this 
new role are the same 
that he has pursued for

1945
02:44:10,100 --> 02:44:15,100
our family. To keep people safe. 
To create opportunities to build

1946
02:44:16,533 --> 02:44:19,300
a better life and to solve 
problems with an open mind.

1947
02:44:21,266 --> 02:44:24,966
It's safe to say that neither JD 
nor I expected to find ourselves

1948
02:44:24,966 --> 02:44:29,166
in this position. But 
it's hard to imagine a 
more powerful example

1949
02:44:29,166 --> 02:44:33,666
of the American dream. A 
boy from Middletown, Ohio.

1950
02:44:56,900 --> 02:45:01,533
Raised by his grandmother 
through tough times. 
Chosen to help lead

1951
02:45:01,533 --> 02:45:05,800
our country through 
some of its greatest 
challenges. I am grateful

1952
02:45:05,800 --> 02:45:09,166
to all of you for the trust 
you have placed in him.

1953
02:45:10,900 --> 02:45:14,666
And in our family. And 
with that It is my great 
privilege to introduce

1954
02:45:16,366 --> 02:45:20,133
my husband and the next 
vice president of the 
United States. JD Vance

1955
02:45:47,833 --> 02:45:52,833
Why don't we? United States 
where the one to Yeah

1956
02:45:56,400 --> 02:46:00,466
Let the rest of 
the world. help us.

1957
02:46:04,233 --> 02:46:07,233
Thank you.

1958
02:46:14,033 --> 02:46:16,633
There's things to. the 
world's rebuild. Thank 
you, thank you, please.

1959
02:46:25,633 --> 02:46:28,633
Wow. Wow.

1960
02:46:52,000 --> 02:46:57,000
Yeah. First of all, 
Aren't a lucky guy? 
Isn't she lovely amazing.

1961
02:47:03,066 --> 02:47:08,066
Greetings, Milwaukee. 
My fellow Americans and 
my fellow Republicans.

1962
02:47:09,266 --> 02:47:12,666
My name is JD Vance from 
the great state of Ohio.

1963
02:47:20,033 --> 02:47:20,866
Tonight

1964
02:47:26,433 --> 02:47:31,433
I O H I O. You 
guys, we got We're

1965
02:47:33,566 --> 02:47:35,833
going to chill with the 
Ohio love. We're going 
to win Michigan too

1966
02:47:35,833 --> 02:47:38,833
here, so.

1967
02:47:46,800 --> 02:47:51,800
My friends, tonight 
is a night of hope. A 
celebration of what America

1968
02:47:53,300 --> 02:47:57,266
once was and with God's grace, 
what it will soon be again.

1969
02:48:02,900 --> 02:48:07,533
And it is a reminder. 
Of the sacred duty we 
have to preserve the

1970
02:48:07,533 --> 02:48:12,533
American experiment. To 
choose a new path for our 
children and grandchildren.

1971
02:48:14,200 --> 02:48:17,500
But as we meet tonight, 
we cannot forget that 
this evening could

1972
02:48:17,500 --> 02:48:21,200
have been so much 
different. Instead of a 
day of celebration, this

1973
02:48:21,200 --> 02:48:26,166
could have been a day of 
heartache and mourning. 
For the last 8 years,

1974
02:48:27,833 --> 02:48:30,300
President Trump has 
given everything he has 
to fight for the people

1975
02:48:30,300 --> 02:48:33,300
of our country.

1976
02:48:40,166 --> 02:48:44,666
He, he didn't need politics, 
but the country needed him.

1977
02:48:46,633 --> 02:48:47,133
Did it

1978
02:48:50,433 --> 02:48:53,033
Now prior to running for 
president, he was one 
of the most successful

1979
02:48:53,033 --> 02:48:57,166
businessmen in the 
world. He had everything 
anyone could ever want

1980
02:48:57,166 --> 02:49:02,166
in a life. And yet, 
instead of choosing the 
easy path, he chose to

1981
02:49:03,866 --> 02:49:07,633
endure abuse, slander, 
and persecution. And 
he did it because he

1982
02:49:08,366 --> 02:49:11,333
loves this country.

1983
02:49:17,666 --> 02:49:22,100
I want all Americans to 
go and watch the video 
of a would-be assassin

1984
02:49:22,100 --> 02:49:26,933
coming a quarter of an 
inch from taking his 
life. Consider the lies

1985
02:49:26,933 --> 02:49:31,933
they told you about 
Donald Trump and then 
look at that photo of him

1986
02:49:33,633 --> 02:49:36,733
defiant fist in the air 
when Donald Trump rose 
to his feet in that

1987
02:49:36,733 --> 02:49:40,933
Pennsylvania field, all 
of America stood with him.

