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00:13Good evening.
00:14I'm Bret Baier.
00:15We're coming to you live from Chicago's United Center for the second night of the Democratic
00:18National Convention.
00:20The theme of tonight's proceedings, a bold vision for the future.
00:24The key speakers, however, may not be part of it for long.
00:27The headliner is 63-year-old former President Obama, also speaking, 73-year-old Senate
00:33Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and 82-year-old self-described socialist Bernie Sanders.
00:40When it comes to Biden-Harris administration foreign policy, specifically on Israel-Gaza,
00:45well that's expected to be protested outside of this hall by thousands of people engaging
00:50in demonstrations tonight.
00:52We have FOX team coverage tonight.
00:53Ayesha Hasni is following the Trump campaign in Michigan.
00:56Jackie Heinrich shows us what the Harris-Waltz ticket will be doing tonight from Milwaukee,
01:01Wisconsin.
01:02But we begin with senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy on the convention floor with a
01:06preview of tonight.
01:07Good evening, Peter.
01:08Good evening, Bret.
01:09Officials here are telling us the pre-planned program is being retooled.
01:13Things are being cut out of the show and it's going to start earlier because they are trying
01:17to avoid having the headliner pushed past primetime again.
01:26Now that the torch has been passed and Biden is out, Democrats are comparing Harris 2024
01:31to Obama 2008.
01:33As an Obama alum, you know, we don't say this easily because I don't want to get thrown
01:37out but it's beginning to feel like it.
01:40Tonight Chicago's own former President Barack Obama will lay out the task in front of Democrats
01:45over the next 11 weeks and bring into focus the values at stake in this election and at
01:50the heart of our politics.
01:51He sat in that chair.
01:53There are very few people in America that understand what it takes to actually do the
01:56job of being President of the United States.
02:00Some former Obama staffers are expressing concern that DNC officials pushed last night's
02:05keynote President Biden past primetime.
02:09People are not speaking over the applause.
02:10They're speaking at under 100 words per minute.
02:13Policy proposals are still not expected to figure prominently into anybody's remarks.
02:19Democrats always win when we run on hope and joy.
02:24You got team hope and joy right now.
02:28Republicans claim that won't work.
02:30This whole joy thing, this whole vibes thing, all that is is to cover up for the fact that
02:35their policies are a disaster for the American people.
02:40Democratic Party elders say it's not a given but it can work.
02:44The energy is there, but like all other energies, it's got to be harnessed.
02:50The atomic bomb wasn't worth much until the energy was harnessed.
02:57And down here on the convention floor, delegates are starting to take their seats in sections
03:01state by state to officially hand over delegates that once belonged to Joe Biden to Kamala
03:10Harris in a roll call that will begin ahead of tonight's official program.
03:14Brett.
03:15We'll cover it all.
03:16Peter Doocy live on the floor.
03:17Peter, thanks.
03:18Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are attending a campaign rally in Wisconsin tonight.
03:23It will be live streamed here into this arena.
03:27Senior White House correspondent Jackie Heinrich has that part of the story tonight live from
03:30Milwaukee.
03:31Good evening, Jackie.
03:32Good evening, Brett.
03:35Vice President Harris will miss that ceremonial roll call vote the DNC is putting on for her
03:39tonight.
03:40She'll be here 90 miles away, including when the Democratic Party's biggest names, Michelle
03:46and Barack Obama campaign on her behalf.
03:49We don't know why Harris chose to be so far away from the action on this specific night.
03:56Harris and Walz can come to Milwaukee just about any time.
03:59Joe Biden didn't want to stick around for Obama's night.
04:02He reportedly views Obama as partly responsible for the pressure campaign that ultimately
04:06ended his reelection bid.
04:07So perhaps Harris is trying to keep a respectful distance as Biden's VP.
04:12Biden did ad lib a line last night, though, saying he's not bitter toward anyone.
04:16This event here could also be an ode to Biden.
04:19Harris is rallying in Milwaukee four years to the day that he would have accepted his
04:23nomination here if it were not for the pandemic.
04:26One thing is certain, Democrats need Wisconsin.
04:29Campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said today Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania
04:33remain core to their path to 270.
04:36Even though the Sunbelt Sunbelt states are more competitive now and a rally here also
04:41serves as a message to Trump.