1988
02:50:00,133 --> 02:50:03,833
And what did he call us to 
do for our country? To fight

1989
02:50:05,300 --> 02:50:09,233
To fight for America even in his 
most perilous moment, we were on

1990
02:50:09,233 --> 02:50:14,233
his mind. His instinct 
was for us, for our 
country. To call us to

1991
02:50:15,966 --> 02:50:18,900
something higher. To 
something greater. To 
once again be citizens

1992
02:50:18,900 --> 02:50:23,900
who ask what our 
country needs of us. Now 
consider what they said.

1993
02:50:25,700 --> 02:50:29,733
They said he was a tyrant. 
They said he must be 
stopped at all costs.

1994
02:50:32,000 --> 02:50:36,200
But how did he respond? 
He called for national 
unity, for national

1995
02:50:36,200 --> 02:50:40,233
calm, literally right after an 
assassin nearly took his life.

1996
02:50:49,566 --> 02:50:52,266
He remembered the victims of the 
terrible attack, especially the

1997
02:50:52,266 --> 02:50:56,133
brave Corey Coopertori, who gave 
his life to protect his family.

1998
02:51:00,700 --> 02:51:05,700
God bless him. And then 
President Trump flew 
to Milwaukee and got

1999
02:51:07,066 --> 02:51:10,066
back to work.

2000
02:51:15,533 --> 02:51:18,900
Now that's the man I've 
gotten to know personally 
over the last few

2001
02:51:18,900 --> 02:51:23,900
years. He is tough, 
and he is, but he cares 
about people. He can

2002
02:51:25,666 --> 02:51:28,466
stand defiant against 
an assassin one moment 
and call for national

2003
02:51:28,466 --> 02:51:33,466
healing the next. He 
is a beloved father 
and grandfather, and of

2004
02:51:35,233 --> 02:51:38,266
course a once in a 
generation business 
leader. He's the man who is

2005
02:51:38,266 --> 02:51:42,000
feared by America's 
adversaries, but two 
nights ago, and I'll share

2006
02:51:42,000 --> 02:51:45,733
a moment, said goodnight 
to his two boys, told 
them he loved them,

2007
02:51:47,500 --> 02:51:49,400
and made sure to give 
each of them a kiss on 
the cheek. And I will

2008
02:51:49,400 --> 02:51:52,666
say, Don and Eric 
squirmed the same way my 
4 year old does when his

2009
02:51:52,666 --> 02:51:55,633
daddy tries to give him a 
kiss on the cheek. Sorry guys.

2010
02:51:59,866 --> 02:52:03,733
He has all those 
things, but tonight we 
celebrate he is our once

2011
02:52:03,733 --> 02:52:07,233
and future president of the 
United States of America.

2012
02:52:26,266 --> 02:52:26,700
Now

2013
02:52:28,466 --> 02:52:32,866
I want to respond to his 
call for unity myself. 
We have a big tent

2014
02:52:32,866 --> 02:52:37,166
in this party on everything 
from national security 
to economic policy.

2015
02:52:38,900 --> 02:52:41,966
But my message to you, 
my fellow Republicans, 
is, we love this country

2016
02:52:41,966 --> 02:52:44,966
and we are united to win.

2017
02:52:51,933 --> 02:52:56,933
Right. Now I think our 
disagreements actually 
make us stronger.

2018
02:52:58,633 --> 02:52:59,766
That's what I've learned 
in my time in the 
United States Senate,

2019
02:53:01,566 --> 02:53:04,000
where sometimes I 
persuade my colleagues and 
sometimes they persuade

2020
02:53:04,000 --> 02:53:08,733
me. And my message to my 
fellow Americans, those 
watching from across

2021
02:53:08,733 --> 02:53:13,266
the country is, shouldn't 
we be governed by a 
party that is unafraid

2022
02:53:13,266 --> 02:53:16,366
to debate ideas and come 
to the best solution?

2023
02:53:24,900 --> 02:53:29,433
That's the Republican 
Party of the next 4 
years, united in our love

2024
02:53:29,433 --> 02:53:33,500
for this country and 
committed to free speech 
and the open exchange

2025
02:53:33,500 --> 02:53:36,500
of ideas.

2026
02:53:42,066 --> 02:53:46,633
And so tonight, Mr. 
Chairman, I stand here 
humbled. And I'm overwhelmed

2027
02:53:46,633 --> 02:53:50,800
with gratitude to say, 
I officially accept 
your nomination to be

2028
02:53:50,800 --> 02:53:53,800
vice president of the 
United States of America.

2029
02:54:22,100 --> 02:54:27,100
Now, never in my wildest 
imagination could I 
have believed that I'd

2030
02:54:28,566 --> 02:54:31,366
be standing here tonight. I 
grew up in Middletown, Ohio.

2031
02:54:35,900 --> 02:54:39,633
A small town where 
people spoke their minds, 
built with their hands,

2032
02:54:41,433 --> 02:54:43,133
and loved their God, 
their family, their 
community and their country

2033
02:54:43,133 --> 02:54:47,333
with their whole hearts. 
But it was also a place 
that had been cast

2034
02:54:47,333 --> 02:54:50,966
aside and forgotten by America's 
ruling class in Washington.

2035
02:54:52,733 --> 02:54:55,833
When I was in the 4th 
grade, a career politician 
by the name of Joe

2036
02:54:55,833 --> 02:55:00,333
Biden supported NAFTA, 
a bad trade deal that 
sent countless good

2037
02:55:00,333 --> 02:55:03,300
jobs to Mexico.

2038
02:55:05,866 --> 02:55:09,366
When I was a sophomore 
in high school, that 
same career politician

2039
02:55:09,366 --> 02:55:13,800
named Joe Biden gave 
China a sweetheart trade 
deal that destroyed

2040
02:55:13,800 --> 02:55:17,633
even more good American middle 
class manufacturing jobs.

2041
02:55:20,900 --> 02:55:24,300
When I was a senior in 
high school, that same 
Joe Biden supported

2042
02:55:24,300 --> 02:55:29,300
the disastrous invasion 
of Iraq, and at each 
step of the way in small

2043
02:55:31,033 --> 02:55:33,600
towns like mine in 
Ohio or next door in 
Pennsylvania or Michigan,

2044
02:55:35,366 --> 02:55:38,500
and states all across 
our country, jobs were 
sent overseas and our

2045
02:55:38,500 --> 02:55:41,266
children were sent to war. And

2046
02:55:50,200 --> 02:55:50,700
So

2047
02:56:04,000 --> 02:56:04,800
I agree

2048
02:56:07,366 --> 02:56:12,366
And somehow. A real 
estate developer from 
New York City by the name

2049
02:56:14,133 --> 02:56:17,300
of Donald J. Trump was 
right on all of these 
issues while Biden was

2050
02:56:17,300 --> 02:56:20,300
wrong.

2051
02:56:23,066 --> 02:56:28,066
President Trump knew 
even then that we needed 
leaders who would put

2052
02:56:28,066 --> 02:56:31,066
America first.

2053
02:56:35,833 --> 02:56:39,133
Now thanks to these 
these policies that Biden 
and other out of touch

2054
02:56:39,133 --> 02:56:43,600
politicians in Washington 
gave us our country 
was flooded with cheap

2055
02:56:43,600 --> 02:56:48,600
Chinese goods with cheap 
foreign labor and in 
the decades to come,

2056
02:56:50,300 --> 02:56:54,333
deadly Chinese fentanyl. 
Joe Biden screwed up 
and my community paid

2057
02:56:55,200 --> 02:56:58,000
the price. Now, I was lucky.

2058
02:56:59,733 --> 02:57:01,966
Despite the closing 
factories and the growing 
addiction in towns

2059
02:57:01,966 --> 02:57:05,733
like mine. In my life, I had 
a guardian angel by my side.

2060
02:57:07,433 --> 02:57:09,833
She was an old woman 
who could barely walk, 
but she was tough as

2061
02:57:09,833 --> 02:57:14,833
nails. I called her mammo. 
The name we hillbillies 
gave to our grandmothers.

2062
02:57:22,833 --> 02:57:26,900
Ma'am all raised me 
as her own. Excuse me, 
ma'am I raised me as my

2063
02:57:26,900 --> 02:57:31,900
mother struggled with 
addiction. Ma'ammo was 
in so many ways a woman

2064
02:57:33,666 --> 02:57:34,800
of contradiction. She 
loved the Lord, ladies 
and gentlemen. She was

2065
02:57:34,800 --> 02:57:37,766
a woman of very deep 
Christian faith.

2066
02:57:43,466 --> 02:57:46,466
But she also loved the F word.

2067
02:57:48,866 --> 02:57:53,866
I'm not kidding. She 
could make a sailor 
blush. Now she once told

2068
02:57:55,600 --> 02:57:58,233
me when she found out 
that I was spending too 
much time with a local

2069
02:57:58,233 --> 02:58:02,000
kid who was known for 
dealing drugs, that if 
I ever hung out with

2070
02:58:02,000 --> 02:58:05,066
that kid again, she would 
run him over with her car.

2071
02:58:10,466 --> 02:58:14,900
That's true. And she 
said, JD, no one will 
ever find out about it.

2072
02:58:33,133 --> 02:58:37,000
Now, now thanks to that 
memo things worked out 
for me. After 9/11.

2073
02:58:38,700 --> 02:58:41,033
I did what thousands 
of other young men my 
age did in that time of

2074
02:58:41,033 --> 02:58:44,833
soaring patriotism 
and love of country. I 
enlisted in the United

2075
02:58:44,833 --> 02:58:47,833
States Marines.