04:42The RNC took place in this exact arena last month.
04:47Last year, Republicans held their first primary debate here.
04:51So could be a message there.
04:53Also, those who came to see the Democratic ticket tonight will get to hear from the Obamas.
04:57Their speeches are being piped into a plaza just outside.
05:00Brad.
05:01All right.
05:02Jackie Heinrich live in Milwaukee.
05:03Jackie, thanks.
05:04You know, sometime the nominee from the opposing party stays out of the spotlight during the
05:08other party's convention week before President Donald Trump is on the move this week.
05:13He was in the battleground state of Michigan today.
05:16Congressional correspondent Ayesha Hosni reports tonight from Howell, Michigan.
05:20We're going to stop violent crime in the United States.
05:27And it's people like this that can do the job better than anybody.
05:30Former President Trump standing beside Livingston County Sheriff's officers as he laid out
05:35his public safety policies today in battleground Michigan.
05:39We're going to be guaranteeing immunities.
05:44They do their job.
05:45He also slammed Vice President Harris for her stance on police.
05:49You look at radical liberal Kamala Harris.
05:54She's been the ringleader for this anti crime and the anti police crusade.
06:01According to recent Fox News polling, crime is not a top concern for voters, but Trump
06:05leads Harris and who voters trust to do a better job on the issue.
06:10The vice president still hasn't come out with a policy platform of her own on public safety.
06:15For now, her surrogates are doing the talking.
06:1790% of Americans, more than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal
06:23background checks.
06:24But Donald Trump says no, the Republican Party says no.
06:28But the Harris campaign did blast Trump for today's event location, a town where about
06:33a dozen white supremacists rallied for him last month, chanting Heil Hitler.
06:38Folks who live here tell Fox that's not what this community is about.
06:42I was disgusted because we have a good town, good people.
06:46Who was here in 2021?
06:51Joe Biden.
06:54Yeah, that is a reference to President Biden visiting this town in 2021 to talk up his
06:59build back better plan.
07:01Brett, Trump also made some news today by saying that he'd be open to bringing in RFK
07:07Jr. into his administration, perhaps giving him a role as long as if he were to drop out
07:13and endorse him, telling CNN, quote, I like him and I respect him.
07:19Brett, I shows me on the road with the former president.
07:22I should.
07:23Thanks.
07:24Breaking tonight, an alarming and incriminating revelation from Homeland Security inspectors.
07:31Inspector General, that office says the government during the Biden-Harris administration has
07:35lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children.
07:41Big story.
07:42National correspondent William Lajeunesse tells us who's getting most of the blame here.
07:45Good evening, William.
07:46Good evening, Brett.
07:47You know, for all the rhetoric about vulnerable, unaccompanied immigrant children, not only
07:51does the Biden-Harris administration have no idea where thousands of these kids are,
07:57the IG report says they're not looking.
07:59It describes what is supposed to be a seamless chain of custody from the time an immigrant
08:04child is encountered at the border to a shelter or sponsor till they're reunited with a parent
08:09or become an adult or are deported.
08:11Instead, inspectors found a safety net filled with gaping holes with neither ICE nor the
08:17HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement accepting responsibility.
08:22ORR does not monitor or track the whereabouts of children after they are released from our
08:30care.
08:31So, in the last five years, 200 Trump, 300 Biden, HHS took in about 500,000 unaccompanied
08:37minors, but more than half.
08:39The grand jury found evidence of unaccompanied children fleeing sponsors who were selling
08:43them for sex.
08:46If you recall, Brett Democrats hammered Trump when he lost or couldn't account for 1,500
08:51children.
08:52This report puts Biden's numbers in the hundreds of thousands, yet it's unlikely you'll hear
08:56much about that tonight.
08:57Back to you.
08:59William, thank you.
09:00We will hear from Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona just shortly.
09:03Here are some other headlines tonight.
09:05Secretary of State Antony Blinken presses ahead with the latest diplomatic mission to
09:08secure.
09:10If you recall, Brett Democrats hammered Trump when he lost or couldn't account for 1,500
09:15children.
09:16This report puts Biden's numbers in the hundreds of thousands, yet it's unlikely you'll hear
09:20much about that tonight.
09:21Back to you, William.
09:25We will hear from Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona just shortly.
09:27Here are some other headlines tonight.