2076
02:58:55,133 --> 02:59:00,200
Simplify to my fellow 
Marines. Now I, I left 
the Marines after 4

2077
02:59:01,466 --> 02:59:03,766
years and went to the 
Ohio State University.

2078
02:59:12,633 --> 02:59:15,633
I'm sorry, Michigan, I 
had to get that in there.

2079
02:59:24,633 --> 02:59:28,633
Come on, come on. We've had 
enough political violence. Let's

2080
02:59:31,300 --> 02:59:34,700
Now after Ohio State, I 
went to Yale Law School 
where I met my beautiful

2081
02:59:34,700 --> 02:59:38,600
wife, and then I started 
businesses to create 
jobs in the kind of

2082
02:59:38,600 --> 02:59:42,933
places that I grew up 
in. Now my work taught 
me that there is still

2083
02:59:42,933 --> 02:59:46,933
so much talent and 
grit in the American 
heartland. There really is.

2084
02:59:48,400 --> 02:59:51,933
But for these places to thrive, 
my friends, we need a leader who

2085
02:59:51,933 --> 02:59:54,933
fights for the people 
who built this country.

2086
03:00:02,933 --> 03:00:07,100
We need a leader who's 
not in the pocket of big 
business, but answers

2087
03:00:07,100 --> 03:00:10,600
to the working man, union 
and non-union alike.

2088
03:00:17,200 --> 03:00:20,800
A leader who won't sell 
out to multinational 
corporations but will

2089
03:00:20,800 --> 03:00:24,233
stand up for American companies 
and American industry.

2090
03:00:30,966 --> 03:00:35,166
A leader who rejects 
Joe Biden and Kamala 
Harris's Green News scam

2091
03:00:35,166 --> 03:00:39,933
and fights to bring 
back our great American 
factories. We need President

2092
03:00:39,933 --> 03:00:42,933
Donald J. Trump.

2093
03:00:53,333 --> 03:00:55,933
Some people tell me I've 
lived the American dream 
and of course they're

2094
03:00:55,933 --> 03:00:59,533
right, and I'm so 
grateful for it. But the 
American dream that always

2095
03:00:59,533 --> 03:01:03,600
counted most was not 
starting a business or 
becoming a senator or

2096
03:01:03,600 --> 03:01:06,233
even being here with 
you fine people though, 
it's pretty awesome.

2097
03:01:08,300 --> 03:01:11,466
My most important American dream 
was becoming a good husband and

2098
03:01:11,466 --> 03:01:15,700
a good dad. of being 
able to give. Yeah

2099
03:01:21,433 --> 03:01:24,633
I wanted to give my 
kids the things that I 
didn't have when I was

2100
03:01:24,633 --> 03:01:28,066
growing up, and that's 
the accomplishment 
that I'm proudest of.

2101
03:01:29,366 --> 03:01:32,933
That tonight I'm joined 
By my beautiful wife Usha.

2102
03:01:34,666 --> 03:01:38,233
An incredible lawyer 
and a better mom. And 
our 3 beautiful kids,

2103
03:01:40,033 --> 03:01:43,500
Ewan, who's 7. Viva, 
who's 4, and Mirabel, 
who's 2. Now they're back

2104
03:01:43,500 --> 03:01:46,833
at the hotel and kids, 
if you're watching, Daddy 
loves you very much,

2105
03:01:48,100 --> 03:01:50,100
but get your butts in 
bed. It's 10 o'clock.

2106
03:01:53,733 --> 03:01:57,000
But my friends, things 
did not work out well 
for a lot of kids I

2107
03:01:57,000 --> 03:02:00,700
grew up with. Every now 
and then I will get a 
call from a relative

2108
03:02:00,700 --> 03:02:04,933
back home who asked, 
did you know so and so? 
And I remember a face

2109
03:02:04,933 --> 03:02:09,666
from years ago and then 
I'll hear, they died of 
an overdose. As always,

2110
03:02:11,433 --> 03:02:13,900
America's ruling class 
wrote the checks. 
Communities like mine paid

2111
03:02:13,900 --> 03:02:18,700
the price. For decades 
that divide between the 
few with their power

2112
03:02:18,700 --> 03:02:23,166
and comfort in Washington 
and the rest of us 
only widened. From Iraq

2113
03:02:23,166 --> 03:02:27,500
to Afghanistan from the 
financial crisis to the 
Great Recession from

2114
03:02:27,500 --> 03:02:31,566
open borders to stagnating 
wages, the people who 
govern this country

2115
03:02:31,566 --> 03:02:34,566
have failed and failed again.

2116
03:02:42,733 --> 03:02:45,733
That is, of course, 
until a guy named Donald 
J. Trump came along.