09:29Secretary of State Antony Blinken presses ahead with the latest diplomatic mission to
09:32secure a ceasefire in Gaza or try to.
09:36Both Hamas and Israel have signaled that challenges remain.
09:39Hamas in a new statement calling the latest proposal presented to it a reversal of what
09:44it agreed to previously.
09:46It accuses the U.S. of acquiescing to what it called new conditions from Israel.
09:51No immediate U.S. response.
09:53Russian sources say Ukrainian forces have either destroyed or damaged all three bridges
09:58over the same river in western Russia, incursion into Russia's Kursk region in its third week
10:04now.
10:05Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the operation aims to create a buffer zone
10:09between the two countries.
10:11And specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts are searching for six missing
10:16passengers and crew believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht.
10:22The boat was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly sank off Sicily.
10:26Among those thought to be on board is British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
10:31One body has been recovered.
10:32Fifteen people did survive.
10:35Fresh data coming in tomorrow could indicate the labor market is not as strong as we think.
10:40Economists predict that Wednesday's preliminary revision for the increase in U.S. employment
10:45from April 23 to March 24 could show job growth reduced by anywhere from 600,000 jobs to one
10:52million jobs.
10:53It's a revision.
10:55If those expectations are accurate, tomorrow's report will likely firm up expectations for
10:59a quarter-point interest rate cut in September.
11:02Wall Street rebound paused today.
11:05The Dow lost 62.
11:06The S&P 500 finished off 11.
11:08The Nasdaq dropped 60.
11:10Up next, our look at the important issues to Democrats focuses on threats to personal
11:15rights or freedoms and how school choice has become a major issue here in Chicago.
11:22Tonight we continue our series looking at issues important to Democratic voters.
11:27Threats to personal rights or freedoms are among top concerns for both Democrats and
11:32Republicans.
11:33For many families, that means the freedom and the right to manage a child's education.
11:39The freedom to make your own choices.
11:44I see freedom from fear and intimidation, from violence and injustice, from chaos and
11:51corruption.
11:52Tracy Smith is the mother of twin boys, Alexander and Christopher.
11:56They attended grammar school at St. Sabina Academy and are now seniors at Marist High
12:00School.
12:01Their mother was able to afford their private school education thanks to a scholarship program.
12:06And how is that possible?
12:07You had a scholarship.
12:08Yes, well, they attended St. Sabina Academy.
12:11We had the text for the scholarship, which was actually a five-year pilot program in
12:14the city of Chicago, which started in 2017 to 2024, which is sunset.
12:20They attended grammar school at St. Sabina Academy and are now seniors at Marist High
12:24School.
12:25Their mother was able to afford their private school education thanks to a scholarship program.
12:30And how is that possible?
12:32You had a scholarship.
12:33Yes, well, they attended St. Sabina Academy.
12:35We had the text for the scholarship, which was actually a five-year pilot program in
12:38the city of Chicago, which started in 2017 to 2024, which is sunset.
12:43We're advocates and laborers to get them to extend the scholarship, to save our scholarship.
12:48We have been advocating for months and years, talking to our legislators and our senators
12:52who let us down.
12:53Illinois enacted the Invest in Kids Scholarship Tax Credit Program back in 2017.
13:00The initiative offered a 75 percent income tax credit to individuals and businesses that
13:04contributed to scholarship-granting organizations.
13:08The awards are then provided to students who meet income requirements so they can attend
13:13private schools.
13:14Being here at St. Sabina, we were able to explore the arts.
13:18They learned how to play the flute.
13:21They learned how to play the violin.
13:23Just the doors of opportunity that open when a child gets to choose where they want to
13:27go.
13:28Education is a choice.
13:29It shouldn't just be based on finances.
13:32It should be a family choice.
13:35The Invest in Kids program ended in December.
13:37Now, with summer vacation coming to an end, some students may find themselves in new environments.
13:44So what's going to happen now?
13:46That is the worst part of it.
13:48A lot of families now are scrambling to see what are they going to do for the next tax
13:52year.
13:53Coming up, the financial burden is too much if you have two or three children and you
13:56have to come out of pocket with the full revenue.
14:00That's a good question.
14:01That's a question for our legislators.
14:03The Chicago Teachers Union viewed the end of the program as an historic win for public
14:07education.