2117
03:02:51,433 --> 03:02:55,566
President Trump represents 
America's last best 
hope to restore what

2118
03:02:55,566 --> 03:03:00,566
if lost, may never be 
found again. A country 
where working class

2119
03:03:00,566 --> 03:03:05,200
boy born far from the 
halls of power can stand 
on this stage as the

2120
03:03:05,200 --> 03:03:08,200
next vice president of the 
United States of America.

2121
03:03:20,300 --> 03:03:23,300
Yes.

2122
03:03:30,233 --> 03:03:34,300
But my fellow Americans 
here in this stage and

2123
03:03:35,766 --> 03:03:38,233
Watching at home. This moment is 
not about me. It's about all of

2124
03:03:38,233 --> 03:03:42,766
us. It's about who 
we're fighting for. It's 
about the auto worker

2125
03:03:42,766 --> 03:03:46,800
in Michigan wondering why out of 
touch politicians are destroying

2126
03:03:46,800 --> 03:03:51,800
their jobs. It's about 
the factory worker in 
Wisconsin who makes

2127
03:03:53,300 --> 03:03:56,266
things with their hands and is 
proud of American craftsmanship.

2128
03:04:01,200 --> 03:04:04,900
It's about the energy 
worker in Pennsylvania 
and Ohio who doesn't

2129
03:04:04,900 --> 03:04:09,100
understand why Joe Biden 
is willing to buy energy 
from tin pot dictators

2130
03:04:09,100 --> 03:04:12,033
across the world when 
he could buy it from 
his own citizens right

2131
03:04:12,033 --> 03:04:15,033
here in our own country.

2132
03:04:44,566 --> 03:04:47,566
You guys are a great crowd. Wow.

2133
03:04:50,633 --> 03:04:51,200
And

2134
03:05:16,366 --> 03:05:20,766
And it's about our 
movement is about single 
moms like mine. struggled

2135
03:05:20,766 --> 03:05:23,900
with money and addiction 
but never gave up.

2136
03:05:25,600 --> 03:05:27,900
And I'm proud to say 
that tonight my mom is 
here. 10 years clean

2137
03:05:27,900 --> 03:05:30,900
and sober. I love you mom.

2138
03:06:31,500 --> 03:06:34,800
And, and, and you know, 
mom, I was thinking.

2139
03:06:36,466 --> 03:06:41,300
It'll be 10 years 
officially in January of 
2025, and if President

2140
03:06:43,066 --> 03:06:44,666
Trump is OK with it, 
let's have the celebration 
in the White House.

2141
03:07:03,166 --> 03:07:06,500
And our movement, ladies 
and gentlemen, it's 
about grandparents all

2142
03:07:06,500 --> 03:07:10,633
across this country who 
are living on Social 
Security and raising

2143
03:07:10,633 --> 03:07:14,466
grandchildren they didn't expect 
to raise. And while we're on the

2144
03:07:14,466 --> 03:07:18,300
topic of grandparents, 
let me tell you another 
mammoth story. And

2145
03:07:18,300 --> 03:07:21,533
my mama died shortly before 
I left for Iraq in 2005.

2146
03:07:23,233 --> 03:07:26,366
And when we went through 
things, we found 19 
loaded handguns. They

2147
03:07:26,366 --> 03:07:29,366
were.

2148
03:07:42,833 --> 03:07:43,366
Now

2149
03:07:45,100 --> 03:07:48,000
The thing is that they 
were stashed all over 
her house under her

2150
03:07:48,000 --> 03:07:53,000
bed, in her closet in 
the silverware drawer. 
And we wondered what

2151
03:07:54,800 --> 03:07:57,233
was going on. And it 
occurred to us that towards 
the end of her life,

2152
03:07:59,000 --> 03:08:01,233
Mamma couldn't get around 
so well. And so this 
frail old woman made

2153
03:08:01,233 --> 03:08:04,733
sure that no matter 
where she was, she was 
within arm's length of

2154
03:08:04,733 --> 03:08:08,366
whatever she needed 
to protect her family. 
That's who we fight for.

2155
03:08:09,100 --> 03:08:11,533
That's American spirit.

2156
03:08:37,066 --> 03:08:40,300
Now Joe Biden has 
been a politician in 
Washington for longer than

2157
03:08:40,300 --> 03:08:45,300
I've been alive. 39 
years old. Kamala Harris 
is not much further

2158
03:08:46,766 --> 03:08:50,700
behind. For half a century, he's 
been the champion of every major

2159
03:08:52,100 --> 03:08:54,966
policy initiative to make 
America weaker and poorer.

2160
03:08:56,833 --> 03:09:01,300
And in 4 short years Donald 
Trump reversed decades 
of betrayals inflicted

2161
03:09:02,766 --> 03:09:06,666
by Joe Biden and the rest of 
the corrupt Washington insiders.