14:09Organizers argued the fund took money away from public education.
14:13I guess the teachers union, others pushed back and saying this is about, it's going
14:18to hurt public education.
14:20I think that that's the pushback that they got.
14:23Why do we have to choose which education is the best?
14:27Why can't the families choose what's best for their children?
14:30For me and mine, it was coming to smaller classrooms.
14:34It was being able for me to give them a faith based education where they could learn about
14:40God and build on their faith, where they could become community activists, where they could
14:44get into boy scouting and oratorical, where they flourish academically because education
14:51is a choice.
14:52Illinois state data shows Chicago public schools would need nearly 1.2 billion dollars to be
14:58adequately funded.
14:59The district already receives about 21 percent of state funding despite serving just 18 percent
15:06of Illinois students.
15:07You're a substitute teacher in the Chicago system.
15:11What's your impression of working there compared to kids education?
15:16I think that we need to balance our children in both systems.
15:20They need to be exposed.
15:22I think it's just connecting our kids to where they need to be to get them to where they
15:27need to go and making sure they're adequately prepared when they get there.
15:32And I believe that's all the way across the board, whatever school system you choose.
15:35According to the latest nationwide data, only 35 percent of fourth graders were found to
15:40be proficient in math.
15:42In Illinois, that number is slightly higher at 38 percent.
15:46But for Chicago public schools, that number was much lower at 20 percent proficiency.
15:52Now you're fighting locally, you're fighting in the state, but really this is a national
15:57issue, you know, this choice, school choice.
16:00Yes, it is.
16:01And it could be an issue for this election.
16:03It should be.
16:04Education is always a front runner.
16:06Illinois has released more recent data showing test scores are on the rise.
16:10But for families like Tracy's, losing the option to choose where kids go to school could
16:16change some students' academic futures.
16:19All I want to do is make the country good.
16:21We want to have choice for education.
16:23We face a choice between two very different visions for our nation.
16:30One focused on the future.
16:33The other focused on the past.
16:39Up next.
16:46Welcome back.
16:47Anti-Israel protesters planning a demonstration tonight outside the Israeli consulate here
16:52in Chicago.
16:54Organizers are not shy.
16:55They say they want to shut down this Democratic convention over the Gaza issue.
17:01Senior correspondent Mike Tobin is on the streets again tonight with the latest.
17:04Good evening, Mike.
17:05Good evening, Brett.
17:07This is a spot yesterday from which I reported where the fence had been partially dismantled
17:11and breached.
17:12You can see now it is repaired.
17:14In fact, it has been supplemented by a third ring of fencing on the perimeter of the DNC.
17:20Meantime, the protesters have been back at it.
17:22Code Pink interrupted a speech by Governor Tim Walz at McCormick Place.
17:26The theme, again, anti-Israel.
17:29Anti-Israel will be the theme of a group that calls themselves behind enemy lines.
17:32They're going to demonstrate at the Israeli consulate tonight.
17:34And the slogan they are using is, make it great like 68, a reference to the riots of
17:39the 1968 Democratic convention.
17:42The fact that most of these demonstrations are centering on an anti-Israel Gaza war theme
17:48is not lost on Jewish people here at the convention.
17:51They put the pressure on the wrong person, instead of dealing with us and putting the
18:00pressure on us.
18:01They put the pressure on us and on Israel specifically, and it's wrong.
18:07Something developing that we're keeping an eye on just to the west of the United Center
18:11is a development with a SWAT team.
18:13They're present on the scene.
18:15They're on the roof of a building.
18:16It looks like it's a restaurant inside of a strip mall.
18:19And the information we have right now is that it is a barricaded man.
18:22There's no indication that it is related to the convention itself, but we're keeping an
18:29eye on it.
18:31And that situation is still ongoing.
18:33Something we do know that is related to the demonstrations outside of the convention,
18:37the fact that Chicago police say they have made 13 arrests so far, 10 of them here where
18:41the fence was breached.
18:43Brett, back to you.
18:44OK, Mike Tobin, we'll check in later.
18:47There are a few prominent Democrats who are skipping this week's convention, several vulnerable
18:51incumbent senators keeping their distance from the party elite, concentrating on campaigning
18:56back home.
18:57Senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram tells us who they are tonight.
19:03To Senate Democrats facing competitive races, Chicago is not their kind of town.
19:08Sherrod Brown of Ohio, John Tester of Montana, and Jackie Rosen of Nevada, all giving the
19:13city of big shoulders the cold shoulder.
19:16Every candidate is going to make their own decision as to where they be.
19:20And certainly some candidates would much rather just be in their state talking to voters in
19:24their state.
19:25Democrats are trying to cling to their slim Senate majority, so at-risk Democrats are
19:30ducking Vice President Harris and other progressives.
19:33We know that Donald Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his
19:39own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends.
19:43Moderate Democrat John Tester scratched Chicago for Pearl Jam.
19:48The band's bassist, Montana native Jeff Amant, headlines a fundraiser for Tester in Missoula
19:53Wednesday.
19:54I think it will help John, even though John is running as a Montana Democrat, not a national
19:59Jackie Rosen keeping her distance.
20:02But the senator's allies believe a Harris win in battleground Nevada could boost Rosen.
20:07However, some Democrats from swing states on the November ballot are not shunning Chicago.
20:12Democratic Representative Ruben Gallego is attending.
20:15He's running for the Senate in Arizona.
20:17Plus Democratic senators like Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin and Bob Casey from Pennsylvania.
20:23The state's other senator, John Fetterman, is not up this fall, but skipped the convention
20:28saying he had other things to do.
20:31Fetterman's fought with the left over immigration and Israel.
20:34Brett?
20:35Chad Pergram, live on the Hill.
20:36Chad, thanks.
20:37We have a secure border.
20:43I work very closely with Secretary Mayorkas, CBP, DHS.
20:49The border is a crisis.
20:50...fives it on the border right now.
20:52But let's talk about that and more with the senator, Mark Kelly, here in studio.
20:56Senator, great to see you.
20:57Great to see you, Brett.
21:00What do you think, first of all, about this launch?
21:02This is day two.
21:03What are you hoping for out of this week?
21:05Well, there's incredible energy in this room.
21:07When Gabby and I were with Vice President Harris and Tim Walz in Glendale, Arizona just
21:13last week, there were 15,000 people in an arena.
21:17I'd never seen anything like that before in a political rally.
21:22And incredible energy.
21:24People are looking forward to the future with Vice President Harris being elected president.
21:29Listen.
21:30Incredible energy in this room.
21:32When Gabby and I were with Vice President Harris and Tim Walz in Glendale, Arizona just
21:37last week, there were 15,000 people in an arena.
21:41I'd never seen anything like that before in a political rally.
21:46And incredible energy.
21:48People are looking forward to the future with Vice President Harris being elected president.
21:53Listen, people look to you, you cross the aisle, you work with the other side.
21:59One of the reasons you were considered as a possible vice presidential candidate.
22:03And you talked straight to the administration about the border.
22:06You have before.
22:07And I still do.
22:09Where is it now?
22:10Because obviously these numbers, they have come down.
22:13But if you put up the numbers, they're still really significant along that border.
22:17And it's a big problem.
22:18But it highlights there's more work to do.
22:20And we had an opportunity several months ago, as you know, to pass a bipartisan border
22:25security bill.
22:26We worked on it with Republicans in the Senate, with the White House, including the vice president.
22:31Vice President Harris led on this issue.
22:34And we got really, really close.
22:36But unfortunately, the former president, Donald Trump, told Senate Republicans they were not
22:41allowed to vote for this.
22:43It's one of the most hypocritical things I think I've seen in three and a half years
22:46in the Senate.
22:47But the former president, who talks about this issue all the time, finally admitted
22:53he didn't really want to solve it.
22:55He wanted it for a campaign issue.
22:56So he told them they could not vote for it.
22:59And they ran away from it.
23:00They listened to him.
23:01So here's what I think is going to happen.
23:03After President Harris is in the White House, we're going to come back with Republicans.
23:08We're going to get that legislation across the finish line, as we should have months
23:11ago.
23:12She's going to sign it.
23:13And then what that will do is a number of different things.
23:16It's going to provide more pay for Border Patrol.
23:18It's going to allow us to hire more Border Patrol and CBP agents.
23:21It's going to help us build some facilities to temporarily hold migrants as you process
23:27asylum claims.
23:28And it's going to add those fentanyl detection machines at the border.
23:32Here's something I think folks are missing.