2162
03:09:14,500 --> 03:09:19,233
He created the greatest 
economy in history for 
workers. Really was

2163
03:09:19,233 --> 03:09:23,300
amazing. There's, 
there's this chart that 
shows worker wages, and

2164
03:09:23,300 --> 03:09:26,200
they stagnated for pretty 
much my entire life

2165
03:09:28,033 --> 03:09:30,733
until President Donald 
J. Trump came along. 
Workers' wages went through

2166
03:09:30,733 --> 03:09:33,733
the roof.

2167
03:09:36,966 --> 03:09:41,966
And just imagine what 
he's going to do when we 
give him 4 more years.

2168
03:10:06,900 --> 03:10:11,266
Months ago I heard some 
young family member 
observe that their parents'

2169
03:10:11,266 --> 03:10:14,233
generation, the baby 
boomers, could afford 
to buy a home when they

2170
03:10:14,233 --> 03:10:18,066
first entered the 
workforce. But I don't 
know this person observed,

2171
03:10:19,533 --> 03:10:23,333
if I'll ever be able to afford a 
home. The absurd cost of housing

2172
03:10:23,333 --> 03:10:28,066
is the result of so many 
failures, and it reveals 
so much about what's

2173
03:10:28,066 --> 03:10:32,900
broken in Washington. I can tell 
you exactly how it happened.

2174
03:10:34,566 --> 03:10:37,233
Wall Street barons 
crashed the economy and 
American builders went

2175
03:10:37,233 --> 03:10:42,133
out of business. As 
tradesmen scrambled for 
jobs, houses stopped

2176
03:10:42,133 --> 03:10:47,133
being built. The lack 
of good jobs, of course, 
led to stagnant wages.

2177
03:10:48,866 --> 03:10:51,500
And then the Democrats 
flooded this country 
with millions of illegal

2178
03:10:51,500 --> 03:10:54,466
aliens.

2179
03:10:56,600 --> 03:11:01,066
So citizens had to 
compete with people who 
shouldn't even be here

2180
03:11:01,066 --> 03:11:06,066
for precious housing. 
Joe Biden's inflation 
crisis, my friends, is

2181
03:11:07,766 --> 03:11:10,300
really an affordability 
crisis. And many of 
the people that I grew

2182
03:11:10,300 --> 03:11:14,833
up with can't afford to 
pay more for groceries, 
more for gas, more

2183
03:11:14,833 --> 03:11:18,833
for rent, and that's 
exactly what Joe Biden's 
economy has given them.

2184
03:11:39,566 --> 03:11:44,366
So prices soared, dreams 
were shattered. And 
China and the cartels

2185
03:11:44,366 --> 03:11:48,400
sent fentanyl across the 
border, adding addiction 
to the heartache.

2186
03:11:49,900 --> 03:11:53,200
But ladies and gentlemen, that 
is not the end of our story.

2187
03:11:54,966 --> 03:11:57,866
We've heard about villains 
and their victims. 
I've talked a lot about

2188
03:11:57,866 --> 03:12:02,833
that, but let me tell 
you about the future. 
President Trump's vision

2189
03:12:03,766 --> 03:12:06,600
is so simple and 
yet so powerful.

2190
03:12:08,333 --> 03:12:11,166
We're done, ladies and 
gentlemen, catering to 
Wall Street will commit

2191
03:12:11,166 --> 03:12:14,166
to the working man.

2192
03:12:21,366 --> 03:12:24,900
We're done importing 
foreign labor. We're going 
to fight for American

2193
03:12:24,900 --> 03:12:27,900
citizens and their good 
jobs and their good wages.

2194
03:12:35,833 --> 03:12:38,566
Were done by an energy 
from countries that 
hate us, we're going to

2195
03:12:38,566 --> 03:12:42,766
get it right here from American 
workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio

2196
03:12:42,766 --> 03:12:45,766
and across the country.

2197
03:12:49,200 --> 03:12:53,733
We're done sacrificing 
supply chains to unlimited 
global trade, and

2198
03:12:53,733 --> 03:12:57,400
we're going to stamp 
more and more products 
with that beautiful label

2199
03:12:58,000 --> 03:13:00,833
made in the USA.

2200
03:13:16,466 --> 03:13:20,000
We're gonna build 
factories again, put 
people to work making real

2201
03:13:20,000 --> 03:13:25,000
products for American 
families made with the 
hands of American workers

2202
03:13:25,566 --> 03:13:28,066
together.

2203
03:13:29,833 --> 03:13:34,200
We will protect the 
wages of American workers 
and stop the Chinese

2204
03:13:34,200 --> 03:13:37,600
Communist Party from 
building their middle 
class on the backs of

2205
03:13:37,600 --> 03:13:40,600
American citizens.