23:34Donald Trump stopped the federal government from buying more fentanyl detection machines.
23:41And you know what that means.
23:42That means more people are dying of fentanyl overdoses because he wouldn't let Senate Republicans
23:48vote for this bill because he had to have it for a campaign issue.
23:51A couple of things.
23:53You're not wrong on the former president talking to Republicans, saying the political issue
23:57part.
23:58We did hear that.
23:59Giving them orders.
24:00We did hear that.
24:01Now, there were Republicans that had a problem with the bill, strictly on its substance.
24:06Here's the Federalists.
24:07Nothing about this bill is in the national interest.
24:09Once there's a rolling average of 5,000 border encounters per day for a week, 8,500 encounters
24:14in a single day, the DHS would be given emergency authority, compelled to turn anyone away.
24:19Under 5,000 daily crossings can still amount to nearly 2 million entries per year, which
24:24is around double the number of green cards we hand out annually.
24:27But here's what they're not saying.
24:28If you look back, if you go back a year, it would have been below those numbers.
24:32We would have stopped people from being able to ask for asylum between ports of entry.
24:37But they don't want to point that out.
24:39This bill is three years in.
24:41Here is President Biden last night in this speech.
24:43Ticklis.
24:44Trump killed the strongest bipartisan border dealer in the history of the United States.
24:51Then I had to take executive action.
24:54The result of the executive action I took, border encounters have dropped over 50 percent.
25:01In fact, there are fewer border crosses today than when Donald Trump left office.
25:07OK, so three years in, the bipartisan bill fails, to your point.
25:12He says, then I had to take executive action.
25:14He could have taken executive action, Senator, on day one.
25:17But I think what it highlights is that it is up to Congress to deal with these kind
25:21of issues.
25:22If you want to, if you want to spend money, significant amount of money, this was billions
25:26of dollars.
25:27That's the role of the United States Congress.
25:29That's the role of the Senate.
25:30And that's why, I mean, it took us a long time to get to the point.
25:34And by the way, this wasn't meeting, this wasn't meeting Republicans on this issue on
25:38the 50-yard line.
25:39Wasn't that kind of compromise.
25:40It was meeting them.
25:42And I supported almost all the stuff in there.
25:45I would have wanted more, more immigration reform.
25:48But it was meeting them on the 10-yard line on their side of the field.
25:52But because of the former president, we were not able to get this done.
25:56OK, but my question is, the executive order is on day one.
26:00President Biden could have come in and said, I'm going to leave, remain in Mexico.
26:03I'm going to leave, remain all these things that were working.
26:06He could have done that.
26:07He waited three years.
26:08But he also understands how the federal government is supposed to function and what the role
26:13is for the White House, what the role is for the United States Congress.
26:16And it's up to Congress to legislate on this.
26:19Executive actions are not the way we should be doing this thing.
26:22But because of Senate Republicans, that's the position he was put in.
26:26OK.
26:27And it is, it's the most hypocritical thing I've seen in three and a half years in office.
26:34That the former president, who talks about this issue all the time, didn't really want
26:36to solve it.
26:37He didn't want to fix it.
26:38He just wants to continue to talk about it.
26:40I want to be fair, because I know you didn't see this story, but there's this story about
26:43ICE losing track of tens of thousands of migrant kids, DHS Inspector General finds a large
26:48portion of these unaccounted migrant children is a consequence of individuals failing to
26:52appear at immigration court hearings after being released from government custody.
26:57This seems like a massive deal from the IG.
27:00We don't know all the extent of it.
27:02Right.
27:03What's your reaction to it?
27:04Well, I mean, it's I mean, if true, and I trust, you know, the IG that they're they're
27:09reporting and investigating things and, you know, putting out African accurate information.
27:15So it's going to be us to look into this, obviously.
27:17I mean, it's a it's a it's a horrible thing.
27:20Are you confident that this ticket is going to handle immigration to your satisfaction?
27:24100 percent.
27:25I'm confident.
27:26I've talked to the vice president about it.
27:28This is an issue that she has worked on and helped us with, you know, in the United States
27:33Senate to get to an agreement.
27:35And you know, I just couldn't.
27:37I've been up there when Donald Trump sent a mob to overturn an election.
27:43But really, the most the craziest thing I think I've seen is when he told Senate Republicans
27:47to walk away from this legislation.
27:49Some of them had problems with it, as I said, some of them.
27:52But we had the votes we had.
27:54It was going to be about 40 Democrats and about 20 Republicans.
27:57We had the votes.
27:58Whether he got it through the House is another question.
28:01Well, that's another.
28:02So that's always another question.
28:04But it was good legislation.
28:06And Donald Trump stopped it, as always.
28:11All right.
28:12Sorry, we interrupted the national anthem.
28:13We wanted to get this in up next.
28:14The panel previews tonight's speaker lineup.
28:16But first, we look at what organizers hope will be one of the crown jewels here in the
28:20Chicago political scene or the Obama presidential center in Jackson Park.
28:26And as you can see, it is still very much a work in progress.
28:30This full campus is expected to open in 2026.
28:34And when it does, there'll be 19.3 acres here, including a public library, an eight story
28:42museum and an athletic center called the Home Court.
28:46The original opening day for the 800 million dollar complex was scheduled for 2021.
28:52But there was a legal battle over whether it should be located here in Jackson Park.
28:57The COVID-19 pandemic that all contributed to the construction delay.
29:01When the Obamas speak tonight at the United Center, they essentially are coming home.
29:05It's just a few miles away from Grant Park where President Obama delivered that victory
29:09night schedule to make sure that we can get to our primetime speaking program as soon
29:13as possible.
29:14They knifed Joe Biden.
29:15He's out.
29:16Now you have a situation where they're trying to rebrand Kamala Harris.
29:20Democrats always win when we run on hope and joy.
29:24You saw it in Barack Obama.
29:26You saw it in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020.
29:29And guess what?
29:30You got team hope and joy right now.
29:34Hope and joy.
29:35Maybe in night two here, that's kicked off at the Democratic National Convention tonight.
29:40We have a series of speakers, including the Illinois governor.
29:44You have the Senate majority leader, Senator Bernie Sanders, the second gentleman, and
29:47then the former first lady, Michelle Obama, and the 44th president of the United States.
29:53With that, let's bring in our panel, Harold Ford Jr., former Tennessee congressman, co-host
29:56of The Five.
29:57The Five co-host Jessica Tarloff, Charles Hurd, opinion editor for The Washington Times
30:02and political consultant Alex Castellanos.
30:05Okay, Jessica, you know, tonight is a different feel, a different pitch.
30:11And I'm sure Democrats are ready to, you know, it was a long night last night.
30:15I'm very tired.
30:17But it was a swan song for the former, for the current president.
30:20Absolutely.
30:21He took all the time that he wanted and that he needed to get out, I think, a good three
30:27quarters of what he would have said if he was actually going to be speaking on Thursday
30:30night, right?
30:31If he was accepting the nomination to run again.
30:34And then about 25 percent about his thinking going into making this decision, what he thinks
30:38about Kamala Harris, why he thinks that the party is in good hands with her and Governor
30:43Walz.
30:44But he definitely made the most of the moment.
30:47And the moment was very late.
30:48I was happy to hear that the campaign is obviously going to be moving things up and making sure
30:52that we can all get through security a lot faster.
30:55But I think that, you know, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be, to use Kamala terms,
31:00unburdened by what has been.
31:01Right.
31:02This is the beginning of the Kamala convention.
31:05And Joe Biden seemed last night like he was it was bittersweet, but he's happy to be moving
31:10forward.
31:11Wall Street Journal, Charlie Kamala Harris tries to forget Joe Biden.
31:14Democrats think they can get away with this unusual campaign of friendly fire for one
31:17main reason.
31:18Donald Trump.
31:19Not only do they think they can make the campaign about him rather than their own record.
31:23They also know that so keen are they on defend defeating the Republican.
31:28The party will offer Miss Harris no internal resistance to apostasy.
31:32Yeah.
31:33This is why I don't think that the Harris campaign wants to even talk about any issues
31:36whatsoever.
31:37They don't want to put any issues on the on their Web site.
31:39Hope they don't want to talk.
31:41And also, I think I love the hope and joy thing because it kind of reminds you of hope
31:45and change.
31:46But they can't run on hope and change now because they are the you know, they're the
31:49current boss.
31:51So it's not like you can go with hope and change.
31:53So they're going with hope and joy.
31:55But I thought that they did probably did a very good job of taking out the old last week.