2206
03:13:51,800 --> 03:13:56,800
Together we will make 
sure our allies share in 
the burden of securing

2207
03:13:58,633 --> 03:14:01,666
world peace. No more free 
rides for nations that 
betray the generosity

2208
03:14:01,666 --> 03:14:04,666
of the American taxpayer.

2209
03:14:12,033 --> 03:14:17,033
Together we will send our 
kids to war only when we 
must. But as President

2210
03:14:18,733 --> 03:14:21,733
Trump showed with the 
elimination of ISIS and 
so much more when we

2211
03:14:21,733 --> 03:14:24,733
punch, we're going 
to punch hard.

2212
03:14:33,133 --> 03:14:37,133
Together we will put 
the citizens of America 
first, whatever the

2213
03:14:37,133 --> 03:14:42,133
color of their skin, we will, in 
short, make America great again.

2214
03:14:55,833 --> 03:14:57,066
You know, one of the things

2215
03:14:58,766 --> 03:15:01,800
that you hear people 
say sometimes is that 
America is an idea.

2216
03:15:03,500 --> 03:15:06,733
And to be clear, America 
was indeed founded on 
brilliant ideas like

2217
03:15:06,733 --> 03:15:10,600
the rule of law and 
religious liberty, things 
written into the fabric

2218
03:15:10,600 --> 03:15:15,600
of our Constitution and 
our nation. But America 
is not just an idea.

2219
03:15:17,300 --> 03:15:21,300
It is a group of people 
with a shared history 
and a common future.

2220
03:15:22,133 --> 03:15:23,900
It is, in short. A nation

2221
03:15:25,733 --> 03:15:28,066
Now it is part of that 
tradition, of course, 
that we welcome newcomers.

2222
03:15:29,866 --> 03:15:32,333
But when we allow 
newcomers into our American 
family, we allow them

2223
03:15:32,333 --> 03:15:35,333
on our terms.

2224
03:15:43,133 --> 03:15:46,933
That's the way we 
preserve the continuity 
of this project from 250

2225
03:15:46,933 --> 03:15:51,033
years past to hopefully 
250 years in the future.

2226
03:15:57,566 --> 03:16:00,466
And let me illustrate this with 
a story, if I may. I'm of course

2227
03:16:00,466 --> 03:16:03,333
married to the daughter 
of South Asian immigrants 
to this country,

2228
03:16:05,100 --> 03:16:07,166
incredible people, 
people who genuinely have 
enriched this country

2229
03:16:07,166 --> 03:16:10,633
in so many ways, and 
of course I'm biased 
because I love my wife

2230
03:16:10,633 --> 03:16:15,633
and her family, but 
it's true. Now what I 
propose to my wife, we

2231
03:16:15,633 --> 03:16:20,100
were in law school and 
I said, honey. I come 
with $1,200,000 worth

2232
03:16:20,100 --> 03:16:24,166
of law school debt and 
a cemetery plot on a 
mountainside in eastern

2233
03:16:24,166 --> 03:16:27,166
Kentucky.

2234
03:16:37,033 --> 03:16:39,800
And I, I, I guess 
standing here tonight, 
it's just gotten weirder

2235
03:16:39,800 --> 03:16:44,800
and weirder, honey. That, 
but, but that's what 
she was getting. Now

2236
03:16:46,533 --> 03:16:49,533
that cemetery plot in 
eastern Kentucky is near 
my family's ancestral

2237
03:16:49,533 --> 03:16:53,100
home and like a lot of 
people, we came from the 
mountains of Appalachia

2238
03:16:53,100 --> 03:16:57,366
into the factories of 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
Michigan, and Wisconsin.

2239
03:17:04,800 --> 03:17:07,800
Now that's Kentucky coal 
country, one of the 10.

2240
03:17:15,833 --> 03:17:19,300
Now it's one of the 10 
poorest counties in the 
entire United States

2241
03:17:19,300 --> 03:17:23,866
of America. They are 
very hardworking people 
and they're very good

2242
03:17:23,866 --> 03:17:26,266
people. They're the 
kind of people who would 
give you the shirt off

2243
03:17:26,266 --> 03:17:29,900
their back even if they 
can't afford enough 
to eat. And our media

2244
03:17:29,900 --> 03:17:33,600
calls them privileged and looks 
down on them. But they love this

2245
03:17:33,600 --> 03:17:38,600
country not only because 
it's a good idea. But 
because in their bones

2246
03:17:40,300 --> 03:17:43,200
they know that this is 
their home, and it will 
be their children's

2247
03:17:43,200 --> 03:17:46,200
home and they would die 
fighting to protect it.

2248
03:17:58,366 --> 03:18:02,766
That is the source of 
America's greatness. As 
the United States senator,

2249
03:18:04,433 --> 03:18:06,000
I get to represent 
millions of people in 
the great state of Ohio

2250
03:18:06,000 --> 03:18:08,833
with similar stories, and it 
is the great honor of my life.

2251
03:18:10,533 --> 03:18:12,600
Now in that cemetery, 
there are people who 
are born around the time

2252
03:18:12,600 --> 03:18:16,733
of the Civil War. And 
if, as I hope, My wife 
and I are eventually

2253
03:18:16,733 --> 03:18:21,733
laid to rest there. And 
our kids follow us. There 
will be 7 generations

2254
03:18:23,433 --> 03:18:25,800
just in that small 
mountain cemetery plot 
in eastern Kentucky. 7

2255
03:18:25,800 --> 03:18:29,033
generations of people 
who have fought for 
this country, who have

2256
03:18:29,033 --> 03:18:32,466
built this country. 
Who have made things 
in this country and who

2257
03:18:32,466 --> 03:18:36,366
would fight and die to 
protect this country 
if they were asked to.

2258
03:18:44,033 --> 03:18:44,366
Yeah

2259
03:18:46,033 --> 03:18:48,733
Now that's not just 
an idea, my friends. 
That's not just a set of

2260
03:18:48,733 --> 03:18:52,633
principles, even though 
the ideas and the 
principles are great. That

2261
03:18:52,633 --> 03:18:55,633
is a homeland that 
is our homeland.

2262
03:19:02,200 --> 03:19:06,366
People will not fight 
for abstractions, but 
they will fight for their

2263
03:19:06,366 --> 03:19:11,366
home. And if this 
movement of ours is going 
to succeed and if this

2264
03:19:13,033 --> 03:19:15,466
country is going to 
thrive, our leaders have 
to remember that America

2265
03:19:15,466 --> 03:19:20,100
is a nation and its 
citizens deserve leaders 
who put its interests

2266
03:19:20,100 --> 03:19:23,100
first.

2267
03:19:30,933 --> 03:19:33,966
Now we won't agree on 
every issue, of course, 
not even in this room.

2268
03:19:35,666 --> 03:19:38,166
We may disagree from 
time to time about how 
best to reinvigorate

2269
03:19:38,166 --> 03:19:41,433
American industry and 
renew American family. 
That's fine. In fact,

2270
03:19:42,900 --> 03:19:45,766
it's more than fine, it's good. 
But never forget that the reason

2271
03:19:45,766 --> 03:19:50,266
why this united Republican 
Party exists. Why we 
do this? why we care

2272
03:19:50,266 --> 03:19:54,433
about those great ideas 
and that great history 
is that we want this

2273
03:19:54,433 --> 03:19:57,433
nation to thrive for 
centuries to come.

2274
03:20:07,400 --> 03:20:11,533
Now eventually in that 
that mountain cemetery. 
My children will lay

2275
03:20:11,533 --> 03:20:15,800
me to rest. And when 
they do, I would like 
them to know that thanks

2276
03:20:15,800 --> 03:20:20,166
to the work of this 
Republican Party, the 
United States of America

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and as strong and as proud 
and as great as ever.

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That is who we serve, 
my friends. That is who 
we fight for and the

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only thing that we need 
to do right now, the 
most important thing

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that we can do for those people, 
for that American nation that we

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all love is to re-elect 
Donald J. Trump, 
President of the United

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States.

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Mr. President, I will 
never take for granted 
the trust you have put

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in me. And what an honor 
it is to help achieve 
the extraordinary

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vision that you have 
for this country. Now I 
pledge to every American,

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no matter your party, I 
will give you everything 
I have to serve

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you and to make this 
country a place where 
every dream you have for

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yourself, your family, 
and your country will 
be possible once again.

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And I promise you one 
more thing. To the people 
of Middletown, Ohio

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and all the forgotten 
communities. In Michigan, 
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,

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and Ohio and every 
corner of our nation, I 
promise you this, I will

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be a vice president who never 
forgets where he came from.

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And every single day for 
the next 4 years when 
I walk into the White

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House to help President 
Trump, I will be doing 
it for you, for your

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family, for your future, 
and for this great 
country. Thank you. God

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bless all of you and God 
bless our great country.

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There you have JD Vance 
Junior senator from Ohio, 
accepting the Republican

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Party's nomination to 
be the vice presidential 
nominee on the ticket

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with former President 
Donald Trump. Judy 
Woodruff, what do you make

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of his remarks? Well, 
what youngest person 
or one of the youngest

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ever chosen to be a vice 
presidential running 
mate. I think he did

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the job that Donald Trump 
probably wanted him to 
do. He made contrasts.

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He, uh, you know, he 
talked about Joe Biden's 
age. He said when I

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was in the 4th grade, Joe 
Biden supported NAFTA. 
Um, he personalized

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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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I'm in the viz for all 
of us here at PBS News. 
Thank you for joining

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us and good night.

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