32:02And now that they can spend the rest of the week getting on with what they see as the
32:06future.
32:07Alex, a lot of focus on women in this the first night.
32:10I think there's going to be focused tonight, probably Michelle Obama's speech focused on
32:14that.
32:15Clearly, they think that is key to winning moderates, independents and really getting
32:21past the 50 yard line here.
32:23That's what they're trying to do.
32:24I think it's if you want to get across the 50 yard line, you got to know where it is.
32:29And Jill Biden told us last night she gave a great speech.
32:32She hit Trump hard, but it was targeted to women.
32:36And it was a speech about empathy and compassion.
32:39Donald Trump is cold, cruel, does not care only about himself.
32:44They get to the 50 yard line by appealing to women.
32:47But how do they get across?
32:48How do they get into guy territory?
32:50Oh, tough prosecutor strength.
32:53Trump has to do the reverse.
32:55He's got his base, his 45, 48 percent with strength.
32:59Tough guy.
33:00But when he gets across the 50 yard line without what happens, his strength becomes scary and
33:05dangerous.
33:06He has to make sure that Kamala Harris isn't compassion.
33:10And how do you do that?
33:11Well, guess what?
33:12Inflation has destroyed families at the dinner table, an open border, fewer police.
33:18It's made the world more dangerous.
33:19That's not empathetic.
33:20Kamala Harris.
33:21That's that's the opposite of empathy.
33:23She cares more about looking good politically than about what's important to you in your
33:28life.
33:29So I think that's where the Trump campaign needs to go.
33:32But this is the biggest gender gap in history.
33:35Both sides are going to have to try to figure out how to how to play across that 50 yard
33:39line.
33:40I think that's really an interesting theme, Harold.
33:41I mean, about women specifically targeting them and how the Trump campaign counters that.
33:48Alex is smart.
33:49Thanks.
33:50Thanks for having having me on.
33:51I think a couple of things.
33:53Tonight is the second biggest night of the convention because the country knows Barack
33:58Obama and they know Michelle Obama.
34:00His speech tonight will help do some of the things that Alex is talking about.
34:04The country accepted Barack Obama for eight years because they believed he could play
34:08on his side of the field and the opposing team side of the field, to use Alex's metaphor.
34:12And for him to give an endorsement of her, he is still perceived as the leader of our
34:16party.
34:17He's in his early 60s and he'll be around for a long time, God willing.
34:21So him talking about her and him talking about the way she's going to approach issues, tackle
34:26challenges will help lay the groundwork for what happens on Thursday, because that becomes
34:30the most important night in her political career and will give us a great sense if she
34:35can advance the ball on the other side of the 50 yard line.
34:38But you know, moderates, independents, we keep on talking about that, but they do swing
34:42the swing states and each one of these nights there is a high profile progressive really
34:47close to primetime, if not in primetime.
34:50Last night it was AOC, tonight it is Senator Bernie Sanders.
34:54So that that part of the party is really forceful.
34:57Well, if you notice what AOC was talking about, she was talking a lot more like a moderate.
35:02This wasn't the AOC of 2019, 2020, when she was a new arrival and Nancy Pelosi was like,
35:07you better watch yourself.
35:08This is how we do things here.
35:09AOC got the message loud and clear.
35:11She gave a populist speech, but it was unifying.
35:15It was all about Kamala Harris and how she is for the people, about how this is a working
35:19class fight, a middle class fight against a billionaire fight.
35:23And I think Bernie Sanders, you know, he's probably the most authentic person in either
35:28party.
35:29He's going to do whatever he's going to do.
35:30But he has seen in Joe Biden, someone who has been able to satisfy moderates and satisfy
35:35progressives, like he highlighted in his New York Times op-ed.
35:39And I think he's going to be talking about the success of this administration, no matter
35:42what kind of Democrat you are.
35:43You wonder how many satisfied moderates there were after the Joe Biden policy.
35:47It seemed like it had a lot of progressive hat tips to it.
35:51You mean in office?
35:52In office.
35:53Absolutely.
35:54And I've been so struck by how, um, how many, like, if you just listen to the platitudes
35:59of the Republican convention and the platitudes that you hear here, they're very similar.
36:04You hear Democrats talk about, we're going to seal the border.
36:06We're going to tame inflation.
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